The $1.98 Beauty Show deliberately staged amateurish acts for comedy

Evidence

To be a $1.98 Beauty you didn’t even have to be beautiful. All you needed was a bathing suit and an act. Even a bad act would do. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 19

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s already-covered material on how seemingly incompetent performance can be engineered — echoes the counterintuitive value of deliberate failure seen in earlier reading. — connects to: Parody performances are routinely mistaken for sincere commitment to what they mock; A gag built around a dripping wig turned a bad song into comedy — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 20; A live act that visibly falls apart can be the winning act — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 22

Related

• A live act that visibly falls apart can be the winning act (similarity 0.80)
• A gag built around a dripping wig turned a bad song into comedy (similarity 0.80)