# How Many 100-Year-Old Films have You Seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306 "2002-04-12T20:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306/21 "2002-04-15T16:26:01Z")
Not to rain on anyone St. Patricks’ Day parade, but “Levi and Cohen, the Irish Comedians” simply consists of two vaudeviulle comics insultingly “dressed up like Jews,” doing equally insulting Irish comedy routines. Kind of like saying “Tawana Shabazz, the Chinese Laundress.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306/22 "2002-04-15T16:32:41Z")
Silly goose! you know perfectly well that I’m familiar enough with entertainment 100 years ago to be able to guess what the act was. I just wanted to take advantage of a chance to plug my crackpot theory! It does sound like it could have been funny. Unfortunately, I’ve heard acts like that so I know that it wouldn’t be. And not just because of its political incorrectness. Mostly because the half-life of humor is usually ten minutes. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306/23 "2002-04-15T23:15:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\* It does sound like it could have been funny. Unfortunately, I’ve heard acts like that so I know that it wouldn’t be. And not just because of its political incorrectness. Mostly because the half-life of humor is usually ten minutes. \*\* Like “Abie’s Irish Rose” Awful. Terrible. I was glued to it (the book, anyhow). I get stuck on the funniest things, really. This reminds me so much of our little Jewish contingent at the Joyce Summer School… It’s just an entire genre of film. Interesting to see what people thought amusing even fifty years ago, let alone a hundred. Cyn ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306/24 "2002-04-16T01:46:11Z")
I have seen all the extant **Mélies** snuff films. I wish. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306/25 "2002-04-16T15:16:54Z")
Well, [this](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0001009) comes pretty close… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306/26 "2002-04-16T15:40:02Z")
Sound more like gay porn, from the plot summary: “A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-100-year-old-films-have-you-seen/103306.md?page=1)