>> i see you lying there. my 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 ordered 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 dirtyish comedy. >> did you. >> i'm a magician. >> what did she do. >> she does a trick that's an amazing, she takes a little rubber ball, bounces a little rubber ball up and down and stands with her legs like this and 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. she does it the hard way. she's knock-kneed. >> vaudeville is clean, burlesque is dirty. the thing about burlesque is that audience is all male.