Found 3 collections related to Comedians.

Carol Channing (1921-2019) was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known for her leading roles in the Broadway musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! The Carol Channing papers, dating from the 1910s to 2010 (bulk dates 1940s-2010), trace her career as an entertainer through project files, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, publicity materials, scripts, drafts for her memoir, notated music and lyrics, and audio and moving image recordings. less

Joe Smith and Charlie Dale were a well-known vaudeville duo known as Smith and Dale who performed around the United States for over seventy years. The collection contains an extensive run of scripts for Smith and Dale sketches, material reflecting the later life and career of Joe Smith following Charlie Dale's death, and early material relating to their other comedy team The Avon Comedy Four. less

Baoting Chang (1929-2015) was a Chinese Xiang Sheng ("cross-talk comedy") comedian and performer whose career spanned seven decades. He grew up in a family of well-known Xiang Sheng performers. Chang's daughter Grace Chang made and compiled a collection of video and document files about Chang and the Chang family's performing careers. Although the files were created in 2020s, they reuse scripts, books, photographs, and video and sound recordings from the 1920s to 2018. less