best comic genious from the old era?

[mister Lennon]

Chaplin, Keaton and LLoyd started in the silent cinema, and finished their career in the sonore cinema. The marx brothers and Laurel and Hardy started in the begining of the sonore cinema and they triumphed in this cinema. Also, Laurel and Hardy did some silent films. But in your opnion, who is the best comic genious of those ones? I choose Chaplin, probably the most important person in cinema history. an absolute genious .

 

[The Shape]

Chaplin was a genius and was a very important person. But I voted for the Marx Bros. I loved them so much when I was younger, and now that I'm older, I can appreciate them even more.

Harpo's my homie.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

What no Larry, Mo and Curley.

 

[primemover]

Steve Martin

 

[The Shape]

Many comics were left out of this poll, but it's all good.

 

[mister Lennon]

Well, i was talking about comic genious from the silent movies and the start of the sonore movies. Steve martin is modern. The three stooges were great, but i think that the most important people from that era were the ones in the poll.

Also, i love the marx brothers. Probably, best funny dialogues in comedy cinema ever. Nobody can top groucho's ironic dialogue or harpo's mute slaptick in sonore cinema. They were so great.

 

[DACrowe]

Well this poll is very vague because what is the "old era?" It obviously is not silent but we have comedians from the 1920s all the way to the 1950s, it is very broad. And it is disgraceful for the record for Abbot and Costello not to be on a list that broad by the way.

But anyway I gotta' go with the Marx Brothers as Groucho Marx is perhaps the funniest man who ever lived. Just watching him adlib and just pull so much timing out it was brilliant. From Woody Allen to Vince Vaughn they emulate what Groucho did. Which says a lot. A Night at the Opera is perhaps one of the funniest movies ever made. The last act in the opera when the inmates start to run the asylum as it were is still tear-laughter inducing after all these years.

And let's not forget Cheeko who was a great comedian himself and had his own style and timing and Haropo who while not the father of physical comedy (on screen that belongs to Chaplin and then Keaton) but he certainly advanced it to a new level.

 

[Speedball]

Chaplin.
Three words- The Great Dictator.

 

[KALEL114]

Marx Brothers hands down.