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.

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.

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.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

The third type, however, wrenches attention from the life of action and interests in the community and focuses it on the ground of being on which the community depends for its existence.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

But the Maryland militia had likewise fled, all too typical of this type of soldier during the Revolution, an experience which gave Morgan little confidence in militia in general, as he watched other instances of their breaking in hot engagements.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of reading a thoughtful article in the U.S. News & World Report of May 8 which discussed this type of action in more detail, including both its advantages and its disadvantages.

Another type of shelter which gives excellent fallout protection can be built as an added room to the basement of a home under construction.

In any instance, you should determine the exposure according to the type of light which falls on most of the subject area.

How can you cash in on this fast-growing type of outlet and still maintain relationships with older existing outlets which are still important??

New to the field is a duplex type butyrate laminate in which the two sheets of the laminate are of different color.

Huge industries are involved also in the production of biological products, drugs and cosmetics which are liable to this type of attack.

Then in 2 we show that any line involution with the properties that ( A ) It has no complex of invariant lines, and ( B ) Its singular lines form a complex consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve, is necessarily of the type discussed in 1.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

The first reason would never apply to a reorganization transfer which meets the conditions of section 381(a), which is the only type presently under discussion.

With respect to this type of item, one might properly apply the language of the Committee Report, quoted above, which cautions against using section 381 as a basis for treating other tax attributes not mentioned therein.

We turn now to a type of fully distributed cost analysis which, unlike the `` railroad type '', draws no distinction between cost allocation and cost apportionment: the single-step type.

It might be called the `` public utility '' type because of the considerable use to which it has been put in gas and electric utility rate cases.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

But before turning to this example, we must distinguish two subtypes of analysis, both of which belong to the single-step type rather than to the double-step type.

She said, `` Well, those are the really interesting things, but if you don't like any of those I can turn over some of my extra typing jobs to you, if you think you can type well enough ''.

She possessed vivacity, grace, and charm as an actress of the comédienne type ; but she was not a natural tragédienne, and her attempt at the strongly dramatic part of Norma turned out to be an histrionic failure.

She thought she was being asked her legal advice about the type of policy programme party leader Dick Spring was proposing.

She compensates for her lack of magic power with her innate talent for invention which is known throughout Heaven ( though it is revealed much later that this is also a type of magical ability ).

She was a dealer in dolls, and her letters discussed the quantity and type of doll to ship.

She introduced color to the editorial pages ( several years before The New York Times ) and photography, with less type on each page and a generally more modern layout.

" She declined to specify the type of cancer he had.

She is Harlequin's mistress, a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot.

She discussed the type of contemporary actress she wanted to emulate and explained that there were two in particular that she was influenced by: Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve.

She helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.

She was interred in Forest Lawn — Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, alongside her mother, Ruthie, and sister, Bobby, with her name in larger type size.

She appears in the crossover sports game, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, where she is a skill type character.

She was said to have been the daughter of Apollo, his first priestess at Delphi, and the inventor of the hexameter verses, a type of poetic metre.

She is a goddess of " no definable type ", with several origins and a range of different characteristics and functions.

She felt she had proven herself capable of playing more than the demure ingénues and damsels in distress that were quickly typecasting her, and began to reject scripts that offered her this type of role.

She enjoys sweet rose -, blue -, white-or cream-colored beverages, water sweetened with syrup, any type of non-alcoholic liqueurs, clairin, and acassan ( a drink consisting of boiled cornmeal sweetened with highly refined cane juice ).

She continues to supply the chief type even during imperial times, being generally shown seated with the tympanum in her hand.

She was the more-or-less fiancée of Harold Hamgravy, a " lounge lizard " or slacker type who did as little work as possible and was always borrowing money.

She was of the Spanish galleon type, known in Japan as Nanban-Sen ( 南蛮船 ).

She washed off her makeup and played against type to set up Elizabeth Taylor's beauty in A Place in the Sun, still a landmark American film.

She was invited on several occasions to the house of Amin Beh Al Mahdy, who taught her how to play the oud, a type of lute.

She stated that the letters transmitted information about ships damaged at Pearl Harbor and that the names of the dolls corresponded to a list that explained the type of ships involved.

She often wore parti-coloured cottes ( a type of tunic ), gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps.

She thought it would be funny to cast Beatty against type as the Hope part, the bumbler of the duo, while the costar, possibly Dustin Hoffman, would play the self-assured ladies ' man that Crosby usually took.