Not to rain on anyone St. Patricks’ Day parade, but “Levi and Cohen, the Irish Comedians” simply consists of two vaudeviulle comics insultingly “dressed up like Jews,” doing equally insulting Irish comedy routines. Kind of like saying “Tawana Shabazz, the Chinese Laundress.”
Silly goose! you know perfectly well that I’m familiar enough with entertainment 100 years ago to be able to guess what the act was. I just wanted to take advantage of a chance to plug my crackpot theory!
It does sound like it could have been funny. Unfortunately, I’ve heard acts like that so I know that it wouldn’t be. And not just because of its political incorrectness. Mostly because the half-life of humor is usually ten minutes.
Like “Abie’s Irish Rose” Awful. Terrible. I was glued to it (the book, anyhow). I get stuck on the funniest things, really. This reminds me so much of our little Jewish contingent at the Joyce Summer School… It’s just an entire genre of film. Interesting to see what people thought amusing even fifty years ago, let alone a hundred.
Cyn
I have seen all the extant Mélies snuff films.
I wish.
Well, this comes pretty close…
Sound more like gay porn, from the plot summary: “A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe.”