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Paul Merton's Silent Clowns - Buster Keaton

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Paul Merton profiles Buster Keaton, without whose influence Paul might never have become a comedian himself. As a 13-year-old, Paul saw Keaton's masterpiece The General at the Academy Cinema in London's Oxford Street, thus beginning a lifetime's fascination. Paul also reveals a Buster Keaton joke that was lost for 75 years.