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Going back to the original subject of this thread, what I find most disturbing is that Mr Arbuckle now has a chain of restaurants named after him.
Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done him. We feel also that it was only our plain duty to give him this exoneration, under the evidence, for there was not the slightest proof adduced to connect him in any way with the commission of a crime. He was manly throughout the case and told a straightforward story on the witness stand, which we all believed. The happening at the hotel was an unfortunate affair for which Arbuckle, so the evidence shows, was in no way responsible. We wish him success and hope that the American people will take the judgment of fourteen men and woman who have sat listening for thirty-one days to evidence, that Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free from all blame.
This Paul Merton special is well worth a watch-
Crude slapstick which revolves around bulk is not likely to come back into fashion any day soon. Yet Arbuckle was popular for years before his trial. Audiences must have seen something there, in order to keep coming back for his pictures.
The joke at 2.40 into that special is priceless.
I've seen a clip where Benny Hill uses that joke, I wish I could find it again. There's some religious writing on a board outside a church and Benny opens the door dressed as a vicar. The door covers everything except the first letter of each line.
It spells 'KNICKERS'.