:::::::::::Well, I'm led to believe it's the American equivellent anyway.  If it was performed in America, I would describe CCC as a vaudevillian stage comedy; vaudevillian because it was in America and "Stage Comedy" because it was a series of sketches.  Over here, I would call it a "stage comedy".  Dan Leno, who appeared singing songs in character form such as "The Beefeater", was not a sketch, just someone performing songs in the guise of a sketch, but it would be classed as music hall. CC may well be called vaudeville by our transatlantic cousins as they had one big umbrella called "vaudeville" which was used to describe everything contained within an era.  We are a complicated lot and gave types of entertainment different names such as music hall, variety, et al. Vaudeville was essentially the same but I don't think blighty adopted the term.  Was the author of CC's autobiog an American?