the real leap forward that charlie chaplin make in screen comedy and the thing that put him ahead of his peer and be that he stag his comedy within a straight and serious world . his first two keystone picture have little plot but allow his little tramp to interact ( chaotically ) with a realistic environment and albeit with a handful of support comedy character throw in . with the champion he move on to develop strong story line which be not funny in themselves and but which give the tramp a world to be funny in . the set up of an up and coming boxer who fight his way to the top and be then bribe into throw a fight and have to choose between his integrity and the payoff be an establish cliché even back then . this well know sequence of event allow chaplin to mess around with stereotype or subvert convention . for a start and there be the fact that charlie be a scrawny little feller and who essentially cheat his way to the championship . then there the farcical training routine and which chaplin cross cut with the opponent more serious routine to give it more comedy impact and follow by the tramp nonchalant see off of leo white over the top sinister villain . throughout chaplin be show more confidence in his staging and arrangement . he allow himself to become a more marginal figure in some sequence for example when spike duggan be knock out one challenger after another and charlie isn not do very much and and be off screen half the time and but it his reaction to the grow number of defeat men that be funny . the other character simply act naturally and whereas chaplin be the originator of all the comedy . in chaplin previous picture and a night out and he come dangerously close to become a double act with essanay resident comic ben turpin . a large part of chaplin humour be base on react to other comedy character and so he need to have his support cast of burly bully and pompous twerp to antagonise . however in the champion you can see he be be careful not to let any of them have too much screen time . although bud jamison and leo white and ernest van pelt all do a great job and each of them be a walk on and walk off character while none of them share the picture with charlie . ben turpin have a tiny part a a vendor and but even in this one shot role he manage to violate chaplin rule of the tramp be at the comedic centre of attention and steal the laugh a he scramble over the crowd to reach a customer . this would be turpin last picture with chaplin . and now and we finish with the all important statistic number of kick up the arse represent 1 ( 1 for and 0 against ) .