1.   And in a play filled with preachy apothegms and labored explanations, Hadden has the good sense to turn the lines into self-mocking vaudeville routines.

2.   As Seinfeld points out in the special, Abbott and Costello refined the established vaudeville routines in their movies and television show.

3.   My friend Nancy and I have developed our own version of an old-fashioned vaudeville routine.

4.   The girl remembered by the older woman is essentially a variation on the voluptuous naughty nurses of vaudeville routines, a pair of humongous breasts on legs.

5.   There are also many popular vaudeville routines, which document harsh, freely expressed stereotypes about immigrants.

6.   They amuse themselves with drink and by spinning rude vaudeville routines about the unloving, penny-pinching mediocrity they call Dad only in derision.

7.   They also learned blackface vaudeville routines, putting together a show-stopping act of their own.

8.   He did not simply adapt his vaudeville routines for the screen, he turned film itself into a source of humor.