Word: vaudevillians
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...It’s] very vaudevillian, and very artificial and it allows you to be very funny, heightened yet deep at the same time,” he says. “It was a fortuitous match to my Pudding training...
...Winchell, the ex-vaudevillian whose three-alarm radio voice exactly suited his brassy prose style, was by 1940 the highest-paid man in America. He made stars and broke them, announced when a celeb got married ("Lohengrinned") or separated ("splitsville" or "phffft"). He gave advice to F.D.R. and took favors from J. Edgar Hoover. At times Winchell was the news, as when Murder Inc. boss Louis Lepke surrendered to him and Hoover; at times the columnist withheld it, when someone like Clare Boothe Luce asked nicely. He created the new world of gossip, and ruled it from such perches...
...whistle highs with alarming fluidity. He doesn’t need accompaniment, because he simultaneously functions as his own bass, treble and percussion sections all in one. To that alternately yodelling and resonant presence, he adds sound effects such as the leading edge of a storm, and a vaudevillian sense for a completely novel and theatrical musical experience...
...grunge, and it just seemed like...so dire. It seemed like the most radical thing to do at the time, and it was a time when I tended to do things just because they were the most radical thing to do, was to...sort of have this almost Vaudevillian sort of happiness...
...eccentric creations, he employs language so richly textured and wildly unconventional that it seems to be drunk on its own words. Dissolving the long-hewn pillars of “good message” and “good taste,” he gives gaudy and vulgar personalities, vaudevillian song-and-dance and narrative non-sequitur the freedom to run amok onstage...