On Sep 30, 5:05 pm, "Matt Barry" <bar... RemoveThis @bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> Roscoe Arbuckle's was the earliest on screen that I'm aware of, although it
> could (and probably does) date back older than that. Depp did indeed do a
> variation on the routine as well. Of course, in that Simpsons episode, part
> of the joke is the lawyer who rushes in, representing "the estate of Charles
> Chaplin, and demanding an immediate halt to this unauthorized
> impersonation". I wonder if the writer of the blog even caught that part of
> the joke.
>
> "Rich T" <rich_tint... RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1191189646.284009.73460@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > ...from of course, "The Gold Rush"- question: who did this first,
> > Charlie or Roscoe Arbuckle? Heck, for all I know this was a common
> > vaudlille thing. The reason I ask: I was just reading some comments
> > after a blog post where people were correcting a previous commentor
> > who attributed a parody of that scene in a Simpsons episode to Johnny
> > Depp(!). I'm pretty sure Roscoe did it on film prior to "Gold Rush".
> > Thanks!
> > Rich
Arbuckle did a little impromptu dance with forks and rolls in _The
Rough House_,
which predates _The Gold Rush_. It's less elaborate than the version
Chaplin does--that is, there's no attempt to create the illusion of a
dancer.
Probably in one form or another it was a feat of legerdemain used by
vaudeville
performers and/or street entertainers long before it appeared on film.
Connie K.
>> Stay informed about: Chaplin's dinner roll dance... 
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