This leads into the first subject proper, a lively march-like Allegro reminiscent of the vaudeville and theatre music Shostakovich would have encountered during his time as a cinema pianist.

An individual sketch or vignette is a brief scene or skit formerly used in vaudeville and used today on variety shows, comedy programs, adult entertainment, talk shows, or certain children's television series ( such as Sesame Street ).

The varied structure of songs, gags, " hokum " and dramatic pieces continued into vaudeville, variety shows, and to modern sketch comedy shows like Hee Haw or, more distantly, Saturday Night Live and In Living Color.

In television sketch comedy, which borrows from the tradition of vaudeville comedy, exposition in the most exaggerated sense is used for outrageous comedic effect.

This jingle was patterned on the famous vaudeville song / sketch Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ; while it is likely the name Mr Sheen was also inspired by this song, and the fortuitous connection between sheen and cleanliness, it is unknown at this point whether there is a causal connection or not.

" Slowly I Turned " is the most common name associated with a popular vaudeville sketch that has also been performed in cinema and on television.

In 1922 he was hired to sketch vaudeville and burlesque performers for a regular New York Daily News feature, and when The New Yorker began publication in 1925, Marsh was among the magazine's first cartoonists.

Years later, he was with a vaudeville troupe when he wrote a short sketch about " Joshua Whitcomb ," a New Hampshire " hayseed " who travels to the big city.

In later seasons, George and Gracie would often reappear after the end of the episode, eventually before a curtain decorated with the names and locations of the various theaters they headlined in their vaudeville days, performing one of their patented " double routines ," often discussing one of Gracie's fictional relatives (" Death Valley Allen ", the prospector ; " Florence Allen ", the nurse ; " Casey Allen ", the railroad man, and so on ).

Healy's vaudeville revues ( with names like A Night in Venice, A Night in Spain, and New Yorker Nights ) included the trio under various names, such as Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen, but never as Ted Healy and the Three Stooges.

A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the " Billboard Girl ," who put the names of the acts on a placard ( similar to that of a vaudeville house ).

His father wanted him to be a rabbi, but after trying various odd jobs including self-employed street peddler, he decided to pursue a career in vaudeville and music, sometimes under the names Benny Bimbo and Paul Wynn.

An earlier version of Sherlocko, entitled Knocko the Monk, spawned a fad of nicknames ending in O, which prompted a vaudeville monologist named Art Fisher, while playing poker with four brothers who performed together, to give them all such names.

Kaminsky's first break came in 1933 when he was asked to become one of the " Three Terpsichoreans ", a vaudeville dance act.

Buddy then appears, dressed in " plaid baggy pants, garish jacket and a shiny derby hat ", in a vaudeville routine with an imaginary Sally and his old girlfriend Margie (" The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues ").

Billed as " The Four Nightingales ", Julius, Milton ( Gummo Marx ), Arthur ( from 1911, originally Adolph ; Harpo Marx ), and another boy singer, Lou Levy, traveled the U. S. vaudeville circuits to little fanfare.

The command to " cut the cards ", following by someone literally chopping the deck in half with an axe, is a none-too-subtle gag that has been used many times in popular media, going back to at least the vaudeville days.

The Three Stooges started in 1925 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called " Ted Healy and His Stooges " ( also known as " Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen ", " Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls ", and " Ted Healy and His Racketeers ").

In his 2012 book The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama music historian and musician Elijah Wald says the term was first defined in a 1921 pop song-" Don't Slip Me in the Dozens, Please ", recorded by the black vaudeville comic Henry Troy, composed by Chris Smith, who accompanied Troy on the piano.

Bawdy double entendres, such as " I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night ", and " I feel like a million tonight — but only one at a time ", were the trademark of Mae West, in her early-career vaudeville performances as well as in her later plays and movies.

Jane, a former child star of early vaudeville known as " Baby Jane ", was spoiled, pampered, and doted upon by her father due to her success ; her ignored older sister, Blanche, lived in Jane's shadow.

In other songs, Davies revived the style of British music hall, vaudeville and trad jazz: " Dedicated Follower of Fashion ", " Sunny Afternoon ", " Dandy " and " Little Miss Queen of Darkness " ( all 1966 ); " Mister Pleasant " and " End of the Season " ( both 1967 ); " Sitting By the Riverside " and " All of My Friends Were There " ( both 1968 ); " She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina " ( 1969 ); " Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues " and " Alcohol " ( both 1971 ); " Look a Little on the Sunny Side " ( 1972 ); and " Holiday Romance " ( 1975 ).

