regime‚ Noah jokes he was born “a crime”‚ hence the so-called proactive theme of his upcoming tour‚ The Racist. In 2011‚ the legendary Eddie Izzard took Noah under his wing after spotting him performing at London’s Comedy Store. Izzard went onto producing Noah’s subsequent comedy stints at the Edinburgh Festival and London’s Soho Theatre last year‚ which saw all box office records broken. Quickly becoming a worldwide phenomenon‚ Noah is the first home-grown South African comic to debut on Jay Leno’s
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You simply The Taming of the Shrew relocated to high school? Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You is undoubtedly more complicated than a relocation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew into high school. The transformation of Shakespearean comedy into the ‘teen’ movie genre and the integration of Elizabethan values enable the film to be a successful relocation of the play‚ yet the incorporation of modern gender conventions discerns it as something more than a relocation. The culmination of
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The Club (1978)‚ written by David Williamson‚ is a satirical play that follows the fortunes and misfortunes of a football club over the course of the season. David Williamson cleverly integrates the realistic portrayal of characters and dialogue into the play in order to effectively provide the reader with an insight into the power and politics of sport and the commoditisation of players. The main themes in The Club that David Williamson communicates across to the reader are power and the concept
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only four members in the cast‚ Godber cleverly directs the performance to be comedic and easily understandable through the actors’ characterisation and clever use of lighting and set. The play takes you through a typical Friday night in town at a club called ‘asylum‚’ which creates a strong reference suggesting it is a place where all the ‘crazy’ people go. It begins with each of the four bouncers individually walking on stage with a solid posture as a Bouncer. Each one would then suddenly break
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Authenticity‚ Simulation and American Literature Prof. Dr. Jochen Achilles Winter Semester 2010/ 2011 “With enough soap‚ you could blow up the world.” Soap‚ Civilization and Questions of Authenticity in Chuck Palahniuk´s and David Fincher´s Fight Club (AE) March 10‚ 2011 Johannes Pfundt Scherenbergstr. 7 97082 Würzburg johannes.pfundt@gmx.de Amerikanistik‚ Kulturwissenschaften der englischsprachigen Länder‚ Pädagogik (M.A.) 3rd Semester Matr. No. 1584685 Table of Content
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Introduction Comedy is a form of entertainment that brings laughter and uses wit and humor. Comedy is a performed humor which covers scripted or improvised dialogue done by a group‚ duo or in solo; in any medium; television‚ radio or theatre. Plato asserts that comedy is a mixture of pleasure and pain causing laughter at the ridiculous situations of those who are ignorant of their own weaknesses. For Plato‚ comedy is destructive; it is ‘dark‚’ (Aichele‚ 1980). On the other hand‚ for Aristotle‚ comedy is creative
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1. Clubs are mainly financed by monthly subscriptions from members‚ known as membership fees. The amount of membership fees and how it will be paid is clearly stipulated in the constitution of the club‚ and is decided upon by the Management Committee. Additional income that clubs operate on are entrance fees‚ which are paid once by new members‚ profit from sale of refreshments‚ profit on sale of jerseys‚ tracksuits‚ shirts and socks. Donations received is also considered as an income‚ as well as
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She Stoops to Conquer Tom Davis’s introduction to Oliver Goldsmith’s play (E. Benn / Norton‚ 1979) The Author Oliver Goldsmith was born an Irishman‚ the second son of a not very affluent clergyman‚ probably in the village of Pallas‚ County Westmeath‚ probably in 1730. Soon afterwards the family moved to the village of Lissoy‚ one of the candidates for the role of Auburn in Goldmith’s famous pastoral The Deserted Village. The intensity of the longing for the idealized village of the poem is
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night clubs‚ over a period of twenty-two years" (qtd. in Costello xii). Obviously from the beginning of Abbott and Costello’s careers‚ these two comics were indeed talented. Before Costello‚ Abbott had previously
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It’s your turn to have girls night out and you and your friends decide that you want to have a great laugh tonight‚ so you all decide to go to a comedy club but as your clapping your hands for the comedian to come out‚ you stop clapping because a woman is on the stage for the night. You now feel like that great laugh you wanted to have tonight is not going to be so great. Why do people react this way towards women comedians? People feel that women cannot relay a funny joke the same way as a man‚
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