By Paul M Levitt

ISBN-10: 0809324539

ISBN-13: 9780809324538

ISBN-10: 0809327201

ISBN-13: 9780809327201

Vaudeville Humor: The accumulated Jokes, exercises, and Skits of Ed Lowry includes vaudeville jokes, skits, and exercises from the 1st 3 a long time of the 20 th century initially compiled by way of comic Ed Lowry (1896– 1983). even if sometimes present in bits and items in anthologies and in a few interval dramatic comedies, vaudeville humor hasn't ever earlier than been on hand in a single assortment— performers infrequently if ever saved a checklist in their jokes and workouts. thankfully, Ed Lowry was once an inveterate collector. He stored copious notebooks of jokes and exercises that he not just commissioned but additionally stole from different comics, clipped from newspapers, and copied from now defunct well known magazines of the day.

 

Editor Paul M. Levitt has reorganized the fabric into different types that safeguard many of the taste of Lowry’ s scrapbooks but offer for finer differences. half one, “ Jokes,” is equipped by means of subject material and cataloged through style, dialects, and wordplay. From “ injuries” to “ Work,” this exhaustive catalog of humor gains over a thousand jokes with themes that variety from urban slickers and state hicks via midgets and outdated maids to Swedes and tattoos. half , “ MC fabric: Biz, Jokes, workouts, and Skits” is germane to the activity of grasp of ceremonies, exercises, and skits. It beneficial properties subject matters from fractured fairy stories to stuttering. half 3, an appendix, “ Ed Lowry Laffter,” reproduces a privately released assortment that's now a unprecedented collector’ s item.

 

“ even if many of the jokes can certainly be present in different places,” explains Levitt in his advent, “ i do know of no resource as wealthy as this one for the twenties and thirties, a interval so considerable in humor that for years in a while it fueled radio, cinema, and television.”

 

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