Could a comedy win the first stunt Oscar? #comedy #stunts #oscars #movies

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00:00Here are four of the most insane stunts in comedy history.

00:03Starting with Jackass 3D,

00:05the tour de force features Steve-O in a port-a-potty

00:08that's shot into the air like a rocket.

00:09If the Academy had its act together in 2010,

00:12the Jackass team could have claimed its Oscar.

00:14Then there's Safety Last.

00:15The fact that Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock hand in 1923

00:18still inspires sweaty palms

00:20is a testament to the comic artistry on display here,

00:23requiring several buildings, strict camera angles,

00:25and multiple stuntmen.

00:27Lloyd did most of his own dangling

00:28despite a prosthetic thumb and index finger

00:30because he lost the originals in an earlier stunt.

00:33And then Jackie Chan put his spin on Lloyd's iconic scene

00:36in his action comedy Project A.

00:38In the 1980s, movies like Footloose

00:40featured nutso music video sequences

00:41in which the hero trained or danced his way

00:44into the movie's third act.

00:45And then Andy Samberg's Hot Rod

00:47paid tribute to those inspirational montages.

00:49Except Rod trips over a log during his physical routine,

00:52causing an endless fall down a mountain.

00:54Even the coyote never suffered this badly.

00:56And finally, what is Home Alone and Home Alone 2

00:59without stuntmen subbing in for Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern

01:01to take paint cans to the face?

01:03Director Chris Columbus said,

01:05Every time the stunt guys did one of those stunts,

01:07it wasn't funny.

01:08We'd watch it and I would just pray

01:09that the guys were alive.

01:11Even Macaulay Culkin wasn't immune.

01:12He still has the scar from where Pesci bit his finger.

01:16Heads up!

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