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    At the comedy part‚ I thought it will be more of comedy‚ just an absurd film which makes the audience laugh and laugh. But‚ there’s a unique and unexpected plot twists which happened in the other part of the film. The technique used in the plot is very brilliant‚ added by the point

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    The satire on Russian literature took a subject that was originally serious and dark and turned it on its head. A comedy which requires thought‚ Love and Death provides the viewers jokes with a level of philosophy. The leading characters Boris and Sonia played by Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are intelligent philosophers in their own right. If I can offer any criticism is that the comedy is dark but‚ also offensive to certain ethnic groups. In the movie Boris claims to have gotten "so depressed‚ he

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    this and say that the last scene is written by Shakespeare as a clever way of showing the audience what might have happened to the lovers. Also‚ a common convention of comedies is mockery‚ so the craftsmen’s play could be interpreted as a way of mocking the foolish behaviour of the four lovers. Another classic convention of comedy is forbidden love. In both ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ there

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    An Analytical Review of the Positive and Negative Effects of Racial and Ethnic Humor Humour has been a subject of intellectual discussion for thousands of years dating back to the days of Aristotle in ancient Greece. It has been used to tell stories‚ entertain‚ express one’s perspective and in some cases humour is used in an offensive or insulting way. With the increasing amount of globalization the debate of whether racial and ethnic humour is harmful or beneficial to modern day society has become

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    technique in English literature; it is put into practice by speeches and various pieces of writing‚ from poetry to prose. Humour is used to convey an idea or underlying message or to simply amuse the reader. Mad as Hell is a multi-award winning Australian comedy news television program hosted by Shaun Micallef which has gained traction over the last few years. Mad as Hell is well known for being able to incorporate various humour techniques such as understatement‚ allusion‚ irony‚ sight gags‚ and especially

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    when they are fighting for each other’s love. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare is a comedy play‚ in which Shakespeare incorporates magic to the everyday life. Shakespeare also incorporated comedy to the play in a series of different ways‚ one of them is Language. This can be found when there is a series of misuse of words or meaning‚ clever use of insults‚ and a complex imagery. By creating a comedy play he included many insults to entertain the public. An insults is when someone behaves with

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    the burlesque days‚ a time in which comics began to base their material on sexual humor and the degrading of women‚ Bud and Lou refused to use such comedy in their acts (Allen‚ 285). The main sources of their comedies were derived from clean acts from vaudeville and the burlesque era. As result of this choice‚ Abbott and Costello produced comedies that could be viewed and related to by everyone‚ such as family audiences. Their energetic personalities of an intellectual man and child-like man produced

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    The name of Anders Thomas Jensen is definitely worth remembering. Danish director and scriptwriter has probably excelled himself - he created “Adam’s Apples”‚ a movie that perfectly blends drama and black comedy. Life of the main characters does not appear in bright colours‚ but the director managed to portray it in a comical way. At first glance‚ the story appears to be banal and simplistic. Adam( Ulrich Thomsen) is a neo-Nazi and former convict. In order to rehabilitate‚ he arrives

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    Based on the reader decisions throughout the book‚ the play develops new paths for the reader to follow the story which allows them to explore 110 different endings. Comedy is not the usual theme in Shakespeare’s work. Though‚ in North’s adaptation of Hamlet‚ there is a different approach to the play which is the comedy within the text. North revisions Hamlet in a way that he gives audience the chance to reinvent the play depending on what the audience wants to choose from the options the

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    "Sandler’s Mr. Deeds: Mis-Deeds" With a prestigious resume’ of successful blockbuster comedies‚ Adam Sandler certainly fails with Mr. Deeds‚ his most recent attempt to duplicate his past successes. The quick-wit‚ unexpected‚ laugh-out-loud jokes are a forte’ of Sandler’s which go back to his days of being a young comedian on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Sandler’s comedy is the only thing that will keep you in your seat for an hour and a half. Fortunately for this movie‚ Sandler’s large adolescent

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