Charlie Chaplin
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Sep 12, 2026
Toomas Hendrik IlvesHOST
Speaks her mind? Well, no, it was supposed to be a common position of a whole bunch of countries, but they all chickened out.
Toomas Hendrik IlvesHOST
And so it's kind of like, you know, if you remember the Charlie Chaplin movie where he's like...
Toomas Hendrik IlvesHOST
In the movie, a red flag falls down off a truck and he picks it up and he wants to be helpful to say, wait, your flag fell.
Toomas Hendrik IlvesHOST
And then right behind him comes a huge demonstration of communists.
Will EvansHOST
[laughs]
Chris WalklandCORRESPONDENT
And there is a good reason for these exceptional jokes, because it turns out that following some painstaking genealogy research by my brother, we, that is him and I, are distantly related to Charlie Chaplin.
Chris WalklandCORRESPONDENT
[laughs]
Will EvansHOST
No.
Zeth LundyHOST
Griffin has been receiving anonymous postcards with threatening messages.
Zeth LundyHOST
The first one we see has a painting of classic Hollywood icons in the front, including Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, and yes, Fatty Arbuckle.
Zeth LundyHOST
And on the back is written simply, Your Hollywood is dead.
Zeth LundyHOST
More postcards arrive.
Eli BosnickHOST
Chaplin.
Heath EnrightGUEST
It is not Charlie Chaplin.
Heath EnrightGUEST
FDR was the closest guess.
Heath EnrightGUEST
Hitler.
Gbemi OladipoHOST
I can't lie sometimes I forget how famous people are though even if they're even if they're not that famous but JK Rowling is mad famous isn't it it's
EstebanUNKNOWN
mad I tell you what though Charlie Chaplin comes in at number 9 comedian
Gbemi OladipoHOST
Charlie Chaplin.
Gbemi OladipoHOST
Shout out to Charlie Chaplin, man.
Gbemi OladipoHOST
What a legend.
Gbemi OladipoHOST
Yes, yes, guys.
Morry MorganHOST
There is a old, possibly a wives' tale.
Morry MorganHOST
I don't know if you know this, but the legend says that Charlie Chaplin secretly entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and came third.
Morry MorganHOST
Now, other stories, other versions of that said he came second, 20th or even 27th, very specific.
Morry MorganHOST
And apparently in that story, the winner was a painter from Austria.
Anthony LittlechildHOST
you read that?
Morry MorganHOST
It's an old lifestyle.
Anthony LittlechildHOST
That an Austrian painter won a Charlie Chaplin lookalike competition.
Stig WemyssHOST
That reminds me actually about, I've heard Rowan Atkinson tell this story about he was in some auto dealer shop and some guy came up to him and said, Juno, you are the spitting image of
Phil NicholsHOST
All of them being doused with kerosene.
Phil NicholsHOST
We see books by Charlie Chaplin, Brendan Behan, We see Cahiers du Cinema, the film journal that Truffaut wrote for.
Phil NicholsHOST
They give the woman 10 seconds to get out of her house, and they begin a 10-second countdown.
Phil NicholsHOST
She refuses to move.
BrianHOST
But I'm so happy that that sub-genre, you know, that work in film, that specific kind of subset of film work is beginning to get more and more recognition because it deserves it.
BrianHOST
Because these guys have been, you know, you can go all the way back to Charlie Chaplin days, right? Yeah, yeah.
BrianHOST
Who's he? Buster Keaton.
BrianHOST
Buster Keaton, yeah.
Joy PackardHOST
We need moments that don't ask anything from us.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Charlie Chaplin said,
Joy PackardHOST
I don't know that I'd call the whole day wasted, but I definitely understand what he meant.
Joy PackardHOST
Laughter changes the feel of a day.
Renata DanielHOST
So Musso and Frank opened up in 1919 and somehow survived while Hollywood changed around it.
Renata DanielHOST
Charlie Chaplin ate there, Douglas Fairbanks came through, Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner and other writers used the place.
Renata DanielHOST
Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra joined the long list of famous customers.
Renata DanielHOST
And I am old enough to know exactly who all of those people are because my parents used to watch the movies on the Saturday and Sunday.
Renata DanielHOST
become a kind of living piece of old Hollywood.
Renata DanielHOST
Apparently, some customers still refuse to leave.
Renata DanielHOST
Charlie Chaplin is the name most often attached to the haunting.
Renata DanielHOST
Stories claim that a small male figure resembling him has been seen around his favourite booth.
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