An edition of Baggy pants comedy (2011)
Baggy pants comedy
burlesque and the oral tradition
By Andrew Davis
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
eng
Pages
288
Description:
"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"--