Hello, my name is Justin De Klu and I'm here today with.

Well, Slown, and you're listening to the important cinema club.

And today, we're not talking Chaplin, we're not talking Keaton, we're not talking Harold Lloyd.

We're talking someone that people between 1924 and 1927 may have said come in force place,

Mr. Harry Langdon, the forgotten clown.

We've got Chaplin at home.

Smash got to Chaplin at Home.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, starring Harry Langdon.

Yeah, so we wanted to do a silent comedian, and neither of us had really ever seen Harry Langdon.

No, I've never seen a Harry Langdon short.

And as you said, he's often, when he is referred to, he is often referred to as the fourth genius.

And, you know, I went into this week wanting to love him.

You love Billy West, Charlie Chaplin, imitator.

Listen, I love silent comedy.

And one of the great pleasures in life, I think, is, like, reaching into a big bucket of, like, you know, alpha video, 20 silent film comedies with, like, forgotten people in it.

You know, you're Monty Banks, you're your Billy West, your Lupino Lane or whatever, putting

on finding out, oh my God, this has like 25 incredible gags.

Just amazing mind-blowing stunts.

But let me set the stage because Harry Langdon, his, you know, defenders will say that

his genius is not the quantity of gags. It is the moments of pause in between those

gags, where he allows himself to think on screen. Yeah, he's often referred to as a sort of

like existential clown. Samuel Beckett, no less, was a fan of Harry Langdon. And I'll tell you,

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