Stand-up comedy

When it comes to comedy movies, what names pop to your head? Jim Carrey in Liar Liar (1997), Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun (1988), Will Ferrell in Anchorman (2004)? Or maybe if you have a more "sophisticated" taste, Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) or Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski (1998)? All of these Hollywood films are fun and memorable in their own way, but there is a younger lad coming from the moores of England who has altered the understanding of comedy in cinema. In this paper, I am…

Life without humor would be like the black and white television shows before color was introduced, dull and lifeless. It’s often used to invite a smile or laugh all whilst brightening up each day. Everyone has their own sense of humor. Some enjoy the slapstick humor of The Three Stooges while others enjoy the satirical humor of the show Family Guy. I find almost everything in life humorous, whether it be or paying off a ten dollar bet with a bag full of pennies, witnessing a friend walk face…

common practice for movie studios to greenlight sequels, even sequels to movies that few people particularly ask for. This is that grey area in Hollywood where box office success supersedes creativity - and as it pertains to Neighbors, which currently stands as Seth Rogen’s highest grossing film to date (live-action role, at least), it makes perfect sense for there to be a sequel. Right? The 2014 summer box office hit grossed $240 million against a miniscule $18 million production budget,…

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…

Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson is a 36 year old standup comedy writer and performer, she is also an actress and has been since 2009. She moved to hollywood in 2011 to have a more fulfilled career and before that she was training to get her actress degree. She was born in Australia,Sydney on march 2 1980 and has a family of 6 her mother Sue Bownds, Her father who is unidentified, and her 3 siblings Ryot Wilson, Liberty Wilson and Annachi Wilson. She has played in many rolls as an actor such as…

light-hearted and easy-to-brush off manner, often without facing dire consequences. However, not all humorists are interested in the same genre of comedy. Botton’s argument that humorists have a vital role in society as the disguisers of truth is qualified by various political cartoons…

Kevin Hart is a very famous comedian and was in many movies and had did many shows. He was born in 1979 in Philadelphia and was raised by a single mother with his older brother. His first stand up album was released in 2006 and was called ‘’I'm a Grown Little Man. Kevin Hart career did not go so well at first but it soon took off and made him very rich. When he first started performing , he did not do so well and even had chicken thrown at him. He tried to imitate famous…

The final scene of the play leaves the reader with the assumption that Olivia and Sebastian’s marriage stands as is, this in spite of the revelation that Sebastian isn’t Cesario. Shakespeare writes nothing of her feelings on the new revelations and whether or not she still remains in love with Cesario is left up in the air. This seems to imply interchangeability between the twins, as referenced by Antonio’s comparison to the apple halves (5.1.223) in direct…

Stand up comedy is a comic style that is performed in front of a live audience. Typically, the Comedian directly communicates their peculiar stories to an audience in efforts to make them laugh. Mike E. Winfield, a strikingly brilliant comedian/actor, has perfected the craft of making people laugh. His incongruous style depicted by his random punch lines and priceless facial expressions make his stage presence enticing and hilarious. In comparison to Shane Snow’s A Quest to Understand What Makes…

only makes a subject have humor, it creates a sense of feeling of relief that those subjects can be acceptable to talk about and at the same time raises awareness for that particular subject. Humorists do this through various comedy sketches, political cartoons, and stand-up shows. Satire is a lovely firestarter of sorts and a clever way to inform and challenge popular ideas. Humorist have been known to raise awareness to many diverse subjects. A very popular T.V. show, Saturday Night Live,…