The funny history of comedy, from silent films to the 1960s: the beginnings; slapstick, Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd; the art of the gag, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers and Ernst Lubitsch; screwball comedy and romantic comedy, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder; the Looney Tunes and the Merrie Melodies; and Ealing Studios, the pinnacle of British humor.