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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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01:30Heads up!
01:33Heads up!
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