A vast amount of Pathe's output is considered amusing today because the "oxbridge" accents and the very subjective commentary seem so alien…

Pathe also filmed many items that were actually meant to be amusing. A selection is listed below:

PSP 788: "THE WESTERN BROTHERS" (a comedy routine about the British Upper Classes)
PT 156: "THE ELECTRIC TONGUE" (a devise that converts taste to sound!)
NSP 65: "CECIL JOHNSON" (a man commentates on a meal)
61/97: "FALL IN AGAINST FALLING OUT" (a French man prepares for Nuclear war)
CP 413: "MOTORISED ROLLER SKATES"
NSP 7: "BASIL" (a comedy routine involving a pump and a balloon)
NSP 340: "MCGREGOR AND WEST" (comparison between a grocer's shop before and after WWII)
NSP 354: "MORALE RAISER" (a weird contraption used to cheer people up…)
EP 018: "A PEEP AT THE PUPPETS" (a comedy routine involving a piano stool!)
EP 020: "EVE TAKES UP BASEBALL"
EP 026: "STARS AT HOME - MISS NEVILLE WALLACE (a celery joke)
EP 062: "TIT-BITS FROM SUMMERTIME FROLICS" (chicken dancing and hat juggling)
EP 089: "MR TUGHAM" (a very clever lip reading sketch)
EP 112: "CLASSIC ITUS" (a comedy dance routine)
EP 126: "THE MORE WE ARE TOGETHER" (a dance involving brooms)
EP 127: "CAMERA INTERVIEWS - BILLY BENNETT- ALMOST A GENTLEMAN"
EP 134: "HAM ACTORS" (funny pigs)
EP 148: "ECCENTRICITY" (rubber dancers)
EP 199: "MIXED MANNERS" (old and new dance routines compared)
EP 255: "THE ELASTIC DANCER"
PT 012: "SAWING SOUNDS" (musical act using a saw and a balloon)
PT 197: "BEATRICE LILLIE & LUPINO LANE" (Napoleon and Josephine sketch)
PT 487: "JOE TERMINI" (violin/banjo sketch)
PT 554: "POSTURE" (absurd exercise regime)
PSP 710: "DIVER TRAINS ON LAND"
CP 281: "TOMMY COOPER'S STAMPS"
CP 288: "MORECAMBE AND WISE"
CP 303: "SPAGHETTI RACE"
52/4: "SPECIAL - FOOTBALL WITH THE LID OFF" ("Churchill" and "Stalin" play football…)
60/5: "JOINTS ON THE HOUSE" (a butcher who's won the pools gives away free meat to celebrate!)

In the 30s and early 40s Pathe released a special entertainment cinemagazine called Pathetone Weekly. It featured a huge array of comedians from the period including: Sandy Powell, Jack Barty, Robb Wilton, Jock McKay, Max and Harry Nesbitt, Tommy Mostol, Sam Mayo, Harry Taft, Billy Bennett, Ronald Frankau, Albert Whelan, Charles Austin, Jay Laurier, "The Two Rascals", Leslie Sarony, Alec McGill, Greg Vaughan, Clapham and Dwyer, Collinson and Dean, George Graves, Gus Elen, Leslie Weston, Kenneth and George Western ("The Western Brothers"), George Jackley, Charles Hayes, Norman Long, O'Gorman Brothers, Dorrie Dean, Douglas Byng, Roy Fox, Stanelli and Edgar, Bobbie Comber, Tex McLeod, Rupert Hazel, Elsie Ray, Charles Harrison, Lupino Lane, Beatrice Lillie, Gladys Merredew, Harry Tate, Sophie Tucker, Sandy Rowan, Vic Oliver, Billy Merson, Walsh and Barker, Norman Long, Abe and Mawruss, Fred Duprez, Paul Clive, Tommy Handley, George Beatty, Bert Weston, Sutherland Felce, Carroll and Howe, Leslie Henson, Will Collinson, Richard Goolden, Joe Termini, Presco and Campo, "The Avant Brothers", Peter Sinclaire, Naunton Wayne, Julian Rose, Edna May Oliver, Mabel Constanduros, Michael Hogan, "Scott and Whaley", "Farr and Farrland", Tommy Prior, Hugh Rene, Vernon and Jack Watson, George Gee, Billy Milton, Issy Brown.

Their routines covered the usual subject matter: unemployment, weddings, pub brawls, class, hangovers, drunkenness, marriage, nature, mother-in-laws, history, politics, golf, school, money, hiking, romance, friendship, cars, war, prisons, dieting, the navy, government, death and the afterlife, magistrates, girlfriends, gambling, police, crime, firemen, babies, detective agencies, phrenology, bus conductors, taxis, insomnia, ice skating, gardening, Shakespeare, etiquette, public school policemen, hunting..