Review of The Cook

The Cook (1918)
8/10
Don't miss this gem
30 November 2022
This is one of the funniest shorts I've seen. Fatty plays a cook, Buster a waiter, at a hotel. The first several minutes of this thing are absolutely hilarious, with Fatty and Buster combining on some incredible bits. Fatty is quite adept at flipping food over the shoulder, between his legs, and into Buster's waiting hands. Then Fatty improvises a dance number in the kitchen. It was at this point that my wife looked up from her cell phone, and started laughing hysterically. Eventually, she asked me "who is this guy? He's funny!" Later, we see multiple ways of eating spaghetti, which had never occurred to me (and I'm Italian.) Al St. John, as a villain, is constantly chased by a dog, and the climax takes place in an amusement park.

Hilarious!
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