Comedy Collection (page 3)

Tattooing - Drunk Tattooist has got carried away
Tattooing - Drunk Tattooist (Professor Smith) has got carried away... " Its taking you a long time to write I love Annie !" Date: circa 1920s

Cartoon by Charles Addams
A group of passengers on the New York subway look in alarm at the growing garment appearing from the knitting needles of one old lady - a sweater with two neck holes. Date: 1955

Miranda in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, at the Opera House, Southport, 9 October 1905 for one week, Herbert Beerbohm Trees production which opened at His Majestys Theatre on 14 September 1904

Comedians
Ken Dodd, Norman Wisdom, Tommy Cooper, Billy Connolly, Max Miller, Beny Hill, Eric Morecambe, Frankie Howerd - Comedians

Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, Dalys Theatre
Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, at Dalys Theatre, London. Yvonne was a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Percy Greenbank, and music by Jean Gilbert and Vernon Duke (Dukelsky)

Arthur Askey - English comedian
Arthur Askey (1900-1982) English comedian with the catchphrase - hello playmates Date: circa 1940

Commedia dell arte Characters
Four Characters from Commedia dell arte, an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theatres in the 16th18th centuries, based on stock characters

The perils of sitting on a freshly-painted park bench
A humorous postcard cataloguing in 6 frames, the perils of sitting on a freshly-painted park bench. A masher " the vacant seat

The full range of Corsetry Puns and Underwear Jokes on this humorous Christmas Greetings card with a clothing theme. Date: circa 1906

Madeline Rossiter actress, musician and manager
Madeline Rossiter dressed in male attire as Algy. She worked in revue, summer seasons, musical comedy and pantomime. Described as a comedienne, impressioniste and musician

Stephano in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 4 December 1905 for one week, Herbert Beerbohm Trees production which opened at His Majestys Theatre on 14 September

Charles Coborn, The Great Comedian - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - a portrait drawn by himself Date: 20th century

Skegness is SO bracing - McGill parody of Hassall poster
Skegness is SO bracing - A Donald McGill parody of the famous Jolly Fisherman poster created by artist John Hassall in 1908 for the Great Northern Railway (GNR)

The four Cohans, the famous vaudeville act that included George M. Cohan (left) - also with hs sister, father and mother. Date: 1928

Irish gentlemen brawling with night watchmen, Dublin, 1822
Irish gentlemen boxing and brawling with night watchmen, Dublin, 1822. A man in a sedan chair waves a bicorne hat. Brian Boru, Sir Shawn O Dogherty on a Night Row with the Charleys in Dame Street

Woman in costume as the Queen of Sheba, 1862
Woman in the costume of the Queen of Sheba (Reine du Sabbat) from the 19th century opera by Charles Gounod. Costume designed by M. Robin. Handcoloured lithograph published by Martinet, Paris, 1862

Sketch cover, Laurel & Hardy visit the UK
Legendary comedy double act, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy pictured in a train carriage on a visit to the UK in 1932 in which they appeared at the Empire in London and toured the North of England

Marion Hood, actor singer in Ruy Blas burlesque
Marion Hood, actor singer in Ruy Blas and the Blas ouÚáít the Gaiety Theatre, London, a burlesque which ran for 289 performances. 1889

Sir George Edward Wade (1869 - 1954), Comedian, professionally known as George Robey photographed in his costume as a pantomime dame of Jack and the Beanstalk at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1921

Margaret Lockwood as Nell Gwynne
Margaret Lockwood, actress, as Nell Gwynne in the 1949 British comedy film, Cardboard Cavalier. 1949

Photographer explains the posing machine in his studio
The cartoon follows a photographer explaining and poking fun at the posing machine used when capturing portraits in a studio.He comments on getting people to sit for a photograph is an art form in

Medieval comedian playing bellows and tongs
Vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle, 14th century manuscript. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Bonzo the Policeman - George E. Studdy - Clacton-on-Sea
circa 1920s

Comic Valentines Postcard - Old Maid about to be blown up
Comic Valentines Postcard - Some seriously racey language punning against an image of an Old Maid about to be blown up. 1908

Dante and the eagle
Travel arrangements between Purgatory and Paradise are rudimentary: an eagle carries Dante from the lower regions to the celestial heights where hell meet Beatrice Portinari

DIVINE COMEDY / DAMNED
Dante & Virgil contemplate some of the damned... Date: First published: 1307-21?

