Epes Winthrop Sargent (August 21, 1872 – December 6, 1938) was an American vaudeville critic who wrote under the pen-names Chicot[1] and Chic.

[2] He was born in Nassau, Bahamas on August 21, 1872, and moved to the United States in 1878 with his parents.

He claimed to have critiqued the first motion picture offered in a theatre, becoming a film fan in the process.

"[4] In 1905, when Variety began publication,[1] he joined them as their first reviewer and wrote for them intermittently until his death.

In 1914–1915 he wrote the stories for a large number of split-reel and one-reel silent comedies produced by Arthur Hotaling at the Jacksonville, Florida, studio of the Lubin Manufacturing Company, which included the earliest screen appearances of Oliver Hardy.