>> and now, back to the play. >> george, can we take five minutes? my stomach's a little -- >> no, i'm good. >> i see an absolute parallel between what they were doing in 2017 on broadway -- >> enjoy the play. >> and what weber and fields created in the early 1900s, the basic concept of the comedy team. >> hey, keep a big cc from the paper. >> weber and fields gave us a lot of what we think of as the identifiable marks of a comedy team. they invented slapstick, ethnic jokes, and pie in the face. >> pretty much anybody doing comedy in vaudeville at the turn of the century more or less was in a team. the marx brothers' uncle was in a comedy team, al sheen, gallagher and sheen, bert williams and george walker were the first african-american performers to receive headline