Dialect comedy
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Dialect comedies are a genre of radio sitcoms that were popular between the 1920s and the 1950s. They relied on the exaggerated and highly stylized portrayal of stereotypes, usually based on ethnic hu
A 1900 poster for the German dialect comedy The Watch on the Rhine
Cast of the Amos N Andy television show in 1951
J. Carrol Naish in Life With Luigi 1950
Gertrude Berg of The Goldbergs 1929
Fibber McGee and Molly
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Fibber McGee and Molly was a longtime American husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.
Fibber McGee and Molly with Ted Weems and his Orchestra broadcasting from Chicago in 1937.
The other cast members circa 1939.
A character shot of Fibber and Molly, 1937.
Photo of "the Closet"; the actual on-the-air sound was done by sound effects men.