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Comedy

1 ________ and political satire use ironic comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of humor.

2 Commedia dell'arte, as practiced in the twentieth-century by ________, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Jacques Copeau

3 Comedy of intrigue, as practiced by Niccolò Machiavelli and ________

4 Farce, from Georges Feydeau to Joe Orton and ________

5 ________, as practiced by Aristophanes and Menander

6 [4] ________, in his Poetics, states that comedy originated in Phallic songs and the light treatment of the otherwise base and ugly.

7 Comedy is one of the original four genres of literature as defined by the philosopher ________ in his work called Poetics.

8 It has also been held that the feeling of superiority is an essential, if not the essential, factor: thus ________ speaks of laughter as a "sudden glory".

9 Citizen comedy, as practiced by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton and ________

10 ________, from Music hall and Vaudeville to Performance art

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after the cult comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000 was cancelled, the writing staff created an animated comedy/fantasy miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel website called Edward the Less?
  • despite $170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
  • the Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman?
  • a Balzac comedy was inspired by an academic squabble over the claim that Spaniard Blasco de Garay built the first steam powered ship in 1543?
  • The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, a western variety and comedy series, was cancelled by ABC in 1962 after 13 weeks?
  • Edward Laurillard produced musical comedies in London and New York in the early 20th century, in partnership with George Grossmith, Jr.?
  • Newman and Baddiel in Pieces was the final show on which the comic partnership of Robert Newman and David Baddiel worked together before going their separate ways?
  • Ensign O'Toole, a 1962–1963 NBC military comedy series starring Dean Jones, was filmed aboard the USS Frank E. Evans, which was thereafter destroyed following a collision?
  • CBS's Harts of the West featured Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, in a comedy/western set at the fictitious Flying Tumbleweed Dude Ranch in Nevada?
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