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  • Comedy Gold: Scenes From SF Sketchfest

    wired.com 3 weeks, 3 days ago

    Certified stars mingle with up-and-coming laughmakers at the annual San Francisco comedy festival. SF Sketchfest founders share some of their favorite pictures, featuring big-name comics both onstage and behind the scenes, from years past.

  • Jason Bateman And Melissa McCarthy Team Up For New Comedy Flick!

    perezhilton.com 3 weeks, 3 days ago

    With these two involved, we'd be pret-ty surprised if this movie isn't REALLY funny! We've just learned Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon is teaming up with actors Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy for his new comedy flick Identity Theft . As far as story is concerned, the premise revolves around a guy (Jason) whose identity is stolen by a woman (Melissa). Apparently, it was originally going to be two guys, but Jason was SO impressed with Melissa's Bridesmaids performance, that he pushed for her to get

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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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