Love Finds Andy Hardy is a 1938 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman to land a job.

The four-act Saul og David ( Saul and David ), written in 1902 to a libretto by Einar Christiansen tells the Biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David while Maskarade ( Masquerade ) is a comic opera in three acts written in 1906 to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg.

A Touch of Class is a 1973 British romantic comedy film which tells the story of a couple having an affair, who find themselves falling in love.

In the 2003 dark comedy film Bad Santa, the character of Santa tells a child that Apache Junction is the suburb that most resembles the North Pole.

Sitting Pretty is a 1948 American comedy film which tells the story of a family who hires a man with a mysterious past to babysit their children.

Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy / Western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected.

Kotch is a 1971 American comedy film which tells the story of an elderly man who runs away so as not to be put into a nursing home, and strikes up a friendship with a pregnant teenage girl.

My Favorite Year is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin which tells the story of a young comedy writer.

Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American romantic comedy film that tells the story of a small town which is incensed by a risqué novel, little knowing that it was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family.

He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories.

She objected to the film's production numbers that, she said, turned a village festival into " an extended opera bouffe peopled by musical comedy characters ," but still told the New York Times that it was " a valuable and true picture which tells a good deal of the truth about fascism.

Starting Over is a 1979 American comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen and Jill Clayburgh which tells the story of a recently divorced man who is torn between his new girlfriend and his ex-wife.

It is a 1927 silent romantic comedy film which tells the story of a shop girl who sets her sights on the handsome and wealthy boss of the department store where she works.

The film Year Of The Comet, a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film, is based on this premise and tells the story of the pursuit of a contemporarily discovered bottle of wine from the year of the Great Comet bottled for Napoleon.

* The Coen brothers ' comedy film The Hudsucker Proxy tells the story of a mail room clerk who is installed as president of a manufacturing company and invents the hula hoop.

Araki's subsequent effort, the romantic comedy Splendor, tells the story of a woman ( Kathleen Robertson ) who cannot choose between two men ( Johnathon Schaech and Matt Keeslar ) and so decides to live with them both.

The film tells of novice dancer Irene Foote ( Ginger Rogers ) who convinces vaudeville comic Vernon Castle ( Fred Astaire ) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.

A live-action situation comedy series about life in a train station called Shining Time and featuring a cast of characters such as Stacy Jones the Manager ( Didi Conn ), Schemer the Arcade Owner ( Brian O ' Connor ), the Jukebox Band and the magical Mr. Conductor ( Ringo Starr, George Carlin ) who tells the stories about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends.

Produced by Dharma Productions, the romantic comedy is set in Las Vegas and tells the story of two strangers who get married one night after getting drunk.

* Bob Booker and George Foster ’ s novelty song " The Ballad of Irving ," from the comedy album When You're in Love the Whole World Is Jewish, tells the story of " The Hundred and Forty-second Fastest Gun in the West "

The contrast between their two personalities is a source of comedy throughout the film until Lisa returns and tells him she wants to reconcile their relationship.

Grimethorpe is known for its past as a mining village, its brass band, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and its location for the film Brassed Off-a black comedy which tells the plight of the village and the effect on its band.

All this near tragedy, which to us borders on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always warming ourselves with a glow of complacency.

The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.

In an interview around the film's DVD release in 2001, Elwes said, " The studio didn't know how to sell itas an adventure, fantasy, comedy or love story, it had to rely on word of mouth ".

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

Adams called the piece " essentially a polyphonic love story in the style of a Shakespeare comedy.

A line in a Henry Kuttner science fiction short story, Piggy Bank, reads " Within seconds the scene resembled a Mack Sennett pie-throwing comedy.

Titles of games were translated into Portuguese, sometimes creating a new story, like Pick-axe Pete, that became Didi na Mina Encantada ( Didi in the Enchanted Mine ) referring to the Renato Aragão's comedy character, and was one of the most famous Odyssey games in Brazil.

Elsewhere, and situation comedy series, to incorporate serialized stories and story structure to varying degrees.

Another Nights tale with crime fiction elements was " The Hunchback's Tale " story cycle which, unlike " The Three Apples ", was more of a suspenseful comedy and courtroom drama rather than a murder mystery or detective fiction.

That same year, Hanks collaborated with director Spielberg again, starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit crime comedy Catch Me If You Can, based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr.

Robin Williams was mainly known for his anarchic standup comedy and his popular TV role as the wisecracking alien in Mork & Mindy ; in this film he played an inspirational teacher in a dramatic story about conformity and rebellion at an exclusive New England prep school in the 1950s.

A subset of British comedy consciously avoids traditional situation comedy themes and story lines to branch out into more unusual topics or narrative methods.

* Averroes appears in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, entitled " Averroes's Search ", in which he is portrayed trying to find the meanings of the words tragedy and comedy.

Other examples include: comedy, drama, fable, fiction, folk tale, hagiography, legend, literature, myth, narrative, saga, science fiction, story, theme, tragedy.

In 1931 a comedy film East Lynne on the Western Front was made in which British soldiers fighting in the First World War stage a burlesqued version of the story.

The play within the play has been presented only after all the preliminaries have encouraged us to take it as a farce [...] the main purpose of the Induction was to set the tone for the play within the play – in particular, to present the story of Kate and her sister as none-too-serious comedy put on to divert a drunken tinker.

The 1966 comedy They're a Weird Mob, starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Clare Dunne was a rare hit of the period which also documented something of the changing face of Australian society: telling the story of a newly arrived Italian immigrant who, working as a labourer in Sydney, becomes mates with his co-workers, despite some difficulties with Australian slang and culture.

Take the comedy, leave the story.

The Bishop's Wife ( 1947 ) is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems.

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