Stand-up comedy

Who else in this world wouldn’t want to be happy and laughing? We all struggle hard to find something that cheer and laugh us so that we could feel alive. There might be many things that can help you feel alive and chill or make you laugh, but funny words and funny phrases have their magic which can turn any situation into a chill and laughable moment. And when it comes to words and phrases that make you laugh, there are no better words or phrases other than funny phrases. Funny Phrases and…

Much Ado About Nothing Background Although Shakespeare is known for his tragedies, his comedies exemplify his natural genius. As is the case with his other 38 plays, the plot of Much Ado About Nothing is also borrowed. Critics have noted two possible inspirations for this comic play. One is Matteo Bandello’s Novelle, dealing with the love story of Sir Timbreo and his fiancée Fenicia Lionata and the other one is Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso on the romance of Ariodante and Ginevra. Since,…

certain aspect of their life, with certain characters. Two of these popular sitcoms are “Friends”, and “How I Met Your Mother.” So popular were these shows that they went on for ten years producing a full season each year. Both sitcoms are romantic comedies, and on analyzing their theme, plot and characters reveal some similarities and differences with these elements…

Dario Fo has distinguished himself as being the trailblazer of the modern grotesque theatre as we know it today. His plays have been characterized by a comic touch that stands out reminding us of the farce style. He once said “With comedy I search for the profound”. His witty atmosphere is omnipresent in “Ma Fina nedfa3, ma Rah Nedfa3”, one of his plays that has been adapted in colloquial Lebanese by Lina el Abyad who also took the responsibility of directing. It has been recently performed in…

What gets your attention? Today there are so many different advertisements, they use anything and everything they can to persuade the audience to buy their product, but what grabs one’s attention when an advertisement comes on? A commercial with hamsters driving a little green car, a commercial with a sad looking puppy and a celebrity asking for donations. Or maybe a commercial about yogurt and the host is giving all the nutritional facts of why it is so good and healthy. What all of these…

As more and more people have realized the importance of role that humor plays in changing the society, people start to use humor as a tool to express their opinions and it turns out to be a very effective method because the possibility of people being convinced is higher than regular speeches. In the clip A Totally Real, 100% Valid Theory | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Samantha Bee uses humor to convince the audience the fact that Donald Trump can’t read. The use of theory of incongruence…

Ge Shen Dec 10,2017 ENGL1010 Sara Austin Pink Pop-Surrealism and Image Distortion Pop-surrealism is often viewed as 'lowbrow' art. It utilizes various subcultures, including “classic cartoons, 60's TV sitcoms...rock music, pulp art, soft porn, comic books, sci-fi [and]Japanese anime” (Essak 1), to comment upon or make fun of various socio-political issues or individuals. This art form is often “assigned circa 1994” (Essak 1), which is the year that prominent lowbrow artist Robert Williams…

1.“And I love light. Perhaps you’ll think it strange that an invisible man should need light” (page 6, chapter 1) The invisible utilizes a mocking and ironic tone to tell the audiences that he actually loves light as an invisible man. This “ironic” fact can be a foreshadow to the end of the story where the invisible man is ready to emerge from the underground and return to the lightness of the public world. Also, the invisible man’s obsession to light can indicate that he is never entirely…

By referencing things that they share in common, such as “Unlike Thoreau, I have cable” (Sartwell 14), it enables his audience to relate to his points and as a result, creates a sense of cohesiveness between the contrasting ideas that Sartwell brings up. The thought that “… if Thoreau were around today, he’d be pushing a cart through a Walmart…” (Sartwell 14) is absurd due to fact that he retreated to the woods in order to live deliberately. However, through the author’s witty tone the audience…

My Best Friend’s Wedding”, directed by P.J. Hogan (1997), is a great movie for the society due to its fantasy divulge, the music, impersonate and sabotage it illustrates which is so flawless. The movie My Best Friend's wedding, (Hogan,1997), a comedy, drama and a romantic movie, about…