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Slapstick originated in the theatre; a slapstick is made from two sticks , attached at one end so that when you hit someone with the other end there is a "loud" slapping noise as the loose ends clap together, without hurting the person - at least, not much!

Strange as it may seem, the pain of others is the basis of much comedy, so using a slapstick allowed performers to give the impression of pain without actually injuring anyone.

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It was written by Moliere to address the current social scene of the time by attacking the people who use religion for their own gain. He wrote it in the style of French Farce comedy so as to have it performed and still get the message across to the current audience at the time

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"The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson is, I think, one of the most perfect comedies ever written. Kenneth Tynan, the veteran theatre critic, described is as "good episodic play ...bead after bead, the episodes click together upon the connecting string, which is chicanery and chiselry." It's basically a farce with a very dark underbelly. A conceit is set up: two conmen con stupid person after stupid person and get money from them. Each gull sees a different set of disguises from the two conmen: a lot of costume changes, a lot of props changes, and a lot of running aroudn ensue! Yet then Jonson gradually complicates matters by having the gulls come in unexpectedly. The conmen gradually lose their control over the plot, and the strings become harder and harder to hold on to: and their methods of keeping the con running get ever more complicated (so, when Surly tricks them into thinking that he is a Spanish Grandee, they have to hide him in a room in the house and arrange to marry him off to Dame Pliant in order to get his money and get him out of the way!). In one scene in Act 4, most of the gulls appear at the same time, and the conmen have to really struggle to hold things together. And it is JUST at the point where they think they have managed it that Lovewit comes back from his holidays, and they have to rapidly evacuate the house - forgetting about Dapper, whom they have locked in the toilet, in the process! It's a difficult play to read on the page. But see a good production, and you'll see that it really is an amazing comedy.

The original meaning of comedy comes from the Greek term "komodia," which translates to "merrymaking" or "revel." In ancient Greek theater, comedy plays were characterized by their light-hearted and humorous tone, often involving satirical or humorous portrayals of everyday life and characters.

Ancient Greece. Very true. The faces were contorted to the extreme so that the audiences could fully understand the emotion being portrayed from great distances. Also, some of the masks actually had a type of megaphone built into the mouth piece to help the actor project his voice.

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In the TV comedy The Office, the warehouse crew primarily consists of Darryl Philbin, who is the foreman, along with his coworkers, including Lonny, and later characters like Toby Flenderson and Ryan Howard, who occasionally work in the warehouse. Darryl is a prominent character, often interacting with the office staff, while Lonny serves as his assistant. The warehouse team provides a contrast to the main office employees and adds comedic elements to the show.

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1. Seinfeld.

2. Frasier.

3. Cheers.

4. Friends.

5. I Love Lucy.

The effect of comedy is different to many people, its all about personal opinion. I happen to think it depends on who the comedian is! Alot of comedians are very controversial ex. Frankie Boyle and Jimmy Carr, my personal favourite is Michael Mcintyre as he is very observational and talks about every day life. comedians make me feel happy inside and lift me up when needed.

I really like <a href="http://www.kevbee.co.uk">Comedy Hypnotist</a> as they make a very serious subject funny! After looking at my answer i guess that it effects people differently.

She is not married to anybody at the moment.

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Kristen Wiig was once married to actor Hayes Hargrove in 2005. But they divorced in 2009 and the two have remained tight-lipped on the reasons for such break-up.

The comedienne is now in a relationship with actor, writer and filmmaker Brian Pestos, a man whom Wiig had known since she was 15 years old. Though they have known each other for such a long time now, Kristen made it clear that she has no plans of marrying again. She said that marriage is not necessary anymore in in her relationship with Petsos and the actress already considers themselves as married.

Nonetheless, the 37 year old comedienne expressed her desire to experience motherhood. She said she'd love to have kids but without the pressure of tying the knot.

Currently, the couple lives in Manhattan, New York.

January 19, 2009

After the war, the break-up of the major big bands in 1946 moved music from the "swing era" to the "sing era", focusing on vocal soloists. Vic Damone, Patti Page, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and others of their ilk, often trained in big bands, saw their greatest successes.

