Comedy is an elusive and fast-moving target to define. General public consensus is that humor comes from the unexpected, but this theory is still flawed and doesn't explain everything. One thing's for sure: comedy is funny.
Comedy, as something primarily happy (except when it's not), is directly opposed to Tragedy, and its most modern definition contrasts against yet can overlap with Drama or possibly Horror. And has been since the day it was conceived as a term, albeit not like we know today; comedy was something that either had a happy ending or was written in the common tongue, i.e. Dante's The Divine Comedy, Tragedy was something that had a sad ending. Propelled off of Rule of Funny, comedy infects all art forms. Its hobbies include satires, parodies, pastiches, playing for laughs, snarking, breathless ranting, Irony, and hiding snickerdoodles in its knickerbockers.
A list of UK comedy writer jargon, which includes many familiar tropes, can be found here.
Indexes:
- Comedy Tropes
- Comic Actors
- Comic Literature
- Comedy Music
- Comedy Series
- Comedy Video Games
- Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy
Comedy of Note:
- The 7th Company
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- 8-Bit Christmas
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- Ace Ventura
- Adam's Rib
- Airplane!
- Aline (2021)
- An American Pickle
- Animal House
- Asterix
- Atlantic Wall
- Avanti!
- Back to the Future
- The Big Store
- Blackbeard's Ghost
- Blazing Saddles
- Bros
- Caddyshack
- The Cannonball Run
- Casino Royale (1967)
- La Cité de la peur
- Clockwise
- Cool Runnings
- Crazy People
- Deadpool (2016)
- Delusions of Grandeur
- The Dinner Game
- Dr. Strangelove
- Drive Away Dolls
- Dumb and Dumber
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- Easy A
- Encino Man
- Fantômas
- French Fried Vacation
- From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
- Get Him to the Greek
- Ghostbusters
- Go West (1940)
- Gramps Is in the Resistance
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- La Grande Vadrouille
- The Great Race
- Grown Ups
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Good Satan
- The Hangover
- Hitch
- Home Alone
- Inspector Blunder
- Jabberwocky
- Jo
- Kaamelott: Premier Volet
- Laurel and Hardy
- Logan Lucky
- The Love Bug
- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
- The Mask
- Miss Congeniality
- The Money Pit
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- Neighbors (2014)
- No Hard Feelings
- OSS 117 (since 2006)
- The Party
- The Pink Panther
- Poltergay
- RRRrrr!!!
- Santa Claus Is a Stinker
- Smosh: The Movie
- Snowball Express
- Spring Breakdown
- Strays (2023)
- The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
- Taxi
- That Darn Cat!
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
- Les Tontons flingueurs
- Tropic Thunder
- The Ugly Dachshund
- Les Visiteurs
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- What Women Want
- Young Frankenstein
- The Zombie Apocalypse in Apartment 14F
- Zombieland
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