Vaudeville Hook - TV Tropes
Real Vaudeville shows would Drop the Cow on bad or overly long acts with "the hook", a curtain hook extended from offstage to pull away the performer. Oftentimes by the neck. But in cartoons, you don't even need to be on a stage to get the hook.
The Vaudeville Hook - Factual Questions - Straight Dope
Jan 12, 2022 · Giving Them the Hook. Q. Did the practice of giving an unpopular stage performer ‘‘the hook’’ begin at the Apollo Theater’s famous amateur night? A. Actually, ‘‘the hook’’ first appeared at Miner’s Bowery Theater, where in the 1890’s …
Were long poles with hooked ends really ever used to pull people …
Dec 10, 2022 · There are two theories about where applying the hook to bad acts originated. Both involve the Miner's Bowery, a theater hall in New York that opened in 1878. Entry 15 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, or 70 cents depending on which seats you wanted to get; beer was free-flowing, and as was typical for such theaters, audience participation was the norm.
History of Comedians Getting the Hook — Comedy History 101
Jul 1, 2019 · A classic comedy trope is the comedian getting the hook - and being pulled off stage. But how did this come about in your comedic lexicon? It’s usually depicted as a shepherd’s crook. that pulls off a horrible act.
ELI5:Pulling a bad comedian off the stage using a curved cane ... - Reddit
According to a pamphlet put out by Miner later, his son Tom was the first to use the hook (which was a shepherd's crook prop from an earlier act) to pull a particularly bad amateur performer offstage. Thereafter, it became a regular feature, with …
Miner's Bowery Theatre - Wikipedia
Starting in the 1890s, a stage-prop shepherd's hook was used to pull bad performers bodily from the stage, after audience members shouted, "Give 'im the hook." [2] The phrase, "Give him the hook" originated at Miners Bowery Theatre. [2]
This Bowery theater gave performers “the hook”
Jan 21, 2019 · So in the 1890s, after variety segued into vaudeville, Miner’s came up with a genius idea to make Friday night amateur nights even rowdier: giving entertainers “the hook.” Yep, the showbiz taunt “give ’em the hook” was invented on the Bowery.
Give ‘Em the Hook origin – Ephemeral New York
So in the 1890s, after variety segued into vaudeville, Miner’s came up with a genius idea to make Friday night amateur nights even rowdier: giving entertainers “the hook.” Yep, the showbiz taunt “give ’em the hook” was invented on the Bowery.
Vaudeville Hook Is Born! - The Historical Marker Database
The most famous of his houses was Miner’s Bowery Theatre (est. 1878). It was here that his son Tom instituted the famous amateur night and its famous innovation “the hook”, a large shepherd’s crook used for yanking unpopular acts off the stage—often …
The Hook! - Mary Miley's Roaring Twenties
Aug 17, 2013 · We've all heard of "the hook," that crude method of removing a bad performer from the stage. Supposedly Henry Miner invented the hook, or at least he was the first person known to have used one back in the 1880s at one of his New York City variety houses.