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Fantasy comedy, the Glossary

Index Fantasy comedy

Fantasy comedy or comic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is primarily humorous in intent and tone.[1]

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  1. 62 relations: Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Barbie (film), BBC, Being John Malkovich, Caimh McDonnell, Charles Dickens, Christopher Moore (author), Chuck Whelon, Craig Shaw Gardner, David Langford, David Pringle, Discworld, Doubleday (publisher), E. F. Bleiler, E. Nesbit, ElvenQuest, Esther Friesner, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Fantasy, Fantasy television, Fletcher Pratt, Fritz Leiber, Genre, Hans Christian Andersen, Harold Shea, Hordes of the Things (radio series), I Dream of Jeannie, James Branch Cabell, Jasper Fforde, John Brosnan, John Kendrick Bangs, Joseph Jorkens, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, Kingdoms of Sorcery, Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, L. Sprague de Camp, Lewis Carroll, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, Maurice Richardson, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, MythAdventures, Neil Gaiman, Piers Anthony, Pulp magazine, Robert Asprin, Robert Rankin, Shrek, Sword and sorcery, ... Expand index (12 more) »

  2. Fantasy parodies

Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Alice is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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Barbie (film)

Barbie is a 2023 fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig from a screenplay she wrote with Noah Baumbach.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American surrealist fantasy comedy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, both making their feature film debut.

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Caimh McDonnell

Caimh McDonnell is an Irish writer.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Christopher Moore (born January 1, 1957) is an American writer.

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Chuck Whelon

Chuck Whelon (born 1969) is a British, internationally published author and cartoonist, based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Craig Shaw Gardner

Craig Shaw Gardner (born July 2, 1949) is an American author, best known for producing fantasy parodies similar to those of Terry Pratchett.

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David Langford

David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field.

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David Pringle

David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor and critic.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy"Humorous Fantasy" in David Pringle, ed., The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (pp.31-33). Fantasy comedy and Discworld are fantasy parodies.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company.

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E. F. Bleiler

Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature.

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E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit.

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ElvenQuest

ElvenQuest is a comic fantasy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto, and starring Stephen Mangan, Alistair McGowan, Darren Boyd, Kevin Eldon, Sophie Winkleman and Dave Lamb.

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Esther Friesner

Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner (born July 16, 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre. Fantasy comedy and Fantasy are fantasy genres.

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Fantasy television

Fantasy television is a genre of television programming featuring elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Fletcher Pratt

Murray Fletcher Pratt (25 April 1897 – 10 June 1956) was an American writer of history, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.

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Harold Shea

Harold Shea is the protagonist of five science fantasy stories by the collaborative team of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, as well as later stories by de Camp alone, Christopher Stasheff, Holly Lisle, John Maddox Roberts, Roland J. Green, Frieda A. Murray, Tom Wham, and Lawrence Watt-Evans.

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Hordes of the Things (radio series)

Hordes of the Things is a 1980 BBC radio comedy series parodying J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and to a greater extent the fantasy genre in general, in a style similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom television series, created by Sidney Sheldon that starred Barbara Eden as a sultry, 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut with whom she falls in love and eventually marries.

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James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres.

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.

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John Brosnan

John Raymond Brosnan (7 October 1947 – 11 April 2005) was an Australian writer of both fiction and non-fiction works in the fantasy and science fiction genres.

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John Kendrick Bangs

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American writer, humorist, editor and satirist.

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Joseph Jorkens

Joseph Jorkens (usually referred to simply as Jorkens) is the lead character in over 150 short stories written between 1925 and 1957 by the Irish author Lord Dunsany, noted for his fantasy short stories, fantastic plays, novels and other writings.

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2017 American adventure comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan from a screenplay by the writing teams of Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner, based on a story conceived by McKenna.

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Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice

Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice is a fantasy novel by American writer James Branch Cabell published in 1919.

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Kingdoms of Sorcery

Kingdoms of Sorcery: An Anthology of Adult Fantasy is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by American writer Lin Carter.

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Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a British-American comedic sword and sorcery series created by Peter A. Knight, co-produced by Hat Trick Productions and Media Rights Capital for Comedy Central and BBC Two, which premiered on April 9, 2009 in the US and on June 11 in the UK.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.

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Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic.

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Lord Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist.

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Maurice Richardson

Maurice Lane Richardson (1907–1978) was an English journalist and short story writer.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film satirizing the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts.

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MythAdventures

MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. Fantasy comedy and MythAdventures are fantasy parodies.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays.

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Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Robert Asprin

Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, known best for his humorous series MythAdventures and Phule's Company.

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Robert Rankin

Robert Fleming Rankin (born 27 July 1949) is a prolific British author of comedic fantasy novels.

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Shrek

Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig.

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Sword and sorcery

Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. Fantasy comedy and sword and sorcery are fantasy genres.

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T. H. White

Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English writer.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

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The Order of the Stick

The Order of the Stick (OOTS) is a comedic webcomic that satirizes tabletop role-playing games and medieval fantasy. Fantasy comedy and the Order of the Stick are fantasy parodies.

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The Phoenix and the Carpet

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904.

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The Story of the Amulet

The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by the English author Edith Nesbit.

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Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 – 10 March 1934) was an English writer (writing as F. Anstey or F.T. Anstey), most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities.

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Thorne Smith

James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 – June 20, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.

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Tom Holt

Thomas Charles Louis Holt (born 13 September 1961) is a British novelist.

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Unknown (magazine)

Unknown (also known as Unknown Worlds) was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. Campbell.

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Vice Versa (novel)

Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers is a comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, writing under the pseudonym "F.

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Xanth

Xanth is a series of novels by author Piers Anthony, also known as The Magic of Xanth.

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8-Bit Theater

8-Bit Theater is a sprite comic, meaning the art is mainly taken from pre-existing video game assets, created by Brian Clevinger that ran from 2001 to 2010 and consisting of 1,225 pages.

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See also

Fantasy parodies

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_comedy

Also known as Comic Fantasy, Fantasy comedy film, Fantasy-comedy film, Funny Fantasy, Humorous fantasy, Humourous fantasy.

, T. H. White, Terry Pratchett, The Order of the Stick, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Thorne Smith, Tom Holt, Unknown (magazine), Vice Versa (novel), Xanth, 8-Bit Theater.