Movies On The Radio: Funniest Scenes In Cinema

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Published May 12, 2015 at 12:16 PM EDT

From silent film to slapstick comedy, humor has been a staple of the silver screen since the dawn of modern cinema. Listeners share their favorite funny scenes from a wide range of movies from “Young Frankenstein” to “Airplane." Host FrankStasiotalks with North Carolina Museum of Art film curator LauraBoyesand North Carolina State University film professor Marsha Gordon about the funniest moments in film.

Marsha hosts a screening of A Fuller Life, a documentary about Samuel Fuller, an American writer, fighter and filmmaker, on Thursday May 21 at the Colony Theater in Raleigh. Details here.

Movies on the radio with film curator Laura Boyes and film professor Marsha Gordon

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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