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  • Video: Comedy Writer Rewrites The Constitution

    cbs.com 4 hours, 17 minutes ago

    Kevin Bleyer is one of the Emmy award-winning writers on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." He spoke with Gayle King, Charlie Rose, and Erica Hill about his new book, "Me, the People," in which he rewrites the Constitution.

  • A Funny, Raunchy Norwegian Comedy About Adolescent Girls

    miamiherald.com 2 hours, 23 minutes ago

    When we first meet Alma (Helene Bergsholm), the 15-year-old heroine of "Turn Me On, Dammit!," she's masturbating on her kitchen floor with the help of a phone-sex operator. In an American Pie movie, the character would have been Jason Biggs in his bedroom, with the help of the Internet (or some baked goods). But because Alma is a girl, and she seems to be enjoying herself so much, the scene seems a bit ... outre. The entire movie is like that - cheerfully scandalous and daring, without ever being truly expl

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  • Wounded Warriors comedy

    Wounded Warriors comedy

  • GOOD DAY BAD DAY ~ 5-25

    GOOD DAY BAD DAY ~ 5-25

  • Chris Kattan in Utah

    Chris Kattan in Utah

  • Bridge Street: ABC's upcoming comedies 5-25-12

    Bridge Street: ABC's upcoming comedies 5-25-12

  • Comedian Brad Williams on THRS

    Comedian Brad Williams on THRS

  • Dev Patel in,

    Dev Patel in, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"

  • "Men in Black 3"'s Emma Thompson

  • ABC-7 At Noon 05.24: El Paso Playhouse

    ABC-7 At Noon 05.24: El Paso Playhouse

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Comedy, as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old", but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation. A later view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.

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