Associates warned him against making a comedy about the war, but he recalled: " Dangerous or not, the idea excited me.

The black comedy film deals with normally taboo subjects, including, death, murder, sexual relations, suicide and war, in a satirical manner.

The campaigns began with a series of adverts based on the 1986 French film Jean de Florette, directed by the British duo Anthea Benton and Vaughan Arnell, moving on to other genres including war movies, silent comedy and even surrealism.

The film set a style for war films to come and it can be considered the first comedy about war in film history.

The war was not all about the prowess of the outfit shown in a film, the comedy genre used as well the war time as a background like in La Grande Vadrouille ( 1966 ) and Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ).

Later war films like Catch-22 ( set in WWII ) and the black comedy MASH ( set in Korea ), reflected some of these attitudes.

Refusing another long-term studio contract, Fonda returned to Broadway, wearing his own officer's cap to originate the title role in Mister Roberts, a comedy about the Navy, where Fonda, a junior officer, wages a private war against the captain.

However, the show wasn't all that satirical, merely making fun of things — such as war films — though even this was a step forward in comedy.

In 1918 and after the war, Novello continued to write successfully for musical comedy and revue.

After the war he made a name for himself as a comedy actor, notably on radio in Waterlogged Spa, alongside Eric Barker and Puffney Post Office in which he played a hapless old postman with the catch-phrase " It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you tears them up ".

" After his discharge at the end of the war, he switched from singing to comedy.

The classical Greek writer Aristophanes, devoted an entire comedy, the Lysistrata, to a strike organised by military wives where they withhold sex from their husbands to prevent them from going to war.

Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer to construct a fake war with Albania.

* In one of the ' Head-to-Head ' dialogue sketches in the BBC comedy series Alas Smith and Jones Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones reminisce about the war and about the songs of the era.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

For the next decade Jewison continued to direct feature films released by major studios: In Country ( 1989 ), a drama concerned with Vietnam veterans and the daughter of a war casualty ; Other People's Money ( 1991 ), a social comedy about greed in the 1980s ; Only You ( 1994 ), a romantic comedy set in Italy ; and Bogus ( 1996 ), a fantasy about a young boy and his imaginary friend.

The series features an energetic juxtaposition of comedy and drama, as the characters engage in lighthearted antics in between facing the drama of war.

However, he did his part for the war effort by touring in a comedy act with Joe DeRita ( who later became a member of The Three Stooges ) for the Victory Committee showcases, and he also raised food for the government on a ranch that he owned.

He was known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability ; a notoriety that made him an inspiration for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire, Dr. Strangelove.

TV networks were not interested, however, because they did not see war as comedy material, despite the fact that one of the most popular shows at the time was M * A * S * H. Cronauer then revamped his sitcom into a script for a movie of the week, which eventually got the attention of Robin Williams.

By the early war years Warner was nationally known and starred in a BBC radio comedy show Garrison Theatre, invariably opening with, " A Monologue Entitled ...".

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

In 1997, a group led by Vladimiro Roca, a decorated veteran of the Angolan war and the son of the founder of the Cuban Communist Party, sent a petition, entitled La Patria es de Todos (" the homeland belongs to all ") to the Cuban general assembly requesting democratic and human rights reforms.

This sparked a violent reaction in 1878 as High Chief Atal of La Foa managed to unite many of the central tribes and launched a guerrilla war which cost 200 Frenchmen and 1, 000 Kanaks their lives.

In the European Theater of Operations napalm was used by American forces in the siege of La Rochelle in April 1945 against German soldiers ( and inadvertently French civilians in Royan )-about two weeks before the end of the war.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress tells of a war of independence waged by the Lunar penal colonies, with significant comments from a major character, Professor La Paz, regarding the threat posed by government to individual freedom.

In 2367, the Romulans brainwashed Commander Geordi La Forge of the USS Enterprise in an attempt to incite a Federation-Klingon war, but the plan was exposed and foiled.

La Débâcle, the military novel is set for the most part in country districts of eastern France ; its dénouement takes place in the capital during the civil war leading to the suppression of the Paris Commune.

The incident that gave its name to the war had occurred in 1731 when the British brig Rebecca was boarded by the Spanish coast guard La Isabela, commanded by Julio León Fandiño.

Breton returned to Paris in 1946, where he opposed French colonialism ( for example as a signatory of the Manifesto of the 121 against the Algerian war ) and continued, until his death, to foster a second group of surrealists in the form of expositions or reviews ( La Brèche, 1961 – 1965 ).

The Football War ( La guerra del fútbol, in Spanish ), also known as the Soccer War or 100 hour War, was a four-day war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.

The Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed on Thursday, January 16, 1992, ending 22 years of civil war, and are celebrated as a national holiday with people flooding downtown San Salvador in Plaza Gerardo Barrios and in La Libertad Park.

At the end of the war there were only two pockets of German resistance: La Rochelle, in the north and Royan in the south.

For a number of reasons, in particular the civil war that raged during the reign of Juan II and the subsequent conflicts involving the peasant farmers, the official Estudi General of Barcelona did not begin to develop until the reign of Fernando the Catholic ; but it was under King Charles I, in 1536, that the foundation stone was laid for the new university building at the top end of La Rambla.

La Grande Illusion ( also known as Grand Illusion ) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.

La Grande Illusion is a war film without any depiction of battle.

Little Turtle emerged as a war chief by defeating the French military adventurer Augustin de La Balme.

After the war, in 1946, both men founded La Spirotechnique ( as a division of Air Liquide ) in order to mass produce and sell their invention, this time under a new 1945 patent, and known as CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and " 45 " for 1945 ).

The ruined castle of La Ferté-Milon escaped further damage during the war.

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