Slapstick

Throughout this scene, there is a lot of situational irony as well as physical/slapstick humour which is exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries. When these two techniques are intertwined throughout the scene, it creates a hilariously captivating effect (00:17:53). The start of the scene is full of witty comments between…

Leah E Waters November 22, 2015 JOUR 5260 The Construction of Gender-Based Humor in American Sitcoms When Gershon Legman first made the claim that women were the “last oppressed group” to demand equality for their inferior gender, he did so without the hindsight of decades of success of female comedians from Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore to Tina Fey and Amy Schumer (1968). As he wrote in his dirty joke handbook, female genitalia and all the constructs of gender were holding us back: “Women…

first comedy programme along with his long time business partner, comedian Vic Reeves in 1986. Mortimer’s comedy combines surreal, visually and verbally inventive material with traditional comedy including various acts such as violence, cartoonish slapsticks and often improvised banters and purposefully corny and cheesy jokes. He is widely known for his rapid fire jokes which are sometimes hard to get. He was signed in the animated series ‘Popetown’ due to the versatility of his voice which…

art style that is highly stylized and non-representational. The cartoon mode art style, also known as caricature, is a style that greatly exaggerates a part of a person’s body or features. Cartoon mode art style is normally used in comics where slapstick comedy, a style that involves exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the normal physical boundaries, and verbal humor (Witek, Smith, and Duncan).…

The Comedic Nature of Lysistrata On the year 411 BC, Aristophanes wrote the comedic play Lysistrata, the first anti-war play in the world. Comedy takes various forms, and the purpose of this essay is to analyze the comedic elements used in Lysistrata to determine whether it is a farce or a satire. Why is this important? Michael Moses, the president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics said: “The key to adjusting the relative strengths and weakness of a particular work was for the…

Throughout the 1860s to early 1900s, forms of entertainment were created and enjoyed by many of the world. These forms of entertainment could be musicals, variety shows, musical comedies, and so on, and these shows could reflect the society during that period of time. Observations about a society’s culture can be drawn from many sources such as Burlesque and Vaudeville. These two forms of variety shows emerged in American within twenty years of each other, but it had vastly different…

Although Signature Theatre has not yet produced Guys and Dolls, it is one that their company could undoubtedly do in the future. The theatre certainly has the capabilities and facilities necessary to produce a high quality version of this musical. However, this fact, although relevant is not the most important factor in deciding whether or not they would choose to produce the show. The theatre must also have a desire to pick this specific musical out of the hundreds of other choices that exist.…

he did not give up and simultaneously tamed her. He did not care whatsoever about how she treated him then because of the dowry. Therefore, when he married, he started to tame her. According to Philip T. Hartung, he says, “Zeffirelli overdoes the slapstick as Burton’s determined Petruchio chases Taylor’s bad-tempered Katharina” (19). This is true of the film because of the time when Kate got a frying pan and hit Petruchio like Joseph Stalin. In the film, Kate had power, as one can see from that…

because of animal welfare issues. Cirque du Soleil’s main actions taken in enhancing the circus experience include the following: it has redesigned the tent to be more comfortable for the audience; the clowns have a more urbane style than conventional slapstick form of humor; Cirque added theater elements such as music and lightning effects to the shows; the shows are produced around stories lines; and the company has a portfolio of different shows. Thanks to all these actions, Cirque has…

The Screwball Comedy Journey Screwball comedy movies crazy, zany, rapid fire dialogue movies. This type of comedy usually centered around a couple (male and female) in which the female dominates and humiliates the male character. A combination of slapstick comedy, battle of the sexes love story, and someone being wronged. The films usually had sexual undertone. Of screwball comedy era I will provide a brief history of screwball comedy films and compare two movies of the top ten movies of that…