Uncle Cyp and Aunt Sap Brasfield

Their acting careers, which began in the late 1910s, spanned the vaudeville era and extended to appearances on network television.

Soon he was traveling with the Redpath Chautauqua tent circuit, which often featured attorney William Jennings Bryan as a speaker.

For the next ten years, Brasfield performed as an actor and worked as a stage manager in both Broadway productions and the road companies of hit shows.

[1] Beginning in the mid-1920s, the Brasfields were featured players with (Jess) Bisbee's Comedians, a popular touring tent repertory troupe based in Memphis, Tennessee.

[3] In the mid-1940s, Brasfield adopted the Uncle Cyprus character, shortened to "Cyp," when he began performing on radio programs with his brother Rod.

Rod developed the characters for his routines about fictional residents in his adopted hometown of Hohenwald, Tennessee.

By the early 1950s, the Brasfield couple retired to their ranch called Rancho Pocito in the Rio Grande Valley near Edinburg, Texas.

In 1955, their long-time friend Red Foley convinced them to return to show business on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee, produced in Springfield, Missouri.

The couple, often introduced by the opening bars of "Turkey In The Straw", usually performed small-town domestic sketch comedy together.

Uncle Cyp also performed solo, or with Foley, Bill Ring, announcer Joe Slattery, or singer Brenda Lee.

[6] In January 1958, The Billboard reported that the Brasfield couple and Rod had begun filming a series of 52 fifteen-minute comedy programs for syndicated distribution on television.

[9] and In October 1959, Boob sustained minor injuries from a backstage fall during a Cotton Bowl performance with Foley and a Jubilee touring unit at the Texas State Fair.