The anarchic comedy film, as its name suggests, is a random or stream-of-consciousness type of humour which often lampoons a form of authority.

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

In Europe the more restrained type of comedy was developed in substantial quantities in France, with the films of Max Linder for Pathé representing the summit of the genre from 1910 onwards.

The network became the home of many popular musical and comedy stars, among them Jack Benny, (" Your Canada Dry Humorist "), Al Jolson, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and Kate Smith, whom Paley personally selected for his family's La Palina Hour because she was not the type of woman to provoke jealousy in American wives.

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

Slapstick is a type of broad, physical comedy involving exaggerated, boisterous actions ( e. g. a pie in the face ), farce, violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.

was against type, Nielsen protested that he had " always been cast against type before ," and that comedy was what he always really wanted to do.

In 1986, Nielsen played against recent type as a dramatic ( and unsympathetic ) character in the comedy, Soul Man.

* Christmas pantomime ( British English ) — a type of musical comedy performed around Christmas based on a fairy tale

Pfeiffer was cast against type, as a murdered gangster's widowed moll on the run, in Jonathan Demme's mafia comedy Married to the Mob ( 1988 ), opposite Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell and Mercedes Ruehl.

Low comedy is a type of comedy characterized by " horseplay ", slapstick or farce.

This type of comedy has been a fixture ever since Greek plays.

Over time as low comedy began to include lewd jokes and more physical comedy, more mainstream performers began to practice this type of comedy: stand-up comedians, musicals, etc.

This type of comedy also was employed in most children's cartoons.

Sitcoms often base most of their plot on this type of comedy.

Because the marathon shows which featured every type of popular music and comedy were taped, there was no problem with a lack of live land line connections.

In reaction, Gilbert assigned them to different characters and story moments depending on what type of comedy was required.

The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series ( featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant ), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny.

As one would surmise, the procedure, however, could be repeated with the same object or with the same type of object often enough, so that the corresponding visual blots and the merest beginning of the tracing movement would provide clues as to the actual shape, which the patient then immediately could determine by a kind of inference.

A refrigerated item could also be heated and served in less time than is required for frozen foods of the same type.

By studying high speed movies made of this type of failure, the sequence of relationships as schematically illustrated in Fig. 9 could be observed.

And the same machine could host any number of instances of services of the same type, without any network connection conflicts.

Laws were passed in the US which prohibited the FCC type acceptance and sale of any receiver which could tune the frequency ranges occupied by analog AMPS cellular services.

The injection could be of a long-lasting type known as a depot injection, usually applied at the top of the buttocks every 2 – 4 weeks.

Development of this type of database involved not only design issues but the development of complex interfaces whereby researchers could access existing data as well as submit new or revised data.

It often expresses a sense of rebellion, suggesting that one could describe it as a type of culture revolution in science fiction.

Thus a construction of the following type could conceivably arise: " It nearly knocked me off me plates — he was wearing a syrup!

There are also several implementations of the concept of an extended cell, where the cell radius could be double or even more, depending on the antenna system, the type of terrain and the timing advance.

hoplitai ) derives from " hoplon " (, plural hopla ), the type of the shield used by the soldiers, although, as a word, " hopla " could also denote weapons held or even full armament.

About 30 years later American engineer and inventor Laurens Hammond filed U. S. Patent 1, 956, 350 for a new type of " electrical musical instrument " that could recreate a pipe organ-type sound.

However by 1783 the more economical Watt steam engine had been fully developed into a double-acting rotative type, which meant that it could be used to directly drive the rotary machinery of a factory or mill.

" What could be better than a type of English that saves you from having to re-edit publications for individual regional markets!

This type of operation is generally identified as state backed or sponsored, because the ' access to personal, financial or analytic resources ' identified exceed that which could be accessed by cybercriminals or individual hackers.

The irregularities in Gutenberg's type, particularly in simple characters such as the hyphen, suggested that the variations could not have come from either ink smear or from wear and damage on the pieces of metal on the types themselves.

Transmitted light pictures of the page also appeared to reveal substructures in the type that could not arise from traditional punchcutting techniques.

This could explain the variations in the type, as well as the substructures observed in the printed images.

Malevich's assumption that a shifting in the attitudes of the Soviet authorities towards the modernist art movement would take place after the death of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky's fall from power, was proven correct in a couple of years, when the Stalinist regime turned against forms of abstraction, considering them a type of " bourgeois " art, that could not express social realities.

The notion that the Soviet state could have an effective voluntary or militia type military was seriously undermined.

Mies played a significant role as an educator, believing his architectural language could be learned, then applied to design any type of modern building.

Turbofans and ramjets are the only other common forms of jet engine propulsion, although any type of engine could theoretically be used.

Initially, it could help the managers decide on what type of business they want to form.

Mesa was a strongly typed programming language with type-checking across module boundaries, but with enough flexibility in its type system that heap allocators could be written in Mesa.