In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

There are a number of performing arts groups at Columbia dedicated to producing student theater, including the Columbia Players, King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe ( KCST ), Columbia Musical Theater Society ( CMTS ), NOMADS ( New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students ), LateNite Theatre, Columbia University Performing Arts League ( CUPAL ), Black Theatre Ensemble ( BTE ), sketch comedy group Chowdah, and improvisational troupes Alfred and Fruit Paunch.

The comedy group Buckner & Garcia released a novelty concept album, Pac-Man Fever, that went gold and produced a hit single of the same name ; all of the songs on the album pertained to popular video games of the time.

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.

A more analogous case is that of the screwball comedy, widely accepted by film historians as constituting a " genre ": the screwball is defined not by a fundamental attribute, but by a general disposition and a group of elements, some — but rarely and perhaps never all — of which are found in each of the genre's films.

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 science-fiction comedy parody about a troupe of human actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord.

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group.

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean.

There he performed in the now well-established comedy group, the Oxford Revue.

In 1978, the Monty Python comedy group invited Moon to join them in Tunisia for their filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian, where he was to play some of the smaller roles.

Michael Edward Palin, CBE, FRGS ( pronounced ; born 5 May 1943 ) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

He played the guitar with a jazz and comedy group called The Bill Hall Trio in concert parties for the troops.

At the Cotton Club, Ellington's group performed all the music for the revues, which mixed comedy, dance numbers, vaudeville, burlesque, music, and illegal alcohol.

The comedy of a group of friends in their forties reading one another their memoirs was not lost on Bloomsbury.

The stone is referred to in the comedy play by Derek Webb called Bringing Back the Bluestones in which a Welsh group decide to emulate the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland by demanding the return of the Bluestones from Stonehenge to Pembrokeshire.

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

A British sitcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television and tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode.

Idle was a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of the Rutles on Saturday Night Live, and the author of the Broadway musical Spamalot.

It is unknown exactly when he wrote it, but the play, the comedy Mélite, surfaced when Corneille brought it to a group of traveling actors in 1629.

Unlike the 1970s series, in which the Electric Company refers to a troupe of actors in comedy sketches, the new series refers to a group of super heroes who battle villains in the name of literacy.

In 1989, Smith co-founded a Christchurch theatresports group, Scared Scriptless, performing live comedy.

* " El beso de Ariadna " (" Ariadne's Kiss ") is the name of a musical comedy act by Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

Tropic Thunder ( 2008 ) is a comedy film revolving around a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film ( itself also named " Tropic Thunder ") when their fed-up writer and director decide to abandon them in the middle of the jungle, forcing them to fight their way out.

Fantasy comedy films are types of films that uses magic, supernatural and or mythological figures for comic purposes.

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

* The television comedy Second City Television ( SCTV ) uses the concept of the crane shot as comedic material.

* Director Dennis Dugan frequently uses top-to-bottom crane shots in his comedy films.

Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.

By writing his comedies in a combination of Elizabethan and Plautine styles, Shakespeare helps to create his own brand of comedy, one that uses both styles.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.

A lesser-known example is Jérôme Savary's La fille du garde-barrière ( 1975 ), an homage to silent-era films that uses intertitles and blends comedy, drama, and explicit sex scenes ( which led to it being refused a cinema certificate by the British Board of Film Classification ).

During and after the Second World War there were scattered European uses of Western settings, mostly for comedy or even musical comedy.

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

* In the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords episode " The New Cup ", the band's manager, Murray, uses the band's emergency funds for an investment with a Nigerian, Mr. Nigel Soladu, who promises to offer " 1000 % profit ".

In his Appalachian comedy routine, American comedian Jeff Foxworthy frequently uses oronyms which play on exaggerated " country " accents.

For example, a 1940 British comedy about an unauthorized TV broadcaster, Band Waggon, uses the phrase " pirate station " several times.

Lee frequently uses negative reviews on his posters in order to put off potential audience members who are unlikely to be fans of his comedy style.

The series uses a surrealist style of comedy, featuring characters, objects, and jokes that are briefly introduced and rarely ( if ever ) referenced thereafter.

The Portuguese comedy group, Gato Fedorento, uses the word nigga in an audio sketch, where the four individuals ( all Caucasian ) say they are niggas (" I'm nigga, nigga ; are you nigga, nigga?

In the episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip entitled " The Option Period ", comedy writer Rick Tahoe uses The 2000 Year Old Man as an example of an ideal comedy sketch.

The show uses sketch comedy, non-sequiturs and guerrilla comedy.

In the influential 1982 film comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High the student, and surfer, Jeff Spicolli, Sean Penn, uses the greeting with the eccentric teacher Mr. Hand, Ray Walston, who had earlier made use of the greeting himself.