This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back at least as far as Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.

Much like comedy-horror, black comedy, or dark comedy, is a type of comedy film that often uses cruelty as the source of humour.

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.

The original template for this kind of comedy is Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Much of the comedy coming into New Zealand at the time was British radio and this was an inspiration to him.

Much of the sequence of the freaks attacking Cleopatra, as she lay under a tree, was removed, as well as a gruesome sequence showing Hercules being castrated, a number of comedy sequences, and most of the film's original epilogue.

In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in Trevor Nunn's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's " British Raj " revival of Much Ado About Nothing.

During the early and mid 1990s, Washington starred in several successful thrillers, including The Pelican Brief and Crimson Tide, as well as in comedy Much Ado About Nothing and alongside Whitney Houston in the romantic drama The Preacher's Wife.

Much of her comedy has revolved around the mocking of famous people ( with a strong and frequently revisited focus on Madonna ).

Much of the comedy emerges from the subtle variations in each version as off-stage chaos affects on-stage performance, with a great deal of slapstick.

Much of the movie's plot was spoofed in the 1993 comedy Fatal Instinct.

Murdoch appeared with Kenneth Horne in the BBC Radio comedy series Much Binding in the Marsh from 1944-54.

Much of the comedy surrounding the Johnsons is based on Mrs. Johnson's sympathy towards Alf, often letting him walk all over them and much to the anger of Mr. Johnson.

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 ).

His first starring role was in the 1922 comedy film Too Much Business, and he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in Beggar on Horseback in 1925.

" was a catchphrase in the BBC radio comedy show " Much Binding in the Marsh ", which ran from 1944 to 1954 and was initially about life on a mythical Royal Air Force ( RAF ) station.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Much of the comedy arises from differences in the descriptions of the same events by different participants.

Much of the character's humor is derived from slapstick comedy.

Much of its comedy parodies popular television shows, movies, and music, and covers topical, political, and pop cultural humor.

* Much of the on-field scenes for the 1994 comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective were filmed at the Orange Bowl.

Much of his early comedy career focused on stand-up and writing for shows like In Living Color.

In January 2012, Griffith was cast in the comedy film The Hot Flashes with her real-life friends Daryl Hannah ( who also appeared with her in Two Much ) and Brooke Shields.

Much of its strength stems from the comfortable knowledge that every `` volunteer '' Democratic organization of any consequence belongs to the Aj.

Much of the modern knowledge about Canaan stems from excavation in this area.

Much of the band ’ s enduring and unfashionable reputation stems from their emergence in the early 1980s as the most commercially successful band of the neo-progressive rock movement, an unexpected revival of the progressive rock musical style that had fallen out of critical favour in the mid-1970s.

Much of this stems from the fact that the individual cities each have populations less than 75, 000, and do not have much of a presence on their own.

Much of the impact of the treatise stems from the closely detailed stories of interrogation routines, prison indignities and ( especially in section 3 ) camp massacres and inhuman practices.

Much of the information in this article stems from that work.

Much of the appeal of the series stems from its extensive use of references and allusions from a wide array of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Muir, Norbert Wiener, and to the poetry of John Keats, a famous English Romantic poet of the 19th century, Norse Mythology, and the monk Ummon ; a large number of technological elements are acknowledged by Simmons to be inspired by elements of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

Much of the information known about George's later personal and professional life stems from court records of the dissolution of his marriage and of his attempt to get out of debt by wresting control of Sherfield House from his niece Anne Morris and her husband, Francis.

Much of the borough ’ s importance stems from its forested conservation areas, as it functions to provide oxygen to the Valley of Mexico and serves for aquifer recharge.

" Much of the discrimination stems from the Indian Act amendments and modifications in 1951.

Much of the drive for longer prison sentences in New Zealand stems from years of media attention given to Garth McVicar of the Sensible Sentencing Trust.

Much of the Senshi's strength stems from their reliance and friendship with other girls rather than from men.

Much of the humor in Zork Grand Inquisitor stems from the ludicrous Inquisition policies and propaganda.

Much of the corruption in Mongolia stems from interaction between bad actors in the business community and the government surrounding mining rights ; so in an effort to create a dialogue between different stakeholders in the natural resource and mining community Elbegdorj opened a roundtable in Ulaanbaatar with the World Economic Forum ’ s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative ( PACI ) in March 2011.

Much of the cuisine usually associated with New York City stems in part from its large community of Eastern European Jews and their descendants.

Much bicyclist opposition to rumble strips stems from situations in which no quantitative data is used to justify their installation and installation is not in accordance with the standard.

Much of the Caro – Kann's reputation as a solid defence stems from this variation.

Much of the non-linearity stems from the equilibrium between two different forms of the dye which is perturbed by adding the protein.

Much of the interest in the Menexenus stems from the fact that it is one of the few extant sources on the practice of Athenian funeral oratory, even though it parodies the medium.

Much of its criticism stems from its deemed, unknown authority, as some believe the text to be authoritative, though some consider it is only an advisory.

Much of the hunting stems from their reputation as a man-eater, which is not entirely unjustified.

Much of the present conception of that theory stems from Wicksell's model.

Much of the series ' attraction stems from the interaction of the psychologists ' logical, rationalistic viewpoints with the wildly counterintuitive physics of the worlds they visit.

Much of the concern related to human cloning stems from a fear of overstepping the bounds of the natural order.