Comedy in Africa | Cinemaroll

There was a mixture of physical comedy and inserted gags that helped to give comic relief but all together it meant that you would be laughing either because of the stupidity of the whole thing or because you could not imagine comedy …

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Virginia Glee Club: the musical comedy years (Jarrett House North)

Yeah, the Glee Club did some of their “musical comedy ” in blackface. I guess this isn’t surprising in a group doing musical comedy in the South in the early 20th century, but it’s still sobering to realize that the Glee Club really was …

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Virginia Glee Club: the musical comedy years (Jarrett House North)