Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were a vaudeville comedy duo in the 1920s and movie stars in the 30s. When I classify them as a comedy duo in the 1920s, I mean to say they were both concurrently working in the vaudeville circuit and on Broadway independently of another. Of the two, Bert Wheeler managed to eke out a meatier success in his own comedy routines while he was teamed with his first wife, Margaret Grae. Getting his start doing an apparently miraculous Charlie Chaplin impersonation in competition that Chaplin himself lauded, his live act in the Follies had a reputation for unpredictability, with sometimes dangerous gags that curiously seemed difficult to describe by witnesses, usually ending with the cryptic chestnut:
Wheeler & Woolsey, "I know what's funny."
Wheeler & Woolsey, "I know what's funny."
Wheeler & Woolsey, "I know what's funny."
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were a vaudeville comedy duo in the 1920s and movie stars in the 30s. When I classify them as a comedy duo in the 1920s, I mean to say they were both concurrently working in the vaudeville circuit and on Broadway independently of another. Of the two, Bert Wheeler managed to eke out a meatier success in his own comedy routines while he was teamed with his first wife, Margaret Grae. Getting his start doing an apparently miraculous Charlie Chaplin impersonation in competition that Chaplin himself lauded, his live act in the Follies had a reputation for unpredictability, with sometimes dangerous gags that curiously seemed difficult to describe by witnesses, usually ending with the cryptic chestnut: