Screwball comedies, such as produced by Frank Capra, exhibited a pleasing, idealized climate that portrayed reassuring social values and a certain optimism about everyday life.

Screwball comedies also tend to contain ridiculous, farcical situations, such as in Bringing Up Baby, in which a couple must take care of a pet leopard during much of the film.

The Tex Avery originals have been frequently seen on Turner Broadcasting System-run networks such as the Cartoon Network and Boomerang ( Turner, now a subsidiary of Time-Warner, has owned the rights to Screwball Squirrel since founder Ted Turner bought the MGM / UA film library in 1986 ).

They also animated Two Stupid Dogs and Screwball Squirrel ( part of the Droopy: Master Detective series for Fox Kids in 1993 ).

Barks's stories ( whether humorous adventures or domestic comedies ) often exhibited a wry, dark irony born of hard experience.

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

To heighten the effect, the horror plays were often alternated with comedies.

Plautus's comedies are mostly adapted from Greek models for a Roman audience, and are often based directly on the works of the Greek playwrights.

Like farce, screwball comedies often involve mistaken identities or other circumstances in which a character or characters try to keep some important fact a secret.

Elements of classic screwball comedy often found in more recent films which might otherwise simply be classified as romantic comedies include the " battle of the sexes " ( Down with Love, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ), witty repartee ( Down with Love ), and the contrast between the wealthy and the middle class ( You've Got Mail, Two Weeks Notice ).

Spy films also enjoyed something of a revival in the late 1990s, although these were often action films with espionage elements, or comedies like Austin Powers.

Australian commercial television channels made their own versions of popular British comedies during the 1970s often using members of the original casts.

Lynn posits that the public are more intelligent than most situation comedies, often patronising, give them credit for.

Though widely known as a leading man in the 1950s & 60s ( often starring in romantic comedies opposite Doris Day ), Hudson is also recognized for dramatic roles in films such as Giant and Magnificent Obsession.

The three types that seem most often studied today are the histories, the comedies, and the tragedies.

In the 1970s, Granada produced situation comedies, often based around life in the north west including Nearest and Dearest, The Lovers and The Cuckoo Waltz followed by Brothers McGregor and Watching in the 1980s.

Just as the popular rural-based American comedies of Ma and Pa Kettle and The Beverly Hillbillies, Velasco has made a highly popular comedic representation of rural Mexico as a typical Mexican indigenous woman named " Maria " who is often confused by urban life.

Restoration comedies often contrast town and country for humorous effect, and this is one example of it.

It was often assumed that Shakespeare was deliberately avoiding the more serious themes of his histories, tragedies or later comedies.

Instead, the vast majority of Canadian films are character-driven dramas or quirky comedies of the type that often appeal to critics and art house film audiences more than to mass audiences.

Piscopo is often cast as a villain in comedies such as Sidekicks and Johnny Dangerously.

Games Gamblers Play ( 1974 ), The Private Eyes ( 1976 ), The Contract ( 1978 ) and Security Unlimited ( 1981 ) – the last of which won him the first Hong Kong Academy Best Actor award – are often seen as the quintessential comedies made by the company.

Companies often round out their seasons with selections from classic dramas, popular comedies, and musicals.

Because of the tendency for rivals to appear even when there is one female lead and because of the unnatural gender balance among the cast, magical girlfriend comedies are often conflated with harem comedies.

Design for Living was a success on Broadway in 1933, but it has been revived less often than Coward's other major comedies.

There is often no element like Peripeteia ; it can bring forth or result in terror, mercy, or in comedies it can bring a smile or it can bring forth tears ( Rizo ).

Her screenplays are often less comedies of manners than profound struggles over the souls of young women.

As television became filled with family-oriented comedies, the 1950s saw a trend toward more adult social situations.

Films of little artistic value, these comedies reached their popularity by confronting Italian social taboos, most notably in the sexual sphere.

In the 1950s she wrote a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women ( 1952 ) and A Glass of Blessings ( 1958 ).

A superficial reading gives the impression that they are sketches of village or suburban life, and comedies of manners, studying the social activities connected with the Anglican church ( in particular its the Anglo-Catholic parish.

However since the mid-20th century, Jamaica has increasingly developed stronger social and economic ties with the United States and the increasing popularity of U. S. cultural offerings including film, music, and televised dramas and comedies, exposure to American English has been increasing steadily.

As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals ( albeit in non-singing and non-dancing roles ), adventure tales, war films, and even a few horror and fantasy films.

His plays can be divided into at least three distinct categories: social comedies, political dramas and plays that dramatize astrology, magic and other occult practices.

Indeed, even in social comedies such as Las paredes oyen we can encounter extensive astrological allusions.

Like other comedies at the time, Gomer Pyle was a " deep escapist " show ; it avoided political commentary and offered viewers a distraction from the social changes of the 1960s.

He wrote social comedies about the lifestyle of the Polish nobility and is known for his skill in characterization and plot, as well as the flexibility of his language.

Garci second film Solos en la madrugada ( Alone in the Dark ) ( 1978 ) became skilled tackling progressive social themes intended for an audience interested neither in elite art cinema nor in the popular style of most Spanish comedies.

Saint's novels are wry regional social comedies, laced with gentle humour and subtle social commentary.

One of the writers who influenced her was Jane Austen ; and her work also bears some similarities to the social comedies of manners written in the 1920s and 1930s, and to the work of Barbara Pym.

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Unlike his predecessors like Aristophanes, Menander's comedies tended to be more about the fears and foibles of the ordinary man, his personal relationships, family life and social mishaps rather than politics and public life.

Major influences on the subgenre include the social novels of Jane Austen, the drawing room comedies of P. G. Wodehouse, and the historical romances of Georgette Heyer.

Danish cinema nonetheless remains highly respected internationally, and Danish films ( today almost exclusively consisting of social realist dramas, social realist comedies, children's films and documentaries ) receive many awards at major international film festivals.

She is the author of A Girdle Round the Earth, a story of some of the more remarkable women travellers of the last 200 years, and Style: Acting in High Comedy, published in 1996, which contends that " High comedies are not bloodless, refined, wordy plays — their themes are sex, money and social advancement.

His hilarious satires of avaricious fathers, précieuses, social parvenues, doctors and pompous literary types were extremely successful, but his comedies on religious hypocrisy ( Tartuffe ) and libertinage ( Dom Juan ) brought him criticism from the church ; Tartuffe was only performed because of the king's intercession.

In the " Hanswurst dispute " of the 1730s, the scholar Johann Christoph Gottsched, in addition to the actress Friederike Caroline Neuber, strove to banish the buffoon from the German-speaking stage, to improve the quality of German comedies and to raise their social status, holding a public " banishing " of Hanswurst.