![]() By 1911 Variety was already calling it “ the old mirror business,” noting that the latest imitator “exemplif the amount of robbery that is going on in Europe.” Five years later, Chaplin was among the first (if not the first) to do the bit on the screen.Īnd we still haven’t tired of it. As joke historian Anthony Balducci has shown on his blog, it dates at least as far back as the 1894 play My Friend From India: A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts (which was also later turned into a movie). Almost every great comedian, from Charlie Chaplin to the Marx Brothers to Adam Sandler to Bugs Bunny, has at some point in their career performed their own variation of the bit. Muppets Most Wanted is only the latest in more than a century of movies to include the gag, in which two characters stand on opposite sides of an empty mirror frame and one pretends to be the other’s reflection. The new Muppets movie centers around a showdown between Kermit and his evil doppelganger, and so of course there was one place the comedy was destined to go: the Mirror Routine. ![]()
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