When Ernesto Vaser's wife -- played by some guy in drag who towers over the tiny lead comedian -- catches him with a pretty girl on his knee, she pulls out a gun, commands him to shoot himself and leaves the room. For some reason, Vaser does not do so. Instead he skedaddles to some friends and works out an elaborate plan to make her regret her jealousy.
This is one of four 'Fricot' comedies just posted on the Eye Institute's YouTube site. They all have titles and set-ups that suggest any of a dozen other European slapstick comedies of the era. Yet they never fall into the trap of offering the audience another comic doing the same pratfall, as so many comedies of the era did. Instead, they inventively depend on Vaser being a very short man, and also offer gags that are original to me -- and I have seen a lot of them.