Comedy Essays

Mel Brooks was a comedic producer that was constantly producing movies and films that allowed people to laugh in ways that they had never before. The amount of brilliancy that Mr. Brooks brought to his comedy concerning the films he produced was amazing and this was clearly shown in the …

Funny, twisted, and politically incorrect, Family Guy is an adult animated situation comedy show that consists of parents Peter and Lois, their children Chris, Meg, and Stewie, and their humanized dog Brian. Family Guy is anything but traditional. The show thrives on frustrating the audience’s expectations, using an unorthodox structure …

This essay will analyse the way in which Shakespeare makes this comedy bitterly satirical, and a comment on not only the pretentious style and swank of Spaniards, namely Don Pedro and his gang, but human stupidity as a whole. Much Ado About Nothing portrays the issues of sex, war, marriage …

“Much Ado About Nothing” is a romantic comedy and conventionally these involve characters whose amorous bliss is disturbed by an unanticipated threat. However this danger is short-lived and their happy fate is fulfilled. Shakespeare sets about adding interest and diversity to what otherwise could have been a monotonous series of …

To answer the question it is necessary to explain and explore the different elements of tragedy and romantic comedy in the Shakespeare play “Much Ado About Nothing”. Traditional conventions of an Elizabethan comedy include a rural or pastoral setting, which adds to the idyllic environment. Moreover this is a main …

Sparkleshark is a modern day stage comedy about Jake, a shy 14 year old boy who secretly writes imaginative magical stories from the roof of an inner-city tower block. As the play progresses, more and more characters arrive on the roof before Jake has to think up his best story …

Right from the beginning, in the first scene of the play, we can tell that it is a funny play. Rita enters the office and she sees a picture. She remarks, “Y’ don’t paint pictures like that so that people can admire the brush strokes, do y’?” Here Rita is …

Comedy of manners is based on satirizing the style or manner of the way in which members of the social group act or behave. Much of this is physical and can be seen in the way people in a particular culture communicate through body language. In the rivals the characters …

The Twelfth Night is a comedy written by William Shakespeare and was set in an island across the Adriatic called the Illyria. The main characters are Viola, Sebastian, Orsino and Olivia. These characters, coupled with a few more, make up the tangled web of chaos that is depicted in the …

                        Written sometime in between 1596 – 1598, The Merchant of Venice is classified as a “Christian comedy.”  It is a work in which good triumphs over evil, but serious themes are examined and some issues remain unresolved.  The Merchant of Venice is constructed around opposite value systems or worldviews.  …