1820s - Blackface Minstrelsy: White male performers parodying the songs, dances and speech patterns of Southern blacks wearing burt cork on their face.
1828 - Thomas Rice, "Jump Jim Crow"
1843 - The Virginia Minstrels
1851 - Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
1927 - The first film "talkie", The Jazz Singer, Al Jolson
1928 - The Amos and Andy Show
1880s Vaudeville: A collection of disparate acts marketed mainly to a family audience that became a national entertainment industry. From the French Val de Vire
Bert Williams
B.F. Keith and Edward Albee
The White Rats
1906 - Keith founds United Booking Service
1907 - Vaudeville now owned by a few magnates
Stand-Up Comedy
1880s - Early versions of stand-up comedy exist
1932 - George Burns and Gracie Allen become the first great comedy team of the modern technological age.
1948 - The Texaco Star Theater, Milton Berle
1950s-1960s - Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Woody Allen, Bob Newhart
1970s - Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor, Saturday Night Live
Sitcoms
1951 - I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball
1955 - The Honeymooners, Jackie Gleason
1961 - The Dick Van Dyke Show
1970 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1971 - All In The Family
1972 - M*A*S*H*
1974 - Good Times
1975 - The Jeffersons
1984 - The Cosby Show
1988 - Roseanne
1990 - Seinfeld
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