The success of comedies like American Pie hardly suggests that today's viewers despise the intellectually undemanding, while Keaton's The General is "arguably the greatest screen comedy ever made" according to the London listings magazine Time Out.
As for the general Medicaid population, the single greatest medical demand placed on the program, in terms of volume if not dollars, is pregnancy and childbirth.
"Access to broadband in an affordable manner is our greatest challenge, " Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), told BBC News.