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Comedy

Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.

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Performing arts

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Comedy

Nodes317
Edges316
Triples188
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006309
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Comedy

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related to Historical forms · 47
Comedy → Absurd, Alan AyckbournJesterLaughing, Ancient Greek, Aphra Behn, Aristophanes, Ben Jonson, Ben JonsonClowns, Colley Cibber, Dario Fo, David Campton, Eugène IonescoSketch, George ChapmanComedy, George Etherege, Georges Feydeau, Harold Pinter, Harold Pintercomédie, Jacques CopeauFarce, Jean Genet, Joe Orton, John VanbrughSentimental
related to Events and awards · 15
Comedy → American Comedy AwardsBritish Comedy, American HumorMelbourne International Comedy, Aspen, AwardsCanadian Comedy AwardsCat Laughs, Colorado, Comedy FestivalJust, Comedy FestivalThe Comedy Festival, Festival FringeEdinburgh Comedy FestivalHalifax, FestivalHK International Comedy Festival, FestivalNew York Underground Comedy, FestivalNew Zealand International Comedy, HBO Comedy Arts FestivalEdinburgh, Laughs, MontrealLeicester Comedy FestivalMark Twain, Prize
related to history · 14
Comedy → America, BC, Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra, By, Chinese, In, Indian, Mṛcchakatika, Ratnavali, Shudraka, Similarly, South Asia, There, Xiangsheng
related to Forms · 12
Comedy → Australia, For, Hell, Kath, Kim, Shaun Micallef's Mad As, Some, The, The Colbert Report, The Onion, United States, Utopia
related to Lists of comedians · 11
Comedy → Australian, British, Canadian, Filipino, Finnish, German, Indian, Italian, List, Mexican, Puerto Rican
related to Studies on comic theory · 10
Comedy → Comic, George Meredith, It, Laughter, Modern, One, Studies, The, They, Thomas Hobbes
related to Origins · 9
Comedy → Athenian, Greece, Greek, In, Northrop Frye, Old, Society, The, Youth
related to Etymology · 7
Comedy → Classical Greek, Dean Rubin, Greek, Italian, Latin, Of, The
related to External links · 6
Comedy → Handbook, Harmon, Hugh Holman, Literature, Vocabulary, William
is a · 5
Comedy → destruction to the self, genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, mode of comic performance in which the performer addresses the audience directly, most divorced from a true mimesis, popular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love

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comic laughter humour also aristotle century satire television comedians humor art genre literature theatre radio genres greek often defined one

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Comedyis agenre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter0.90text
Comedyis apopular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love0.90text
Comedyis adestruction to the self0.90text
Comedyis amost divorced from a true mimesis0.90text
Comedyis amode of comic performance in which the performer addresses the audience directly0.90text
the grotesqueinstance ofin order to avoid the use of ambiguous and problematically defined genres0.80text
ironyinstance ofin order to avoid the use of ambiguous and problematically defined genres0.80text
and satireinstance ofin order to avoid the use of ambiguous and problematically defined genres0.80text
Bozo the Clown in the United Statesinstance ofwith0.80text
Oleg Popov in Russiainstance ofwith0.80text
Kathinstance ofshows0.80text
Richard Tarltoninstance ofThomas Middleton and Ben JonsonClowns0.80text

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