The Comedy ClubThe Comedy Club was a presentation by Steve Kent in which it dealt with comedy as a mean of medicine. He called it the medicine of the soul. Researches suggest that comedy raises the immune's level of T cells. This in its self is a scientific phenomenon in which research is being gat...

comedyA world without comedy would be similar to a butter knife, it's dull, useless, and achieves very little. The world would be littered with rude, arrogant, obnoxious people creating an anti-utopia. Comedy keep the world in motion, it allows people to shrug off rude comments, laugh at one anoth...

A Comedy? To the reader, The Merchant of Venice, may seem horrible and it be impossible to find the "comedy" at all. Perhaps, Shakespeare may have been simply trying to make people laugh at the appalling injustice we cause one another because of the small differences among us. Or...

Professor Jim Gray of Sonoma State University defines culture as a means of survival. Going by this definition of culture the evolution of black humor has definitely been a foundation in the survival of the comedy in America. This paper will be a discussion of how African American Humor has evolve...

The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare, is strictly an attempt at comedy. There are small traces of a theme of love, but the elements of comedy so overpower the elements of love that The Comedy of Errors is no more than brilliant Shakespearean humor. The plot of The Comedy of Errors is based...

Romantic Comedies Most women are hopeless romantics, it's just that some do a much better job at hiding it than others. I'm sure that everyone has known someone in their lifetime who complains constantly about their significant other and simply wishes to find the perfect guy/girl. But ...

Although Othello is a tragic play in nature, Shakespeare's subtle use of comedy in the play's various scenes adds effect to its overall tragic downfall. In a standard comic play, one would expect a story of love and courtship with some deceptive twist of plot, all worked out to a happy en...

The Comedy of ErrorsThere are several themes that Shakespeare uses which are only loosely related to the actual comedy. The conflicts between bondage and liberty, law and sympathy, death and rebirth all form a very serious undertone within the play. There is also the serious effect of time. Shakespe...

The Importance of Being Earnest is funny, but is it a comedy? If so, what type of comedy? The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy, and this essay will show it through the definition of comedy, the definition of farce, and the different areas of comedy. To be considered a comedy, there ...

The Change of Character in ComediesIn a comedy, one of the key goals of a playwright is to thoroughly portray character as a sort of mirror to the audience. This is in hopes that they will learn from the characters and have a good time doing so. Shakespeare does this by showing "the ugly and the r...

The Change of Character in ComediesIn a comedy, one of the key goals of a playwright is to thoroughly portray character as a sort of mirror to the audience. This is in hopes that they will learn from the characters and have a good time doing so. Shakespeare does this by showing "the ugly and the r...

Divine ComedyDante's Divine Comedy is a moral comedy that is designed to makethe readersthink about their own morals. The poem could have been used almost as aguide for whatand what not to do to get into Heaven for the medieval people. Dantetakes the reader ona journey through the "afterlife" to i...

Comedy is a social activity that services social conflict and social control. It has the ability to unify or disintegrate social groups. It can release tensions, anxieties and provide a non-violent outlet for dissent. No single theory can explain what humor is or how it works. Comedians are privileg...

Comedy and tragedy in Antigone and Lysistrata Horace Warpole wrote "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who think, a comedy to those who feel." This quote holds much truth behind its meaning. It can also be translated to mean that comedy evokes thought we...

William Shakespeare\'s play \"A Midsummer Night\'s Dream\" is a classic fairytale of lovers and betrayers. This play has been called Shakespeare\'s \"happiest comedy,\" and it most definitely is, as it is full of raucous humor and non-stop action. There are many different qualities of a \'happy play...

This movie is about two policemen who are constantly getting into trouble with their captain. Their captain soon puts them together as partners and they team up to ruin many opportunities for themselves trying to capture criminals and making fools of themselves. Things get tense between them and th...

FM2005 - British Film and TV Assignment 2Laura ToddWhy has vulgar comedy been critically undervalued and what is its importance to British Film and TV?The British sex film has often been blamed for 'a tidal wave of filth' (McGillivray, p.15, 1992) within the British film industry, whilst simulta...

How comedy has changed in film:-a comparison of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to Scary Movie 3 (2003)These two comedies have been very successful in there time. They have attracted innumerable crowds of fans and have pleased many with the absurdist comedy style. Even though there is 28 year...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a classic fairy tale of lovers and betrayers. This play has been called Shakespeare's "happiest comedy" and it most definitely is. It is filled with humor and non-stop action. There are many different qualities in a 'happy play' that are clearly noticeable. For examp...

The play written by William Shakespeare of Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy containing one main element that makes the play a comedy; it is the element of sex. This is a play that involves an elaborate chain of schemes, tricks, and deceit to achieve an ambiguous "true love" effect. The play is bas...

In Dante\'s \"The Divine Comedy,\" the reported direct speeches of particular characters – namely Francesca, Ulysses, and Count Ugolino – reflect important connections between Dante\'s work and the characters\' deeds. Francesca\'s romantic speech of courtly love, Ulysses\' rhetorical words, and ...

A Long Lasting Comedy In today's world we are all exposed to comedy. We see comedy in a variety of ways. These ways include: movies, plays, situational comedies on television, and stand up comedians. However, there is something very different about the typical comedy today compared to ...

Shakespeare. The very name conjures up imagery of the theater, drama, romance and the stage. He is arguably the most famous writer of comedic, tragic, and historical plays in all of history; with a playwright of this caliber one could rightfully say that he knew how to write a play that fit any clas...

One of my favorite comedy films is Dumb and Dumber. The movie is about a limo driver and his best friend, driving across the country to return a briefcase to a woman who had left it behind at the airport. And while driving along, run into and cause many outrageous mishaps. Many theories are pres...

Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, PurgatoryDante's The Divine Comedy section of Purgatory is a depiction of Dante and his struggle to reach paradise. He is a character as well as a narrator. The purgatory section deals with the seven deadly sins and Dante's task of cleansing himself on his jour...