1940'S MUSIC WAS MOSTLY INFLUENCED BY WWII. THERE WAS A LOT OF ROMANCE DUE TO MEN GOING OFF TO WAR. EVEN BANDS WERE ENLISTED TO GO OVERSEAS AND HELP ENTERTAIN MEN AT WAR. WOMEN TOOK OVER MEN'S JOBS AND SONGS WERE CLEAR AND LOUD ABOUT THE WORK THEY DID. AFTER THE WAR, THERE WERE THE COMING HOME SONGS AND THE SONGS ABOUT HOW WE OVERCAME THE WAR. HEE HAW Most of the factors that influenced the music in 1940 is the war, world war II and how it affected the women. All of the men went overseas and then the women were lonely. Most of the songs were about coming home, loved ones, the war, romance, or things along these lines. anything and everything. im sure that the war was hard-downed, but most people probably tried to forget such things. its not like today, where everyone complains about just about teverything possible. back then, most people wrote about love, being the romantic era.

I'd say Glenn Miller was also a huge influence on the way the music industry changed in the 1940's.

During this time it is commonly known that a group called the beats were given birth to, and can be seen almost as a first generation of hippies. Suprisingly black artists were at the frontier of new music and had a lot to do with the music scene. Sadly, racism predisposed many to not listen to many of them, if at all. It is said this is why people like Elvis came around from the era. The producers could not put a black artist out in the media, for fear of not being accepted, so they came up with people that could produce a similar sound. Elvis even entertained many songs that were not his own and came from such sources.

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Comment on "The Alchemist" as a comedy. The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The play's clever fulfillment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays excepting of course the works of Shakespeare with, apart from a period of neglect during the Victorian era, a continual life on stage. The Alchemist focuses on what happens when one human being seeks advantage over another. In a big city like London, this process of advantage-seeking is rife. The trio of con-artists - Subtle, Face and Dol - are self-deluding small-timers, ultimately undone by the same human weaknesses they exploit in their victims. Their fate is foreshadowed in the play's opening scene, which features them together in the house of Lovewit, Face's master. In a metaphor which runs through the play, the dialogue shows them to exist in uneasy imbalance, like alchemical elements that will create an unstable reaction. Barely ten lines into the text, Face and Subtle's quarrelling forces Dol to quell their raised voices: "Will you have the neighbours hear you? Will you betray all?" The Alchemist is tightly structured, based around a simple dramatic concept. Subtle claims to be on the verge of 'projection' in his offstage workroom, but all the characters in the play are overly-concerned with projection of a different kind: image-projection. The end result, in structural terms, is an onstage base of operations in Friars, to which can be brought a succession of unconsciously-comic characters from different social backgrounds, who hold different professions and different beliefs, but whose lowest common denominator - gullibility - grants them equal victim-status in the end. Dapper, the aspirant gambler, loses his stake; Sir Epicure Mammon loses his money and his dignity; Drugger, the would-be businessman, parts with his cash, but ends up no nearer to the success he craves; the Puritan duo, Tribulation and Ananias, never realize their scheme to counterfeit Dutch money. Jonson reserves his harshest satire for these Puritan characters--perhaps because the Puritans, in real life, wished to close down the theaters. (Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair is also anti-Puritan.) Tellingly, of all those gulled in the play, it is the Puritans alone whom Johnson denies a brief moment of his audience's pity; presumably, he reckons their life-denying self-righteousness renders them unworthy of it. Jonson consistently despises hypocrisy, especially religious hypocrisy that couches its damning judgments in high-flown language. Tribulation and Ananias call their fellow men "heathens" and in one case, say that someone's hat suggests "the Anti-Christ." That these Puritans are just as money-hungry as the rest of the characters is part of the ironic joke. In many English and European comedies, it is up to a high-class character to resolve the confusion that has been caused by lower-class characters. In The Alchemist, Jonson subverts this tradition. Face's master, Lovewit, at first seems to assert his social and ethical superiority to put matters to rights. But when Face dangles before him the prospect of marriage to a younger woman, his master eagerly accepts. Both master and servant are always on the lookout for how to get ahead in life, regardless of ethical boundaries. Lovewit adroitly exploits Mammon's reluctance to obtain legal certification of his folly to hold on to the old man's money.

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