The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque.

According to some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.

Shakespeare's desire to burlesque a hero of early English Protestantism could indicate Catholic sympathies, but Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was sufficiently sympathetic to Catholicism that in 1603, he was imprisoned as part of the Main Plot to place Arbella Stuart on the English throne, so if Shakespeare wished to use Oldcastle to embarrass the Cobhams, he seems unlikely to have done so on religious grounds.

Conversely, not all humour, even on such topics as politics, religion or art is necessarily " satirical ", even when it uses the satirical tools of irony, parody, and burlesque.

" Punch also thought the second act weak: " The idea of the burlesque is funny to begin with, but not to go on with ".

However the burlesque theatres here were prohibited from having striptease performances in a legal ruling of 1937 leading to the later decline of these " grindhouses " ( named after the bump ' n grind entertainment on offer ) into venues for exploitation cinema.

Lady of Burlesque ( known in the UK as Striptease Lady ) ( 1943 ) based on the novel The G-String Murders ( 1941 ), by famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stripper who gets involved in the investigation of murders at a burlesque house.

His first play, a burlesque, Les romanesques was produced on 21 May 1894 at the Théâtre Français ; it would be adapted in 1960 by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt into the long-running American musical The Fantasticks.

Among the non-Score Productions music heard on occasion was the " burlesque " music titled " The Stripper ".

Hopper ’ s wife, as usual, posed for him for the painting, and noted in her diary, “ Ed beginning a new canvas — a burlesque queen doing a strip tease — and I posing without a stitch on in front of the stove —- nothing but high heels in a lottery dance pose .”

") The sketch was based on other burlesque routines with similar wordplay.

" is descended from turn-of-the-century burlesque sketches that used plays on words and names.

The routine may have been further polished before this broadcast by burlesque producer John Grant, who became the team's writer, and Will Glickman, a staff writer on the radio show.

Williams married Grace Morley, a burlesque dancer on June 6, 1992.

* Evangeline, a US burlesque musical based upon a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, opened at Niblo's Gardens on July 27 and ran for only 16 performances before moving to Boston.

In his Fasti, a long-form poem covering Roman holidays from January to June, Ovid presents a unique look at Roman antiquarian lore, popular customs, and religious practice that is by turns imaginative, entertaining, high-minded, and scurrilous ; not a priestly account, despite the speaker's pose as a vates or inspired poet-prophet, but a work of description, imagination and poetic etymology that reflects the broad humor and burlesque spirit of such venerable festivals as the Saturnalia, Consualia, and feast of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March, where Ovid treats the assassination of the newly deified Julius Caesar as utterly incidental to the festivities among the Roman people.

Beginning his career in operetta, Leslie became best known for starring in, and writing ( under the pseudonym A. C. Torr, a pun on the word " actor "), popular burlesque plays and other comic works of theatre.

His publications were The Two Springs ( 1725 ), a fable ; Occasional Poems ... ( 1727 ); " The Chace " (" The Chase ") ( 1735 ); Hobbinol, or the Rural Games ( 1740 ), a burlesque poem describing the Cotswold Games ; and Field Sports ( 1742 ), a poem on hawking.

Preserved by a series of fragmentary papyruses which attest its popularity, it served as a source of inspiration for Ovid's Ars Amatoria, written around 3 BC, which is partially a sex manual, and partially a burlesque on the art of love.

The after-piece was a burlesque, written by Grossmith's father, on the Dickens play No Thoroughfare.

The Justing betwix James Watsoun and Jhone Barbour is a contribution to the popular taste for boisterous fun, in spirit, if not in form, akin to the Christis Kirk on the Grene series ; and indirectly, with Dunbar's Turnarnent and Of ane Blak-Moir, a burlesque of the courtly tourney.

Gypsy Rose Lee narrates her way through a tale of a double murder, backstage at the " Old Opera " burlesque theatre on Forty-Second Street, New York.

