Editing Joe Penner (section)

==Vaudeville and burlesque==
In 1917, Penner's acts in which he dressed as Charlie Chaplin earned him 38 cents per week.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |title='Duck' laugh and catch phrases are Joe Penner's stock in trade |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/101047469 |access-date=February 12, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=April 1, 1934 |page=X-11|id={{ProQuest|101047469}} }}</ref> Thanks to his clowning and "Wanna Buy a Duck?" routine, he was soon in small-time burlesque and vaudeville. A high point came when he performed in the ''Greenwich Village Follies'' in Chicago in 1926. After this break, he toured in mainstream vaudeville until its gradual demise around 1932.{{cn|date=January 2024}}