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Vaudeville Humor

Author : Paul M Levitt
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388219
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Vaudeville Humor written by Paul M Levitt and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (1896–1983). Although occasionally found in bits and pieces in anthologies and in some period dramatic comedies, vaudeville humor has never before been available in one collection—performers rarely if ever kept a record of their jokes and routines. Fortunately, Ed Lowry was an inveterate collector. He kept copious notebooks of jokes and routines that he not only commissioned but also stole from other comics, clipped from newspapers, and copied from now defunct popular magazines of the day. Editor Paul M. Levitt has reorganized the material into categories that preserve some of the flavor of Lowry’s scrapbooks yet provide for finer distinctions. Part one, “Jokes,” is organized by subject matter and cataloged by genre, dialects, and wordplay. From “Accidents” to “Work,” this exhaustive catalog of humor features over one thousand jokes with topics that range from city slickers and country hicks through midgets and old maids to Swedes and tattoos. Part two, “MC Material: Biz, Jokes, Routines, and Skits” is germane to the job of master of ceremonies, routines, and skits. It features topics from fractured fairy tales to stuttering. Part three, an appendix, “Ed Lowry Laffter,”reproduces a privately published collection that is now a rare collector’s item. “Although some of the jokes can undoubtedly be found in other places,” explains Levitt in his introduction, “I know of no source as rich as this one for the twenties and thirties, a period so abundant in humor that for years afterward it fueled radio, cinema, and television.”

The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy

Author : Rick DesRochers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441160876
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy written by Rick DesRochers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and moving through the silent and early sound films of the early 1930s, the author looks at how comic writer/performers continue to sell a brand of themselves as a form of social commentary in order to confront and dispel stereotypes of race, class, and gender. The first study to explore contemporary popular comic culture and its influence on American society from this unique perspective, Rick DesRochers analyzes stand-up and improvisational comedy writing/performing in the work of Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle. He grounds these choices by examining their evolution as they developed signature characters and sketches for their respective shows Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, The Colbert Report, and Chappelle's Show.

No Applause--Just Throw Money

Author : Trav S.D.
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865479585
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book No Applause--Just Throw Money written by Trav S.D. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the UnitedStates. This volume explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is thestory of show business in America.

Writing for Vaudeville

Author : Brett Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing for Vaudeville written by Brett Page and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Vaudeville as Ritual

Author : Albert F. McLeanJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184797
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book American Vaudeville as Ritual written by Albert F. McLeanJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers—which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.

Funny Girls

Author : Michelle Ann Abate
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496820770
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Funny Girls written by Michelle Ann Abate and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several generations, comics were regarded as a boys’ club—created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and noteworthy, the observation is not true for the genre’s entire history. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the medium was enjoyed equally by both sexes, and girls were the protagonists of some of the earliest, most successful, and most influential comics. In Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics, Michelle Ann Abate examines the important but long-overlooked cadre of young female protagonists in US comics during the first half of the twentieth century. She treats characters ranging from Little Orphan Annie and Nancy to Little Lulu, Little Audrey of the Harvey Girls, and Li’l Tomboy—a group that collectively forms a tradition of Funny Girls in American comics. Abate demonstrates the massive popularity these Funny Girls enjoyed, revealing their unexplored narrative richness, aesthetic complexity, and critical possibility. Much of the humor in these comics arose from questioning gender roles, challenging social manners, and defying the status quo. Further, they embodied powerful points of collection about both the construction and intersection of race, class, gender, and age, as well as popular perceptions about children, representations of girlhood, and changing attitudes regarding youth. Finally, but just as importantly, these strips shed light on another major phenomenon within comics: branding, licensing, and merchandising. Collectively, these comics did far more than provide amusement—they were serious agents for cultural commentary and sociopolitical change.

Fred Allen's Radio Comedy

Author : Alan Havig
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439905606
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Fred Allen's Radio Comedy written by Alan Havig and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing a career that lasted from 1912 into the 1950s, Havig describes the "verbal slapstick" style that was Fred Allen's hallmark and legacy to American comedy.

What's So Funny?

