Slapstick- But not the awesome hockey movie

I was reading a classmates blog recently, and i ran into this quote.

"It takes a lot of confidences to do that over and over again. Granted, the Three Stooges are supposed to be characterized as stupid, but with stigmas like today, that stupidity would carry on to the real life person as well. (Ex: Daniel Radcliffe = Harry Potter, more likely Harry Potter = Daniel Radcliffe and he will never be able to escape it!!!!!)"

If i took it out of context too much, the point she was trying to make was type-casting happens now, so how could anyone transcend slapstick to work on other things. But what grabbed me was the thought of a modern day slapstick movie. Now i know that slapstick i still very much a part of hollywood, but not even close to what we see in W.C. Fields, whose work could be considered drawing room humor compared to the Three Stooges.

But i shot down my own argument anyway. Graphics and sound do next to nothing for slap-stick. If you want to watch the three stooges, you just do, you don't need something you can "relate" to in a modern setting. And we now have tv shows like America's Funniest Home videos, viva la bam, etc. to satiate our desire to watch someone get hit in the head with a ladder by accident. But the most damning argument against a modern slapstick movie i could come up with is, "who would play the parts?" Buster Keaton was an amazing blend of athleticism/grace/style/ingenuity that needed to be practiced an insane amount. Slapstick was fresh off the heals of vaudeville, where people honed these skills and the best could translate to the big screen. Now, where do we find people even semi-trained to be bother actors and acrobats?

What do you think, is it possible, even plausible, for chaplinesque slap-stick to make a return to the silver screen?

Pun

This is my least favorite pun of all time:

i was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger, and then it hit me.