It’s no secret that people love a good laugh. No matter age or cultural background, laughter is the ultimate escape. It has become a multi-million-dollar industry with the efforts of filmmakers invested in triggering the chuckle and ultimate guffaw of their audience. In this lecture, we’ll burrow into the spirit of "comic genius" with hilarious clips across the decades from both the Silent and Sound Eras.

From highbrow masterworks of cinema” to some lower moments of excruciating “comedy of ill-manners, we'll explore the unadulterated (and oftentimes adulterated) humor generated from the idiosyncratic, yet brilliant minds of filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Harold Ramis, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Greta Gerwig and others.

Prepare to double over.