Comedies

Comedies

104 Episodes

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Comedies
  • Design for Living

    Episode 1

    Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1933 • United States
    Starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins

    Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s agree¬ment” in this continental pre-Code comedy, freely adapted by Ben H...

  • The High Sign

    Episode 2

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety

    A day at the amusement park goes awry when Buster becomes an accidental hit man.

  • The Garage

    Episode 3

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1920 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone

    Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton are bad mechanics and even worse firemen in the last of their films together.

  • Coney Island

    Episode 4

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton

    A man attempts to give his wife the slip at Coney Island.

  • The Cook

    Episode 5

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    Two chefs cook up pandemonium at a high-end restaurant.

  • Our Hospitality

    Episode 6

    Directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge

    OUR HOSPITALITY broadened the boundaries of slapstick and proved that Buster Keaton was not just a comedian, he was an artist. Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay...

  • Out West

    Episode 7

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    The Wild West gets wilder when Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton tangle with a notorious outlaw.

  • The Bell Boy

    Episode 8

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    Bumbling bellboys wreak havoc at a fancy hotel.

  • College

    Episode 9

    Directed by Buster Keaton and James W. Horne • 1927 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley

    Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in COLLEGE. Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in p...

  • The Frozen North

    Episode 10

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely

    Buster gets snowbound in a Klondike melodrama spoof.

  • The Haunted House

    Episode 11

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    An unlucky bank clerk tangles with robbers hiding out in a haunted house.

  • Hard Luck

    Episode 12

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    A despondent young man finds that suicide isn’t as easy as it seems.

  • Back Stage

    Episode 13

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Jack Coogan Sr.

    The stagehands get in on the act during a vaudeville performance gone wrong.

  • The Love Nest

    Episode 14

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox

    Spurned by his fiancée, Buster Keaton sets sail for the high seas, where he squares off against a tyrannical whaling-vessel captain.

  • The Balloonatic

    Episode 15

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Babe London, Phyllis Haver

    Buster takes a wild hot-air-balloon ride and finds misadventure in the great outdoors.

  • Moonshine

    Episode 16

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    A pair of revenue agents track down outlaw bootleggers in the Virginia Hills.

  • Convict 13

    Episode 17

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts

    Buster plays a game of golf—and winds up as a jailbird.

  • The Rough House

    Episode 18

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton

    The hapless proprietor of a seaside resort starts a fire and gets creative in the kitchen.

  • The Hayseed

    Episode 19

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone

    Fatty Arbuckle plays a hilarious game of hide and seek.

  • The Playhouse

    Episode 20

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton

    Twenty-plus Buster Keatons play every role in a surreal variety show—and that’s just the beginning!

    Please be advised: this film contains blackface.

  • Neighbors

    Episode 21

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton

    A slapstick “Romeo and Juliet” plays out in a tenement house.

  • My Wife’s Relations

    Episode 22

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Kate Price, Wheezer Dell

    Buster finds himself caught in a less-than-blissful marriage.

  • His Wedding Night

    Episode 23

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton

    Buster Keaton dons a wedding dress and a case of mistaken identity ensues.

  • The Blacksmith

    Episode 24

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    A bumbling blacksmith’s assistant tries his hand at fixing a car.