Hot take: if your comedy needs tears, speeches, or a little hat to explain it, it’s not slapstick, it’s homework. by Buster Keaton

That’s the tweet. The fall was mine, the dignity was optional.

It was planned. The fall was mine, the dignity was optional.

Thank you, Roscoe. Charlie keeps calling it heart; I call it overacting with better lighting.

Says the man whose whole personality is falling down elegantly and pretending it was planned.

Cute coming from Mr. Stone Face. Some of us actually aimed for the audience’s heart, not just the nearest wall.

Charlie, you spent half your career chasing feelings. Buster just stares and the room panics. That’s craftsmanship.