A Lord foils a plot to kill his favourite and rides it to win.A Lord foils a plot to kill his favourite and rides it to win.A Lord foils a plot to kill his favourite and rides it to win.
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The Butt of the Joke
The BFI has posted this movie to their YouTube site. In this burlesque, Fred Evan's Pimple character (nominally "Lord Elpus") is going to bet the family fortune of two bob on the Whip, running in the big race, but the villain has various nefarious plans to upset this.
Evans' Pimple was a very popular primitive slapstick series that ran for about a dozen years and I can finally see why. With its pantomime horses, low puns, breaking the fourth wall and general disrespect for everything that British drama took seriously -- including the comic stuff -- Evans isn't just Monty Python sixty years early and without Cambridge and Oxford degrees. It's born of the same disrespect for authority that Mack Sennett was showing in the US, with his Keystone Kops. For Sennett and his audience, those weren't incompetent authorities; they were all the authorities there were, everyplace and all the time. They deserved every buffet they got, and ten times more, but this is all we can give to them, so let's give it to them good.
It's revolution in the making, and few seemed to recognize it. As the Tsar said in amazement, watching his courtiers laugh at the stupidity of the townsfolk in Chekhov's THE INSPECTOR GENERAL: "Don't they known they are laughing at themselves?"
Evans' Pimple was a very popular primitive slapstick series that ran for about a dozen years and I can finally see why. With its pantomime horses, low puns, breaking the fourth wall and general disrespect for everything that British drama took seriously -- including the comic stuff -- Evans isn't just Monty Python sixty years early and without Cambridge and Oxford degrees. It's born of the same disrespect for authority that Mack Sennett was showing in the US, with his Keystone Kops. For Sennett and his audience, those weren't incompetent authorities; they were all the authorities there were, everyplace and all the time. They deserved every buffet they got, and ten times more, but this is all we can give to them, so let's give it to them good.
It's revolution in the making, and few seemed to recognize it. As the Tsar said in amazement, watching his courtiers laugh at the stupidity of the townsfolk in Chekhov's THE INSPECTOR GENERAL: "Don't they known they are laughing at themselves?"
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- Dec 21, 2017
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