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Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδία, komodia) as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Bette Midler, Eugene Levy, Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Luke Wilson, Hawn, Cillian Murphy, Gibson, Ben Stiller, Olympia Dukakis, Nicolas Cage, Harold Lloyd, Ryan Antonio Banderas, Michael Cera, Ellen Page, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rebecca DeMornay, Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, Sacha Baron Cohen, John Belushi, Dennis Farina and Brak.

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That Old Feeling (film) That Old Feeling is a 1997 romantic comedy starring Bette Midler and Dennis Farina.

John Debney In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler.

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Mary-Kate Olsen In 2004, Ashley appeared alongside her twin sister in the theatrical comedy, New York Minute, also starring Eugene Levy.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Their most recent theatrical venture was in the light-hearted romantic comedy, New York Minute, also starring Eugene Levy.

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Apatow Productions Other projects include a Sherlock Holmes comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell, and a slasher film written by and starring Bill Hader.

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Mike Judge Judge's film, Idiocracy (2006), a dystopian comedy starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph, was given a limited release theatrically by 20th Century Fox in September 2006, two years after production.

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Mike Judge Judge's film, Idiocracy (2006), a dystopian comedy starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph, was given a limited release theatrically by 20th Century Fox in September 2006, two years after production.

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Goldie Hawn Hawn furthermore established both her critical and commercial worth in Private Benjamin (1980), a comedy which not only starred Hawn but was also her foray into producing.

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Breakfast on Pluto (film) This dark comedy stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender orphan searching for love and her long-lost mother in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s.

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Logan Lerman The same year, he appeared in What Women Want, a hit comedy also starring Gibson.

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Terry Moran He appeared briefly in the 2007 comedy, The Heartbreak Kid, starring Ben Stiller.

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Cher She played a lawyer in the thriller Suspect opposite Dennis Quaid, and starred in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, which co-starred Nicolas Cage and Olympia Dukakis and was directed by Norman Jewison.

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Cher She played a lawyer in the thriller Suspect opposite Dennis Quaid, and starred in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, which co-starred Nicolas Cage and Olympia Dukakis and was directed by Norman Jewison.

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Lamb The Lamb (film), a 1918 short comedy starring Harold Lloyd

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Meg Ryan The romantic comedy stars Ryan opposite Antonio Banderas.

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Diablo Cody The Jason Reitman-directed comedy stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera.

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Diablo Cody The Jason Reitman-directed comedy stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera.

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John McTiernan In 1993, he directed the action comedy Last Action Hero starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater.

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FBI portrayal in the media A comedy starring Rebecca DeMornay alongside Mary Gross, this movie had a limited release and could only be found on VHS as of August of 2009.

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William H. Macy He recently completed filming on The Lonely Maiden, a comedy that co-stars Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken.

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William H. Macy He recently completed filming on The Lonely Maiden, a comedy that co-stars Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken.

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Apatow Productions Other projects include a Sherlock Holmes comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell, and a slasher film written by and starring Bill Hader.

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National Lampoon (magazine) Starring John Belushi and written by Doug Kenney, Harold Ramis and Chris Miller, it became the highest grossing film comedy of all time.

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That Old Feeling (film) That Old Feeling is a 1997 romantic comedy starring Bette Midler and Dennis Farina.

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Space Ghost Coast to Coast The Brak Show, a situation comedy starring Brak as an adolescent, was also spun off as an independent 15 minute program in late 2000.

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Actor Most of Shakespeare's comedies include instances of overt cross-dressing, such as Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Dan Walmsley Since then he has been involved in multifarious music and comedy projects, including the bands Jem and The Debacles (www.thedebacles.com), the comedy project 'Pink Horse of Whimsy' (pinkhorseofwhimsy.com), and performing improvised comedy at the Comic's Lounge in Melbourne.

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Dan Walmsley Since then he has been involved in multifarious music and comedy projects, including the bands Jem and The Debacles (www.thedebacles.com), the comedy project 'Pink Horse of Whimsy' (pinkhorseofwhimsy.com), and performing improvised comedy at the Comic's Lounge in Melbourne.

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Dan Walmsley Since then he has been involved in multifarious music and comedy projects, including the bands Jem and The Debacles (www.thedebacles.com), the comedy project 'Pink Horse of Whimsy' (pinkhorseofwhimsy.com), and performing improvised comedy at the Comic's Lounge in Melbourne.

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Dan Walmsley Since then he has been involved in multifarious music and comedy projects, including the bands Jem and The Debacles (www.thedebacles.com), the comedy project 'Pink Horse of Whimsy' (pinkhorseofwhimsy.com), and performing improvised comedy at the Comic's Lounge in Melbourne.

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Musical theatre The 3rd-century BCE Roman comedies of Plautus included song and dance routines performed with orchestrations.

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Situation comedy A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy that usually consists of recurring characters in a common environment such as a home or workplace and can include laugh tracks or studio audiences.

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Situation comedy A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy that usually consists of recurring characters in a common environment such as a home or workplace and can include laugh tracks or studio audiences.

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Situation comedy The earliest domestic comedies include The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Honeymooners, and Make Room for Daddy.

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Situation comedy The earliest domestic comedies include The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Honeymooners, and Make Room for Daddy.

