A Chump at Oxford is a Hal Roach comedy film produced in 1939 and released in 1940 by United Artists.

The bank president pays for scholarships at Oxford University in England, where they are victimized with elaborate hazing by prankish students.

When Stan manages to bump his head, he immediately transforms into Lord Paddington, complete with upper-crust diction and condescending manner.

The added scenes, partially reworking the silent film From Soup to Nuts (1928), show Laurel and Hardy trying to find work at an employment agency, and accepting temporary jobs as maid and butler at a society party.

A later reissue was further reedited, jumping abruptly from when Stan and Ollie enter the employment agency to when they are sweeping the streets.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote:Let's not mince words with custard pies—or what theoretically amounts to the same: The slapstick clowning of Laurel and Hardy in Hal Roach's 'A Chump at Oxford' ... is about as silly and unintelligent as a lecture in double-talk, and also about as funny as clowns can be these days.

[7]The Hollywood Reporter noted: "Laurel and Hardy are back, not quite at the peak of their two-reeler form in Chump at Oxford but this 63-minute comedy is considerably better than the last half-dozen efforts of the team.