Gallagher and Shean were probably the best known of the classic vaudeville acts.
I first heard of them when I was about five years old when my Grandfather taught me parts of their routines.
They were the basis for Neal Simon's The Sunshine Boys, although the title itself may have been derived from another vaudeville team: The Happiness Boys.
And Groucho Marx was Al Shean's nephew.
And finally, I've been reading Joseph Heller's Closing Time, the sequel to Catch 22. He spends a couple of pages having a few characters doing a takeoff on Gallgher and Shean's classic lines:
"Absolutely, Mister Gallagher?"
"Positively, Mister Shean!"
