variaty acts

  variaty light easy entertainment at the time. bursque\dance seen as quite under the cusp ; smut with a hint of comical class for the working class!
considering nearly every night was a booze infested hall of banta and sexual connotation ; not a place for a lady so would be ocupied mainly by workinging class men looking for a good time after a long days work ,during the depression this was a good way to relax and have a good time.
   Performances such as ventrilaquism, acrobatics, abnormal animals, magicians and quick sketches - in Variety anything quick and eye catching goes, but if it drags you wouldn't necessarily come home clean, as the original venues you would be table seated and booze filled. If you weren't catching the audience's attention, cabbages, tomatoes and beer would be thrown far and wide aimed at the performer, not an easy game to play but played well could have been very lucrative.
   Vaideville was more of a circus theme and even had a name for themselves. Vaudevillians were like a family so with this approach instead of music hall they had more of a business atmosphere.
Examples of venues in the UK are the Pallodium Theatre, The Comedy Club, Concorde 2.
Variety Acts -
.ventriloquism
.acribatics
.burlesque dance
.comidy scetches #(first stand up artists as well as reherced scetches)
. magican
. singers
.dancers
.actors
. musical comidy
. contortionists
. what was left of the "mistralls" (white men with blacked faces (highly racist yet still fairly aceptible in that era )

all preformers with a not so easy stage , if you were not invloving the audience or entertaining them they would make there own entertainment ( who can hit the muppet on stage with a cabbage)

my choices
singer songwrighters
singers ,blues kings , folk and many more would flock to the abodes of variaty far a wide talented and just plain stupid what ever amused the audience on the night :)

musical comedy
working class male relateable music taking the micky out of bosses the war and women
(smutty banta ) many preformers such as norman wisdom

stand up
stand up has been going for years and hasent changed a huge amount but a tommy cooper in my eyes was the man of the time incorporating magic and lafter at one time WHY NOT!