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Tablecloth trick

posted 13 years ago by yourauntgussie
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Y'know, I've only seen the whipping-the-tablecloth-from-under-the-priceless-crystal routine parodied and satirized on the old variety shows like Ed Sulllivan and The Hollywood Palace. I guess it was performed (presumably straight, as Lupino Lane does in the first scene of Love Parade) by a lot of vaudeville acts.

It seems I'm not as hardened a cynic as I had once thought, because seeing the gag performed for real made my eyes bug. I must have re-watched that bit a zillion times, both at speed and slo-mo. Dang. It's really pretty cool!

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[–] PillowRock 12 years ago

Lou Costello actually does it in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein as well.

[–] MarrG 9 years ago

That was my reaction to Lupino Lane's first major fall, splat onto the hard floor. Ouch.