Scarron had initially dedicated Typhon to Mazarin, who was not impressed with the work ; Scarron then changed it to a burlesque on Mazarin.

In 1976 Wuorinen completed his Percussion Symphony a five movement work for 24 players including two pianos for the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and his longtime colleague Raymond DesRoches, as well as his opera subtitled " a baroque burlesque ", The W. of Babylon with an original libretto by Renaud Charles Bruce.

Concepts of decorum, increasingly sensed as inhibitive and stultifying, were aggressively attacked and deconstructed by writers of the Modernist movement, with the result that readers ' expectations were no longer based on decorum, and in consequence the violations of decorum that underlie the wit of mock-heroic, of literary burlesque, and even a sense of bathos, were dulled in the twentieth-century reader.

The movement is a Mahlerian gesture of mocking burlesque, not simply light or humorous but witty, satirical and parodistic.

" There she encountered Capp's burlesque of the youth movement: S. W. I. N. E.

Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.

Chaplin's speciality with the company was a burlesque of Dick Turpin and the music hall star " Dr. Bodie ".

Chaplin's second American tour with the Karno company was not particularly successful, as cast members fell sick and audiences failed to grasp the troupe's burlesque humour.

One of the jobs was working in a burlesque revue with fan dancer Sally Rand.

The Happy Land ( Court Theatre, 1873 ), a daring political satire and burlesque of W. S. Gilbert's The Wicked World, was written in collaboration with Gilbert, who wrote under the pseudonym F. L. Tomline.

Moe quickly signed movie and burlesque comic Joe DeRita for the " third Stooge " role ; DeRita adopted first a crew cut and then a completely shaven hairstyle and became " Curly Joe " because of his resemblance to the original Curly Howard ( also to make it easier to distinguish him from Joe Besser, the earlier Stooge called Joe ). The Three Stooges with Curly Joe DeRita filling the role of the third stooge.

In effect, he lived like a bachelor, as was the case when he met burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee and began an open relationship with her.

One of his earliest works, " Timbuctoo " ( 1829 ), contained his burlesque upon the subject set for the Cambridge Chancellor's medal for English verse, ( the contest was won by Tennyson with " Timbuctoo ").

He announced his retirement from touring with a series of sell-out concerts at Wembley Arena in April 1981, supported by experimental musician Nash the Slash and Shock, a rock / mime / burlesque troupe whose members included Barbie Wilde, Tik and Tok and Carole Caplin.

This eventually merged with the older tradition of burlesque dancing.

A handful of circuses regularly toured the country ; dime museums appealed to the curious ; amusement parks, riverboats, and town halls often featured " cleaner " presentations of variety entertainment ; and saloons, music halls and burlesque houses catered to those with a taste for the risqué.

Captain Sensible did a jaunty rendition in the 1980s, complete with burlesque organ.

Abbott crossed paths with Lou Costello in burlesque in the early 1930s.

At first he worked as a straight man to his wife Betty, then with veteran burlesque comedians like Harry Steppe and Harry Evanson.

Vaudeville and burlesque were theatre staples in Union City, with performers such as Harry Houdini and Fred Astaire making appearances locally.

In 1687, Montagu joined with Matthew Prior in " The City Mouse and the Country Mouse ," a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.

He began as a prop boy and bit player with touring companies and burlesque companies.

He attempted to ridicule the innovators by reading aloud the Odes of Pierre de Ronsard with burlesque emphasis before Henry II, when the king's sister, Marguerite de Valois, seized the book and read them herself.

After World War II, sideshows featuring burlesque and striptease performances also declined with the general relaxation of censorship legislation.

Other significant differences were that the black minstrels added religious themes to their shows while whites shied from them, and that the black companies commonly ended the first act of the show with a military high-stepping, brass band burlesque, a practice adopted after Callender's Minstrels used it in 1875 or 1876.

Sharing the stage with Belladonna at Erotica 07 was burlesque artist Dita Von Teese, Marilyn Manson's former wife.