Best of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle silent comedy
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- Roscoe Arbuckle was one of the biggest stars in silent comedy before he was charged with manslaughter in 1921. Although he was ultimately acquitted, he was blacklisted by Hollywood.
This video offers a brief sample of some of his best work, and features some of the other silent comedy stars he worked with: Buster Keaton, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin.
For more information about the Arbuckle scandal, I highly recommend this episode of the podcast You Must Remember This: www.youmustreme...
Check out my best of Charlie Chaplin video here:
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Meanie 🤭😂🤣🤣🤣🤪!!!!
I'm 5 lbs underweight walk with a cane, and am relatively young, every time I go to a store all the electric carts are taken by some lard ass who thanks Kentucky fried Chicken gravy is a dipping sauce. I need that cart because my left leg is ass from an accident outside of my control, you control the amount of burgers they go in your mouth per day.
I like that the gags made famous by Chaplin and Keaton, both whom he mentored, are in here. Thank you!
The house falling gag was great; I've seen it before where the open window falls around the person, but this turned that on its head by having the closed window break.
@@ciderfan823 Yeah it was popularized by Buster after him, and i remember Chaplin using at least that two potatoes "dance".
@sbcontt YT You'd think that till you realized he was also known for stand-up.
@sbcontt YT Its speculated that it was Chaplain that threw him under the bus considering what he was accused of is exactly what Charley boy was up to.
@sbcontt YT he may have been typecast in the beginning but pretty early on he got his own studio and had full control over his films and is well known for saying that he would never use his weight to get cheap jokes
Who got this recommended after 100 years
See you in another 100!
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Yep! I was thinking what the crap is tthis lol?
Scary thing is this video might get recommended to our future descendants in the next 100 years
Your mum
This man greatly expressed his role using only facial expressions and body movement more than what Netflix hires today
It was the silent era, kinda had to be more expressive to get your point across, over acting isn't necessarily good acting
0:54 Buster Keaton smiling, what a rare treat
holy SHIT, that was Buster? Had to pause when I saw it!
The "Great Stone Face" himself.
@@Alex090 he started out doing small roles for Arbuckle, later rising to co-star.
I think the same thing when look
@@iododendron3416Keaton was quoted that Arbuckle taught him everything he knew
Keep in mind that film wasn't easy to obtain back then. The shots where he was doing patty flips with the Pan, he had to do it right quick
I am such a big fan of Fatty Arbuckle that when I got a job as a cook at iHop I perfected that pancake and broom trick
Did he really murder somebody?
No
@@R3z4n He was falsely accused and later acquitted and apologized to.
@@R3z4n No, he was totally innocent, but they ruined this great mans life. So sad.
Did you seriously flip a pancake with a filthy broom for guests? I hope you get fired for that one.
Comic genius who went from being the richest man in Hollywood to ruin because of sensational reporting. Film should be made of his life.
Chris Farley was supposed to play Arbuckle in a biographical film. But he died too soon...
Shame, there is certainly plenty of material to make a great story here.
John Candy was going to make one then he died
They keep trying to, but each actor (up to 3 or 4 by now I believe) keeps tragically dying before filming can begin, so it’s been in limbo for the past 40+ years. :(
That train scene at the end....GANGSTA 🤯!!
"GANGSTA " Is such a imbecilic term!
Was it done in reverse tho...
@@jllrue Even when used colloquially in 2021? You may be a bit out of touch...
Ya that was some pretty slick shit
@@CreeperInWaiting it doesn't look like it as you can see the smoke blowing away from his cigarette.
It's refreshing to know a whole new generation is able to re-discover him through this medium. He was the silent film comedian pioneer. But forgotten by being 'canceled' due to the scandal. I wish he had never gone to that party.
Wasn't it his party?
@@joshbradley6841 good question.
It was his party. Had 2 friggin losers attend that blackmailed him.
@@joshbradley6841It was, but he was also invited to go on a friend’s yacht that day.
I'm shocked to see gags like the window cleaning, potato dancing, and the window falling on him - ALL borrowed by Keaton and Chaplain. Arbuckle was the true pioneer!!!
When he cleaned the non existing car window in the beginning 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭❤️
Fat or not, this guy had MOVES! Actors from the silent era really knew how to present themselves.
The standing somersaults is pretty much got him discovered and launched his career. His agility for his sized was well known.
Most of them came from Vaudeville
Did I just witness Buster Keaton show an actual expression?
Since he's talking to someone out of shot it looks like he broke character because he thought it was take.
word is he used to do facial expressions before he went solo. (this is not quite the character from the 20s just yet)
@@jairaugusto9289 He carefully devised his solo character right down to complementing his long face with the flattest hat he could find.
