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He originated and popularised many songs, sketches and monologues in his music hall acts and made both sound [2] and visual [3] recordings of some of his work shortly before he died. Although brief, Leno's recording period (1901–1903) produced around thirty recordings on one-sided shellac discs using the early acoustic recording process. [ 2 ]
"A Cream Cracker under the Settee" is played out as a monologue by Doris , a seventy-five-year-old woman who is a widow, following her slip off a pouffe (pronounced 'buffet' in the play). Her disapproval of home-helper Zulema's cleaning leads her to attempt to clean a picture of her and Wilfred, her late husband, and subsequently her fall.
A man is shown while Letterman and Shaffer debate whether the man is a millionaire or a man named Kenny. News Bulletin. Suddenly, an old ABC Radio News theme is played, Dave confusedly looks through his papers, and then tells Barbara Gaines that he thought he had to read a bulletin.
Patrick Fyffe and George Logan devised the Hinge and Bracket act after they met performing at the Escort Club in Pimlico, London. Fyffe had already gained experience performing in his cabaret drag act as a glamorous soprano named Perri St Claire, and his character had appeared in small parts on television shows such as Z Cars and Doctor in the House, as well as the 1972 film version of Steptoe ...
A soap opera parody taking place in the fictional town of Canoga Falls with Burnett as the main character Marian Clayton. Other recurring residents of Canoga Falls include Conway as different variations of the Oldest Man, Korman as Mother Marcus and Lawrence as Marian's daughter, who always comes home with a baby and hands it over to Marian, who shortly thereafter almost always ensconces it in ...
Sotheby's, as An old lady with a young boy, in an interior, ‘an early work’, 41 × 35.8 cm (16.1 × 14 in). Hofstede de Groot, C. (1908) A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Volume I, London: MacMillan and Co., p. 93, cat.
This is a list of notable deadpan comedians and actors who have used deadpan as a part of their repertoire.Deadpan describes the act of deliberately displaying a lack of or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness of the subject matter.
Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...