Double-talk is a form of speech in which inappropriate, invented, or nonsense words are interpolated into normal speech to give the appearance of knowledge, and thus confuse or amuse the audience.[citation needed]
It developed out of dialect comedy and became popular in the first half of the 20th century, especially in English-speaking vaudeville and music halls.[citation needed]
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↑ Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, vol.1, Routledge, 2007, p.621, ISBN978-0-415-93853-2, ... Al Kelly was synonymous with double-talk.
↑ Nilsen, Alleen Pace; Nilsen, Don Lee Fred (2000), Encyclopedia of twentieth century American humor, p.246, ISBN978-1-57356-218-8, Danny Kaye was a master at tongue-twisters, doubletalk, and dialects.
↑ Dobuzinskis, Alex (12 February 2014). "Comic legend Sid Caesar dies at 91". Reuters. Retrieved 2014-02-13. Some of Caesar's most popular bits were built around pompous or outlandish characters - such as Professor von Votsisnehm - in which he spoke in a thick accent or mimicked foreign languages in comic but convincing gibberish.
↑ Dick Vosburgh (17 January 2002), "Stanley Unwin", The Independent, archived from the original on February 1, 2011, In the 1930s, "double-talk artists" enjoyed a brief craze in American show business. Comedians such as Jackie Gleason and the long-forgotten Cliff Nazarro and Al Kelly spouted nonsense words like "kopasetic", "franistan", "strismic" and "kravistate". Their double-talk was usually used to hoodwink a stooge and was delivered briskly, loudly and aggressively. Britain's Stanley Unwin, however, delivered his own brand of double-talk in the most benign way
↑ Bayer, Vanessa. "Weekend Update: Dawn Lazarus". Weekend Update Weather Report. Saturday Night Live,Youtube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
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