Situation comedy

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…

and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise: If the redress will follow, thou receivest/ Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus.” (53). Brutus is a clear example of a blind hero; he believes that he has brought back justice but he neither knows what situation he got himself into nor the consequences from his actions. At last, his credulousness results himself nobly committing suicide by running into a sword due to overwhelming sense of guilt of murdering his buddy. Nonetheless, Brutus’s death does…

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…

avoidance and humor to mask are his naivety, emotions, and fear. Holden is a young adult who is struggling through coming of age. In this stage of life it is understandable that Holden is a bit confused and unaware of himself. His naivety in social situations is highlighted in his time spent in New York as he tries to make contact with older women “they started giggling like morons,” which shows that although he seems suave in his own mind in reality he might not see as old as he sees himself.…

Based on this theory, humor is used to generate a feeling of superiority over the target or butt of the joke whereby the butt loses face; therefore, it could contain disparagement and hostility. This view of humor is believed to be developed by Plato and Aristotle at the beginning (Reimann, 2010; Kochersberger, 2012). Since, Aristotle and Plato admitted that people got pleasure from others' misfortunes, inadequacies, and incapacities, because they were not suffering the same problems; in other…

Many plays have content that is arguably political and often plays that seem the farthest from politics have elements that some viewers see as a statement of political opinion. Political plays often do not deal directly with political officials but with current events and political standpoints regarding those issues. Both Rent and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist deal with issues current at the time of their creation and though focused on different issues they use very similar tactics like…

Satire is a form of writing that makes use of humor, irony, and exaggeration to criticize a group of people’s views about a certain topic that is going on in the world. Satire has been around for a long time, but it has kept the same general aspects throughout all of time. Even with the 2,000 year-gap and differences in writing techniques and technology between “The Acharnians” and Stephen Colbert’s “The Word: Armistice,” both works utilize satire and have a very similar way of presenting it to…