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Comedy · The Tests Run Whole on Ground That Built No Stage
Also of Record: the Full List
THE PEOPLE SIDE, CLOSED · NOVEMBER 2026
The fame test already ran whole for this ground and returned no comic at any tie strength; this row closes the people side by gathering the minor names and owning the count: the count is zero, and it is a searched zero, not an…
The Nineteenth-Century Stage: Minstrelsy
THE FORM NAMED · THE LOCAL RECORD AT SURVIVING SIZE
The checklist requires this item carried, never inflated and never skipped — so the form is named plainly and the local evidence is printed at exactly the size it survives: minstrelsy — the blackface variety form that was the…
The vaudeville bills: what actually played, in the cities' houses, for this ground's audiences
BOUNDARY-PRINTED · THE PALACE, SOUTH BEND · 1910–1930
No vaudeville house ever stood on this ground, so the bills this section owns are the bills its audiences actually attended — the county seat's, at boundary size, from the house's own record: South Bend's vaudeville seat began as…
Humor in print, in two parts: the column the market read, and the humorist this ground never produced
PART ONE BOUNDARY · PART TWO THE NEGATIVE, STATED
Part one — the beloved newspaper humor column of the checklist's pattern belongs, where it exists in this market, to the county seat's paper, and it prints at that size: the South Bend Tribune is the paper of record for these…
The rooms in succession: the market's stand-up rooms, and none of them here
BOUNDARY SUCCESSION · DATED TO NOVEMBER 2026
The checklist's succession — first room, successor room, present standing room — runs whole for the market this ground attends, and at every step the room stands in South Bend: the present standing room is documented at full…
The working scene under the marquee: open mics, troupes, working comics — dated
THE PRESENT SCENE · AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
The present working scene of this market is documented, small and entirely seated outside this ground — and its documented shape is worth printing whole, because it is the scene a Granger comic would actually enter: its floor is…
Comedy Not Found in the Record
ASSEMBLED FROM THIS RUN'S DIGS ON ROWS 2–4 AND 7–9 · NOVEMBER 2026
This section's closing article gathers its negatives in one place, each with the test that produced it, so the absence is documented and not merely asserted: