Who Killed Rover?

There seems to be a substantial portion of the population who thinks that comedy is someone else in pain. Yes, it's funny, but it also argues that one has little empathy with dumb animals like Moe, Larry and Curly, as well as their intellectual superiors, the dogs whom Jules White stuffed into costumes, and wired into poses. This is some peoples' idea of funny. It is not mine.

That said, we are confronted with this episode of the Dogville series that White and his cousin, Zion Myers, did for MGM after his brother, Jack White got rid of him. Would these shorts have been funny, and would this short in particular, have been funny if instead of mistreated dogs, they had mistreated some human being, say Buster Keaton, as they would soon after? I think if your answer is "ye" then you can gain some enjoyment from this. If not, then no.