ABSTRACT

Chaplin has his comedy “locations” down fine. It’s easy to be funny in a billiard room, or a bakery, he says; a bathroom is inherently humorous; one chuckles even at the thought of a taxidermist’s shop; a taxicab, facetiously nicknamed “the robber’s delight,” is potentially funny, but a ballroom and a horse and buggy are synonymous for sighs.