The term " game " in improv can also refer to the Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre's concept of the " game of the scene " as a teaching technique and strategy for improv and sketch comedy.

Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of the term " humour " ( a German loanword from English ) to mean any type of comedy.

After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term " comedy " thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature.

Since the literate classes have left the most records, and these tended to dismiss peasants as figures of coarse appetite and rustic comedy, the term " peasant " may have a pejorative rather than descriptive connotation in historical memory.

As well as popular jazz and comedy nights, Clare is renowned for Clare Ents, a student night held every Friday in term time.

Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images ; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions ; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense ; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive ; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the " well-made play ".

* Simon Pegg-actor and comedian lived in Cricklewood in the early 1990s where he met long term comedy partner Nick Frost.

The term " comedy club " usually refers to venues that feature standup comedy, as distinguished from improv theaters that host improv or sketch comedy and variety clubs that may also host musical acts.

The term black humor ( from the French humour noir ) was coined by the Surrealist theoretician André Breton in 1935, to designate a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism, often relying on topics such as death.

The terms black comedy or dark comedy have been later derived as alternatives to Breton's term.

In ancient Greek comedy, the finger was a gesture of insult toward another person, with the term katapugon also referring to " a male who submits to anal penetration " or katapugaina to a female.

Catharsis is a term in dramatic art that describes the effect of tragedy ( or comedy and quite possibly other artistic forms ) principally on the audience ( although some have speculated on characters in the drama as well ).

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.

Comedian George Carlin used the term in a comedy skit, implying that people had already heard of it.

Hackett also appeared in the short term comedy series Action which starred Jay Mohr as movie producer Peter Dragon.

This term is heard in " Brooklyn Without Limits ", a 2010 episode of the comedy 30 Rock.

In Book III of his Republic ( c. 373 BCE ), Plato examines the style of poetry ( the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry ): All types narrate events, he argues, but by differing means.

In Book III of his Republic ( c. 373BC ), the ancient Greek philosopher Plato examines the " style " of " poetry " ( the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry ): All types narrate events, he argues, but by differing means.

Alternative comedy is a term that originated in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era, and typically avoids relying on a standardised structure of a sequence of jokes with punch lines.

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls " poetry " ( a term which in Greek literally means " making " and in this context includes drama — comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play — as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb ).

The term was popularized in the 1896 US Presidential Election, when William McKinley supporters took to wearing gold lapel pins, gold neckties, and gold headbands in a demonstration of support for gold against the " silver menace ", though the term's original use may have been in Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 story " The Gold-Bug ," about a cryptographic treasure map.

Many of these forms of work may be covered by the term forced labour, which is defined by the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) as all involuntary work or service exacted under the menace of a penalty ..

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

But the enmities it will incur, the isolation into which it will descend, and the internal moral and spiritual softness that will be engendered, will, in the long term, bring it to economic and political disaster.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

" Appellate review " is the general term for the process by which courts with appellate jurisdiction take jurisdiction of matters decided by lower courts.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

They are grouped with the outer bodies — centaurs, Neptune trojans, and trans-Neptunian objects — as minor planets, which is the term preferred in astronomical circles.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

In approximately 450 BCE, Democritus coined the term átomos (), which means " uncuttable " or " the smallest indivisible particle of matter ".

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The term vestibular ataxia is employed to indicate ataxia due to dysfunction of the vestibular system, which in acute and unilateral cases is associated with prominent vertigo, nausea and vomiting.

Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

The term alloy is used to describe a mixture of atoms in which the primary constituent is a metal.