Title: Baggy pants comedy
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"--
Subjects: Stand-up comedy, PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling, Burlesque (Theater), PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Comedy sketches, History, United states, history, 20th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century