Dang, the guy is agile. Today we'd give him an electric cart to cruise around walmart
@liam Anderson exactly chris farley is the same way
Nobody gives anyone a chair at Walmart. They take it
@@jamesagwe2981 Chris Farley actually wanted to play Arbuckle in a biopic
That scene on top of the train...that's a REAL moving train 😮
@@doctorfeinstone6524 ok?
This man enjoyed his comedic role acting and did it suprisingly very well.
Enjoyed*
@@ashleyr6809 Stop the Grammarnazi!!!
@@Gaga682 It's not always to get after you, sometimes it's just helping out
@@trumtrum5136 I do not want to get brought to grammarnazi concentration camp for reeducational purposes.
I had never seen any Fatty Arbuckle material that I can remember before now but he was AWESOME!!! Still holds up today!!! (2020)
My thoughts exactly . Amazing 👏🏻👏🏻
The potatoes on forks dance but is done in the Simpsons if that helps 😂
he taught chaplin
And I don’t care if I ever see it again.
@@Stewart1953 wasn't that in the film benny and joon?
Thank you, Boardwalk Empire, for introducing me to this guy and other legends nearly forgotten to time. Thank you also for bolstering my love for the early 1900s, and for the music of the times!
For a moment I thought I was watching a Kmac video. 🤦♂️
Lol me too hahaha XD then I saw chaplin with him and I said "nah, no way"
Me to bro, they really look similar hahaha
We all know Kmac is a great comedian, that's because it was his full time job before metal music was invented.
The original and in my opinion, the greatest silent film comedian. Sad about his scandal, I think he was innocent. He's now forgotten because of it. He discovered Buster Keaton and taught Charlie Chaplin how it's done.
Way too djent for kmac
"Underrated" is a over used word but in Mr Arbuckle's case it is highly apt. Not only a comedian but an agile acrobat, we ought to see him as often as Chaplin and Keaton I think.
May he rest in peace
If we see him now would mean there are zombies
@@Kronos0999 Haha True. I would like to see more films though.
I tend to strongly favor the term "underappreciated"
Well said!
@@johnmca5643 Thank you
I just stumbled upon this video because the TH-cam algorithm said I should check it out. Fantastic! A real master! Then I read his Wikipedia article (German edition): The discoverer of Buster Keaton! Highest paid actor of the silent movie era. Then self-proclaimed moralists tried to accuse him of murder and ready him for their political careers.
What a tragedy. Thank you so much for pointing out this really important story of a life.
Fatty was brilliant - a shame his career was ended by the scandal. Everything I've read said he was innocent, but public opinion and yellow journalism destroyed him.
What happened?
@@Kronos0999 th-cam.com/video/-ZwC7vzO5Zg/w-d-xo.html
All mainstream media is yellow when you consider how biased they are.
@@EBUNNY2012 Hearst was the master - sensational, inflammatory journalism just to sell papers and advertising - just like CNN and FOX do for advertising dollars today.
@@Sutterjack and the only reason they do it is because people lap this shit up in earnest. I never understood why people bother with this junk. I avoid all clickbait articles like the plague.
You can definitely tell where Chaplin and Keaton got ideas for the gags they did. For big fella he sure was light on his feet, and those quick hands of his in the kitchen that was astounding. TCM needs to make this man their star of the month.
What a tragedy they ruined this great mans life by lies. Arbuckle was an amazing and kind man.
Yes. It was really only Keaton that stood by him.
@@leemundoartist9932 ...and Stan Laurel
What happened?
@@Kronos0999 a false allegation and cancel culture...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle#Scandal
@@snarkymatt585 Even back then before the age of SnowflakeTwitter?
You could put him in a film today and he would be a star.
Man You were mistreated so wrongly and you literally seemed like a nice man to meet... may you rest in peace you lovely big funny man one of the masters of Slapstick and silent film era
I Remember. That's why I chose my Stage Name to let his name live on. Unjustly Condemned. RIP Funny Man.
Condemned? What for?
@@xCorvus7x The rape and murder trial that he was eventually acquitted of. It ruined his career.
@@stanakkerman2386 Well, damned.
Thanks for the info.
Thank you for calling him Roscoe. I hate that people keep calling him Fatty.
Helped Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Bob Hope get their starts. Then he was brought down by lies.
Bob Hope?
@@georgealderson4424 - Yes, Arbuckle saw Bob Hope and his partners dance act in a vaudeville show. He recommended they go work for a certain company, which they did and their careers took off.
Sorry I don't have all the details but that is the gist of it.
@@emptyhand777 Thanks for that information. In my mind I always think of RA being around a lot earlier than BH but that is partly because of the silent/talkies divide I suppose. It would be interesting to hear what Mr Arbuckle sounded like and for that matter to see more of his films.
Mabel Normand saved chaplains career in Hollywood or he would be back on London doing vaudville.
@@georgealderson4424 Bob Hope was @100 when he died, his career spanned all of the entertainment eras and mediums from vaudeville to y2k.
