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“Vintage Comedy”

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It's taken a lot of concerted effort, but I've gotten the kids hooked on classic comedy this past year. Believe it or not, the kids love silent films. We've gone through a lot of the classics of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin. Keaton's The General is a favorite of theirs (mine too). The kids know Harold Lloyd as "Speedy" from his film The Freshman. We also enjoy the rough comedy of Laurel and Hardy.

Of course, they also love Abbot and Costello. I recently found a huge collection of their half-hour radio shows from the 1940's and early '50s. I downloaded them all and put them in iTunes (they've been copying to the phone/MP3 player all day today). The whole directory is something like 700MB, so you'll need a broadband connection to download them all, but they are well worth the wait!

Thanks to the Internet Archive.

— J. Brisbin
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
— Flannery O'Connor
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