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The Famous Writer Who’s Considered to Be One of the First Stand-up Comedians

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20.11.2025
Stand-up comedy as we know it today can be traced back to the late 1800s. It evolved from the types of collaborative comic sketches seen in minstrel shows and burlesque during the 19th century. A newspaper columnist named Charles Farrar Browne is considered by historians to have been particularly innovative in performing solo comedic monologues on stage. […] The post The Famous Writer Who’s Considered to Be One of the First Stand-up Comedians appeared first on VICE.

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