Joe Weber and Lew Fields were a comedy team in the closing days of vaudeville that predated duos such as Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello. Already fascinated with the era of burlesque ...

Al, Jimmy and Harry were a vaudeville comedy-dancing team who starred in such films as “Life Begins in College” and “The Three Musketeers.” Ted Healy and His Stooges Moe, Shemp and Larry ...

Before he was known as half of one of America’s biggest comedy teams, Bud Abbott enjoyed time off from the vaudeville circuit chilling at Lake Hopatcong. “All these vaudevillians and burlesque ...

Fred Allen, who stumbled up the ladder as a comic juggler recalled: Comedy ... a member of the team of “Links and Burns”—although he was “Links.” Go figure. What vaudeville did offer ...

There have been many successful comedy teams over the years ... and appearing in vaudeville-style sketches. While fans loved the comedic celebrities, the reality is that the two men had a lot ...

It was characterized by a series of unrelated acts, including comedy sketches, song and dance numbers, magic acts, acrobatics, jugglers, animal acts, and more. Vaudeville shows were typically ...

Tokyo’s Asakusa district was once vaudeville and Moulin Rouge rolled ... Asakusa offered a vibrant blend of dance troupes and comedy teams. Its garish halls were the start for such legendary ...

Willie Clark and Al Lewis are an aging vaudeville comedy duo whose partnership ended bitterly after over 40 years. A dozen years later, Willie's nephew, a young theatrical agent, tries to reunite ...

Izzy and Moe deals with Isadore Einstein and Morris Smith, an unsuccessful vaudeville comedy team who hired on with the Treasury Department to raid speakeasies selling illegal booze in the 1920s ...