Laughing at Pain

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Alan Dale used to watch old slapstick comedies with his grandmother. He says she'd start laughing at the first hint of impending injury to the actors. For years he wondered just what about banana peels and misplaced rakes that makes us laugh.

He talks with Anne Strainchamps about how "Comedy is a Man in Trouble".