City comedy, also known as citizen comedy, is a genre of comedy in the English early modern theatre. Our Scene is London, 'cause we would make known,...
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The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise. It is the oldest improvisational theater troupe to be continuously based in Chicago, with training...
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Alan Resnick organize an annual east coast skit comedy and stand up tour entitled, "The Wham City Comedy Tour". The tour was founded in 2010 by Dan Deacon...
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Mae Martin (redirect from Young and the Useless (comedy group))
in the Channel 4/Netflix comedy series Feel Good. They received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for their work...
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ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre. Some...
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Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes...
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sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of The Second City in Chicago...
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Theatre, Los Angeles Comedy Workshop, Houston Comix NY, Manhattan Dangerfield's, Manhattan Friars Club of Beverly Hills Holy City Zoo, San Francisco The...
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Jacobson met in New York City, where they both attended courses at the Upright Citizens Brigade and were part of a small improv comedy group, Secret Promise...
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The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia [diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around...
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John Belushi (category American comedy actors)
own comedy troupe with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas, called "The West Compass Trio". Bernard Sahlins recruited him for The Second City comedy club...
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example, deadpan comics often fall into observational comedy, or into black comedy or blue comedy to contrast the morbidity, or offensiveness of the joke...
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Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. In television, modern scripted...
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the City Taxi Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series...
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Martha Kelly (section Stand-up comedy)
surfaced on comedy stages in Austin, Texas, with HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival auditions in the fall of 1999, followed by winning Capital City Comedy Club's...
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and Costello, Cheech & Chong, the Second City, Kalabhavan, the Firesign Theatre, Monty Python, Blue Collar Comedy Tour, the Kids in the Hall, the Mighty...
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number of errors that were made throughout". Set in the Greek city of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who...
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for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless...
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artist, and filmmaker. He is a member of the Wham City arts collective and founding member of Wham City Comedy. Before working on Adult Swim, Resnick first...
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Sitcom (redirect from Situation Comedy)
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters which mostly carry over...
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The comedy of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits overriding traits or 'humours'...
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Tom Papa (section Stand-up comedy)
opened at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He has recorded five stand-up specials. Live in New York City and Freaked Out were directed by Rob...
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Pete Holmes (category American comedy writers)
career began in the New York City comedy scene. In the mid-2000s, he was making club appearances and took part in Comedy Central's Premium Blend, as a...
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Action comedy (often listed with a hyphen as action-comedy) is a genre that combines aspects of action and comedy. AllMovie describes action comedy films...
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Alia Janine (section Comedy career)
York City to pursue comedy full-time. She has trained at the Comedy Cellar in New York City, and at Gotham Comedy Club through the Manhattan Comedy School...
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produces the Jersey City Comedy Festival (formerly known as the 6th Borough Comedy Festival), which presents stand up, improv, and sketch comedy. Since 1992,...
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satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy. Old Comedy survives today largely...
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The Comedy Store is an American comedy club opened in April 1972. It is located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip...
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MTV Entertainment Studios (redirect from Comedy Partners)
with Paramount Network Television, debuted the NBC comedy Jenny, the UPN (then-sister of MTV) comedy Hitz, and the WB drama Three. None of these lasted...
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Asteroid City (styled as "Asteroid City") is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson, from a story he wrote with...
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