Big Guys Rock with Joe Rock!

Needing laughs big time today, along with guffaws, chortles, chuckles, giggles and howls, so slapstick scenarios involving funny fat guys falling down sound FANTASTIC! Thankfully, film historians, authors and silent movie experts have posted a bunch of pratfall-packed "Ton Of Fun 2-reelers from the late 1920's. These slapstick flicks star the rousing and rotund trio of Kewpie Morgan, Frank Alexander and Hilliard Carr and were produced by former Vitagraph star Joe Rock (from the comedy team of Earl Montgomery and Joe Rock).Do the Ton Of Fun comedies remind this slapstick fan of anyone from more recent memory? YES - this guy! While Mr. Farley loathed and detested being typecast as a “fat comic”, he was an inspired slapstick performer who, like fellow comedians Roscoe Arbuckle and John Candy, left us way too soon.We're thrilled and delighted that the exploits of A Ton Of Fun still survive 100 years after they were first produced. Historian Dave Glass has posted a bunch of the trio's…