Comedy of manners

How many friends should a person have? Well, a person should watch and see his or her friends and put them in a category where they belong. First, there are friends that are honest friends. Secondly, there are friends that are serious friends. Third, there are friends that are witty friends. These are the three most common types of friends a person can have. Although some people adore their friends, there are categories that define those kinds of friends such as honest, serious, and witty.…

many have gone through a tough breakup and have done completely senseless things to get he or she back. Witnessing someone, especially a friend, make a fool of themselves unknowingly is almost impossible not to laugh at. Furthermore, in the stand-up comedy film Laugh At My Pain, Kevin Hart, a short African American comedian, talks about his embarrassing yet humorous life stories about growing up in Philadelphia. He is a comedic genius. During the film, Kevin Hart tells the story of when his…

Reflections of 2016 – It’s Been A Grand Year It 's been our pleasure of introducing to the Villages community to the talented, the brave, those generous and adventurous, supportive and sharing and maybe most important, those in love and with humor. It 's been a rich year to have those conversations that have persuaded interest and inspired service to other and ourselves. Our introduction of the Villages Scarlet Sirens in February, modeled after the one of the world 's largest women 's social…

Well respected playwrights, actors, and artists presented their works during this time not only before Dionysus, but judges, as well. These judges would award prizes such as best actor in comedy or best actor in tragedy. These two types of theatre have continued to influence playwrights to this very day. A comedy is a humorous, communal, and somewhat sexual play that usually ends in a marriage. A tragedy is a sad, male-dominated, and heroic play that focuses on individuality and vengeance…

Going into this event I didn’t expect much. I had never heard of Manuel Munoz and honestly didn’t care for him. Brutal as that sound, I actually came to like him. He was a funny man whom had an interesting childhood and life story. He also had a sense of humor in his stories so I actually enjoyed his event. Not to mention it was only 45 minutes! Sweet! So first I’d like to start with the physical set up of the room which held the event. It was great, cozy, and well lit. The seats were all well…

A Midsummer’s Nightmare Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests that its relationships are happy ones, but this suggestion is complicated. In fact, the interplay between each of the couples indicates a nefarious quality present in all these relationships. This sinister quality can become even undeniably present in productions of this play. Brown writes that while scholars cannot consider any performance to be an authoritative adaptation, every performance brings interpretative…

Languages in Julius Caesar, is unique because many of the dialogues spoken by the high-class citizens are not written in a typical Shakespearean rhymed iambic pentameter; they are mostly written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. For example, in the long conversation between Brutus and Caesar about Calpurina’s dream, notice the rhyme pattern, “This dream is all amissed interpreted;/It was a vision fair and fortunate:/Your statue spouting blood in many pipes./In which so many smiling Romans bathed,”…

Albee choice to make Martin’s mistress a goat is a disturbing yet effective way to portray the message of human sexuality and desire. The first couple times Martin speaks about Sylvia the goat, the audience and characters see it as a joke. There are many moments of laughter in the audience. When Martin’s friend, Ross, writes a letter to Martin’s wife, Stevie, exposing Martin’s infidelity, laughter soon turns into shock and disgust. Before the climax reading of the letter, the walls of the room…

Comedy is an artform that puts a monetary value on our elation and delight. It is often easy to forget that art must run as a business and comedy is no exception. In our viewing of, Phunny Business, our instructor encouraged us to look closely at how Raymond Lambert ran his comedy club. In the brave new world of stand-up, it would be tough to run a club of this nature. Moreover, it would be even harder if that club caters to a predominantly African-American crowd. In this paper, I will argue…

The most prominent theme in the Catcher in the Rye from the very beginning is the idea of alienation and Holden’s use of humor to mask it. Right from the first page the reader is introduced to Holden with little prelude. This lack of introduction of who Holden is a person and the way that he uses humor and avoidance as a mask. The ironic thing is that his alienation is the thing that is causing his pain because of the way he ignores his own issues. Some of the things that Holden uses avoidance…