Re your: "... Richards has shown himself to be a first-rate physical comic actor, a descendant of Buster Keaton, Jerry Lewis and Jacques Tati."
Keaton and Tati, two of the funniest performers ever, were basically mimes. Lewis (probably) and Richards (definitely) would have been better served if they, too, had kept their mouths shut.
Carl
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