I have a great love of spaghetti westerns, not only the brilliant Clint Eastwood (plots stolen from Japanese films!) major ones and their soundtracks, but also the lesser ones - and also most of the sword and sandal ones. Then there are the Harryhausen animation ones... :-)

Punch and Judy is similar to Commedia del Arte slapstick as is indeed those brilliant 1930/40 cartoons Merrie Melodies, and similar. You have to be able to intellectually separate fantasy from reality.