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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 ...
Stand-up comedy originated in various traditions of popular entertainment in the late 19th century. These include 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, such as those delivered by Mark Twain in his 1866 ...
They viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension", and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term "comedy" gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. [8]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American photographers and Category:19th-century Native American photographers and Category:19th-century American women photographers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Florence Vandamm (1883–1966), British photographer; Meade Brothers Photographers, 233 Broadway near Astor house, New York. Established 1840. [4] Nadar; Julius Cornelius Schaarwächter Tony Bruno (photographer), signed his work: "Bruno of Hollywood, NYC" [1] J Wood, Photo. 208 Bowery, New York [5]
The first album to win this honor was The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows by Stan Freberg (1959), a variety album including comedy bits. There is also a podcast that covers the history and influence of comedy albums, primarily on vinyl, titled Comedy on Vinyl, which also premiered a 50-year-old lost Bob Newhart track in 2015.
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