The film comedy that made me really laugh out loud a few times the other day was in fact nigh on ninety years old and still a brilliant piece of work.
It was Buster Keaton's "The General", which tells the tale of a railroad engineer racing to save at first his train and then his fiance during the American civil war and it is packed full of fantastic comedy timing and outrageous stunts.
You're unlikely to find today's comedians going as far as risking their life and physically manhandling railway sleepers all for the sake of a gag. He then plunges a rail train off a real bridge into a real river...
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