Comic Postcard - Greyhound Racing - The hares run by electricity, Bill Is it? I wish they d give the blinkin dorg I backed a few shocks then!. Date: 1926

Beatrice Lillie in the comedy film Are You There? - appearing as an acrobat in Bagdad Daddies: the lady detective in a wonderful disguise. Date: 1931

The Walls of Jericho, Garrick Theatre, London
The Walls of Jericho, a satirical comedy by Alfred Sutro, at the Garrick Theatre, London, starring Arthur Bourchier as Samson. 1904

Lily Brayton as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew
Lily Brayton as Katharina in Shakespeares comedy, The Taming of the Shrew at the Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, West London, with Oscar Asche. The couple were also performing in Othello. 1900s

Frank Tinney in Sometime, Vaudeville Theatre
Frank Tinney in Sometime, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, with Desiree Ellinger. 1925

The Second in Command, Metropole Theatre, Camberwell
The Second in Command, a military comedy by Robert Marshall, at the Metropole Theatre, Camberwell, SE London. Previously at the Haymarket Theatre, London. circa 1900

Mercenary Mary, New Theatre, Cambridge
Mercenary Mary, a musical comedy at the New Theatre, Cambridge, previously at the London Hippodrome. circa 1925

The Man from Mexico, Grand Theatre, Oldham
The Man from Mexico, a comedy at the Grand Theatre, Oldham, previously at the Strand Theatre, London. 1911

The Two Orphans, in Flewso the Flier, a pantomime
The Two Orphans, in Flewso the Flier, the Summerdown revuesical panto, at the Pier Theatre, Eastbourne. 1917

Rinking - Roller Skating fun for all ages - When Awkwardness is useful!. Date
Rinking - Roller Skating fun for all ages - " When Awkwardness is useful!". Date: circa 1905

WW2 - Comic Postcard, Home Front - Intruder Raid - A little girl (with ginger pigtails) is alarmed at the sight of a small brown mouse and has leaped up onto the piano stool. Date: 1944

Fathers Kilt will soon fit Willie (but not quite yet, hence the universal merriment on the faces of Willies young friends!). Date: circa 1930s

Kitty in London - Glamorous girl with two cats and HUGE hat
Kitty in London - Glamorous girl with two cats and a HUGE green hat with feathers. Date: circa late 1904

RAF AT Aerial-Target 1922
A Man Holding the Tail of a Raf-At Aerial-Target 1922 Drone Uav on a Trolley, Later Launched Without-Undercarriage from Hms Argus Date: 1922

France - Circus - Auguste and the White Clown
France - Circus - Interactions between Auguste (the happy clown) and the White Clown (the sad clown): " Session interrupted". Date: 1905

Comic Postcard - The Fathers Revenge on daughters Man
Comic Postcard - " Loves Reward" - The Fathers Revenge on her daughters new man, who is getting a hearty spanking for some indiscretion which has made his girl cry

French April Fools Card - Flying Fish Aeroplane sending Best Wishes.....!! Date: circa 1909

A Bear-faced steal - Wagon raided in the USA by a brown bear (another on the way...) - it is unclear what was contained within the barrels which piqued their excitement... Date: 1905

Dorothy Ward music hall and musical comedy star 1890-1987
Dorothy Ward billed on the music halls as the ?Queen of Musical Comedy?. Pantomime principal boy. Holding out the skirt of an elaborately fringed dress. Hat with long tassel and feathers

Commedia dell arte Italian. 16th century. Engraving, 19th century. Colored

Dante / Divine Comedy / Map
A map of Inferno to Dantes La Divina Commedia. Date: First published: 1307-21?

Harry Langdon early 1900s

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