Great slapstick comedy!
This had just about every slapstick device known - pies, tomatoes, and (I guess) eggs. It's good for some laughs.
shareJust watched it yesterday and I gotta agree with you.
Besides I dunno if there are another shorts where Charlie plays two different roles. In this case Mr. Pest and Mr. Rowdy.
In The Great Dictator he plays both Adenoid Hynkel and a jewish barber. But that is a feature length film, not a short film like this one.
I particularly liked the subdued, drunken malevolence of Chaplin's upper-class character.
It was also notable to see the cheap seats in the mezzanine are full of ethnic caricatures: a black man, an Irish man, an Italian, etc. Such a clear ethnic divide in the theatre makes the movie a glimpse into the past.