Comedy Classics

What’s inside

• Which 1927 silent comedy, directed by and starring Buster Keaton, is set during the American Civil War?
• In Some Like It Hot, why do Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as women?
• Which director is most closely associated with the silent-film comedy character known as the Little Tramp?
• Which 1964 comedy features the chaotic Cold War question of whether an atomic bomb can be stopped from reaching its…
• In Charlie Chaplin's classic comedy, the Little Tramp struggles to survive during the economic hardship depicted in…
• In Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis plays the musician Joe, who adopts the female identity of [____].
• The famous silent comedy in which Harold Lloyd hangs from the hands of a clock is [____].
• In The Apartment, Jack Lemmon plays C. C. Baxter, an office worker who lends his apartment to executives for their…