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A comedic " precursor " to this concept occurred in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which Terry Jones began performing a striptease while giving a fast-paced rundown of economic news.
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* The television comedy Second City Television ( SCTV ) uses the concept of the crane shot as comedic material.
More serious sketch comedians differentiate their art from that of the skit, maintaining that skits tend to be a ( single ) dramatized joke, while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character, or situation.
Later artists have used the concept for motives ranging from genuine respect for the deceased ( Constantino Brumidi's fresco The Apotheosis of Washington on the dome of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D. C .), to artistic comment ( Salvador Dalí's or Ingres's The Apotheosis of Homer ), to mock-heroic and burlesque apotheoses for comedic effect.
The concept of a perfect bowling game has been regularly used in fiction for either suspenseful or comedic effect.
comedic and occurred
" In several interviews he later reflected on the significance of the comedic line: " I thought it was amusing, but it never occurred to me that it was going to become a trademark.
The show starts with Rove performing a comedic monologue about a variety of news events that have occurred during the previous week.
comedic and episode
": A comedic duet featured on the premiere episode and holds firm as one of the series ' most famous and endearing sketches.
Beginning with the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q became a recurring character, with pronounced comedic and dramatic chemistry between himself and Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
During the first Peel series, each episode would end with a short, comedic scene of the duo leaving the scene of their most recent adventure in some unusual vehicle.
The episode recast the show's main characters in a self-referential comedic parody of The Taming of the Shrew.
* Notably playing against type, Hearst played a crack-addicted prostitute on an episode of the comedic Son of the Beach.
In the season four episode " Love Machine ," his ex-girlfriend from Berlin visits and calls him by his real name, " Albert Clifford ", but the meaning of the abbreviation " A. C ." periodically served as comedic fodder during the show's run.
A 48 episode TV series called and featuring shrunken versions of Urd, Belldandy, and Skuld in a comedic super deformed style was produced by Oriental Light and Magic and aired on WOWOW from April 6, 1998 through March 29, 1999 as a part of the omnibus show Anime Complex.
Examples include a parody of the story published in a 1970 Batman comic book, comedic references in television programmes such as The Simpsons ( 1990 ), being discussed in a 2006 episode of the Catalan soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat, and a 2009 Wired Italia magazine article which compared selected photographs of McCartney, taken before and after his alleged demise.
These early episodes held to no specific generic type, so that any episode from one week to the next might be either comedic or dramatic.
" The Zeppo " is a comedic episode focusing on Xander: the episode begins with Cordelia mocking him as a " loser ", which upsets him.
The episode " The Replacement " focuses on the two aspects of Xander: the emotionally sensible, driven man, and the comedic buffoon.
With the comedic stimulation branching from the antics of Klasky and Csupo's infant children, the 6 – minute pilot episode, " Tommy Pickles & the Great White Thing " ( never to be aired ), went into production.
McDowell appeared in a unique episode of the animated series South Park, which provided a comedic retelling of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.
* In the twenty-fifth-anniversary reunion episode of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, John Cleese consents to appear on the show on condition that he be allowed to do the Silly Walk ; the other cast members are dubious about the comedic impact of doing the Walk on radio, but they ultimately give in after Cleese puts on a show of hurt feelings.
In the March 13 episode of Saturday Night Live Season 1, he is one of the audience cutaway shots ( usually featured in the early seasons with comedic and fictitious non-sequitur captions as to whom the audience member was, or what they did ).
* " South of the Border ( Part 2 )", the 11th episode in the comedic My Name Is Earl TV sitcom, has Catalina's Uncle ( a south-American " bandito " obsessed with 1980s-vintage U. S. pop culture, who was briefly redeemed from his villainous ways by the titular character during his Latin American trip ) yell " Wolverineeeees!
Although the episode itself was quite comedic, Kay's role was more serious than those he normally plays.
His co-introductions to almost every episode and " Street Interviews " segment highlighted his effective comedic partnership with Mick Molloy.
His real-life wife, Kikko Matsuoka ( born 11 February 1947 ), appeared in an episode resulting in a comedic conflict between the couple.
In actuality, the footage used in that episode was from episode 10 (" Abare League Bind ") of Dino Thunders source series, Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger, dubbed in a manner similar to the comedic parody dub of Kagaku Sentai Dynaman in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Hughley was selected to host and write a comedic news-show on CNN which covers global happenings in politics, entertainment, sports and pop culture, titled D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, which aired its premiere episode on Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 10 p. m. EDT on CNN.
In television, information dumps are common in sit-coms with the introduction of non-recurring characters which drive the comedic plot of a particular episode.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) ( adapted in 2004 as the stage production Spamalot ) was a comedic adaptation.
