Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '', `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '', `` a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and invention ''.

The school's nearly 150 active student organizations include three theatre boards ( coordinating as many as ten productions every term ), long-form and short-form improv groups and a sketch comedy troupe, seven a cappella groups, four choirs, seven specialized instrumental ensembles, five dance interest groups, two auditioned dance companies, a successful Mock Trial team, a nationally competitive debate program, seven recurring student publications, and a student-run KRLX radio station, which employs more than 200 volunteers each term.

The motion for a week's debate varies widely, and often touch on politics, science, the arts, religion, the economy and comedy.

In 1994, Taylor made a memorably idiosyncratic appearance on the BBC comedy panel show Have I Got News for You where he didn't seem to understand the light-hearted nature of the programme and used its forum for serious political debate.

Other popular events include The Great Debate, a televised comedy debate, the Opening Night Super Show, and Upfront, a night of performances exclusively featuring female comedians.

Less classically, stand-up comedy, oratory, debate, etc., are also performing arts ; and the term also includes all of the various forms, subforms, elements, and variations of the foregoing, such as oral interpretation, marching band, and so on.

Citizen Ruth is a 1996 comedy film that tells a story of a poor, irresponsible and pregnant woman who unexpectedly attracts attention from those involved in the debate about the morality and legality of abortion.

The station broadcasts a wide range of programming, including news, debate, music drama, comedy and sport commentaries.

The phrase has gone on to be used in popular culture, including an episode of the comedy news program The Daily Show that reported on a Senate debate over catchphrases for summarizing positions on war in Iraq.

However, before the national debate caused by the Viola case, a 1964 satire directed by Pietro Germi, Seduced and Abandoned ( Sedotta e abbandonata ), treated the Sicilian custom as a dark comedy.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

In one scene of the comedy film Airplane !, a city skyline features a radio tower with a neon-lighted station callsign.

The surviving kinescope of the live Benny telecast features Bogart in his only TV sketch comedy outing.

* Imhotep features in the British comedy television series Look Around You.

The result was a variety show for children, with such regular features as a newsreel, a cartoon, and a serial, as well as music, talent and comedy segments.

For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.

Modern updates on screwball comedy may also sometimes be categorized as black comedy ( Intolerable Cruelty, which also features a twist on the classic screwball element of divorce and re-marriage ).

The 1985 comedy The Man with One Red Shoe features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot.

The trio also filmed 41 short comedy skits for The New Three Stooges, which features a series of 156 animated cartoons produced for television.

Several critics were disappointed that Nielsen's role in Surf Ninjas was only " an extended cameo " and film critic Chris Hicks recommended that viewers "... avoid any comedy that features Leslie Nielsen outside of the Naked Gun series.

The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts.

This version of the show runs for approximately one hour and features the News from Lake Wobegon and selected musical acts and comedy sketches.

" The subplot in A Shrew however, which features an extra sister and addresses the issue of marrying above and below one's class, " has many elements more associated with the romantic style of comedy popular in London in the 1590s.

He also appeared as a juvenile performer in many non-Roach feature films, including the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy Kentucky Kernels and two Fritz Lang features of the 1940s.

The 1980s comedy cop show Sledge Hammer features an episode " Witless " which shares many aspects of the film.

The Mystic Showroom at the Mystic Lake Casino and Hotel in Prior Lake is an entertainment venue thet frequently features A-list musical and comedy performers.

The Buxton fringe features drama, music, dance, comedy, music, poetry, art exhibitions and films in various venues around the town.

First staged in 1994, it features plays, pantomimes, comedy evenings, musical performances, and a keenly-contested bake-off.

Tomlin's third comedy album, 1975's Modern Scream, a parody of movie magazines and celebrity interviews features her performing as multiple characters, including Ernestine, Edith Ann, Judith, and Suzie.

He is best known for having co-written and starred in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the comedy series Spaced.

and sketch comedy series Bremner, Bird and Fortune, which features veteran comedians John Bird and John Fortune.

* Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose features a murder mystery whose solution hinges on the contents of Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics ( dealing with comedy ).

The series features an energetic juxtaposition of comedy and drama, as the characters engage in lighthearted antics in between facing the drama of war.

It transcends the glaring fact that the Elizabethans mixed tragedy and comedy whereas the Greeks kept the two modes severely distinct.

It was a provocative and controversial road comedy about two sexually obsessed teenagers who take an extended road trip with an attractive married woman in her late twenties.

In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

Bronx born and reared Nancy Savoca's 1989 comedy True Love, explores two Italian-American Bronx sweethearts in the days before their wedding.

The first two films in the series are considered horror classics and are credited with spawning the " horror comedy " genre.

* In the 1989 black comedy Heathers, two teenaged characters attempt to tip a cow when drunk.

He released two records of his stand-up comedy: No Cure for Cancer ( 1993 ) and Lock ' n Load ( 1997 ).

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

Modern improvisational comedy, as it is practiced in the West, falls generally into two categories: shortform and longform.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Falk turned in a gem of a performance as one of two cabbies who falls victim to greed in the epic 1963 star-studded comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, even though he appears only in the last fifth of the movie.

In 2001 and 2002 Whitehouse wrote and performed in two series of the BBC comedy drama Happiness, in which he played a voice-over actor with a mid-life crisis.

At least two stage plays set in the world of pro wrestling have been produced: The Baron is a comedy that retells the life of an actual performer known as Baron von Raschke.

The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters, usually a man and a woman, meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite.

Aniston then appeared in two more failed television comedy series, The Edge and Muddling Through, and guest-starred on Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, and Burke's Law.

* The season seven episode " Fun on a Bun " of the animated science fiction comedy Futurama includes two original songs by the band plus a cover version of " The Chicken Dance ".

A lighthearted combination of mystery and comedy, the series won Shepherd two Golden Globe awards.

The comedy, thus, is in the unpredictable shifting of the scene's meaning, from two socialite ladies and a world-famous explorer mingling at a party, to a parody of O ' Neill's work, to a mimicking of a man reading out stock prices.

Her first two Hollywood films were The April Fools ( 1969 ), a romantic comedy with Jack Lemmon, and Hustle ( 1975 ), a crime drama with Burt Reynolds.

She managed to land unbilled small parts in several feature films and comedy shorts for two years.

As well as being a successful comedy act, Julian and Sandy were notable for being two camp homosexual characters in mainstream entertainment at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the UK, and for the use of the Polari language in the sketches.

He starred in several British television comedy shows, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards.

David Jason appeared in the BBC comedy series Hugh and I, which starred Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as two friends who lived together in south London.