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| x Black comedy |
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Film genre | Doug Stanhope |
Black comedy is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo are treated in a satirical or humorous manner.
Synonyms include dark comedy, black humor, dark humor, and morbid humor.
Black comedy should...
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| Book Subject | Jim Norton | |||
| TV Genre | Bill Hicks | |||
| Media genre | Denis Leary | |||
| Richard Pryor | ||||
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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. It is not to be confused with Blue Collar Comedy, although Ron White and Larry...
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| Andrew Dice Clay | ||||
| Jeff Duran | ||||
| Doug Stanhope | ||||
| Redd Foxx | ||||
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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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| Andy Kaufman | ||||
| Andrew Dice Clay | ||||
| Rich Hall | ||||
| Tim Allen | ||||
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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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| Robin Williams | ||||
| Jonathan Winters | ||||
| Paula Poundstone | ||||
| Wayne Brady | ||||
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| x Observational comedy | Demetri Martin |
Observational comedy is a style of humor based on making remarks about various facets 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 David...
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| Jerry Seinfeld | ||||
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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 humor.
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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| Jim Carrey | ||||
| Jerry Lewis | ||||
| Robin Williams | ||||
| Conan O'Brien | ||||
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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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| Jeff Dunham | ||||
| Gallagher | ||||
| x Surreal humour | Website Category | Conan O'Brien |
Surreal humour is a form of humour, laughingly in a style related to the artistic ambitions of the surrealists, based on bizarre juxtapositions, absurd situations and nonsense logic. A common element of surreal humor is the non-sequitur, in which...
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| Spike Milligan | ||||
| Eddie Izzard | ||||
| Steven Wright | ||||
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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 facial expression, usually speaking in a monotonous manner.
The term "deadpan" first emerged as an adjective or adverb in the 1920s, as a compound word...
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| Steven Wright | ||||
| Peter Cook | ||||
| Buster Keaton | ||||
| Bill Murray | ||||
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| x Satire |
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Book Subject | 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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| Comic Strip Genre | Dennis Miller | |||
| TV Genre | Conan O'Brien | |||
| Website Category | David Letterman | |||
| Film genre | Jay Leno | |||
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| x Word play | George Carlin |
Word play is a literary technique in which the of 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 sentences, and telling...
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| Groucho Marx | ||||
| William Shakespeare | ||||
| Oscar Wilde | ||||
| 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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| Don Rickles | ||||
| Andrew Dice Clay | ||||
| Sam Kinison | ||||
| Robert Smigel | ||||
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| x Shock humour |
Shock humor is a style of comedy intended to shock the audience. This can be achieved through excessively foul toilet humor, mocking of serious themes (a.k.a black comedy), or through tactlessness in the aftermath of a crisis (e.g. 9/11). Canadian...
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| x Tragicomedy | Book Subject |
Tragicomedy is fictional work that blend aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy refers to a serious play with a happy ending.
There is no complete formal...
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| x Wit | Quotation Subject | George Carlin |
Wit is a form of intellectual humour. A wit (person) is someone skilled in making witty remarks. Forms of wit include the quip and the repartee.
As in the wit of Parker's set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may be intentionally cruel (as...
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| Groucho Marx | ||||
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| Oscar Wilde | ||||
| x Stand-up comedy |
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TV Genre | Arj Barker |
Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical "fourth wall". A person who performs stand-up comedy is known as a stand-up comic, stand-up comedian (comedienne if female)...
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