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• Vaudeville Did Not Die of Radio. It Died of Five Shows a Day.The most prestigious variety stage in America played its last week of straight vaudeville in July 1932 — after trying to save itself by doubling the number of performances and cutting the ticket price.Sep 8, 2026
• The Room That Invented the Comedy Club Was Not Built for ComedyThe Improv opened in 1963 as a fifty-seat after-hours coffee house for Broadway singers. It took a year to book its first comedian and most of a decade to become a comedy club at all — and every club since has copied the accident.Sep 8, 2026
• British Alternative Comedy Started in a Strip Club, Sixteen Days After ThatcherAn insurance salesman came back from a Los Angeles holiday, rented Saturday nights above a Soho topless bar, and ran a gong show. Within a year it had produced the cast of British television comedy for the next decade.Sep 8, 2026

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