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Comedy genres

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stand-up comedy

comedy style where the performer addresses the audience directly

thumb|Petrov-Vodkin's Theatre. Farce. (c. 1870s) thumb|Poster for a production of Dion Boucicault|Boucicault's farce Contempt of Court, c. 1879

thumb|Tragic Comic masks of Ancient Greek theatre represented in the [[Hadrian's Villa mosaic.]]

thumb|A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists, costumed dogs, singers and costumed actors

thumb|300px|Burlesque on Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ|Ben-Hur, A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. The word is loaned from French and derives from the Italian ', which, in turn, is derived from the Italian ' – a joke, ridicule or mockery.

genre of theatre, film, and television

A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) is a type of film or television programme depicting fictional events, but presented as a documentary. Mockumentaries are often used to analyse or comment on current events and issues in a satirical way by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. One of the most well known examples of the modern time is The Office. The term originated in the 1960s but was popularised in the mid-1990s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.

thumb|Artist Tavar Zawacki painted a site-specific wordplay painting in Lima, Peru, commenting on the [[cocaine crisis and exportation.]]

screwball comedy film

principally American genre of comedy film

theatrical genre

thumb|200px|A pair of performers at a New Year celebration; the at front, the behind him (artist unknown, 19th-century Japanese painting)

fiction genre that blends elements of horror and comedy

comedy of manners

theatrical and literary genre

entertainer who skillfully mimics the voices, speech patterns, singing styles, and mannerisms of others in their performances

thumb|The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph book cover, 1890, showing [[harlequinade characters]] Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment, generally combining broad and topical humour and cross-dressing actors with a story more or less based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or folk tale. Pantomime is a participatory form of theatre developed in England in the 18th century in which the audience is encouraged and expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and to shout out phrases to the performers.

action comedy film

genre in which comedy is motivated by sexual situations and love affairs

political satire

genre of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics

thumb|Impersonators of Kim Jong-un ([[Howard X) and Donald Trump (Dennis Alan) during the 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit]] thumb|upright|Patrick Knight as Boy George thumb|An impersonator of George Michael thumb|Theodore Roosevelt impersonator [[Joe Wiegand performs 27 October 2008 in the East Room of the White House, during a celebration of Roosevelt's 150th birthday.]]

Carnival producer

thumb|upright=1.5|The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559)]] The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's ''Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His World. For Bakhtin, "carnival" (the totality of popular festivities, rituals and other carnival forms) is deeply rooted in the human psyche on both the collective and individual levels. Though historically complex and varied, it has o

science fiction comedy

sub-genre of science fiction

genre of comedy that derives humor from social awkwardness

type of slapstick humour associated with Hong Kong popular culture

comédie larmoyante

genre of French drama

subgenre of comedy films

film and television genre

madrigal comedy

comedy of intrigue

genre of comedy

In theater and music history, a burletta (Italian, meaning "little joke", sometimes burla or burlettina) is a brief comic opera. In eighteenth-century Italy, a burletta was the comic intermezzo between the acts of an opera seria. The extended work Pergolesi's was also designated a "burletta" at its London premiere in 1758.

Short humorous story, play, song, opera, etc.

Facetia (singular; plural: facetiae) is a European literary genre from the Renaissance consisting of short humorous stories, jokes, jests, witticisms or drollery, often obscene or coarse.

alternative comedy

observational comedy

character comedy

physical comedy