A Funny Story (1910)
Generally good natured, Bill Jones calls to see his old friend, Smith. Jones, apparently glum and preoccupied accepts his old friend's invitation to "make himself at home" with an air of indifference and gives little heed to him as he tries to distract Billy by telling him a funny story. Gradually Jones gets upset, then a smile creeps over his face until he bursts into a hearty laugh as he sees the joke and gets the point. "So long, Smith," says Jones and the next we see of him is on the way to get an extra drink at a nearby refreshment parlor, where a party of tough citizens are discussing a recent scrap. They pay less attention to Jones than he does to them, until he interrupts their talk with his chuckles as he thinks of Smith's funny story. They find themselves joining in the chorus with loud and hearty guffaws as Jones, shaking with laughter, leaves the place. In the streetcar on his way home, Jones finds everybody is absorbed in their newspapers, serious over the troubles of the day. Jones gets to thinking of the funny story and breaks out with peals of "hee haws," then the passengers all wake up and get aboard until the old car shakes with funny vibrations. Jones' wife has a party of friends and neighbors at home, the older folks are in the midst of progressive whist and the young folks are exercising their voices in a quartette at the piano. Jones enters; his wife scolds him for being late and his disregard of social etiquette, etc. Jones tries to listen, but he feels the funny story coming on, and despite all efforts he gives way and the laugh is on. At first his wife is angry; the guests astonished. Then they all catch the humor of it and they're off, and the last we see of them is the laugh they give us as the film ends.
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