quotes about Vaudeville
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.
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I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.
-- Anna Held -
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals
-- Ethel Merman -
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
-- George Burns -
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TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
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The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.
-- John BaldessariSource : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 09, 2013.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
-- Larry GelbartSource : "Gelbart Holds Seminars On Comedy At Museum" by Peter W. Kaplan, www.nytimes.com. 1984.
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His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.
-- Lisa LutzSource : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
-- Goodman AceSource : Letter to Groucho Marx, in 'The Groucho Letters' (1967) p. 114