they had different styles of comedy, different people performing within them. >> i see you lyi there, anger is aroused. i pull out my dirk. >> now we're getting to the point. >> because burlesque, the primary attraction was scantly-clad ladies, in order to compete for attention, a comedian had to do something that was going to upstage a naked woman, so they would do this sort of dirty-ish comedy. >> your wife's on tv? >> she is. >> she's a magician. >> what does she do? >> one trick that's amazing, mystifying. she takes a little rubber ball. she bounces a little rubber ball up and down. she stands with her legs like this. when the little ball bounces up and down, the little ball disappears. >> what are you bragging about? my wife does the same thing with a basketball. >> sure. >> yeah, yeah. she does it the hard way. she's knock-kneed. >> vaudeville is clean, burlesque is dirty.