Comedy of menace

Nestruck effectively employs humour in his essay “The importance of email punctuation”. His essay shows how each type of punctuation can carry a connotation of either seriousness or cordiality. Unfortunately for Nestruck, it is the former that has caught his attention while reading an email sent to him from a coworker whom he has feelings for. Using hyperbole and metaphors such as “And as she recedes into the distance, I will be left standing there like an ellipsis. Two little bulletholes…

I bought to the table a comedy that plays with the traditional aspects of theater including breaking the fourth wall by audience participation. Another participant brought a comedy about the educational relationship between teachers and students, which would be relatable to the audience. The third person brought a radical and unbelievable comedy about buying a car and it all going wrong. None of these ideas resonated with us and we decided…

She’s The Man, or shall i say “the original love triangle”, is a teenage film adaptation of William shakespeare's Twelfth Night which was written in 1601. The film was a good comedic version of shakespeare’s work, one scene that stands out is when Viola juggles between being herself and Sebastian at the carnival. For example, when she has to change in various places throughout the carnival provides serious comedic relief and shows how hard it really is to be two people. This entire scene reveals…

The show was a continuation of acts from dawn to dusk. A “model” bill might include approximately eight acts that had a variety of performers. It was usually set up so as to increase spectator pleasure at the start, followed by a filler and this would keep going until the final act which was usually a “chaser” act used to help run patrons out of the revolving show (D. 86-88). The variety of acts ranged from: (MC) Master of Ceremonies (invented in Vaudeville), comics, magicians, shadowgraphs,…

use of humor and the female body to entertain their audiences. It showed cladly dressed women dancing to songs rewritten with a comedic twist while revealing what was underneath their clothes and flirted with the audience. ‘it involved transgressive comedy and songs, but the primary attraction of burlesque was sex . . in the form of ribald humor and immodestly dressed women.’ (Kenrick, n.d.). Burlesque performers sort to pick holes in the way society saw life, to do this they looked at high…

The America’s Got Talent judges have a tough job. Mel B. Heidi Klum, Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel definitely are responding in real time to the acts on stage. On Tuesday night the live shows reveal unique moments on stage to the judges at the same time as the TV viewers. When it comes to TV magic, the judges reactions are priceless. The squirm in your judging panel chair moments are live, when the cameras show the intense facial expressions, the viewers can’t help but laugh. Mel B has some of…

Don Quixote a novel written by Miguel Cervantes is about a man, Don Quixote, who goes on a "noble" quest to make the world a better place. While displaying his knight errantry and having others recognize Lady Dulcinea's beauty, Quixote "conquers, defeats, and brings peace" to the land. Since there has to be other characters than Quixote, one to mention is Sancho Panza. Sancho is Quixote's "faithful squire",as he calls him, he travels alongside Quixote and supports him on this journey because of…

Shakespeare, a man who could weave humor into a tragic play, contrasts the somber events of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In Act 1, Shakespeare uses Lord Capulet, Montague's servants, and Juliet's nurse to show that there is humor, which impacts the meaning and tone of the play. Indeed, anybody could tell you that the play "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy. Although, Lord Capulet, Juliet's father, makes awfully comical jokes during the masquerade in Act 1. Lord Capulet jokes that if the…

Keeping The Faith To The Screwball Genre? The screwball comedy genre was first popularized in the 1930s and considered one of the most successful genres. The genre typically follows two characters, one of which is a screwball and the other is a more serious character. The genre also involves a romance between two characters. The relationship is defined by the women being in a position of control and usually involved some sort of pretending or a lie. The actors are often fast talking and witty.…

The Iranian Revolution may not seem like the ideal situation for humour to be applied, but humour is seen often in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis; a book retelling Satrapi’s childhood during the revolution. Although her story is littered with the tragedy and brutality of oppression and war, the horrors she experienced are often combined with funny moments that seem impossible in her situation. The premise of humour may seem out of place in a graphic novel about a terrible time, the…