Yes, comedy can be serious and meaningful, often serving as a tool to address complex social issues and human experiences. By using humor, comedians can engage audiences with difficult topics, making them more accessible and relatable. This blend of comedy and seriousness can provoke thought, inspire change, and foster connection among people, illustrating that laughter can coexist with depth.
MASH is a very serious show that has a lot of comedy in it to soften the seriousness of the theme.
Comedy movies in India often face criticism for relying on repetitive tropes and clichés, which can lead to a lack of originality and depth in storytelling. Additionally, they may sometimes trivialize serious social issues or reinforce stereotypes, detracting from meaningful discourse. The commercial focus on humor can overshadow character development and plot coherence, resulting in predictable narratives. Moreover, the overemphasis on humor may alienate audiences seeking more substantial or diverse cinematic experiences.
In the broadest sense Drama includes all the theatrical arts- including cinema ( Movies) and television fiction. Properly it is serious fare as opposed to comedy. The Greeks invented Drama as we know it- in those days there was either Tragedy or Comedy- and sad and comic masks as trade badges. The modern concept of ( comes out OK) serious drama is in part a product of the Movie industry- did not exist in classical dramas which were either tragedy or comedy.
While Absolute Boyfriend is mostly a romantic comedy, it does have its serious and sometimes sad moments, and the ending is a bit of a tearjerker.
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It can be meaningful because someone can take hard times in their life and make it funny to cheer themselves up.
Celebrating Pesach (Passover) is nothing like playing a comedy. Pesach is about remembering being freed from slavery.
Having a serious or passionate quality or purpose.
Basically. However, comedy can imply a parody of an originally serious production.
i enjoy both types but if i were to choose it would have to be comedy.
No, she's a comedy actor, and never plays a serious part. She is funny though!
The opposite of tragedy is comedy. Comedy typically features light-hearted and humorous elements, as opposed to the serious and somber tone of tragedy.
comedy and tragedy. comedy was funny and light hearted and the tragedy ones were serious and taught people a lesson
Rowan Atkinson
Yes. He's also played serious characters.
In a comedy the main character ha problems that are funny and not serious, while in a tragedy the protagonist has bad luck and suffers pain and loss. -apex
Dante called the poem "Commedia" (translated as "Comedy" with the adjective "Divine" being added later in the 14th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy"). Low poems had happy endings and were of everyday or vulgar subjects, while High poems were for more serious matters. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of man, in the low and vulgar Italian language and not the Latin language as one might expect for such a serious topic. Our word comedy has moved on and does not equate to the commedia of Dante.