Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner. Synonyms created to avoid possible racial overtones include dark comedy/humor, morbid comedy/humor and off-color humor (see also color metaphors for race.) A scene in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot demonstrates black comedy well: a man takes of ...

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Black Comedy - Brindsley. The main character and lead of the play, Brindsley has about three hundred and fifty lines in he single act of Black Comedy. The entire play circles around his descent into despair, and the essential plotline is of his evening-gone-wrong (and worse and worse). He represents the everyman in society: all have secrets they would prefer to keep "in the dark." He is also a morally confused character: he is both villain and victim of the farce. His infidelity and dishonesty vilify him, ...

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Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses any form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy. The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion. A sense of humour is the ability to ex ...

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A copycat suicide is defined as a duplication or copycat of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. The well-known suicide serves as a model, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide. They occasionally spread through a school system, through a community, or in terms of a celebrity suicide wave, nationally. Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired widespread copycat ...

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Black Sheep may refer to: Black sheep (term), a colloquial term meaning "outsider" Black Sheep (hip-hop group) Black Sheep (rock band) Black Sheep, a 1996 comedy film The Black Sheep, a United States Marine Corps aviation unit "Black Sheep", a song from the album Silence by Sonata Arctica Black Sheep Brewery, British ale-maker See also. Kara Koyunlu, known as the "Black Sheep Turkmen" Albinoblacks ...

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Cannibal! The Musical is a student film directed by the future creator of South Park, Trey Parker, while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A black comedy, it is (loosely) based on the true story of Alferd Packer and the sordid details of the trip from Utah to Colorado that left his five fellow travellers (Shannon Bell, George Noon, James Humphrey, Israel Swan, and Frank Miller) dead and partially eaten. Trey Parker stars as Alferd Packer, with frequent collaborator Matt Stone featured as James Humphrey, ...

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Arsenic and Old Lace is a black comedy play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film version, which starred Cary Grant and was directed by Frank Capra. Of the 12 plays written by Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace is the only one to be successful. The play is a farce revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy family and local police as he debates whether to go through with marrying the woman he loves. His family ...

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Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 movie written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland. The film is a compilation of twenty one comedy skits of various lengths by a group of highly regarded directors. Many of the segments are parodies of late-night television and low-budget movies from the 1950s. Some of the skits are in black and white. The following directors filmed one or more of the segments: Joe Dante Carl Gottlieb Pe ...

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Celebrity is a 1998 film written and directed by Woody Allen. Celebrity film - Credits. Directed by: Woody Allen Written by: Woody Allen Genre: Comedy Year: 1998 MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, sex, and drug use Runtime: 113 Minutes Country: USA Language: English Color: Black and White Celebrity film - Cast.

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Pat was an androgynous fictional character created and performed by Julia Sweeney for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Pat was a somewhat overweight, sexually ambiguous character with short, curly black hair who wore glasses and a blue western-style shirt with tan slacks. The character spoke in a nasally voice that sometimes squeaked. Sweeney wore no makeup and colored her lips beige to further hide any gender cues. The sketches always involved the celebrity guest host of the show going to great lengths to discover ...

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Circus Boy was a television series aired in prime time on both NBC and ABC from 1956 to 1958. It was then syndicated on Saturday mornings. The black-and-white half-hour comedy/adventure series starred Micky Braddock (Micky Dolenz) as 10-year-old Corky. Noah Beery Jr. played Uncle Joey and actor Robert Lowery played Big Tim Champion "Circus Boy" as he is known today, also goes by the name Bobby Hunt. A performer from Chicago, Circus Boy Entertains many with his juggling act, his Unicycle, and the fact that he (According to Ripley's Be ...

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Bus Stop, also known as The Wrong Kind of Girl, is a 1956 motion picture directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, and Hope Lange. The film was released on the 31th August 1956. Unlike most of Marilyn Monroe's movies, Bus Stop is neither a full-fledged comedy nor a musical, but rather a dramatic piece. Monroe does however sing one song: "That Old Black Magic" (by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer). ...

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Chris Rock (born February 7, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and actor born in Andrews, South Carolina. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Stuyvesant High School where he was president of the chess club and Black Students League. He was a cast member of the popular sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990–1993. His tenure on the show gave Rock national exposure, but problems with drugs led him to rarely being used on the show save for his reaccuring "Nat X" character. R ...

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"Country" Joe McDonald (born January 1, 1942 in Washington, D.C.) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group "Country Joe and the Fish". His best-known song is his "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag", a black comedy novelty song about the Vietnam War, whose familiar chorus ("One, two, three, what are we fighting for?") is well known to the Woodstock generation and Vietnam Vets of the 1960s and 1970s. He is also known for "The Fish Cheer" which was a cheerleader-style call-and-response with the audience where Joe spelled out 'fish'. ("Give me an F!") At Woodstock, ...

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A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction, comedy is one of the largest genres of the medium. A comedy of manners film satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters. The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, but is generally less important than its witty and sometimes bawdy dialogue. This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back to ...

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Dead Like Me is a Showtime television comedy-drama created by Bryan Fuller about a group of grim reapers in Seattle, Washington, USA. The stories are told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old girl George Lass, who died and became a grim reaper in the pilot episode. The title is probably a reference to Black Like Me. Grim reapers, or simply reapers, are portrayed as an integral part of the cycle of life and death, removing the souls of people shortly before they die and escortin ...

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Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. A recognized characteristic of comedy is that it is an intensely personal enjoyment. People frequently don't find the same things amusing, but when they do it can help to create powerful bonds. Humor being subjective, one may or may not find something humorous because it is either too offensive or not offensive enough. Comedy is judged according to a person’s taste. Some enjoy cerebral fare; others pre ...

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The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. The awards began in 1990, and are usually shown live on ITV1. With a potent mix of comedians and alcohol, the ceremony is often a riotous affair. Past ceremonies have seen the host's in-podium autocue monitor ripped out by award-winner Michael Barrymore, and award-presenter Julian Clary joke that he'd "just been fisting Norman Lamont" (the joke caused great controversy a ...

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Anarchic comedy (or wacky comedy) is a genre of cinema using nonsensical, stream-of-consciousness humor which often lampoons some form of authority. Films of this nature stem from a theatrical history of anarchic comedy on the stage. Jokes and visual gags fly fast and furious, usually in a non sequitur manner that eschews narrative for sheer absurdity. No subject is too sacred; no joke too silly. These movies strive for laugh-a-minute pacing and gut-busting guffaws. Though they may be hit-and-miss, the ultimate success or failure of this type of comedy depends on the overall p ...

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