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100 1 $aDavis, Andrew,$d1952-
245 10 $aBaggy pants comedy :$bburlesque and the oral tradition /$cAndrew Davis.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2011.
300 $axiii, 288 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aPalgrave studies in theatre and performance history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.
505 0 $a"Who's on first" and the tradition of burlesque comedy -- The oral tradition and the popular stage -- The pressures of stock burlesque -- The cast and characters -- Learning the business -- Bits and blackouts -- Scenarios, scripts, and schemas -- Double entendre humor -- Flirtations -- Trickery -- Brutality -- Burlesques -- Body scenes -- The appeal of burlesque comedy.
520 $a"Baggy Pants Comedy takes readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America to explore the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of comedy, working in a genre that relied not on scripts but on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. The book opens a long-neglected area of American folklore, presenting dozens of fondly-remembered routines like "Who's On First" and "Niagara Falls (Slowly I Turned), " as well as long-forgotten classics in print for the first time"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aBurlesque (Theater)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aStand-up comedy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aComedy sketches$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
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