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    Throughout history, writers have used humor and satire to address quite serious political and social concerns. Understanding how satire and other humorous devices function are essential to fully comprehending these writers’ aims and determining whether their works successfully accomplish their goals. satire is the literary form or technique in which a writer employs humor or irony to criticize people’s foolishness, vices, or other shortcomings. Satire may be brutal and scathing or gentle and…

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    Shaun Of The Dead

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    opening sequence can set up the main characters, the location of the film, time period in which the film is taking place, or it may simply just be a place for credits to go. The opening scene also does a lot in setting up some of the films themes. Comedies for example may start off by a main character telling a joke, or being put in a humorous situation. This gets the audience (hopefully) laughing, and sets the tone for the rest of the film. However an opening scene can do a lot more than just…

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    Humor In Homer's Raunchy

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    A sexually uptight TV host, who has never had an orgasm, embarks on a sexual odyssey to experience her first one, but her obsession jeopardizes her engagement. STORY COMMENTS FINDING HER O presents as a raunchy, romantic comedy with an organically funny premise with the idea of the protagonist going in search of her first orgasm. It’s a fun concept. It’s also refreshing to have a female protagonist drive the plot and, in addition, it nice to see a script that focuses on the sexual…

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    most loved comedians. His charming, cheerful personality have become a welcome sight on television screens throughout the country, and he is very much in demand amongst the British public when it comes to viewing live performers. Michael McIntyres Comedy Achievements Wikipedia'org states that since then he has taken part in numerous television shows including, Live at the Apollo, Mock of the Week, Have I Got News for You and 8 out of 10 Cats. He also performed live at the Royal Variety…

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    return as a movie and those who have loved it could rejoice knowing that those beach scenes and action are going to be relived. Comic Book published some spoilers about this movie and one of them is the fact that this project would be rated R for comedy. Another thing is that two popular actors were already confirmed to have signed for this movie and one of them is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who would take the role of Mitch Buchannon, whose character was made popular by David Hasselhoff. Zac…

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    Personal Narrative-Agona

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    The cold metal felt nice, my headache softly pounding behind my eyes almost in time with the steady engine of the zeppelin as it lit through the cloudy sky. We’d reach Agona soon and we knew that. An involuntary sigh left me at that, the quiet of my cell resonating the melancholy ache and looming fear that fact brought about in me. A rehabilitation camp, the place where people go and when they leave they aren’t people anymore. It was like an unspoken rule that everyone knew except me and laughed…

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    Slapstick comedy in films started around 1915 when the famous Keystone Cops silent movies were made. The silent era saw the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton who starred in some of the more memorable films such as “The Tramp” and “The General”. Slapstick comedy is an extreme form of comedy normally involving forms of physical acts by the actors, such as being poked in the eyes or pulling one around by his ears. In the 1930s slapstick was dominated by “The Three Stooges” and Laurel and…

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    Era Of Silent Films

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    to clowning had moved over and become big in the silent films. One such name that rose to the top during this era is Charlie Chaplin who took the world by storm with his slapstick comedy. During the Silent movie era, comedy was big and people loved it because it was slapstick comedy which is exaggerated physical comedy and sight gags. People liked watching this because they enjoyed seeing comedians pushing the boundaries such as jumping off moving trains or falling from moving cars and this was…

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    considered to differ all types of comedians. There is an ample amount of different qualifications for the various types of comedians. Everyone loves to enjoy a good laugh, but he or she probably does not realize that there are all kinds of different comedy genres. One of the many types of comedians can be classified as the physical comedian. The physical comedian has a form that uses various body gestures and also involves any physical movement. This type of comedian likes to clown around and…

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    The sandlot Have you ever heard of the sandlot ? This movie is a good movie. Because of the director David Evans. There was a new boy that moved into the town. His name was Scotty Smalls but they called him smalls.When they got on the baseball field Smalls was trying to prove his stuff but he had never learned how to play catch. So he failed everyone of them started to laugh. Except for one person Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez or Benny for short and that is how it all got started. Smalls…

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