Likening the stunt to a farcical film, Brad Stephens, defending, said: "The offence itself is reminiscent of the old
Keystone Kops when you've got somebody trying to steal a fridge, banging it down every stair when people are sitting downstairs and can hear everything.
Bird-brained burglar Billy; SERIAL THIEF IS CAUGHT STEALING FRIDGE FROM CENTRE
These films (such as the well-known "
Keystone Kops" comedies) helped to create a visual language for humor that is still used in today's film comedies.
Mack Sennett's fun factory; a history and filmography of his studio and his Keystone and Mack Sennett comedies, with biographies of players and personnel
The West Midlands is certainly the best police force in the UK, making some other policing operations look a tad like the
Keystone Kops.
What about the Midlands?
Is this more reminiscent of serious military operations, or are readers starting to think of the
Keystone Kops?
When the military gets tangled up in politics
Keystone Kops caper across the Wembley turf has gone down in football folklore.
Head over heels about goal antics; A Goodison celebration of celebrations
"I'm sure it was highly entertaining for any neutrals because it was '
Keystone Kops' at both ends."
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Meanwhile, in the United States, House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) last week said that federal investigators in the salmonella case reminded him of
Keystone Kops, adding that an investigation that should have taken hours or days instead has stretched on for weeks and months, AP reports that officials from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and FDA, which share responsibility for handling outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, found themselves on the defensive at the hearing.
Mexico critical of U.S. investigation into salmonella outbreak
The new version of the musical, which is based on the real-life bittersweet love affair between silent movie director Mack Sennett, creator of the
Keystone Kops, and comedienne Mabel Normand, the heroine of his two-reeler films - will run at Gala Theatre in Durham until Saturday.
Culture: New show for centenary
Bouncing between 1907 and the present in the titular scientist's time machine, pic runs the gamut from Buster Keaton to the
Keystone Kops and comes up laughing most of the time.
Dr. Plonk
Among the kneejerk reactions to Boro's
Keystone Kops defensive display at Reading was a growing clamour for the boss to dust off his boots.
Why Gareth should keep his suit on ..
Little Fellow is managing one narrow escape after another--getting chased in and out of windows and trash cans, dodging falling houses, evading Big Man and slipping on banana peels, all with a bevy of
Keystone Kops in hot pursuit.
Minneapolis: don't speak!
Recognizing the failure at the federal level does not excuse the mistakes made by local and state governments, bur neither do those mistakes excuse FEMA's
Keystone Kops routine.
The continuing disaster
The subsequent investigation and Board of Inquiry was worthy of the
Keystone Kops.
When a Soldier Falls
How else could you describe two incidents that will forever feature in the What Happened Next slot of TV sports quiz shows?With just seconds left of a see-saw encounter that confirmed Bolton's status as a Premiership force and suggested that United may already have blown their pursuit of Arsenal, Mikael Silvestre blundered on to centre stage to prove himself the
Keystone Kops king of cock-ups.
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And what about The Kops' comedic appeal to the rapidly expanding middle class audience?--Very much a film spectatorship factor by the time of the September 1913 release of the first
Keystone Kops film, a half-reeler entitled The Bangville Police.
Simon Louvish. Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett