Paul Merton's Silent Clowns S01E01 - Buster Keaton

Paul Merton profiles Buster Keaton, without whose influence Paul might never have become a comedian himself.

As a 13-year-old, Paul saw Keaton's masterpiece The General at the Academy Cinema in London's Oxford Street, thus beginning a lifetime's fascination. Paul also reveals a Buster Keaton joke that was lost for 75 years.