 Comedy: May 02, 2007 Issue [#1691] |
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Comedy, by definition for this newsletter, is a genre of drama dealing with the humourous or serious in a satirical manner. There are two forms of comedy: high comedy and low comedy.
This issue of the Comedy newsletter will be dealing with low comedy. |
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High comedy, in brief terms, is the use of comedy through subtle characterizations and witty dialogues. It often involves word play or jokes that one would have to be familiar with the subject in order to understand. An example of a comedian that practices high comedy would be Eddie Izzard, who often uses world history as the center of his stand-up routines.
Low comedy, on the other hand, often includes horseplay, sophomoric humor, and is often a representation of a low life. The term low comedy originally derived because it was thought to be a form of humor for the lower classes, or commoners, who were most often uneducated. As time passed, low comedy came to include more lewd jokes and phyical comedy and more mainstream performers began to use this as their tool of humor. Many stand-up comedians employ low comedy in their routines, including Chris Rock, Dana Carvey, and Bobcat Goldthwait.
Other forms of low comedy include television sitcoms, that base most of their plots on this form of comedy. There are also many movies that utilize low comedy in order to entertain the audience. Some other famous low comedians that utilized television to communicate their humor include The Three Stooges and Monty Python.
Besides pies in the face and the standard knock-knock jokes, low comedy also encompasses sophomoric, or toilet, humor. Not only that, but Shakespeare used to utilize low comedy in many of his plays in order to convey a different understanding of the play. There are many times where Shakespeare used it as an aside in the character dialogue or as banter between two characters.
Just remember: the next time that you read a blonde joke or watch an episode of Saturday Night Live where someone takes a spill, you're baring witness to low comedy. Like it, love it, hate it, but always appreciate it if it makes you laugh! |
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In Boston a few years back on April 1, a local radio station WAAF's afternoon DJ's Opie and Anthony announced on-air that the mayor of Boston was killed in an accident. The family of the mayor were in an uproar and the DJ's were fired from the radio station.
alyssa91075
I had read about that blunder in my research on April Fools jokes, but figured it would be too long to explain it in full! Thanks for taking the time to share your experience and summing it up perfectly!
This year on the news on TV, they said that the EU had changed the rules for what counts as a novel. Anything under 350 pages didn´t count, and all the winners of the "August Prize" (it´s a Swedish litterature prize) who´s novels didn´t count, would have their winning titles removed.
I believed it because the EU is crazy, and it didn´t really surprise me, but I thought it totally sucked. 
They said the next day that it was an April fools thing, but a lot of people bought it, and were really [upset].
AL
Wow! It was surprising to me to hear how Europe handled the April Fools jokes! They really take their joking to extremes that aren't allowed in America!
That was a great round-up of April Fool's pranks. Thanks for taking the time to put that together.
This year, I tried to convince my Blog readers that my local vicar had banned daffodills in church floral displays, because they were strong pagan symbols. I snagged one or two little fishies with that one  .
Mavis Moog
There were a couple of good April Fools blogs that I caught on Writing.Com - another being GoCartCherub- St Louis U who tried to convince us all that she had joined the Marines!  |
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