Fatty falls over...
The movie was only forty-nine seconds long, but it heralded the advent of film history’s most popular genre, comedy...
Can you hear me mother?
The dawning of sound was to change everything and comedy in particular.
You lucky lucky people
In the 1950s, British studios turned to a few comics on the variety circuit to star in their films.
Oh you are awful...
Studios in the 1970s began to offer established TV audiences film spin-offs from their favourite sit-coms .