e/Prop comedy

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has gloss	eng: Prop comedy is a comedy genre that makes use of humorous objects, or conventional objects used in humorous ways. The stage and film term "prop", an abbreviation of "property", refers to any object handled by an actor in the course of a performance. Although some form of prop comedy has likely existed as long as there has been comedians, the genre reached its zenith in the vaudeville era. The vaudeville team Olsen and Johnson made heavy use of prop comedy in their long running Broadway revue Hellzapoppin.
lexicalization	eng: prop comedy
instance of	c/Comedy genres