Category: Comedy

Comedy is one of the oldest sorts of drama. Comedy highlights that human beings are ridiculous and can not change. Comedies, therefore, regularly confirm our view of the world. Comedy dates again to the technology of silent film in 1895 when it first started to be established in television programs. With the absence of dialogue…

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…

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan follows the journey of a fourteen year old boy into manhood. The book is set during the WWII era in Ithaca, California. Homer Macauley, the narrator, has to take upon adult responsibilities and provide for his whole family after his older brother leaves for war and his father passes…

The American comedy musical film Singing in the Rain starring Eugene Curran Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald OConnor, and Jean Hagen, and directed by Debbie Reynolds and Stanley Donen. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood and its transition from silent films to talking films. Throughout the movie, you can see many various elements that make…

Much Ado About Nothing, a Shakespearean play, is a comedy that relates the stories of two couples as they navigate their love lives in sixteenth-century Italy. In the play, we learn of the love story of Claudio and Hero as well as the love story of Beatrice and Benedick. Though classified as a comedy, a…