Practical jokes

His films are built entirely around elaborate physical comedy and pranks that expose the absurdities of modern life through carefully choreographed sight gags.

A master of slapstick and visual humor who constructed entire narratives around practical joke-like scenarios where he deadpan navigates increasingly ridiculous situations.

His comedies are filled with subversive pranks on audience expectations and film conventions themselves, treating cinema as a vehicle for elaborate practical jokes on the viewer.