Situation comedy

up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.” In comedy, the only characteristic shared between comedies is their want to make people laugh, and it can be difficult to pull off such a seemingly simple task. As defined by the New Oxford American Dictionary, Category: A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics. Comedy itself falls into a category as a class of things regarded as having a particular shared…

My favorite television show of all time is definitely the series aired on NBC The Office. The Office is an American comedy series adapted from a United Kingdom version that aired for a two short years. The television series has a unique mockumentary style applied to it to mock a serious documentary series in order to satirize the subject meant to cover. The Office is found humorous to the average person because the character’s workday consists of ego clashes and inappropriate behavior. I believe…

Cyrano de Bergerac is a tragic comedy, a play which is light and humorous and is composed of jokes and humorous performance. In this play, Cyrano continuously makes the audience laugh by making jokes about his own physical appearance. This play comes very close to being a tragedy, a work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw. In this play Cyrano suffers the consequence of a tragic flaw, when he talks with Roxanne…

Comedy is seen and enjoyed by many all around the world, claiming its place as a staple of human culture. Comedy has but one rule: it must be funny. Other than this, humorists can take any and all liberties to fundamentally change the affect of their art; resulting in a wide array of comedic styles. The “comedy” umbrella somehow shelters the slapstick fun of Laurel and Hardy, the deadpan observations of Steven Wright and the surrealism of Monty Python. These comedians, along with all of their…

Laughter is a phenomenon in which the reasoning behind it remains unknown. However, laughter, more specifically comedy, is a powerful weapon that can be used to impact and control society. In particular, when authority is tyrannical the best response is simply ridiculing them by the use of humor. A dehumanizing effect which not only weakens authority’s power, but gives the power back to the people in return. The Shmeed Memoirs, a satirical piece from the point of view of Hitler’s barber, and…

comic strip, the TV situation comedy, and burlesque (in the American sense) have been to the twentieth century, the Commedia dell'Arte was to the Renaissance" (Oreglia). Commedia dell'arte which translates to "comedy of arts," was the first professional form of theatrical art. This distinctive form of art first begun in Italy during the early fifteenth century, and thrived with popularity throughout Europe, during the seventeenth century. Commedia dell'arte was termed the comedy of arts because…

there to convey messages that are too dangerous to state directly. Humorists, like ones on Saturday Night Live and in movies, use comedy and jokes to bring about difficult messages. Saturday Night Live (SNL) often uses satirical skits to convey a deeper message. SNL takes events that have recently occurred and turns them into comedies that address the ongoing situations that occur throughout the country. For example, Kate McKinnon plays Hillary Clinton, while Alec Baldwin plays…

The spelling of humor, what ‘chips’ are, the … are among many off the issues Americans and the British are unable to agree on, but one debate that seems to be never ending is the argument over the British and American versions of the hit comedy, “The Office”. This debacle has led to further investigation into the comedic styles of “The Office” and how they feature the difference in the approaches to life and sense of humor the Americans and British have, along with the reasoning behind their…

One of the other optical illusions that a comedy film-maker could take advantage of is foreshortening. Since the brain assumes something that something such as the end of a pencil is actually a full pencil with the rest of its length behind it, the mind creates the illusion that the object recedes into the background in its full length rather than being as short as the eyes actually see it. Film-makers could use this to create a situation where once again both the main character and the audience…

Comedy movies are more than just light entertainment on a Saturday afternoon – or a great option for a date night! The funniest movies tend to live on even after the credits have rolled out. They provide us with earworms, quotes we share in funny situations and moves we recreate with our friends. They are even our comfort blankets when times get tough and we need a smile. Comedy is also quite a hard art to master. Whilst there are tons of examples of the times when the jokes just don’t work, we…