His films introduced a slower, more expressive form of comedy than the typical Keystone farce, and he developed a large fan base.

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.

This form of comedy film was particularly popular during the 1930s and 1940s.

A popular trend during the 1920s and afterward was comedy in the form of animated cartoons.

Three improvisers performing long form improv comedy at the Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago.

* Madrigal dinner, a form of dinner theater incorporating comedy, madrigals, and a feast

The Christmas Sports included a form of comedy and satire based on local events and gossip.

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

Teasing ( sfottò ) is an ancient form of simple buffoonery, a form of comedy without satire's subversive edge.

Throughout history, comedy has been used as a form of entertainment all over the world, whether in the courts of the Western kings or the villages of the Far East.

Sketch comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall, where a large number of brief, but humorous, acts were strung together to form a larger programme.

Although Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely acted as the background for the show's comedy in the form of joke answers, often given by the stars prior to their " real " answer.

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring music, comedy, song, dance, recitation or drama.

The art form still survives in various musical formats, as well as in the stand-up comedy format, and in popular drag show performances.

The Polish kabaret is a popular form of live or televised entertainment involving a comedy troupe, and consisting mostly of comedy sketches and political satire.

Aristophanes, a comic playwright, defines and shapes the idea of comedy almost as Aeschylus had shaped tragedy as an art form — Aristophanes ' most famous plays include the Lysistrata and The Frogs.

Stand-up is an art form that is openly devoted to getting immediate laughs from an audience above all else, unlike theatrical comedy which creates comedy within the structure of a play with amusing characters and situations.

Aristophanes, a comic playwright, defines and shapes the idea of comedy almost as Aeschylus had shaped tragedy as an art form — Aristophanes ' most famous plays include the Lysistrata and The Frogs.

* The Noose ( TV series ), a comedy television program in the form of a fictitious news report aired on MediaCorp TV Channel 5

Specifically, he was one of the developers of a form called " madrigal comedy " — unstaged but dramatic collections of madrigals which, when sung consecutively, told a story.

He and his wife Effie Bancroft are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as ' drawing-room comedy ' or ' cup and saucer drama ', owing to the realism of their stage sets.

The corporation in America is in reality our form of socialism, vying in a sense with the other socialistic form that has emerged within governmental bureaucracy.

But while the corporation has all the disadvantages of the socialist form of organization ( so cumbersome it cannot constructively do much of anything not compatible with its need to perpetuate itself and maintain its status quo ), unluckily it does not have the desirable aspect of socialism, the motivation to operate for the benefit of society as a whole.

Further, change is a form of motion, it occurs as the act of a being in potency insofar as it is in potency and has not yet reached the terminus of the change.

Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

He had read his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his entire career has been characterized by radical experiments with the form and presentation of his poetry.

Why has this form of gentility gone out of American life??

At this time of crisis in our Nation's commuter railroads, a new threat to the continued operations of the New York Central has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad's proposal for control of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads.

Electronics has been applied to medicine for many years in the form of such familiar equipment as the x-ray machine, the electrocardiograph, and the diathermy machine.

There is no conclusive evidence yet that either of the proteases has been prepared in highly purified form nor is their specificity known.

The mechanism of action of these drugs has not been completely worked out, but certain of them appear to act by reducing the oxidised form of iodine before it can iodinate thyroglobulin ( Astwood, 1954 ).

Thus F satisfies Af if and only if F has the form Af.

Since Af are linearly independent functions and the exponential function has no zeros, these R functions Af, form a basis for the space of solutions.

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.

If cell Af has not previously been assigned as the information cell of a form in the text-form list, it is now assigned as the information cell of Af.

-- has now been raised in the reader's mind and in the following form.

Fragment A has been obtained in crystalline form as a dioxalate salt and free base.

A child probably requires some form of treatment if he has any of the following conditions:

As the tooth moves, bone cells on the pressure side of it will dissolve, and new ones will form on the side from which the tooth has moved.

The modern world has been marked by progressive disaffection with claims to divine sanction for the state, whatever its political form.