Some of the most innovative comics of the twentieth century and beyond. Such talents seemed chiefly invested generally on fewer than two dozen people in all of film history. Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chase, Harold Lloyd, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Harry Langdon, Clara Bow, Fannie Brice, Marie Dressler, Mildred Davis, BeBe Daniels, June Marlowe, Jobyna Ralston, Edgar Kennedy and more, if you don't include kids like the Little Rascals, Jackie Coogan, Mickey Daniels and others who gave us all ideas for our own pranks on family and friends AND teachers!
And what about the Three Stooges, ya can't exclude that bunch!
Mabel Normand
I remember TH-cam was once about funny videos, fail, and cats videos. Things change soo much now it has evolved into an entire world encyclopedia.
that knife trick at 2:56 was amazing.............
0:48 Shattered dreams !
"The Great Stone Face"
Laughing on screen 😮😮
Wow, a devoted Keaton fan all my life & didn't recognize him at all
0:56 - a rare scene of buster Keaton laughing
Damn. He seemed talented.
Seemed??????
@@BeanieandCecil : He heh... I know, right? Not "seemed"... WAS!
Yes, maybe should have tried acting or something.
I love vintage comedy anything classic , so fun. This guy made everyone laugh even his actors.
Great find, Buster Keaton laughing, it must be the only time in my life that I see anything like this.
This man's energy is flowing on me !! Everybody should watch at least one of his movie !
Buster Keaton was such a bro for sticking up for Fatty Arbuckle when no one else would and were threatened if they did so. Even gave 35% of the earnings to him when he couldn't make it back into the industry
I've herd of fatty Arbuckle, but I'd never seen his work till now, he looks if though he was pretty funny, definitely got that commeadic timing
Watching it 100 years later! Funny stuff
Dude was doin haky sack with pancakes.
OG right there.
The rou design featuring Chaplin and Arbuckle is one of my favorites when they play a couple of drunks..hilarious..Arbuckle paved the way for many comedics...
The music makes it even better, I can see why he was a superstar. He was just as good as Chaplin or Keaton
any idea what the music is called? I wanted to use it as my ring tone
He was definitely light on his feet for a man his size. Roscoe's story was tragic even though he was the highest earning actor at the top of his career. Abandond by everyone including his own parents and the town that made him famous, he still managed to make people laugh.
Buster Keaton never abandoned his mentor.
I can't believe I've never heard of this absolute legend.
I can imagine everyone heartily laughing at the theater
This was the silent movie era.
Ah, yes. The origin of the Belushi-Farley archetype in comedy.
He was funny but that scandal destroyed him. "Trial by Media" is nothing new as we see on CNN all the time.
What happened?
@@longsleevethong1457look it up on Google.😢
@@longsleevethong1457he said the n word on twitter i thinks
2:56 That's Knife was so damn Perfect !
So good I had to watch it twice!!
Wow, just watching that I noticed lots of gags by Arbuckle stolen and made famous by other comedians. Roscoe Arbuckle was an early example of the media wrongfully destroying someone's career, a really tragic tale of Hollywood's first superstar, which is what he was.
He didn't steal those gags. He came up with them first. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
@@janedoe5229 please reread, I said ' gags by Arbuckle stolen ( from him) and made famous by other comedians'. He was indeed a true pioneer and creative genius.
Wow Fatty Arbuckle we are so in awe of you and your talent. You were a GREAT PERSON TOO. God bless you and your loved ones. Your work still makes people laugh years later. Great job!!
My Grandfather: Morey A. Lewis used to regale us with stories of playing pool with Fatty Arbuckle at the back room of Schlemiel's Delicatessen on 4th Street.
Why I learned about him just now? He worked with Charlie Chaplin together, was agil and very gifted. He is a underrated comical genius.
He also worked with Buster Keaton. That's Buster around 0:56, smiling (not quite in character with his much more common "Stone Face" idea.)
He looks like a chubby version of a young Leonardo Dicaprio from the face
Yes, in fact he is not ugly at all.
You can't compare someone now to someone of the past like the person of the past is the 2nd copy. Maybe Dicaprio is the younger thinner version of Roscoe?
Looks like Babe Ruth imho lol.
OMG....he does. LOL!!!
The way he flips the pancake, teach me sensei!
So Buster Keaton could laugh: 0:54? What a find!
I understand he was quite an emotional man
I loved this. Thank you. I enjoy researching silent film era Hollywood.
the guy was so awesome, definately wasn't handicaped by his weight
True showman, cannot beat it 100year old and still is entertaining if not better
The longer you watch, the more badass he gets.
Another silent genius. So, who copied who with the dancing potatoes and forks, though? I thought Chaplin did that in Gold Rush, but that Arbuckle clip looks older. Anyone know?
