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Jennifer Coolidge Plugs Chaplin

Thanks a thousand times to the the Facebook friend who called my attention to Jennifer Coolidge’s acceptance speech for her well deserved SAG award for her work on White Lotus. It had me bawlin’! The brilliant and beautiful Coolidge acknowledges the importance of Charlie Chaplin to her as a young person, and the very excellent dad who introduced her to him. I sure know now what to use as an ice breaker if I’m ever lucky enough to meet her. Like everyone else, I think she’s a genius, and like Chaplin, her comedy is rooted in her humanity. I sure hope it inspires lots of young people to check out Chaplin’s work.

Experience the salient part of the acceptance speech here.

For background on Chaplin go here.

And for over 100 articles related to the 20th century’s greatest comedian go here.

For more on silent comedy and slapstick, including Charlie Chaplin, please read  Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube.  

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.