comedy

1930s

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A man sits at a table and demonstrates eating a grapefruit with his "…

1940s

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A man dances comedically and does the splits for a cheering …

1930s

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Excerpt from a Laurel and Hardy comedic short titled Their First…

1930s

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Excerpt from a Laurel and Hardy comedic short titled Their First…

1930s

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Excerpt from 1932 Laurel and Hardy short, Their First Mistake…

1940s

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Comedians Abbott and Costello make jokes about baseball for Mail…

1950s

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Clip from 1953 musical comedy Calamity Jane starring Doris Day…

1960s

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Trailer for 1965 comedy Strange Bedfellows starring Rock…

1930s

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Begins with short clip of a woman in a white dress with her mouth…

1930s

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Laurel and Hardy are doing their best to comfort a crying infant and go…

1930s

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Will Rogers makes jokes about FDR at a campaign event in 1932. Begins with…

1980s, 1970s

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Alan Myerson and Howard Hesseman of the Bay Area improv group, the…