Soon, a flapper was any girl or woman who defied convention—girls who balked at being chaperoned, suffragists, women aspiring to a career, and those, as the Boston Globe put it, “expert in the ...

On a typical night on the road, those jokes might work only 60 percent ... joining 250 emerging comics Aug. 14 through 20 at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank. Some comics travel across the country ...