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| In reply to: re: “Private Schwartz” OK, I’ll Bite…. - AlanScott 02:54 pm EST 11/17/22 |
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To address something in another post: Dutch comedy was to an overwhelming degree Jewish comedy. The use of Dutch to describe it was derived from Deutsch, yes, but it was Jewish comedy with characters who were almost always clearly meant to be perceived as Jewish and performed overwhelmingly by Jews.
I think you're probably right in terms of later vaudeville. And Weber and Fields were the definitive Dutch act. But the Dutch comic turn was very much an ethnic comedy based on German-American patois (see "Max and Mortiz" which inspired the Katzenjammer Kids). I don't know if I'd agree that before WWI the Dutch Act was meant to be perceived as Jewish. Post-WWI perhaps because all things culturally German were somewhat erased from American popular culture. There was also a literal "Dutch" craze with clogs and windmills in American vaudeville and popular culture around the turn of the century. |
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Ach, those Katzenjammer Kids! |
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