> A lot of older comedy aged better. Jacques Tati films for example. Or Chaplin. As a Frenchman I should be defending Tati but by God I have never found him fu

> A lot of older comedy aged better. Jacques Tati films for example. Or Chaplin. As a Frenchman I should be defending Tati but by God I have never found him funny. Poetic, maybe (maybe!) but funny?? Not in the least IMHO. One can guess what he means, immediately, there is no subtext. "Modernity is dehumanizing." Yeah, well, it probably is, but we all know that now, don't we? (Same thing with Chaplin BTW.) Monty Python is incredibly funny, and still is, because it's often absurd, and absurd stays absurd forever.