Comedy film

Tartuffe is widely considered Moliere’s finest comedic play, written in 1664. It was considered quite scandalous at the time and King Louis XIV censured it (Scott 2000). The play was subtitled ‘The Imposter’, or sometimes ‘The Hypocrite’. So deeply woven into our intellectual culture is the play, or rather its protagonist, that in both French and English ‘Tartuffe’ has officially become a word. The definition in English is ‘a hypocritical pretender to piety’. This essay will examine Moliere’s…

William Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a satire that mocks love. Mock, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, means “to laugh at or make fun of (someone or something) especially by copying an action or a way of behaving or speaking”(n.pag). Shakespeare does just that themes pertaining to love. He mocks love poems, relationships, and the happily ever after ending that is so common in love stories. Poems are a typical tool used by men when they are trying to woo a woman.…

The character of bottom that is played in this story is a very well thought out person to be put into the play for his seriousness and his ability for his humorous thoughts, opinions, and actions. Little do we know but during this time period this was hard to come by, especially from the working class in Athenian men.From one point is the story or play as you may call, Bottom is a very serious person to be around and to ever try to be in an argument with because he will tell you what he is…

Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” is a very interesting story. It is about a girl who dresses like a guy, who falls inlove with a guy, who loves the girl who loves her. Act two Scene four The duke (Orsino) is telling Cesario (Viola) that he can tell hes inlove with a young woman named Olivia. Cersario is trying to change Orsinos mind about it I saw two different short clips of this video, similar in content, but almost completely different. Each video had its own techniques, and feeling. The first…

Measure for Measure is considered a comedy, which is sometimes misleading. Some critics consider the play as being the "dark" element of comedy for its bitterness and cynicism. The play certainly raises important moral issues in its detailed descriptions of Christianity. Measure for Measure can also be called a problem play, because it brings up a difficulty and then seeks to solve it. However, the difficulty lays in misunderstandings and hidden identities as it the moral question of the play.…

The stance that Alain de Botton took in his 2004 book, Stress Anxiety correctly addressed the goal of humorists and their effect on society. He states that humor is used, “ to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly.” In other words, humor used as a means to address the elephant in the room without fear of repercussion. Effective humorists have the ability to prompt or sway a person’s opinion in a way that a politician's speech simply can not. If a…

different ages such as a toddler to a young child to an elderly lady, the consumer could assume that the actors are related. Doritos is saying that people of all ages can enjoy Doritos. The company makes the buyer think that because for one they use comedy, they get them engaged and interested. They will draw in the customer’s attention and make sure the consumers will watch and remember their commercial so when the buyer is at the grocery store and they pass by the chip aisle. If the commercial…

This is seemingly natural to humankind. Social unity derives from prank videos because the victims lack control, “but when comedy and malice are linked, it’s possible that re-articulations of social power through humiliation serve to represent and share complex emotions through online circulation . . .” (Hobbs & Grafe, 2015, para. 13). Prank videos are popular because the subjects…

In today’s society we are introduced to many problems that are always put to the side and is never taken care of because people are so in denial and don’t want to face the truth. In the simpsons intro the writer uses satire( the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues) to explore the flaws of society through his made up fictional characters. Some issues that I…

In Scott Adam’s short story talks about the humor in writing. He explains the humor with comic cartooning and writing but tells true events, which put him (the writer) in a risk. With many examples and on how humor works. In the creation of Dilbert, he mocked a company he used to work for, afterword the manger told him to leave because of budgets. It’s a well to a humorous subject because of the explanation how humor can be brought into writing. Adam’s humor involves regarding the Wall Street…