Comes the Revolution

1941
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A soapbox rabble-rouser (Willie Howard) contends with an unruly audience of one (Al Kelly). A brief vaudeville routine captured for posterity.A soapbox rabble-rouser (Willie Howard) contends with an unruly audience of one (Al Kelly). A brief vaudeville routine captured for posterity.A soapbox rabble-rouser (Willie Howard) contends with an unruly audience of one (Al Kelly). A brief vaudeville routine captured for posterity.

Director
- Warren Murray
Stars
- Willie Howard
- Al Kelly

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3.6/10

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- Warren Murray
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- Willie Howard
- Al Kelly

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Vaudeville Time Capsule

Borscht-Belt trouper Willie Howard, noted "dialect" comic, in a classic routine that certainly struck a chord with urban Jewish audiences of the 20s and 30s. Often called "Dutch" comics, largely due to sounding not quite German, Yiddish, Polish, or Russian, but having elements of each (defaulting to Yiddish), the style has not aged well, now seen as a sort of eastern-European minstrelry. Fritz Feld is probably the best known of these comics today.

Fanny Brice, immortalized as "Funny Girl", also parlayed elements of this style of comedy into a radio career, radio being the medium where dialect comedy went to die, with shows like "The Goldbergs" hitting the end of the line in the mid-fifties.