# Looking for a performer of vaudville-type act (removes "masks" while singing)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 11, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-performer-of-vaudville-type-act-removes-masks-while-singing/673682 "2013-11-11T22:17:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-performer-of-vaudville-type-act-removes-masks-while-singing/673682/1 "2013-11-11T22:17:16Z")

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My friend and I are looking for this act (i.e., videos thereof). Here is my friend’s description:

there is one thing i can’t find on the internet  
it was a guy i saw on Jerry Lewis’s telethon actually  
Jerry would put people on there who would never otherwise be seen outside of hotels for old people type theatres. because that’s where jerry came from  
and this guy had a great schitick  
he would be singing a song, or talking. then move his hand up to his face like he was removing a mask and throwing the mask onto the ground, and when he did this he never actually removed a mask but just changed his facial expression. so it looked as if he actually had removed a mask. as it went one he went faster and faster. changing masks, moving back to old masks. totally hilarious, one of a kind thing

Thanks for any help you can offer!

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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-performer-of-vaudville-type-act-removes-masks-while-singing/673682/2 "2013-11-12T23:56:14Z")

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Surely someone knows!

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-performer-of-vaudville-type-act-removes-masks-while-singing/673682/3 "2013-11-13T04:30:01Z")

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> [@Aeschines](#):
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> Surely someone knows!

Nobody on this board save you is going to admit to watching a Jerry Lewis telethon.

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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-performer-of-vaudville-type-act-removes-masks-while-singing/673682/4 "2013-11-13T04:49:06Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Nobody on this board save you is going to admit to watching a Jerry Lewis telethon.

Wasn’t that some godawful PBS pledge week-dwarfing cavalcade of craptacular dancing with the stars-level performers smeared over all three (and the only three) networks, completely ruining any chance of catching a decent batch of Saturday morning cartoons?

I hope someone helps the OP because at least someone found something good on it.

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-performer-of-vaudville-type-act-removes-masks-while-singing/673682/5 "2013-11-14T02:54:39Z")

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Could it possibly have been [Art Metrano (or The Great Metrano)?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-SNrvHdZJE)