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From: tomczak@harvard.ARPA (Bill Tomczak)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Keaton, Sennett, etc.
Message-ID: <419@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 22:38:01 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 22:38:01 1985
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In article <7022@ucla-cs.ARPA> reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher) writes:

>misunderstandings are a common basis for comedy, going back to the Greeks
>and forward through Shakespeare all the way up to today.  I can't say that
>the silent comedians were any fonder of this device than any other group,
>though.  Now, Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball relied on this very very
>heavily, back in the Golden Age of TV comedy, but that isn't nearly the
>same thing as the Golden Age of Film Comedy.

Well, I've spent the last half hour trying to remember specifics.  I
really wanted to respond with some kind of documentation on this.
Unfortunately, I saw those films over a year ago and couldn't come
up with enough facts to back me up.

I guess I'll have to watch more of the 20's silents a little more
consciously in this regard.  Sorry, I'm a lousy researcher.  I was
only left with some vague impressions that somehow struck me as
significant. (I don't THINK I was doing any drugs....  but I forget....)

Bill Tomczak@harvard.{ARPA, UUCP}