Author : Nancy A. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461621763
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book What's So Funny? written by Nancy A. Walker and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical studies attempting to define and dissect American humor have been published steadily for nearly one hundred years. However, until now, key documents from that history have never been brought together in a single volume for students and scholars. What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture, a collection of 15 essays, examines the meaning of humor and attempts to pinpoint its impact on American culture and society, while providing a historical overview of its progres-sion. Essays from Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner, Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson, William Keough, Roy Blount, Jr., and others trace the development of American humor from the colonial period to the present, focusing on its relationship with ethnicity, gender, violence, and geography. An excellent reader for courses in American studies and American social and cultural history, What's So Funny? explores the traits of the American experience that have given rise to its humor.

Jews on Broadway

Author : Stewart F. Lane
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667055
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Jews on Broadway written by Stewart F. Lane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken, Stephen Sondheim--Jewish performers, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers and producers have made an indelible mark on Broadway for more than a century. Award-winning producer Stewart F. Lane chronicles the emergence of Jewish American theater, from immigrants producing Yiddish plays in the ghettos of New York's Lower East Side to legendary performers staging massive shows on Broadway. In its expanded second edition, this historical survey includes new information and photographs, along with insights and anecdotes from a life in the theater.

Funny Pictures

Author : Daniel Ira Goldmark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950127
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Funny Pictures written by Daniel Ira Goldmark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly, and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal stage in the development of the motion picture industry. To examine some of the central assumptions about comedy and cartoons and to explore the key factors that promoted their fusion, the book analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Funny Pictures also looks ahead to show how this vital American entertainment tradition still thrives today in works ranging from The Simpsons to the output of Pixar.

American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries

Author : Charles W. Stein
Publisher : New York : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries written by Charles W. Stein and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1984 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Word on the Streets

Author : Brooks E. Hefner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813940427
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Word on the Streets written by Brooks E. Hefner and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism—one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity. The dawn of the modernist era witnessed a transformation of popular writing that demonstrated an experimental practice rooted in the language of the streets. Emerging alongside more recognized strands of literary modernism, the vernacular modernism these writers exhibited lays bare the aesthetic experiments inherent in American working-class and ethnic language, forging an alternative pathway for American modernist practice. Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres—from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska—employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s.

Satire & The State

Author : Matt Fotis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429807309
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Satire & The State written by Matt Fotis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores how sketch comedy has shaped the way Americans view the president and themselves. Numerous sketch comedy portrayals of presidents that have seeped into the American consciousness – Chevy Chase’s Gerald Ford, Dana Carvey’s George H.W. Bush, and Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush all worked to shape the actual politician’s public persona. The book analyzes these sketches and many others, illustrating how comedy is at the heart of the health and function of American democracy. At its best, satire aimed at the presidency can work as a populist check on executive power, becoming one of the most important weapons for everyday Americans against tyranny and political corruption. At its worst, satire can reflect and promote racism, misogyny, and homophobia in America. Written for students of Theatre, Performance, Political Science, and Media Studies courses, as well as readers with an interest in political comedy, Satire & The State offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between comedy and the presidency, and the ways in which satire becomes a window into the culture, principles, and beliefs of a country.

Strange Talk

Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520214218
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Strange Talk written by Gavin Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Jones] links obscure forays into dialectology with familiar canonical works of literature in surprising and innovative ways. He also has some astute insights into the politics of language in this country—a topic as current now as it was during the period about which he writes."—Shelly Fisher Fishkin, University of Texas, Austin

Feeling Modern

Author : Justus Nieland
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075463
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Feeling Modern written by Justus Nieland and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at modernism's relationship to human feeling and the public sphere

Ellis Parker Butler on the Fine Art of Writing Humor

Author : Ellis Parker Butler
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434458849
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Parker Butler on the Fine Art of Writing Humor written by Ellis Parker Butler and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was the author of more than 2,000 stories and essays, as well as 30 books. He remains most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs," in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically. This collection reveals his thoughts on writing humor, including "Ten Rules for Humor" and "How I Sell My Stories."

Performing Gender and Comedy

Author : Shannon Hengen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134385587
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Performing Gender and Comedy written by Shannon Hengen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This lively volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteronormative forces in Western culture. The contributors investigate the effects of gender, sexuality, sexual identity, race, class and nationality on humor and comedic performance. Each chapter, distinct in its voice and content, addresses how particular historical periods seem to affect who laughs at what, why, and with what consequences. This book not only spans a broad range of historical and literary periods, it also engages in a critical conversation with past and present thinkers to articulate the political, cultural and social effects of comedy.