Vaudeville was in steep decline.
Vaudeville has not existed in so many years that many of you may not even know what it was.
a vaudeville routine from his childhood, or telling a Jewish joke, or singing an ad from the radio,
As vaudeville and other entertainment venues were becoming more and more popular, and were reaching more and more people,
Although vaudeville predates radio, as well.
"of the vaudeville , separating families, "sending old men sprawling, delighting the children, "and reducing their nannies to despair."
And they were in Vaudeville , my mother and my stepfather.
And they were in Vaudeville , in music hall, and traveling all around.
And they were in vaudeville , my mother and my stepfather.
And they were in vaudeville , in music hall, and traveling all around.
And my background was vaudeville .
It was like a vaudeville show, except not funny."
This is vaudeville .
Chris: Exactly >> Josh: Vaudeville production of Chuck.
guide books from vaudeville from the 1880s where they start to talk about material comic material stuff produced now that's very interesting you wouldn't
Now we're putting on a vaudeville show, and I don't really care if you talk or not.
And that was in the vaudeville era and he became a huge star in that.
It's a throwback to the Vaudeville , the classic era of-- the golden age of variety entertainment.
are making $30,000 a year in vaudeville .
the this came out of the vaudeville aesthetic. And the vaudeville aesthetic was the presentation aesthetic.
did this Speak Easy sort of Vaudeville club called the Blue Jus where I met up with Mars I I I'd come from a sort of a punk rock avangard background but as I
I'm going to turn them into stars in vaudeville .
and the other one is completely not interested-- and vaudeville is a dying art that's not going to be there for very much longer.
In America, there is a comedy style called vaudeville which was popular in America in the 1910s, the 1920s, back when the radio was very popular,
Because you were touring vaudeville , and you were working incredibly hard while literally taking care of younger siblings.
cartoon tag and I could occasionally corral them into taking part in a backyard vaudeville show.
When we were coming out of a time of public spectical theater and Vaudeville houses in
civil war in which in which originally there's variety and then there's vaudeville and uh it's interesting you can look at
perform again but in a lowkey way so I did this Speak Easy sort of Vaudeville club called the Blue Jus where I met up with Mars I I I'd come from a sort of
And it's worth noting right now that the roots of comic strips and the roots of vaudeville and minstrel shows are one and the same.
It was used in community bands, saxophone quartets, vaudeville , some burlesque, the Chautauqua circuit.
It's interesting, thinking about "Gypsy," and even about vaudeville , that in addition to talking about all these things that a show needs
Now, originally that came out of Vaudeville , and it was an affirmation that, hey, good job, good joke.
Now seventy years ago, Vaudeville and live performance were all but destroyed by the radio and the record player and the Vaudeville artists of the day
He comes walking into my house, this crazy comic, with a suitcase full of-- like an old vaudeville suitcase full of clothes.
So when Madam Rose sets out on this journey, she wants to make her two small children stars in vaudeville .
So she wants to make her two daughters-- who are, like, seven and nine-- into kitty stars in vaudeville .
Well, in the early 20th century, all the Jewish comedians on Vaudeville celebrated the pun--