American comedy has strayed from the light of its ancestors. Gone are the days of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, when jokes and visual surprises flew at a mile a minute and ...

I meander around, chatting with other attendees, people like Temecula-based singer Joanna Pearl, who wears black clothing that reminds me of Catwoman, with pearls sewn onto her gloves instead of ...

Snowmass Comedy WKND and the Collective Snowmass added new shows to its upcoming summer comedy weekend taking place July 12-14. The additional events include Mountainside Comedy Happy Hour, a silent ...

The silent comedy film “Our Hospitality” was released 100 years ago this November. The film is the second feature directed by and starring Buster Keaton, one of the central silent filmmakers of his ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

With cinemas closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, people are looking more and more to other options for entertainment. Here's one suggestion that harkens back to a cinema tradition more than a ...

The largely forgotten work of unheralded but influential Vitagraph Studios is given new life thanks to the work of archivists and historians at the Library of Congress. While intrepid souls like film ...

I love horror films, but they don’t scare me. When I was a kid, a zombie-themed episode of “The Greatest American Hero” left me unable to sleep for weeks. But these days I am immune to the undead, ...

With only a few days in Edinburgh this year I had to choose my schedule carefully. I took a punt on Election: A Silent Comedy because I’m a sucker for slapstick and thought I might stumble across (pun ...