Humor
 Humor
is a universal language.
Joel Goodman
With the fearful strain that is on me
night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln
Today, we find humor from many sources.
TV, movies, books, radio, and the Internet are just some of the
mediums used to offer comedy. But at the turn of the 20th century,
the most common way to enjoy humor was to attend a vaudeville
show, a variety show that might include comedians, dancers,
singers, performing animals, acrobats, and magicians.
Much of today's humor evolved from
vaudeville, which began to decline in popularity after 1932. It
was at that time that the leading vaudeville theater, the Palace
Theater in New York, replaced live acts with film.
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