Two Knights of Vaudeville (1915)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Really bad comedy about two black men who find a couple tickets for a vaudeville show. They attend the show with a woman but the men are acting so bad and stupid that they end up getting kicked out. After this they decide to put on their own act.
The good news about this short is that it's an early example of actual black actors playing the parts instead of whites in blackface. The problem is the fact that the film is just really unfunny and it honestly doesn't contain one single laugh. I'm sure that the majority of the people who watch this will also be offended by it. The title cards make the black men appear extremely stupid and there's no doubt that there's a touch of stereotypes in play here because of how stupid and uneducated the men are. The problem is really the fact that this comedy just doesn't have any laughs.
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Really bad comedy about two black men who find a couple tickets for a vaudeville show. They attend the show with a woman but the men are acting so bad and stupid that they end up getting kicked out. After this they decide to put on their own act.
The good news about this short is that it's an early example of actual black actors playing the parts instead of whites in blackface. The problem is the fact that the film is just really unfunny and it honestly doesn't contain one single laugh. I'm sure that the majority of the people who watch this will also be offended by it. The title cards make the black men appear extremely stupid and there's no doubt that there's a touch of stereotypes in play here because of how stupid and uneducated the men are. The problem is really the fact that this comedy just doesn't have any laughs.