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BAGGY PANTS COMEDY IBD

AIAA
10 / 2011
9780230116795
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Sinopsis

Baggy Pants Comedy takes readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America to explore the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of comedy, working in a genre that relied not on scripts but on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. The book opens a long-neglected area of American folklore, presenting dozens of fondly-remembered routines like 'Who?s On First' and 'Niagara Falls (Slowly I Turned),' as well as long-forgotten classics in print for the first time.

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