Category: Comedy

Intro Comedy is a play, movie or any other form of entertainment that can make you laugh. Absurd comedy is comedy that goes beyond the realm of believability. Absurd comedy is purely illogical and completely senseless. An example would be singing a really cheery song before an execution or perhaps your own death. The absurdity…

Horror and Comedy are complete opposites, yet they seem to work rather well together. The genre of horror-comedy was first introduced into film in 1922, with D.W. Griffiths One Exciting Night. And since then, countless comedy horror films have been made. The thing is, both horror and comedy are two genres with huge varieties within…

Comedy is an underrated part of our lives. One often needs a bit of comedy just to get through the day. One tries to find this comedy in the form of the movies one watches, the things one observes and even the people one chooses to befriend. When we meet someone who appreciates our sense…

Have you ever been blindsided by others? Or manipulated into going against your own personal beliefs? Well, Good morning to the English Teachers Association. Now Shakespeare has been named one of the best poets, playwrights and actor of his time by multiple people like John Dryden: He was the man who of all modern, are…

In Endgame, Samuel Beckett explores the dark absurdity of the human condition through the undynamic, loveless relationships between each of the four characters, primarily Clov and Hamm. Tension is maintained throughout the play through the constant suggestion that Clov will abandon Hamm, however the fact that this never happens highlights the repetitive nature of their…

The first tempo Hamlet utter, he smack concerning Claudius A contracted more than kindred and less than gracious (1.2.65). The passage also reveals that Laertes’ lifestyle isn’t as pure as he would Saturn others to trust and that Ophelia is largely informed of this. Comedy is, the ground from which, or against which, buskin evolve.…

This essay will argue how the combination of both comedy and horror genres have been successfully merged. It will also demonstrate how merging these genres has helped make the movie franchise Scream (1996) by Wes Craven a success. Success, for the purpose of this essay, will be measured by how comedy is used within the…

Everyone has various expression forms in their hearts, but the maximum common form is laughter. It facilitates us to relieve pressure and make us feel better about ourselves. Comedy movies play a very important role in helping us laugh. Today’s movies have numerous forms. Despite recent action tendencies and horror films, comedy films were always…

Black comedy or dark humour is the kind of comedy that presents serious things in a rather light manner. The lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin Mcdonagh and The Shape of Things by Neil Labute focus on the use of black comedy to evoke laughter and aim to manipulate the audience during the serious subject matters,…

Comedy and its implications for society have been discussed throughout history by philosophers the world over due to the universal nature of comedy and humour. The topic of comedy was even discussed by ancient philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Epictetus all the way to the modern day. The theories as to why we find particular things…