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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Two Black Crows (also called The Black Crows and Moran and Mack) was a blackface comedy act popular in the 1920s and 30s. The duo appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio, comedy records, and in film features and shorts.The act was originated by Charles Mack (1888–1934), who hired actor John Swor as his partner. "Swor & Mack" enjoyed moderate success until Swor left the act. He was replaced by George Moran (1881–1949). The team of Moran and Mack caught on and became major recording stars. "The Two Black Crows" became a weekly radio show in 1928; Moran and Mack also guest-starred on Fred Waring's radio show in 1933.Although Moran and Mack's gags were mostly corny (and very often non-racial) and the characters were stereotypical (one practical but naive, the other seemingly slow and lazy yet quick with a quip and a certain skewed logic), the relationship depicted plus their laconic delivery made them one of the most successful of comedy teams.Typical joke:MACK: On our farm, we had a thousand chickuns, an' 999 o'em laid eggs.MORAN: What was wrong with de udder one?MACK: Uh, he was de head man.Once Moran played a blast on his kazoo.MACK (annoyed): Boy, even if dat was good, I wouldn't like it!MORAN: I can play anything on dis!MACK: You caint play piano on dat!And on it went. This shows at least how old the following joke is:MACK: I'll meet you down by de pig-pen. You better keep yo hat on so's I'll know ya!Even a watermelon joke, the essence of racial stereotyping, took on a certain surrealist air in their hands:MACK: Wish I had an ice-cold watamelon.MORAN: Oh lawdy. Me too.MACK: Wish I had a thousand ice-cold watamelons.MORAN: Glory be. I bet if you had a thousand ice-cold watamelons, you'd give me one.MACK: No, no siree! If you are too lazy to wish for your own watamelons, you ain't gon' git none o' mine.The team was known for two catchphrases. Moran would remind Mack of some unfortunate event, causing Mack to say, "Why bring that up?" Mack frequently would interrupt Moran's description of something with a drawling "What causes that?"The duo of Moran and Mack appeared in vaudeville with W.C. Fields, on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 and in Earl Carroll's Vanities in the mid-1920s. They also appeared in George White's Scandals and The Greenwich Village Follies.At the height of their popularity, after completing their first talking feature film, Moran had a salary dispute with Mack and sued him. A judge ruled that Mack legally owned the act and could pay whatever salary he wanted. Moran quit, and was replaced by John Swor's brother, Bert Swor, who adopted the name Moran. The second "Moran and Mack" talkie (without George Moran) faltered at the box office, and the team made no further films until 1933, when the low-budget Educational Pictures studio hired them for a feature film and a series of "Two Black Crows" short subjects. Charles Mack died in an automobile accident in 1934, effectively ending the act (although George Moran did try to revive it with other partners).Moran would later appear in three W. C. Fields films, The Fatal Glass of Beer, My Little Chickadee, and The Bank Dick.Their catch phrase, "Who wants a worm, anyhow?", was the punch line to a lengthy dialogue that Moran initiated by telling Mack that, "The early bird catches the worm". Mack of course had never heard the expression, so he took it literally, and frustrated Moran by repeatedly asking inane questions about the saying. "Who wants a worm, anyhow?" was the closing statement by the crow in a Warner Bros. cartoon called The Wacky Worm, and parts of the routine appeared in other Warner cartoons.. }

• Two_Black_Crows abstract "The Two Black Crows (also called The Black Crows and Moran and Mack) was a blackface comedy act popular in the 1920s and 30s. The duo appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio, comedy records, and in film features and shorts.The act was originated by Charles Mack (1888–1934), who hired actor John Swor as his partner. "Swor & Mack" enjoyed moderate success until Swor left the act. He was replaced by George Moran (1881–1949). The team of Moran and Mack caught on and became major recording stars. "The Two Black Crows" became a weekly radio show in 1928; Moran and Mack also guest-starred on Fred Waring's radio show in 1933.Although Moran and Mack's gags were mostly corny (and very often non-racial) and the characters were stereotypical (one practical but naive, the other seemingly slow and lazy yet quick with a quip and a certain skewed logic), the relationship depicted plus their laconic delivery made them one of the most successful of comedy teams.Typical joke:MACK: On our farm, we had a thousand chickuns, an' 999 o'em laid eggs.MORAN: What was wrong with de udder one?MACK: Uh, he was de head man.Once Moran played a blast on his kazoo.MACK (annoyed): Boy, even if dat was good, I wouldn't like it!MORAN: I can play anything on dis!MACK: You caint play piano on dat!And on it went. This shows at least how old the following joke is:MACK: I'll meet you down by de pig-pen. You better keep yo hat on so's I'll know ya!Even a watermelon joke, the essence of racial stereotyping, took on a certain surrealist air in their hands:MACK: Wish I had an ice-cold watamelon.MORAN: Oh lawdy. Me too.MACK: Wish I had a thousand ice-cold watamelons.MORAN: Glory be. I bet if you had a thousand ice-cold watamelons, you'd give me one.MACK: No, no siree! If you are too lazy to wish for your own watamelons, you ain't gon' git none o' mine.The team was known for two catchphrases. Moran would remind Mack of some unfortunate event, causing Mack to say, "Why bring that up?" Mack frequently would interrupt Moran's description of something with a drawling "What causes that?"The duo of Moran and Mack appeared in vaudeville with W.C. Fields, on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 and in Earl Carroll's Vanities in the mid-1920s. They also appeared in George White's Scandals and The Greenwich Village Follies.At the height of their popularity, after completing their first talking feature film, Moran had a salary dispute with Mack and sued him. A judge ruled that Mack legally owned the act and could pay whatever salary he wanted. Moran quit, and was replaced by John Swor's brother, Bert Swor, who adopted the name Moran. The second "Moran and Mack" talkie (without George Moran) faltered at the box office, and the team made no further films until 1933, when the low-budget Educational Pictures studio hired them for a feature film and a series of "Two Black Crows" short subjects. Charles Mack died in an automobile accident in 1934, effectively ending the act (although George Moran did try to revive it with other partners).Moran would later appear in three W. C. Fields films, The Fatal Glass of Beer, My Little Chickadee, and The Bank Dick.Their catch phrase, "Who wants a worm, anyhow?", was the punch line to a lengthy dialogue that Moran initiated by telling Mack that, "The early bird catches the worm". Mack of course had never heard the expression, so he took it literally, and frustrated Moran by repeatedly asking inane questions about the saying. "Who wants a worm, anyhow?" was the closing statement by the crow in a Warner Bros. cartoon called The Wacky Worm, and parts of the routine appeared in other Warner cartoons.".