While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns ( verbal reversals and wordplay ) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images ; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions ; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense ; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive ; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the " well-made play ".

Pogo combined both sophisticated wit and slapstick physical comedy in a heady mix of allegory, Irish poetry, literary whimsy, puns and wordplay, lushly detailed artwork and broad burlesque humor.

Humor in the show was based on farce, often relying on innuendo and misunderstanding, as well as physical comedy to punctuate the hare-brained schemes the characters would invariably conjure up to get themselves out of situations and dilemmas.

He played a character who saved his town from under-the-earth " graboid " monsters in the comedy / horror film Tremorsa role that People found him " far too accomplished " to playand portrayed an earnest medical student experimenting with death in Joel Schumacher's Flatliners.

She played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette ( 2006 ) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People ( 2008 ).

Whitehouse stars alongside Charlie Higson in a new BBC2 comedy series called Bellamy's People, the first episode was broadcast on 21 January 2010.

In 1951, Tracy portrayed a lawyer in The People Against O ' Hara and re-teamed with Hepburn for the sports comedy Pat and Mike ( 1952 ), the second feature written expressly for the pair by Kanin and Gordon.

The critically praised but commercially unsuccessful 1987 film Shy People was followed by a performance in the 1988 ensemble comedy Stars and Bars.

In 1986, DeVito starred in Ruthless People with Bette Midler and Judge Reinhold, and in 1987, he made his feature-directing debut with the dark comedy Throw Momma from the Train, in which he starred with Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey.

Bana also co-starred with Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen in Judd Apatow's third directorial feature, about stand-up comics, titled Funny People, marking Bana's first appearance in an American mainstream comedy.

People who have taken part in BBC comedy competitions have gone on to have their own series on Radio 7, such as John-Luke Roberts with Spats and Miriam Elia with A Series of Psychotic Episodes.

People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary ( or mockumentary ) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer.

He was an original cast member of the NBC comedy series Real People in 1979 and again from 1981-1983.

Rita Kempley of The Washington Post gave a positive review stating that it was " the best kidnapping comedy since last summer's Ruthless People.

Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof.

It also recognized the potential of comedy albums, producing Spike Jones ' first LP, Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry, in 1956 and several best-selling albums featuring live performances by Shelley Berman beginning in 1960.

Cocker's penchant for TV appearances was reflected in a parody of " Common People " (" Showbiz People ") which was featured on the satirical comedy show Spitting Image in 1996.

People in gorilla suits have always been a comedy staple.

Every Christmas, Robin Ince plays host to his Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People, a festival of science, music and comedy.

In 1988, Beatty appeared with the main character Thelonious Pitt in Shadows in the Storm ( 1988 ), returned to work with Burt Reynolds and Christopher Reeve ; in 1988 comedy film Switching Channels ( 1988 ) and Purple People Eater ( 1988 ), portraying a simple grandfather.

Chipper Lowell is an Award-winning visual and variety comedy comedian who has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Disney Channel, General Hospital, Empty Nest, Show Me The Funny, America's Funniest People, Shades of L. A., The Art of Mime, and the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

Uys's other well-known movie was Funny People in 1977, which was a comedy in the same genre as Candid Camera in the United States, putting unsuspecting people in embarrassing positions.

* Best radio comedy: People Like Us

* Best radio comedy: People Like Us

Since the age of 12, Walsh has been working as a professional actor and dabbled in sketches and stand-up comedy, with numerous TV appearances and a gold medal win at the 2000 Improv Games in Quebec as a member of the " 8 People " troupe.

Ruthless People is a 1986 black comedy written by Dale Launer, starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater and Bill Pullman as a supporting role in his film debut.

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

You Like to Play with Me ?, a sensitively delicate comedy about circus and its clowns, casting the playwright in a small part, as one of the clowns.

Like Plautus, Terence adapted Greek plays from the late phases of Attic comedy.

Like tragedy, the comedy arose from a ritual in honor of Dionysus, but in this case the plays were full of frank obscenity, abuse, and insult.

Curtis then gave what many believe was his best acting, three interrelated roles in the comedy Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ).

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

During 1981, after the worldwide success of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles, United Artists re-released Some Like It Hot to theatres.

In 2000, the American Film Institute listed Some Like It Hot as the greatest American comedy film of all time.

Like much Roman comedy, it is probably translated from an earlier Greek original, most commonly held to be Philemon's Long Night, or Rhinthon's Amphitryon, both now lost.

* Silvius ( fictional character ), a minor character in the pastoral comedy As You Like It

In 1981, he appeared in NBC's musical comedy children's special How to Eat Like a Child alongside other future child stars Billy Jacoby and Georg Olden.

In late 2004, Witherspoon began working alongside Mark Ruffalo on the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven.

Like her brother she was a prodigy, composing verses when only eight years old, and a five-act comedy at eleven.

Much of the station's closing night was made up of in-house produced output including Live Like A Lord ( a music and comedy show with mainstay TWW personality Ivor Emmanuel and Clive Dunn ) and Sing Me A Fantasy ( a musical film ).

Tomei appeared in the 2000 film What Women Want with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, which was a commercial success, and had a supporting role in the romantic comedy Someone Like You with Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd.

His 1980s roles included Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times ( opposite Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn ) and 1988's well-reviewed comedy Midnight Run, a buddy movie co-starring Robert De Niro.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Like many point-and-click adventure games, it features comedy elements.

Lampanelli released a comedy special on DVD entitled Take it Like A Man in 2005, appeared in the 2006 motion picture Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and had a cameo appearance in the VH1 sitcom So NoTORIous.

Some of Chase's starring shorts of the 1920s, particularly Mighty Like a Moose, Crazy Like a Fox, Fluttering Hearts, and Limousine Love, are among the finest in silent comedy.

In 2007, Mighty Like a Moose ( 1926 ) was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, solidifying its reputation as one of the most celebrated comedies of the silent era and cementing Chase's status as a pioneer of early film comedy.