These pirated performances took many forms, including burlesques, productions with men playing women's roles and vice-versa, spoofs, variety acts, Minstrel show versions, all-black and Catholic productions, German, Yiddish and other foreign-language versions, performances on boats or by church choirs, and productions starring casts of children.

Minstrel shows dominated popular show business in the U. S. from that time through into the 1890s, also enjoying massive popularity in the UK and in other parts of Europe.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a popular British musical variety show that featured blackface performers, and remained on British television until 1978.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show.

Minstrel show performers Rollin Howard ( in wench costume ) and George Griffin, c. 1855

* The Black and White Minstrel Show, a British television and theatre show of the American traditional genre in the 1960s and 1970s

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Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show is complete with black actors in blackface, extremely racist jokes and puns, and even offensively stereotyped CGI-animated cartoons that caricature the leading stars of the new show.

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The scene then transitions into a Minstrel show / blackface gag set down south, where Elmer, Bugs and the mounties performs the chorus of " Camptown Races

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On television he appeared in The Black and White Minstrel Show, as Whatsisname Smith in the children's show Rentaghost ( 1983 – 1984 ), and as Monsieur Alfonse in ' Allo ' Allo!

Minstrel show performers Rollin Howard ( in female costume ) and George Griffin, c. 1855.

He then became a popular act on television variety shows, was the host of the Black and White Minstrel Show, and was given his own show called Cuddles and Company.

Mentioned or performed are Lilac Time, " A Wand ' ring Minstrel I ", " Beautiful Dreamer ", and " Largo al factotum " (" della ... città " being all that is heard ).

* Cantus the Minstrel ( performed by Jim Henson )-Cantus and the Minstrels continually travel to different parts of the cave, and stop several times at Fraggle Rock.

** Brio the Minstrel ( performed by Terry Angus )-A Fraggle who is one of the Minstrels following Cantus.

* Brool the Minstrel ( performed by Tim Gosley )-Brool is an unspecified creature who is one of the five Minstrels.

* Murray the Minstrel ( performed by Steve Whitmire in all other episodes, Gord Robertson in " The Honk of Honks ")-An unspecified creature who is one of the five Minstrels and " second in command " to Cantus, plays a guitar.

In a 1973 episode of The Two Ronnies, a musical sketch, " The Short and Fat Minstrel Show ", was performed as a parody of The Black and White Minstrel Show, featuring spoofs of various songs.

" Alternative Roots ", an episode of the BBC comedy series The Goodies, spoofed the popularity of The Black and White Minstrel Show, suggesting that any programme could double its viewing figures by being performed in blackface, and mentioning that a series of The Black and White Minstrel Show had been tried without make up.

*" Minstrel Potpourri " performed by the Edison Minstrels ( possibly The Haydn Quartet )

The first singing telegram in the UK is said to have been performed by Mike Collins aka The wandering Minstrel who is still performing fully personalised songs to this day.

A Minstrel Greeting, A fully personalised song performed by A Wandering Minstrel, with a full band production audio CD or DVD music video.

He performed in the Troupe's award winning production of A Minstrel Show ( or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel ) He attended film schools in Sweden and London, and returned to the US to ply his trade.

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

*" The Palace of Minstrel " sung and danced by a minstrel chorus

The heroic exploits of Wallace were passed on to posterity mainly in the form of tales collected and recounted by the poet Blind Harry, the Minstrel (?- 1492 ) whose original, probably oral sources were never specified.

Champion racehorses trained by Vincent O ' Brien on the flat include Nijinsky II, Sir Ivor, Ballymoss, Alleged, The Minstrel and El Gran Senor.

North American stand-up comedy has its roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century including vaudeville, English Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as Mark Twain and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics.

A review for the 1944 Joseph Lewis film Minstrel Man stated " the music, scored by Ferde Grofé, is an outstanding item.

* Christopher Cross by Christopher Cross ‒ " Minstrel Gigolo " ( 1980 )

However, biographer David Rees reports in Minstrel in the Gallery that Anderson had never intended to replace the ' classic ' Tull lineup with the musicians who recorded A, but was forced by Chrysalis Records which had decided to release his ' solo ' album under the name Jethro Tull.

The end result was a number that parodied The Black and White Minstrel Show by having the male performers in blackface while the females ( excluding Mrs. Slocombe ) were not.

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by The Minstrel

* The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore

Its sole riff was inspired by the Jethro Tull song " Minstrel in the Gallery ".

The 1872 gubernatorial election resulted in a narrow victory for Minstrel Elisha Baxter over Brindle Tail Joseph Brooks in an election marked by fraud and intimidation.