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{{cleanup|This needs to be turned into a category. Or maybe two categories: [[:Category:Comedy]] and [[:Category:Humor]].}}[[Category:Pages that should be categories]]
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{{cleanup|The people listed under "Examples of works in the Comedy genre" need to be moved to a more appropriat page - people are not works. [[Names to Know in Comedy]] might be appropriate.}}
{{quote|''"Ever since prehistoric times, wise men have tried to understand what exactly makes people laugh. That's why they were called wise men. All the other prehistoric people were out puncturing each other with spears, and the wise men were back in the cave saying:''
'''How about: Here's my wife, please take her right now. No. How about: Would you like to take something? My wife is available. No. How about ...'"''
|'''[[Dave Barry]]'''|'''''Why Humor is Funny'''''}}
Describe
You don't want much, do you?
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Comedy, as something [[Black Comedy|primarily]] [[Kafka Komedy|happy]], is directly opposed to [[Tragedy]], [[Dramedy|but not so much]] [[Drama]], and [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror|can never be perfectly combined]] with [[Horror]]. And has been since the day it was conceived as a term, albeit not like we know today; comedy was something with a happy ending, i.e. Dante's [[Divine Comedy]], [[Tragedy]] was a something that had a sad ending. Propelled off of [[Rule of Funny]], comedy infects all art forms. Its hobbies include [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|satires, parodies, pastiches,]] [[Played for Laughs|playing for laughs,]] [[Deadpan Snarker|snarking,]] [[Irony|irony,]] and [[Inherently Funny Words|hiding snickerdoodles in its knickerbockers]].
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A really, really long list of [[Comedy Tropes]] can be found at [[Comedy Tropes]]. Go figure.
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Marx Brothers]]
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
* [[Douglas Adams]]
* [[Terry Pratchett]]
* [[Mark Twain]]; first "American" humorist.
** Along the same lines, [[Ambrose Bierce]], writer of ''[[The
* [[William Shakespeare]] - Master of English tragedy though he was, he also wrote a lot of ridiculously funny (and often extremely dirty) comedies.
* ''[[
== [[Live
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' turned comedy on its head with surrealism.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' took all the comedy that came before it, and threw it into a blender, creating the foundation for modern humor. It does this once a decade.
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* ''[[SCTV]]''
* ''[[Mr. Show]]''
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''
== Music ==
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]
* [[Frank Zappa]]
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== [[New Media]] ==
* ''[[Something Awful]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[The Onion]]''
* ''[[Cracked.com]]''
* ''[[Italian Spiderman]]''
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Most [[
* ''[[Portal (
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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