The Marx brothers got their start in vaudavill. They're too zany for my taste, but every one of their movies have memorable moments and really funny, if goofy, quotes.

As Groucho said, "Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know."