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Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to YouTube
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Chain of Fools traces the art of slapstick comedy from its pre-cinema origins in the ancient pantomime through its silent movie heyday in the teens and twenties, then on to talkies, television, and the Internet.
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Trav S.D. is top banana at the American Vaudeville Theatre. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out New York, and Reason. He is the author of No Applause--Just Throw Money.
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