High comedy, the Glossary
High comedy or pure comedy is a type of comedy characterized by witty dialogue, satire, biting humor, wordplay, or criticism of life.[1]
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36 relations: Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arrested Development, Capitalism, Charlie Chaplin, Comedy, Demagogue, Euripides, Fascism, George Meredith, High culture, Low comedy, Marx Brothers, Modern Times (film), Molière, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Peloponnesian War, Prejudice, Satire, Satyr, Satyr play, Seinfeld, Sitcom, Socrates, Sophocles, Talk show, The Great Dictator, The Larry Sanders Show, The Merchant of Venice, The Office (British TV series), The Tramp, Tragedy, William Shakespeare, Wit, Woody Allen.
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος; /524 – /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy.
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Arrested Development
Arrested Development is an American television satirical sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz.
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Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.
Demagogue
A demagogue (from Greek δημαγωγός, a popular leader, a leader of a mob, from δῆμος, people, populace, the commons + ἀγωγός leading, leader), or rabble-rouser, is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity.
Euripides
Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.
Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
George Meredith
George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.
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High culture
In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy, which a society considers representative of their culture.
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Low comedy
Low comedy, also known as lowbrow humor, in association to comedy, is a dramatic form of popular entertainment without any primary purpose other than to create laughter through boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery and other riotous activity. High comedy and low comedy are comedy and satire.
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Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.
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Modern Times (film)
Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".
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Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War (translit) (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.
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Prejudice
Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership.
Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
Satyr
In Greek mythology, a satyr (σάτυρος|sátyros), also known as a silenus or silenos (σειληνός|seilēnós), and sileni (plural), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection.
Satyr play
The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and tragedy.
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Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of 180 episodes.
Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
Socrates
Socrates (– 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
Sophocles
Sophocles (497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.
Talk show
A talk show (sometimes chat show in British English) is a television programming, radio programming or Podcast genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.
The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war, political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films.
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The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show is an American television sitcom set in the office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show.
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.
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The Office (British TV series)
The Office is a British mockumentary television sitcom first broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001.
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The Tramp
The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as the Little Tramp, was English actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film.
Tragedy
Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Wit
Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny.
Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.
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