ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
A pioneer of female stand-up comedy; her onstage comic character was a wild-haired, oddly-dressed housewife who made jokes about her husband "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder. She performed in a number of films with Bob Hope. Here's a short biographical piece with an interview last year with John Sparling.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
|