TY  - BOOK
N2  - "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"--
AB  - "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"--
T1  - Baggy pants comedy :burlesque and the oral tradition /
DA  - 2011.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Davis, Andrew,
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - PN1942
CN  - PN1942
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2011.
ID  - 455769
KW  - Burlesque (Theater)
KW  - Stand-up comedy
KW  - Comedy sketches
SN  - 9780230116795
SN  - 0230116795
TI  - Baggy pants comedy :burlesque and the oral tradition /
ER  -