TCM is showing about a billion classic comedies during April for its “April Fool’s Month” salute to comedians.
A listing of all the movies with links to articles about them is on this page.
There are even a few on that list that I haven’t seen, so there’s bound to be something new for just about everyone, from the silents through the 50s.
Crank up those hard disks!
Wow, that is some assembly all right.
Top of the list for me is the Max Linder next Monday.
Hard disk? 
I’ll have to dig up a vi-de-o tape.
I am in love with Max Linder!! He’s like Charlie Chaplin, except he’s cute and funny!
Eve’s Picks (comedy and otherwise):
The Wind (12m, Sunday, April 3). Chilling, beautiful silent, and Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson are a gorgeous couple.
The Fatty Arbuckle & Mabel Normand comedies (Monday April 4, 1:00–5:45 p.m.). Mabel is brilliant, and get to know more about Fatty than the trial!
Seven Years Bad Luck. Max Linder. sigh . . . (Monday April 4, 6:45 p.m.).
The Harold Lloyds. If you’ve never seen him, grab these! He was as good as Keaton, at his best. (Monday April 4, 8:00 p.m.–6:00 a.m.).
Marked Woman (Tues., April 5, 11:45 a.m.). Great Bette Davis Warner Brothers gangster mellerdrammer.
Midnight, The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story (Weds., April 6). A whole day of great screwballers, but these three are my top picks.
Gold Dust Gertie (Friday, April 8, 6:00 a.m.). Just for the great Winnie Lightner.
His Girl Friday (Sat., April 9, 8:00 p.m.). One of the highest compliments paid to me on these Boards was being compared to Ros Russell in this film.
Buster Keaton night (Monday, April 11). Goes without sayin’. His leading lady in Our Hospitality was his wife, Talmadge Sister No. 3, Natalie.
Dinner At Eight (Weds., April 13, 3:45 p.m.). One of the best movies ever.
Destry Rides Again (Sat., April 16, 10:00 a.m.). Marlene!!
Stage Door (Thurs., April 21, 4:15 a.m.). Ginger and Kate and Eve Arden and Annie-Pie and Lucy—terrific comedy/drama of struggling showgirls.
High Flyers (Fri., April 22, 12:45 p.m.). Movie generally sucks—but it has Lupe Velez and Margaret Dumont! And a klepto dog named Squeezy!
Madame X (Sunday, April 24, 12 noon). If just for the scene where Connie Bennett tells Lana Turner, “You’re still a cheap little shopgirl from San Francisco—you should have stayed on the other side of the coun-tah!”
Show People (Monday, April 25, 6:00 a.m.). Hilarious Marion Davies/Billy Haines comedy about Hollywood. Marion makes a po-mo appearance as herself!
It Should Happen To You, She Done Him Wrong, Bombshell (Monday night, April 25). Judy Holliday, Mae West and Jean Harlow at their best—I’m plotzing!
Reducing and Prosperity (Friday morning, April 29). OK, the films aren’t much, but they have my pal Anita Page in 'em (Anita is still alive—the last of the silent movie stars—at age 94).
Wow. Marx Brothers, Ealing Studios, The Lady Eve, WC Fields, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Danny Kaye, Arsenic and Old Lace, AND The Front Page??? I am in HEAVEN.
I’ve gotta go through my old videotapes and see which ones I can tape over.
Problem is, what do I do when there’s more than 6 hours (the most a tape will hold) of Movie Greatness on and I’m not home to change tapes?! You have to leave 10–15 minutes at either end of the movie, as TCM is notoriously unreliable about start and finish times.
Boy Howdy, isn’t this the truth? First, buy eight-hour tapes. They helped me a lot when I was farming TCM for classics while away at work. But their fuzzy schedule times caused me to miss the last ten minutes of the Best Years of Our Lives… a mercy that I should probably thank them for, come to think of it. 
Does anyone know if Turner Classics airs commercials during their broadcasts?
No commercials, thank goodness. But their scheduled air times are very unreliable.
Damn, what a lineup! I have to recommend the William Powell double feature of My Man Godfrey (1936) and The Thin Man
For god’s sake, get a Tivo, before it’s too late! (I believe they’re having a special – the 80 hour model for $99.)