Changing his name to " Costello ", he went back to New York and began working in vaudeville and burlesque theaters there.

This was a continuation of cartoonist Chic Young's " Dumb Dora ", and acts from vaudeville, best popularized by Burns and Allen.

The studio's early productions were low-budget short subjects: " Screen Snapshots ", the " Hall Room Boys " ( the vaudeville duo of Edward Flanagan and Neely Edwards ), and the Chaplin imitator Billy West.

Before 1910, they also performed on vaudeville and minstrel show records, one of which, " The Camp Meeting Jubilee ", released in 1904 as Victor no.

By age 14, he had left school and was already a veteran performer, working in local vaudeville and on a showboat, " The Cotton Blossom ", that traveled the Ohio and Missouri rivers.

* Allen actually had to fight to keep Mrs. Nussbaum in the Allen's Alley routines – because NBC feared Jewish-dialect humor " might offend all Jews ", never mind that Jewish dialect humour had been a vaudeville and burlesque staple for years.

Others, such as " Some of These Days " and " Darktown Strutters ' Ball ", were introduced by vaudeville performers.

The inspiration for Aunt Jemima was Billy Kersands ' American-style minstrelsy / vaudeville song " Old Aunt Jemima ", written in 1875.

In addition to the " Schoolboy " moniker appearing on his Hall of Fame plaque, Hoyt was also known as " The Merry Mortician ", for when he was not playing baseball, he spent days working as a funeral director and nights appearing on vaudeville.

" But he complained about the book (" What possessed Mr. Hammerstein to turn the stepsisters into distasteful vaudeville clowns?

His first film, the 1928 Warner Brothers short subject " The Ham What Am ", captures his vaudeville performance, and there are other shorts in the 1930s, but his film career started in earnest in 1947.

Much of the material from their vaudeville act, including Lucy's memorable seal routine, was used in the pilot episode of I Love Lucy.

Mention of the latter causes Rigby to go berserk ( a homage to the old Slowly I Turned vaudeville routine ), due to his own father running off with the cleaning woman and his mother dying of a broken heart.

Shortly after World War I, Blake joined forces with performer Noble Sissle to form a vaudeville music duo, the " Dixie Duo.

Born in New York City, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, but left acting when he was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War I, years before his four brothers ( Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and Zeppo Marx ) began their film career.

It is also said that Fields wanted " I'd rather be in Philadelphia " on his gravestone because of the old vaudeville joke among comedians, " I would rather be dead than play Philadelphia ".

After the couple married, Allen began writing material for them to use together (" With a vaudeville act, Portland and I could be together, even if we couldn't find any work "), and the couple divided their time between the show business circuit, Allen's New England family home and Old Orchard Beach, Maine, in summers.

" Years later he would say " I think a sense of vaudeville is very strong in anything I do, anything I write.

Held spent the years of World War I working in vaudeville and touring France, performing for French soldiers and raising money for the war effort.

In 1962 he also toured South Africa with American vaudeville star Sophie Tucker, whom he described as " one of the most charming and delightful performers with whom I have ever worked ".

Shortly after World War I, Sissle joined forces with Blake to form a vaudeville music duo, " The Dixie Duo ".

At the time the U. S. entered World War I, there were 22 Yiddish theaters and 2 Yiddish vaudeville houses in New York City alone.

Pugh and Carroll helped create a vaudeville act for Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, which became the basis for the pilot episode of I Love Lucy.

Carroll and Pugh helped develop and create a vaudeville act for Lucille Ball And her husband, Desi Arnaz, which became the basis for the pilot episode of the I Love Lucy series.

I had been studying singing, and succeeded in persuading the manager of a vaudeville house in Boston to hear a couple of my songs.

Following his discharge from the army after World War I, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing on Broadway.

* " Put Me to the Test ": Astaire, Burns, and Allen comic tap dance with whisk brooms, a routine inspired by vaudeville duo Evans and Evans and introduced to Astaire by Burns, who quipped: " Gracie and I ended up teaching Astaire how to dance ".