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The Unfinished Comedy is a 1957 Chinese sound film directed by actor-turned-director Lü Ban. The film portrays the reunion of a beloved Republican-era screen comedic duo, “Skinny Monkey” Hán Lángēn and “Fatty” Yīn Xiùcén, who are finally able to produce comedy shorts again at the invitation of the Changchun Film Studio. The duo's first three films, which satirize present-day China’s censorship, are screened and critiqued by Comrade Yi Bangzi, or “Comrade Bludgeon,”, acting as the censor who will decide whether the results of their filmmaking will become “flowers of comedy” or just “a clump of weeds."