Research- Comedy 2
Comedy
Comedy as a popular meaning is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre.
The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old, but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation.
A later view characterizes the essentials of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.
Much comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations, but there are many recognized genres of comedy. Satire and political satire use ironic comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of humor. Satire is a type of comedy.
Comedy as a popular meaning is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre.
The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old, but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation.
A later view characterizes the essentials of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.
Much comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations, but there are many recognized genres of comedy. Satire and political satire use ironic comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of humor. Satire is a type of comedy.
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