Sentences with phrase «vaudeville bit»

There's an old Vaudeville bit where an otherwise calm person totally loses his cool at the utterance of a particular word and takes his rage out on the utterer.

But here Chaplin's vaudeville bits aren't all that funny even when he's paired with Buster Keaton (albeit too briefly).

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Eddy Waller's career moved along the same channels as most western comedy - relief performers: medicine shows, vaudeville, legitimate theatre, movie bit parts (from 1938) and finally the unshaven, grizzled, «by gum» routine.

Set in a grand Vaudeville theatre, each episode is hosted by Kermit the Frog and comprised of at least a dozen segments which together offer a blend of comedy, music, and a bit of the absurd.