* Carol Cleveland, comedic foil for Monty Python
Cleese's " few friends " turned out to be his colleagues in Monty Python, pals in the earlier British comedic ensemble Beyond The Fringe, his Footlights / I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again peers in the contemporary British comedic ensemble The Goodies, and other members of the British comedy community from the 1960s and 1970s ( primarily those described as " Oxbridge " comedians ).
• They were the first stage shows in the UK to present comedic performers ( such as Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson ) in the same setting and shows as their contemporaries in rock music ( such as Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton and Sting ).
The Monty Python album Matching Tie and Handkerchief was originally issued with two concentric grooves with different programs on the second side ( this was done for comedic rather than practical reasons ).
Odenkirk has said his strongest comedic influence was Monty Python's Flying Circus, primarily due to its combination of cerebral and simple humor.
A Liar's Autobiography ( Volume VI ) is a comedic autobiography written by Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame, featuring a fictionalised account of his life.
The ' soft comedic focus ' however had been a deliberate plan by the production team who wanted to avoid the socio-political realism in comedies like Brassed Off and The Full Monty.
The comedic influences of the group include SNL forebears such as Adam Sandler, Chris Farley and Mike Myers, as well as luminaries such as Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, the Monty Python troupe and the Marx Brothers.
comedic and Circus
A clown bicycle or clown bike is a bicycle designed for comedic visual effect or stunt riding, typically by Circus clowns.
Josh Routh is a nationally recognised American circus performer, and a founding member of both the comedic troop Brothers Kaputnik and Circus Kaput.
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This education, history, and background are hinted at in the Margaret Rutherford films ( see below ), in which Miss Marple mentions her awards at marksmanship, fencing and equestrianism ( although these hints are played for comedic value ).
These films should not be confused with comedic cult movies like The Toxic Avenger, Bad Taste, Army of Darkness, Murder By Death, Spaceballs, and the films of John Waters, which purposely utilize elements from films " so bad they're good " for comedic effect.
In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).
While at Pitt, Kelly became involved in the university's Cap and Gown Club, which staged original, comedic musical productions.
The Marx Brothers became the biggest comedic stars of the Palace Theatre, which billed itself as the " Valhalla of Vaudeville ".
Many of the current " rules " of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills.
In 1975 Jonathan Fox founded Playback Theatre, a form of improvised community theatre which is often not comedic and replays stories as shared by members of the audience.
Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.
* Foolin Around is a 1980 movie starting Gary Busey and Annette O ' Toole, which uses a Milgram experiment parody in a comedic scene.
The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).
While puns are often simple wordplay for comedic or rhetorical effect, a double entendre alludes to a second meaning which is not contained within the statement or phrase itself, often one which purposefully disguises the second meaning.
These pictures also offered a kind of cultural escape valve: a safe battleground on which to explore serious issues like class under a comedic ( and non-threatening ) framework.
In college, he teamed up with his brother's roommate Robert Tapert and Campbell to shoot Within the Woods ( 1978 ), a 32-minute horror film which raised $ 375, 000, as well as the short comedic film It's Murder!
While the object from which the genre is derived dates from the Renaissance, theater historians argue that slapstick comedy has been at least somewhat present in almost all comedic genres since the rejuvenation of theater in church liturgical dramas in the Middle Ages.
For the sake of his budding comedic career, he changed his surname to " Prinze ", which he chose because, according to his friend David Brenner, he originally wanted to be known as the King of comedy, but Alan King already had that last name, so he would be the Prince of comedy instead.
In 2008, although he was reluctant to perform in an animated film, Hoffman had a prominent role as Shifu in the acclaimed film Kung Fu Panda, which was praised in part for his comedic chemistry with Jack Black ( whom he tutored in acting for an important scene ) and his character's poignantly complex relationship with the story's villain.
The type of comedy could vary, and the range was great: from Rossini's The Barber of Seville in 1816 which was purely comedic, to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 1786 which added drama and pathos.
His debut film role was in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3, in which he played the stepson of an evil landlord, a role that DiCaprio described as " your average, no-depth, standard kid with blond hair.
Arms and the Man is a humorous play which shows the futility of war and deals with the hypocrisies of human nature in a comedic fashion.
He performed serious roles on screen and stage ( such as his one-man theatre show Darrow, in which he played Clarence Darrow ), as well as providing voice-overs and on-camera appearances for commercials ; cartoons like Zeroman where he had the leading role / voice ; children's shows, such as Pumper Pups, which he narrated, in addition to comedic film roles.
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