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commedia dell'arte: Harlequin; Pierrot
Keystone Kops
Watch Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Shemp Howard as the Three Stooges from the film “Sing a Song of Six Pants,” 1947
Buster Keaton sitting on the floor with a film camera on top of him, as if the camera fell on Keaton.
Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces, 1939
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Mack Sennett.
Mack Sennett
Canadian-American director and producer
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
English actor and comedian
Lou Costello
American actor
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
American actor
Bud Abbott
American actor