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I wonder if Buster Keaton is to comedy what H.P. Lovecraft is to horror...

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Think i may watch me some Buster Keaton *promote

it's a little like a Buster Keaton movie without the vaudevillians trained in slapstick. This guy really needs to find better ways of entertaining himself.

American and British culture mix so much it is easy to find examples of braggart and self deprecating humor in both. I think Frye is mostly right though. If you want to compare apples to apples, compare The Big Bang Theory and The IT Crowd. The Nerds in the former manage to achieve some success in life and love, because they learn and grow, while the nerds in the latter never learn and grow and the humor is in their constant failure.

Ironically these differences go back a long time. British Charlie Chaplain's "Tramp" bathed in self deprecating humor, while American Buster Keaton's humor came from his ability to calmly cause a lot of mayhem. Personally I love both British and American humor.

That's like some scene from an old a Buster Keaton flick!!

P.S. *promote

This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time.
Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin would fail to write something as funny as this.
A modern day Sisyphus.

Buster Keaton is my all-time FAVORITE silent movie star =o)

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For those who haven't seen the excellent Buster Keaton film "The General":

It is so cool to hear what those silent film stars sounded like. I never would have guessed that Buster Keaton sounded like that. I figured he had a classier, New England style accent.

And it is great to hear from people who have analyzed and studied this form of comedy so closely, to hear what they know innately because they've done it for so long.

Does anyone know who the other 2 comedians are? The CBC site doesn't list them.