The Arbuckle clip was from 1917 while Gold Rush came out in 1925. That does not mean someone else didn't do it first. Abbott and Costello ruined dozens to hundreds of vaudeville acts when they did the bits everyone was doing for the mass media movies. No one knows who did what first but we only remember whoever did it on film first.
Laurel and hardy, buster Keaton, charlie Chaplin, the stooges all wrapped up in one 🤓🤪😀😆😁😂🤣
When actors just did it for the art.
No agendas, no political whining, and no empty promises. Arbuckle and Keaton didn't just talk about it.
They were about it.
Can we all take a second to appreciate how things like the knife flip, mustache, and the train lighter are all practical? There was no CGI in 1920 whatever. Also what happened to this kind of humor? Simple and fun without pointing at a group of people.
Absolutely, just like Laurel and Hardy ☺️ I love the comedy from this era , so innocent and yes no nastiness or swearing!!
That clip when he gets his mustache shot off is hilarious.
Dang great collection and sequence! Big Man could move!
these are rare clips. he was the hight of comedy. a news reporter
made up lies about him and it destroyed his career. now you can't
even find a complete movie of his
Who is the genius man ??
Cheers from France America
When he's wearing the pots and pans 😂😂😂
He'd be "Slightly over weight Arbuckle" these days 😊🤣
Great, fantastic and immortal Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle!!! Respect forever!!! 👍👍👍
Brilliant! :) Sooooo good to watch this in 2021
For anybody who wants to know the full story. The book, I Fatty is a fantastic read about a very sad story.
These days, the board of health would take issue with Arbuckle flipping pancakes with a broom.
I am sure they weren't thrilled about it back then, either.
@@MrTruckerf LOL! I'm sure you're right.
Probably because they couldn’t do it themselves
A genuine Talent from head to toe may he rest in peace he was the genuine article absolutely no question about it
Say what you want. The man can flip a pancake like nothing.
Really would have loved to see Chris Farley portrait fatty arbuckle in the movie he didn't get a chance to make. Both were great physical comedians.
When entertainment was just entertaining.
What do u mean? Can u explain it?
I loved watching this when I was little so many memories so glad I found this haha
There should. be a biopic made of his life. I can't BELIEVE there hasn't been..
Chris Farley was going to. He got David Mamet on board to write it. Delays and Farley's untimely death prevented it from being made.
There's a curse, I think, involving the Arbuckle biopic. John Candy was rumoured to be involved as well, before his passing. Same goes for John Belushi.
@@Stevo935 Doesn't seem like a "curse" exactly. Both Belushi and Farley died of drug overdoses when they were 33, but John Candy had a heart attack while he slept. If there's any "curse," it's not some mystical thing - it's plainly seen in how they all died.
He was sensitive about his weight. He was also brilliant performer and moved with deceptive agility.
Chris Farley wanted to play him in a biopic. While I think he would've been perfect for the part its ashame it never got to happen.
How did I never hear of this guy before? Greatest slapstick ever.
He was bigger than Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton or really anyone in the 1910s. But then he got falsely accused of raping a girl, and while it eventually led to the jury finding him innocent and writing him a letter of apology, his career and reputation was ruined.
Dang! That was awesome! He was great!
Brilliant entertainment!🤣👍Nothing as good as this now!Many thanks!
Couldn't nickname someone 'Fatty' today. Wouldn't want to AFFEND anyone...😂
If it would make you feel better, you can call me fatty, I dont give a dang.
@@emperorpawpateen.9992 didn't mean to offend; my bad 😃🇨🇦
@@christrudell7966 I don't get offended by stupid comments. Not implying you did. Lol
@@emperorpawpateen.9992 I dig it frank! Take care brother!! 🇨🇦
@@christrudell7966 I am not your brother
My grandma would call me old for watching this lol
AWESOME!!!!!
Little known fact: Comedian Freddy Lewis used to call his dates “Fatty Arbuckle”. There was never a second date. xoxo The Clarences
Такая печальная судьба у этого талантливого актёра . 💐
0:40 Stan & ollie: hey that's mine!
I like Roscoe, his physical comedy is hilarious.
it really makes me wonder how great Roscoe's accomplishments and legacy would have been had his career not been ruined by one malicious bogus scandal. He should also be thanked for seeing enough comic potential and greatness to both hire and mentor Buster Keaton who like Roscoe is one of the legendary comic geniuses of the silent film era.
You can see where Chaplin got his material from, and Fatty was way funnier.... scandals took their toll in the 1920’s... great clips..
A nice man that was the victim of a vicious smear campaign. Very unjust, not fair at all.
Amazing the stunts he did
Fatty Arbuckle is so hilarious! He could never do something unfunny in his WHOLE LIFE
Fatty Arbs was the man
There’s something kind of creepy about silent movies
Maybe it's because ....without words to think about, you can see their thoughts in action.