[DOC] [TLE] Vaudeville - Wikipedia [PAR] Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular 
in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. A 
typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, ... With its first 
subtle appearances within the early 1860s, vaudeville was not initially a common
... [DOC] [TLE] Forms of Variety Theater - American Memory - Library of Congress [PAR] Variety/Vaudeville | Minstrel Show | Burlesque | Extravaganza | Spectacles | 
Musical Forms ... What eventually became known as vaudeville had its origins in 
minstrel shows, ... The name "vaudeville" largely replaced variety by the 1890s, 
but the word ... to a program constructed from separate acts of several different 
types. [DOC] [TLE] Vaudeville | About Vaudeville | American Masters | PBS [PAR] Oct 8, 1999 ... Some of the most famous vaudeville performers began at an early age. ... In time, 
theaters began to show films, and the few vaudevillians left ... Ironically, it is 
through the movie and TV industry that vaudeville eventually left its greatest mark
. ... Many of the big names in vaudeville went on to be movie and TV... [DOC] [TLE] History ~ Vaudeville and Broadway | Make 'Em Laugh | PBS : Make ... [PAR] Dec 2, 2008 ... Music hall (or variety, as it was also called) was basically a theater with a saloon 
attached. One of ... The roots of its name are shrouded in legend (voix de ville, ... 
Shows in vaudeville featured almost a dozen different artists, or acts, at a time, 
performing all kinds of materialsongs, comedy routines, magic,... [DOC] [TLE] Vaudeville and Burlesque Lingo [PAR] In France in the 1400s, music was evolving and its forms were being codified. ... 
During the late 1600s and early 1700s, "comdies-vaudeville", shows which set 
new lyrics ... The Thtre de Vaudeville opened in Paris in 1792, and the word 
vaudeville ..... But if television was kind to comedians and singers, it was the 
special... [DOC] [TLE] Blackface! - The History of Racist Blackface Stereotypes [PAR] In the early years exaggerated red lips were painted around their mouths, like 
those ... Minstrel show entertainment included imitating black music and dance 
and ... the same blackface stereotypes later in vaudeville, films and television. .... 
relied on working class coon and mammy caricatures for a good portion of its 
humor. [DOC] [TLE] Minstrel Shows - Part I - Musicals101.com [PAR] The most popular musical stage shows of the early and mid 19th Century, ... 
Minstrelsy was a product of its time, the only entertainment form born out of blind 
bigotry. ... and skits that sentimentalized the nightmare of slave life on Southern 
plantations. ... were around several decades before the first minstrel shows 
evolved. [DOC] [TLE] IMDb: People With Biography Matching "Vaudeville" Sorted by ... [PAR] He was later featured on early TV shows such as 'Toast of the Town', 'The Ed ... 
Born in Boston, of Eastern European and Lithuanian descent, His father Lester ... 
on the vaudeville stages and music halls in his native Scotland in the 1920s. ... 
when a comedy act at the Miami theater he was working at lost one of its 
members. [DOC] [TLE] The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy -- Vulture [PAR] Jan 31, 2016 ... It's just a shame we'll never know the name of the Sumerian genius to whom we 
... comedy, whether from stand-up, a sketch, an album, a movie, or a TV show. ..... 
Many early-20th-century vaudeville stars left the stage to help power the .... This 
is the hard-to-write type of joke that long-running series like The... [DOC] [TLE] Mr. Show With Bob And David: "Rudy Will Await Your ... - The AV Club [PAR] Aug 23, 2010 ... Mr. Show With Bob And David: "Rudy Will Await Your Foundation" & "The .... This 
kind of gambit can easily go awry, because it's entirely ... It's not really a new joke; 
even back in vaudeville

Question: It's an early name for vaudeville, or a type of skit-&-music TV show descended from vaudeville
Answer: variety