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I hate to agree with MacMan, but the "all comedy back then was ethnic comedy" line was a groaner. Mark Steele's episode about Charlie Chaplin is a brilliant portrait of an artist who, over a hundred years ago, was working at a level of compassion and empathy that Star Trek: Discovery didn't try for until the middle of season three!

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Not wild about this one; it is real smart-assy, and expect better than this from you, Jeff.

Jack Oakie was a really funny guy; check out “Million Dollar Legs”, with W. C. Fields.

As for collegiate films, they go back to the silent days. Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, among others.

If you are going to spit on someone’s grave or star on the Walk of Fame, please, at least, dig a little deeper than YouTube.

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