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 comedy group uses the basic theme of a fraternal organization, and their stage costumes are identical to the ones used in the movie's organization.

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.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

The play " exploits several archetypal forms and situations, all of which lend themselves to both comedy and pathos.

The type of comedy could vary, and the range was great: from Rossini's The Barber of Seville in 1816 which was purely comedic, to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 1786 which added drama and pathos.

One of his last stage performances was as Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, ( 1990 ) where he demonstrated the fine line between pathos and comedy to perfection.

The naturalness and spontaneity of humour with which he acted the love scenes revealed a spirit in comedy new to his contemporaries, long used to a more artificial convention ; and the touch of pathos which the part required revealed no less to the actor an unexpected power in himself.

He also has no problem with transition from comedy to pathos, as he showed in Nothing in Common, and he's now proving himself as one of the country's most versatile actors.

One of Coca's early stock characters on the Caesar series blended comedy with socially conscious pathos as a bag lady, and she was frequently asked to reprise the role, including by Carol Burnett for her 1960s series and by Red Skelton as love interest to one of his own familiar characters in the 1981 TV special Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner.

Much of the comedy and pathos of the series centers on Brent's many idiosyncrasies, hypocrisies, self-delusions and self-promotion ( including playing up to the ' documentary ' camera's presence in his workplace ).

This mingling of comedy and pathos in a superficially grotesque character is characteristic of some of the classics of British comedy, such as Hancock and Steptoe and Son.

" The novel shows Irving beginning to develop a blend of comedy and pathos, as well as a penchant for fashioning quirky characters.

" The authors of Friends like Us: The Unofficial Guide to Friends write that it is " a watershed in the history of the show " and " It's the sign of a good show that they can switch so effortlessly from comedy to pathos to romance in one short scene.

In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson criticized director Martin Brest for, " carrying the dead weight of George Gallo's script, Brest isn't up to the strenuous task of transforming his uninspired genre material in something deeper, and so the attempts to mix pathos with comedy strike us merely as wild and disorienting vacillations in tone ".

The Registry said that the film is " an artful melding of touching drama, social commentary and inventive comedy " and praised Chaplin's ability to " sustain his artistry beyond the length of his usual short subjects and could deftly elicit a variety of emotions from his audiences by skillfully blending slapstick and pathos.

Martin also noticed that Lewis was playing comedy scenes for pathos and greed and staging more of the action himself, having lost vision of what their comedy team-up was all about in the first place.

" Barbara Scharres of the Chicago Reader said that Kaurismäki " perfects his trademark formula of deadpan humor and arctic circle pathos in this brilliantly ironic 2002 comedy.

This film echoed Chaplin's work on The Tramp, with more drama and pathos mixed in with the comedy.

Reviewing for The Mercury, Robert Jarman noted " the show combines comedy and pathos, mime, magic and sleight of hand, shadow puppetry, film and sound in an exemplary and enchanting mix.

This film was also reviewed in the psychiatric monograph The Eating Disorders, which concluded that the film "... veers between comedy and pathos as a man discovers ... fat is the ... only sin in America.

This is the strongest act to hit the area in a long while -- a well integrated, fast moving outfit specializing in skits, vocals, comedy and instrumentals all of it distinctly displaying the pro touch.

George Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that comedy should touch as well as amuse, " I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter.

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

She has an unusually easy touch with both comedy and drama, and she never holds a melodramatic moment hostage .” The film was a commercial success, earning over $ 101 million worldwide.

The experience of weekly television allowed Deschamps, now in his 50s, to keep a hand in the comedy business and stay in touch with Quebec audiences, but with a much lower level of stress than his one-man shows had involved.

The Boston Globe film critic, Wesley Morris, was impressed by the comedy, and wrote, " Lost Embrace has a novelist's human touch.

They travel through the Amazon rainforest, where they encounter waterfalls, headhunters, bridge collapses, and Maya death traps, all with often tongue-in-cheek comedy and a touch of romance.

Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Post wrote " here are many high triumphs of the imagination in the vastly original musical comedy ... ut it is Miss Harris who provides it with the extra touch of magic.

Tom Griswold, co-host of The Bob & Tom Show, a syndicated American comedy radio program, occasionally says he wishes he could see a plate spinner on TV again and wants to book one for his staff's annual Christmas party, which Chick McGee cites as further evidence that Griswold is out of touch with contemporary entertainment.