Richard Berry as Frollo
Do you know the old saying Dying is easy, Comedy is hard? That is so very, very true because what makes people sad is very universal but comedy differs person to person country to country, culture to culture.
Patrick Timsit as Quasimodo & Richard Berry as Frollo
The French defiantly have their own style of humor. First off the like puns a.k.a witty use of their language. The French love their language. Now my command of French is terrible so I can’t say if they use any Puns in this movie. If you want a witty Pun loving French movie I would HIGHLY recommend Ridicule.
Patrick Timsit as Quasimodo & Melanie Thierry as Esmeralda
The style of French humor that Quasimodo d’El Paris uses the most it would be more cruel mockery directed at other people. Basically insulting people in over the tops ways. This style of perfectly suited for Hunchback since Quasimodo is an easy target. But the don’t just target him, after all Esmeralda can’t dance.
Richard Berry as Frollo
There is also the just plain excessive exageration, which is also a form of humor in other cultures notably in Asian ones. Frollo has a weird sense of exaggeration since he so dead-pan but very over the top about it. I sort of love that style of humor but it a weird on to pin down. I really like the dead pan devilry of “Let’s party”
Patrick Timsit as Quasimodo & Richard Berry as Frollo
The humor of Quasimodo d’El Paris is very French in style so it’s understandable why other people may not like it but it fit the characters and the style of parody.