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My grandfather was in vaudeville, and he wore blackface. It was what you did. The jokes here are not at all exaggerated.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to hear stories.
Pretty sure the Marx brothers or Burns and Allen never wore blackface.
Chico didn't wear blackface but he wasn't Italian either.
Marx Brothers wore blackface in Day at the Races.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xohh56_the-history-of-vaudeville_ fun
Replace piss-drinking and baby-eating with "Cowards!" and "Support!" and you have roughly 1/3rd of the posts on Bo-news.
who cares?
Ah oh, there you go mentioning that thing.
Oh, Norm. Could we make sure not to put punchlines in the descriptions?
All stars for Norm's spot on delivery in this. I intend to try the hand to ear flair after all of my inappropriate jokes from now on.
It was a more innocent time, when hateful bigotry equaled toe-tappin' fun.
...and, on Weekend Update, Nathan Lane and Norm Macdonald acted like Abbott & Costello. The world missed the boat on that pairing.