Tag: comedy

  • Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle

    A comic genius from the golden age of the silent cinema, the Prince of Whales was the first comedian ever to be hit by an on-screen custard pie.  He was working as an overweight plumber in 1913 when he was discovered by Mack Sennett.  He had come to unclog the film producer’s drain but Sennett […]