within them. >> 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 scantily clad ladies, in order to compete for attention a comedian had to do something that would upstage a naked woman. so they would do something that was a sort of dirty ish comedy. >> a magician. >> what does she do? >> one trick that's amazing, mystifying. takes a rubber ball, bounces it up and down and stands with her legs like this. when the little ball bounces up and down, the little ball disappears. >> well, what are you bragging about? my wife does the same thing with a basketball. >> sure? >> she does it the hard way. she's knock kneed. >> vaudeville is clean, burlesque is dirty.