Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton?

In My Humble Opinion
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Well, if you can forgive me beating a dead horse…

Let’s get away from that term then. My original post was
trying to point out that Chaplin revolutionized…stuff.

The Kid was qualitatively different from that which
had come before. It was deeper, told a bigger story, and
a much more substantive movie than any comedy before.

The General, The Navigator, The Freshman,
The Gold Rush, and comedies released today have a lot
more in common with The Kid than they do with
Tillie.

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I agree with you there. But Chaplin was revolutionizing screen comedy long before The Kid. Take a look at his Mutual comedies of 1916-17. They were started before Keaton even entered films, and Keaton learned a lot from Chaplin.