Spoof Films - Parodying Genres with a Wink and a Nod

A spoof film is a movie genre that pokes fun at other films or genres by mimicking their style in a comedic way.These parodies cleverly exaggerate tropes, clichés, and common elements found in serious works to elicit laughter and entertain audiences.By understanding the mechanics of what they’re mocking, spoof movies offer an irreverent take on well-known cinematic conventions.They often require a balance of wit and slapstick humor to successfully land their jokes without coming across as ove...

Pianoman

Download PDFIt's clear these people have no fucking idea what a real estate novelist does. The hustle is nonstop. Ever hear of The House of Mirth? I wrote it. TIu House of thz Spiits? Nfine. Ttu House of 'ttu Sam Gablzs? I wrote half that's three and a half gables. Tlu Haunting of - Hilt House? The House bn Maryo Strufr Btzak House? Paul. Paul. Paul. Those novels made the careers of Whar- ton, Allende, Hawthorne, Jackson, Cisneros, Dickens. RENGW (Real Estate Novelist Ghost Writing) is why "P...

Medieval comedy performance discovered in 15th century manuscript

An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts – mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to get drunk; and shocking them with slapstick – shed new light on Britain’s famous sense of humour and the role played by minstrels in medieval society. The texts contain the earliest recorded use of ‘red herring’ in English, extremely rare forms of medieval literature, as well as a killer rabbit worthy o...

Reloading Laughter: Žižek and a Theory of Comedy

Despite his reputation for telling jokes and the central role that humor plays in his philosophy, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek does not have a theory of comedy. In his work, Žižek does not just tell jokes or explain the popularity of certain genres such as Holocaust comedy films. He has also made brief interventions in the theory of comedy that include mostly applications of Hegel’s theory of objective humor or Alenka Zupančič’s Hegelian theory of comedy. At the outset of the "The C...

Kyle Smith on writing and joking - National Review 1 Aug 2022 print edition

Screwball Comedy - history

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Twentieth Century A common misconception about 1930s Hollywood cinema is that escapism was the trend du jour. The ubiquity of genres like historical melodramas and musicals indicates that rationale may be true to an extent, but even the most fantastic films were grounded in some semblance of social realism. And how could they not be? With ...

Portuguese-English False Cognates | AJE

Portuguese-English False Cognates There are certain terms that authors should be particularly aware of when translating from Portuguese to English. Also available in: português Another article features a set of false friends (or false cognates) to watch out for when translating from Spanish to English. False cognates are terms that look similar but have very different meanings. Authors translating their work need to be careful with such terms; it is easy to substitute a similar-s...

Arrested Not at Home But in the Street

"M. immediately decided that nobody was more important than Dante, and regarded him as an inseparable companion ever afterward—even twice taking him to prison with him. Anticipating his arrest—as I have already said, everybody we knew did this as a matter of course—M. obtained an edition of the Divine Comedy in small format and always had it with him in his pocket, just in case he was arrested not at home but in the street."  "M." is Osip Mandelstam, as his widow Nadezhda refers to him in ...

punchline aesthetics are culturally elite

I had been a small-time performance artist pretending to be a poet, but now, with an alarming fervor, I wanted to write great poems. I wanted my "work" to take on the United States of Bush, to shed its scare quotes, and I wanted, after I self-immolated on the Capitol steps or whatever [. . .] everybody everywhere to read my poems, shatter storefronts, etc. — Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station I am writing a play that is going to save the world. If it only saves three...

Punny logic | Analysis | Oxford Academic

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h2g2 - 'Dogma' - the Film - Edited Entry

'Dogma' - the Film Created 20 Hours Ago | Updated 17 Hours Ago 1 Conversation The View Askewniverse Films by Kevin SmithClerks | Mallrats | Chasing Amy | DogmaJay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Clerks II | Jay and Silent Bob RebootDogma (1999) is a comedy film made by Kevin Smith that attracted a degree of controversy when it was released. The fourth film in his View Askewniverse series featuring Jay and Silent Bob, it is in many ways his most ambitious. The plot is simply a road mov...

A Good Place to start on the study of ancient philosophy

A Good Place to start on the study of ancient philosophySourceURL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/a-good-place-to-start-on-the-study-of-ancient-philosophy/news-story/8290efdc4b1ec78055de3ae8a4e25a18 All sections Show all sections HomeLatest NewsThe Nation The NationDefenceIndigenous affairsNewspollPoliticsPolitical commentaryFederal election 2019World WorldThe TimesBusiness BusinessAustralia’s Richest 250AviationCareersCompaniesDataRoomEconomicsF...

Hello, my name is Frank Hvam

P.O.V. No.26 - Humor in Film and TV Hello, my name is Frank Hvam - Autofictional humor in the Danish TV series Klovn Louise Brix Jacobsen They are perverted, embarrassing, and partial to toilet humor. No taboo is spared when they drag the disabled, the gay, and the overweight through the mud. We join them in the toilet, in the double bed, and at the doctor's. And they are famous. In the past three years, stand-up comedian Casper Christensen has been unfaithful with the badminton ce...

Overthinking it podcast Episode 574: Setup, Setup, Setup, Punchline

Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Jordan Stokes joins Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather to consider, "What even is a thing?" as they overthink John Carpenter’s seminal 1982 horror film, The Thing. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps The Thing Wikipedia and IMDbAmazon, iTunes Jibblies from the Homestar Runner WikiHoxter, J. (1996) "The Evil Dead, Die and Chase: From Slapstick to Splatshtick" (good luck finding it though)   Ep...