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Comedy is a form of entertainment meant to be humorous, whether in literature, television, film, or stand-up. The goal of most comedy examples is to induce laughter in the audience. There are many different forms of comedy, such as screwball comedy, black comedy, innuendo, parody, satire, pun, comedy of manners, romantic comedy, farce, burlesque, sarcasm, dramatic irony, and self-deprecation. Different forms of comedy are more popular in different cultures and in different eras.

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Borat is comedy (movie)

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In a modern sense, comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.[1] The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old".[2] A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse in ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.[3]

Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of their humour. Parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them.

Other forms of comedy include screwball comedy, which derives its humour largely from bizarre, surprising (and improbable) situations or characters, and black comedy, which is characterized by a form of humor that includes darker aspects of human behavior or human nature. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways. A comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society (usually upper class society) and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a popular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love.

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The comedy of a situation involves those aspects of it that make you laugh.

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A play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.

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Definition of comedy

plural comedies

1a : a medieval narrative that ends happily

Dante's Divine Comedy

b : a literary work written in a comic style or treating a comic theme

the ancient Romancomedies of Plautus

2a : a drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending

a comedyabout parenthood

b : the genre of dramatic literature dealing with the comic or with the serious in a light or satirical manner — compare tragedy

3: a ludicrous or farcical event or series of events

a comedy of errors

4a : the comic element

the comedy of many life situations

b : humorous entertainment

nightclub comedy

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comedy

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Professional entertainment/comedy consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.

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Comedy consists of types of entertainment, such as plays and films, or particular scenes in them, that are intended to make people laugh.