CNN The History of Comedy June 4, 2024 06:04:00
From the table. >> when i am close up i see it. >> weber and fields gave us a lot of what we feel like are the identifiable marks of the comedy team. they invented slapstick, ethnic jokes, high in the face. >> pretty much anybody doing comedy and vaudeville at the turn-of-the-century, more or less, was in 18. the marx brothers's uncle was in 18. al sheen, gallagher and sheen, bert williams, and george walker were the first african-american performers to receive headline status, and there was smith and dale, notoriously the veterans of vaudeville. >> for goodness sake, if you should die, what w...
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