"SURE LAUGH-GETTERS"
A HUMOURIST'S LIST. Mr. Irwin Cobb once prepared a list of surf) laugh-getters at a show, and they were published "in "Everybody's Magazine" as .follows :— When a performer starts to move- and the trap-drummer in the audience scrapes a resinod piece of cord- so that the comedian thinks his clothes aro splitting.' ; When a clown acrobat poisc3 himself to jump a tremendous distance, aiid then suddenly changes his mind and walks off. When a comedian starts to sing and a trombone-playpr sounds a discord, causine the comedian to stop and look at him threateningly. Whon a low comedian, in leaving the etuxe. walk* against something solid and hits his noso,
When a monologist looks in the window of a'house painted on the scenery and pretends to see something funny going on.
When the black-face half of n musical team takes off eight or nino waistcoats of different colours in rapid succession. When a dancing comedian trips on something, and then stoops down and picks up an ordinary pin. When a character • comedian- turns round and shows a red bandana handkerchief pinned in the tails of his frock coat. '.:■.-:
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 11, 8 October 1919, Page 9
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190"SURE LAUGH-GETTERS" Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 11, 8 October 1919, Page 9
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