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theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which engender dramatic irony
, which provokes laughter.

Satire and political satire use comedy to portray people or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of their humor. Parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them.

Other forms of comedy include

scatological humor, sexual humor, and race humor create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, which can often be taken as offensive by the subjects of said joke. A comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society (usually upper-class society) and uses humor to parody or satirize the behavior and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a popular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love. (Full article...
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Ernest Hemingway
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
repertory companies, schools and community theatre groups. Lines from these works have permanently entered the English language, including "short, sharp shock", "What never? Well, hardly ever!", and "let the punishment fit the crime". Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
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Terms: Black comedy • Comedian • Comedy club • Comedy of manners • Convention (norm) • Irony • Komos • Parody • Political satire •

Race humor
• Restoration comedy • Satire • Screwball comedy • Surreal humour • Taboo •
Toilet humor

Comedy genres
: Bouffon • Comedy film •
Anarchic comedy film
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Gross-out film
• Parody film •
Romantic comedy film
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Screwball comedy film
• Slapstick film • Comic novel •
Dramedy
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Improvisational comedy
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Musical comedy
• Stand-up comedy • Alternative comedy • Impressionist (entertainment) •
One-liner joke
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Comedy genres
• Sketch comedy • Television comedy • Radio comedy •
Situation comedy
• Tragicomedy

History of theatre: Ancient Greek comedy •

Ancient Roman comedy
• Burlesque •
Citizen comedy
• Clown • Comedy of humours • Comedy of manners • Comedy of menace • Comédie larmoyante • Commedia dell'arte • Face • Jester • Restoration comedy • Shakespearean comedy •
Surrealist
• Theatre of the absurd

Comedy events and awards:

British Comedy Awards
• Canadian Comedy Awards • Cat Laughs Comedy Festival • Edinburgh Festival Fringe •
Just for laughs
• Halloween Howls Comedy Festival • Melbourne International Comedy Festival • New York Underground Comedy Festival

Lists: List of comedians • List of British comedians • List of Canadian comedians • List of Finnish comedians •

List of German language comedians
• List of Italian comedians • List of Mexican comedians • List of Puerto Rican comedians • List of Indian comedians •
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