Commenting on this, Lutz Peter Koepnick writes in 2002,==Plagiarism lawsuit==Chaplin's half-brother Sydney directed and starred in a 1921 film called "King, Queen, Joker" in which, like Chaplin, he played the dual role of a barber and ruler of a country who is about to be overthrown.
Leta 2000 ga je Ameriški filmski inštitut uvrstil na 37. mesto lestvice "100 Years... 100 Laughs" stotih najboljših filmov stoletja.