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| x Black comedy |
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Doug Stanhope |
Black comedy is a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo are treated in a satirical or humorous manner while retaining their seriousness. Synonyms include dark comedy, black humor, dark humor,...
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| x Blue comedy | Bob Saget |
Blue comedy is comedy that is off-color, risqué, indecent, profane, or obscene. It often contains cursing and/or sexual imagery that shocks and offends many audiences. The term comes from the music hall comedian Max Miller who kept all his adult...
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| x Character comedy | Margaret Cho |
Character comedy derives humour from a persona invented by a performer. Much character comedy comes from stereotypes.
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| x Improvisational comedy | Kathy Greenwood |
Improvisational comedy (also called improv or impro) is comedy that is performed with a little to no predetermination of subject matter and structure. The performers discover their lines and actions spontaneously, typically following a general theme...
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| x Observational comedy | Demetri Martin |
Observational comedy is a style of humor based on making remarks about commonplace aspects of everyday life.
In the United States, the style was popularized by comedians such as Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Robert Klein, Richard Pryor, Jay Leno and...
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| x Physical comedy | Samuel Howard |
Physical comedy, also known as slapstick is a comedic performance relying mostly on the use of the body to convey humour.
Whether a pratfall (i.e. landing on the buttocks), a silly face, or by walking into walls, physical comedy (even used to...
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| x Prop comedy | Carrot Top |
Prop comedy is a comedy genre that makes use of humorous objects, or conventional objects used in humorous ways. The stage and film jargon "prop", an abbreviation of "property", refers to any object handled by an actor in the course of a performance...
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| x Surreal humour | Conan O'Brien |
Surreal humour is a form of humour, stylistically related to the artistic ambitions of the surrealists, based on bizarre juxtapositions, absurd situations and nonsense. A common element of surreal humour is the non-sequitur, in which one statement...
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| x Deadpan | Demetri Martin |
Deadpan is a form of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or body language, usually speaking in a casual, monotone or very serious, matter-of-fact voice and expressing an unflappably calm, archly insincere or...
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| x Satire |
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Lewis Black |
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
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| x Word play | George Carlin |
For the rapper see Wordplay
Word play is a literary technique in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work. Puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed...
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| x Insult comedy | Lisa Lampanelli |
Insult comedy is a comedy genre in which the act consists mainly of offensive insults directed at the performer's audience and/or other performers.
Typical targets for insult include individuals in the show's audience, the town hosting the...
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| x Shock humour |
Shock humour is a style of comedy intended to shock the audience. This can be achieved through excessively foul toilet humour, mocking of serious themes (a.k.a black comedy), or through tactlessness in the aftermath of a crisis.
In radio, shock...
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| x Tragicomedy |
Tragicomedy is fictional work that blends aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy referred to a serious play with either a happy ending or enough jokes...
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| x Wit | George Carlin |
Wit is a form of intellectual humour, and a wit is someone skilled in making witty remarks. Forms of wit include the quip and repartee.
As in the wit of Parker's set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may be intentionally cruel (as in many...
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| x Stand-up comedy |
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Arj Barker |
Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where a comedian performs for a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. It is usually performed by a single comedian with the aid of a microphone, either hand-held or mounted on a stand. The performer...
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| x Popular culture | Jimmy Kimmel |
Popular culture (commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture. Heavily influenced by...
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| x Culture of the United States |
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Jimmy Kimmel |
The society or culture of the United States is a Western culture, and has been developing since long before the United States became a country with its own unique characteristics and developments such as dialect, music, arts, cuisine, etc. Today the...
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| x Personal life |
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Jimmy Kimmel |
Personal life, sometimes referred to as daily life or everyday life, is the course of an individual's life, especially when viewed as the sum of personal choices contributing to one's personal identity. It is a common notion in modern existence –...
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| x Cringe comedy | Bill Burr |
Cringe comedy is a comedy genre that uses offensive or vulgar material or awkward and embarrassing situations to cause audiences to be repulsed or feel uneasy. The audience will often laugh out of nervousness. Comedians who rely on this style of...
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| x Sketch comedy | Colin Quinn |
Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium...
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| x Vaudeville |
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Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of...
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| x Slapstick | Soupy Sales |
Slapstick films are a type of comedy film that employ slapstick comedy with five main conventions:
Slapstick films include:
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