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„Estragon and Vladimir often behave comically, finding interest in the banal – reducing human experiences to the mundane. The tramps comic, banal behaviour is very similar to the behaviour of another pair of comic characters – Laurel and Hardy:
‚Vladimir: Pull on your trousers.
Estragon: What?
Vladimir: Pull on your trousers.
Estragon: You want me to pull off my trousers?
Vladimir: Pull ON your trousers.
Estragon: ( realizing his trousers are down) True. ( He pulls up his trousers.)‘
Laurel and Hardy journeyed and shared a reasonably dependent relationship, tested by bouts of exasperation while seeming to not to age and none the wiser. They coped in perpetual nervous agitation, Laurel the most anxious while Hardy tended to solicit a philosophic calm. Neither characters were especially competent and Laurel was the weaker of the two often being defeated by the most trivial or trifling requirements. For example, in Way Out West (1937) (A readers Guide to Samuel Beckett – Hugh Kenner):
„Hardy: Get on the mule.
Laurel: What?
Hardy: Get on the mule.“
(Becketts Vladimir und Estragon – Seelenverwandte des großartigen Komiker-Duos [I]Laurel & Hardy)
„HARDY: Get on the mule.
LAUREL: What?
HARDY: Get on the mule.
which comes as close as we need ask to the exchange in the last moments of Godot:
VLADIMIR: Pull on your trousers.
ESTRAGON: What?
VLADIMIR: Pull on your trousers.
ESTRAGON: You want me to pull off my trousers?
VLADIMIR: Pull on your trousers.
ESTRAGON: (realizing his trousers are down). True. He pulls up his trousers.
Nachsatz
Ach, was wäre das für ein herrliches Ereignis (gewesen) – Becketts „Warten auf Godot“ mit Laurel als Estragon und Hardy als Vladimir verfilmt (Für Lucky und Pozzo hätte es im Laurel-&-Hardy-Team-Fundus auch ein paar naheliegende Besetzungen gegeben). Schade, dass wir davon nur noch schwärmen können.
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