Le comiche

Le comiche is a 1990 Italian comedy film written and directed by Neri Parenti and starring Renato Pozzetto  and  Paolo Villaggio. It had two sequels, Le comiche 2 (1991) and Le nuove comiche (1994).

Plot
Neri Parenti creates some comic episodes, inserting various gags taken from films of the past: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In the silent black and white prologue two railroad workers, Paolo and Renato, are trying to outrun a steam train and jump out of the screen into a movie theatre; in the first episode they are bungling painters who ruin a wedding; in the second the two friends destroy a gas station; in the third episode they are forced to work in the mountain chalet, ruining the holiday for all customers; in the last the two friends are the perfect double of two fierce mafia, who plan to use the "twins" for a suicide mission; in the epilogue Paolo and Renato are chased by characters of all the episodes back into the silent film.

Cast

 * Renato Pozzetto as Renato
 * Paolo Villaggio as Paolo
 * Fabio Traversa as Mario
 * Alessandra Casella as  Domitilla
 * Gian as Amilcare
 * Tiziana Pini as Amilcare's wife
 * Enzo Cannavale as the priest
 * Sal Borgese as the gas station attendant
 * Renato D'Amore as the innkeeper
 * Giovanni Cianfriglia as the trucker
 * Ennio Antonelli as the pizza chef
 * Andrea Belfiore as the stripper at the nightclub
 * Pierfrancesco Villaggio as the bodyguard
 * Franca Scagnetti as a guest at the wedding