Buster Keaton

**Buster Keaton** is a real comedian who Shipwrecked Comedy has "charactured" into a character in their projects. He is an unsatisfied man who seeks comedy acts and fame to find joy.

## *American Whoopee*

American Whoopee happens in 1925, making it chronologically the first appearance of Buster Keaton. He only appears during the finale montage of the movie trailer. We see him attempt to shake Tim's hand while also tipping his hat, but they keep messing up the syncing of when to shake hands. In the end, they shake both of eachothers hands while a third hand appears under Buster's left arm pit in order to raise his hat. Then, Buster slaps Tim on the cheek. This gag was in refernce to one of Keaton's real comedy bits.

## *The Case of the Gilded Lily*

The Case of the Gilded Lily takes place sometime in 1939. Buster first comes into the picture when Ford Phillips visits Wilhelmina Vanderjetski's workplace in an attempt to solve a mystery for her. Buster comes out of his tiny room (broom closet) complaining about the conditions of how he is being treated. When he is introduced to Ford, there is once again a bit about the hat and handshake. Quickly, he changes to show some quiet extreme desperation. His mood once again shifts when he asks a man standing with Ford,Cliff Calloway, if he has seen Roger Haircremé , their boss, recently. After he gets his answer, Buster once again returns to appearing to have only a shred of sanity and leaves the area.

When Roger returns on the scene, Buster appears to complain about his room and fame once more. Roger does not take him seriously, but he does entertain Keaton enough to follow him out of the area in an attempt to calm him down.

Later, Ford and his coworker, Fig Wineshine, run into Buster at a gambiling ring. He is found messing with several poker chips and a deck of cards. He denies leaving any flowers at Wilhelmina's door, however he reveals that he does want her gone from the spotlight. Even though the flowers were not left by him, they were his flowers from a comedy bit he is working on. Keaton then expresses great resentment for Wilhelmina and the way she came to fame; he offers vauge threats and comments about her.

At the end, Buster gathers with other characters for the reveal of who has been blackmailing Wilhelmina Vanderjetski. In order to do this, Ford had dyed a piece of evidence with ink to see who would touch it and be guilty. When asked to reveal his palms, Keaton shows red hands. He was apart of the blackmail operation after all! In an even more shocking turn of events, it is revealed that Buster was working with Roger, his boss and Wilhelmina's husband, to blackmail her. He was involved through helping Roger cover his bets at the gambiling ring. However, he was unaware that this gambiling was linked to the blackmailing of Roger's wife.

## Other Tidbits

-Originally, there was going to be a different character named Buster in American Whoopee. But, because they wanted the cameo of Buster Keaton, they changed the other characters name.

-He used the codename "FunnyGuyHaha69" at the gambiling ring.

-One of Dash Gunfire's jobs was to follow Buster Keaton around to see if he could get any dirt.

-In the Switcheroo reading, Buster Keaton is played by Tom DeTrinis.