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Situation comedy The earliest domestic comedies include The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Honeymooners, and Make Room for Daddy.

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Situation comedy The earliest workplace comedies include Our Miss Brooks and Mr. Peepers, both set in high schools, and The Phil Silvers Show, was set on a US Army post.

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Pearl Williams In 2007, she was proposed to be featured in the Off-Broadway production The J.A.P. Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy, which includes live standup routines by four female Jewish comics juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Betty Walker, Belle Barth, Totie Fields, Jean Carroll and Williams.

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Lily Elsie She then played in Christmas pantomimes, including Dick Whittington (1901), The Forty Thieves (1902), and Blue Beard (1903) and toured in Edwardian musical comedies, including The Silver Slipper by Owen Hall, with music by Leslie Stuart (1901–02), and Three Little Maids (1903).

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Channel 4 programming Other notable comedies include:

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Sidney Lanfield In the early 1950s the reputedly strict taskmaster-director moved to television where his vaudeville and comic background in films were put to use in television comedies including McHale's Navy and The Addams Family.

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Sidney Lanfield In the early 1950s the reputedly strict taskmaster-director moved to television where his vaudeville and comic background in films were put to use in television comedies including McHale's Navy and The Addams Family.

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Men, Sylvia Froos, Die Schweizermacher, episodes, Survivors, fifth, Repossessed, Private Eyes, singer, boat and Pow.

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Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head) Written for the 2002 Sci-Fi comedy film Men in Black II, in which Smith portrays Agent J, the song was released as a single on June 11, 2002 and reached number 77 on the American Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Stephen Root In 2009 he was in the comedy film The Men Who Stare at Goats.

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Warren Hull He co-starred opposite singer Sylvia Froos in the "Young Romance" series of musical comedies filmed in New York; Hull often joined Froos in song.

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Italian people As every other immigrant group at the time, Italians were faced with a policy of forced integration, later satirised in the highly successful 1978 comedy film Die Schweizermacher (literally The Swissmakers), that went to become the fifth most-watched film of all time in Switzerland Italians have long been the largest immigrant group in Switzerland, only surpassed by Serbo-Croatians in the 1990s.

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Salem, Massachusetts Such tourism expanded significantly in the 1970s, when the television comedy Bewitched filmed several episodes here.

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Survivalism in fiction In the 1983 comedy film The Survivors, Robin Williams plays a man who becomes obsessed with the survivalist culture after being robbed.

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Italian people As every other immigrant group at the time, Italians were faced with a policy of forced integration, later satirised in the highly successful 1978 comedy film Die Schweizermacher (literally The Swissmakers), that went to become the fifth most-watched film of all time in Switzerland Italians have long been the largest immigrant group in Switzerland, only surpassed by Serbo-Croatians in the 1990s.

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Demonic possession The original Exorcist film was satirised by the 1987 Warner Bros. cartoon spoof The Duxorcist (starring Daffy Duck), as well as the 1990 comedy film Repossessed which starred Leslie Nielsen and Exorcist actress Linda Blair.

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Richard Ng His first role was in the 1976 Michael Hui comedy film The Private Eyes.

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Warren Hull He co-starred opposite singer Sylvia Froos in the "Young Romance" series of musical comedies filmed in New York; Hull often joined Froos in song.

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Stay with Me (Lorraine Ellison song) "Stay With Me" has been covered by numerous musicians, including The Walker Brothers, David Essex, Ruby Turner, Rebecca Wheatley, Janis Joplin, Genya Ravan, Terry Reid, Natalie Cole, Jimmy Witherspoon, Whitesnake, Bette Midler, and more recently Duffy, whose version was the only newly recorded song on the soundtrack for the 2009 UK comedy film The Boat That Rocked, even though it is the original version that appears in the film.

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Product placement The comedy film Kung Pow!

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    Comedy

    Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδία, komodia) as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy.
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    Category:Comedy

    Articles in this category should be moved to subcategories when appropriate. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
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    Comedy Inc.

    Comedy Inc. was an Australian sketch comedy television program produced by Crackerjack Productions. It first premiered in February 2003 in the new wave of Australian sketch comedy shows being launched across the free-to-air channels along with Big Bite and skitHOUSE.
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    Comedy (drama)

    The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία, which is a compound either of κῶμος (revel) or κώμη (village) and ᾠδή (singing): it is possible that κῶμος itself is derived from κώμη, and originally meant a village revel.
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    Comedy (anime)

    Comedy (喜劇 Kigeki) is a short anime film produced in 2002 by Studio 4°C animation studio. The film was directed by Kazuto Nakazawa and featured the music of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria".
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    Comedy (album)

    Comedy is a double album recorded by Paul Kelly & The Messengers and originally released in 1991. It was the last album released before the partnership of Kelly and The Messengers was dissolved.
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    Comedy (Black album)

    Comedy was the 2nd official album by Black, released in 1988. It reached No.32 in the UK album charts.
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    Comedy Inc. (Canadian television program)

    Comedy Inc. is a Canadian sketch comedy television series, which airs on CTV, A-Channel and The Comedy Network. Producers offered Spike TV in the United States free syndication rights for the show, but Spike declined.[citation needed]
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    Comedy Central

    Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated.
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    Comedy club

    List of comedy clubs Bananas Comedy Club

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