Imagine going camping with someone who worked in vaudeville. Someone used to quick skits, quick lines, and used to dodging "boos" and tomatoes. What was it like around a campfire each night? Did they regale their fellow campers with jokes or stories of traveling the circuit?
Now, I have no idea if this fellow worked in vaudeville. The odds are he didn't, but I can easily imagine him doing "Slowly I turned...."
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Inspired! How did you ever make this link between that sadsack photo and a comic genius?
ReplyDeletePerhaps the hat. He just looks like someone who played the Catskills long ago.
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