This paper examines how both Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are often heralded as cinematic comedic pioneers. It looks
at how, in both of their respective short films, entitled "The Tramp" and "One Week," each comedian makes use of common
stereotypes of women and also the common stereotypes of romantic relationships between men and women, to illustrate their comedic creations' personality deviations from the
conventional masculine roles of domestic success. It discusses how the men in the two films function as failures in the domestic realm and how this parallels both their failures in conventional life and successes at comedic life.