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 ...

GENUINE vaudeville in Baltimore has been dead since the early 1950s. (We’re not talking here about burlesque, an offshoot of vaudeville, or the strip show, an offshoot of burlesque you can see ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The film “Stan & Ollie,” which opens in Cleveland on Friday, Jan. 25, is both a lovingly crafted portrait of Laurel & Hardy and a reminder of a lost American show-business ...

Which is really just a fancy way of saying the professional musician hopes “An American Vaudeville Spectacular” will make people laugh as they appreciate fine music, comedy and even puppetry ...

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 ...