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A reasonably thorough history of John and Dorothy Hampton and the Silent Movie Theater, and it's unfortunate history in the odd assortment who kept on reopening the place. The Silent Movie Theater was nothing but an uncomfortable place to watch John Hampton's amazing collection, it should have died ...

Based on my reading his Blog for 20 years and prior to that articles in the old Comic (Book) Buyers Guide; Mark Evanier probably heard criticisms first hand from "older folks" when he was child or a teen and the rest is pure extrapolation on his part. It's a blog after all :) Be sure thou...

Ed Watz wrote:”

And the best endorsement goes to:

“An underwear comedy which the rough necks hugely enjoy”

That’s good enough for me!

I think we'll use that one in our publicity, put it on the poster.

RICHARD M ROBERTS (David Manning says...)

Completely agree on the narration, most of the time, especially when it was Dwight Weist or Jay Jackson, it was fine, usually Youngson was paraphrasing and extrapolating missing subtitles and keeping the plot going, with just enough historical info to give the films a little context, but always with...

The youtube was mentioned on blog I visit occasionally; https://www.newsfromme.com/2024/07/20/todays-bonus-video-link-201/ "He was widely criticized for truncating and altering a lot of classic comedy and also for adding in inappropriate (some thought) music and intrusive (everyone thought) na...

Dennis Campa wrote:I think Chico's variable Italian accent is part of his charm (as is its obvious phoniness).

As Louis Sorin says to Chico in ANIMAL CRACKERS:

"Say, how did you get to be an Italian."

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Yeah Ed, I was kinda thinking when Rob said "If you've ever wondered what Chico sounded like when he spoke without an Italian accent", just watch the movies. He slips in and out of it so much, you quit paying attention to it. Sometimes he puts the -a- on the ends of words, sometimes he doe...

Another Funny One Gone. Damn. 94 was a very good run though, Bob Newhart was a stand-up and sit-com comedy legend, but he was also a very really good actor in the handful of movies he made over the years: a good fill-in if you couldn't get Henry Fonda for Major Major in CATCH-22 (1970), a good TV mo...

Well Jeez, if you're all just going to turn this thread into a commercial for the DVD, at least give the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/When-Comedy-Was-King-Restored/dp/B01MFX85QA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1I2KO9XV0Q72T&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2UWTykz-QMJwe3UPhQYyCN8e5ndT2cjgeXSxY_7K76bMIuw8aS9GVedMO1266PoI...

Kit Parker put up our 2016 restoration of WHEN COMEDY WAS KING on his Sprocket Vault Youtube channel this week. If you were too cheap to buy the DVD, you can look at it now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVoEhCk4Ew8&t=476s

RICHARD M ROBERTS