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Posted by Audiophilander on May 11, 2019 at 01:58:49:
Comedies, at least the ones I like best, are silent. My favorites are Harold Lloyd's most popular silent features remastered in 4K, released by Criterion on Blu-ray and listed below in order of preference...

The Kid Brother
Safety Last
The Freshman
Speedy

I also enjoy most Buster Keaton films, the best of those were packaged by Masters of Cinema in a limited edition last year. That quickly sold out, but I understand it's scheduled for a U.S. Reissue from the same Cohen owned low generation negatives either from Flicker Alley or KINO. This set includes three of Keaton's best remastered on Blu-ray...

Sherlock Jr.
The General
Steamboat Bill Jr.

There is also a set of Charley Chase shorts (silent and sound) that are quite funny released last year on MOD-DVD that should be attainable through Amazon.

Also, there's a set of silent two-reel comedy shorts by Max Davidson that are absolutely hilarious (the best IMO is Pass The Gravy). Davidson's humor often focused the trials and tribulations of being first generation European immigrants trying to raise a middle class family.

Finally, there's a silent feature titled Exit Smiling featuring Beatrice Lilly, directed by Sam Taylor, written by Frank Capra. This is quite clever.

For silent and early sound comedies, that pretty much covers it. For strong comedic feature films, the earliest director's work I'll recommend pretty much across the board are Preston Sturges films such as Miracle At Morgan Creek.

Think I'll leave the comedies and move forward onother genres of film in another post.

Cheers,
AuPh