Essays on Comedy

There are social norms in every culture. How we act is often dependent on the society around us. This is true for cultures throughout the world and throughout time. In “Shakespearean Comedy” Katherine Eisaman Maus argues that some characters challenge the status quo throughout the…

Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid is full of specific references to 17th Century France, and could be alienating for a contemporary audience. By setting the play in the current-day United States, with an emphasis on the health care system, and huge gaps between social classes, The…

Satan was in town last night, and he will be back next Sunday. Yes. You heard right. There is a stage play in town titled Satan: A Dark Comedy written and directed by Joy Isi Bewaji. This play which happens to be her first theater…

Love and Other Drugs is a 2010 romantic comedy set starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jamie Randall, a drug representative for Pfizer. Set in the year 1992, Randall’s mission is to convince doctors to prescribe the antidepressant Zolfolt rather than Prozac, the drug which is currently…

The comedy genre has existed for as long as we can remember and has consistently released many hilarious films since the dawn of its day. Some of my personal favorites in this genre are the films 21 Jumpstreet and We’re the Millers. Both of these…

When we analyze the genre of situational comedy (referred to as sitcom) it can be said that this is one of the more popular genres in television and it is known for a number of generic conversations. Some of these conversations include sarcasm, cracking a…

The movie Legally Blonde is about Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks. Legally Blonde is a…

Mammia Mia!: The Movie, is a film inspired by bouncy pop group ABBA tunes. In the movie, the songs was sung mostly by the main characters is soothing to the ear, and from my own opinion, some of my few favorite songs amongst the soundtrack…

At first glance, Michael Moore’s “Where to Invade Next” seems to be a comedic movie based on the insanity of U.S history, but it turns out to be a powerful film filled with a humanizing vision of better solutions, possibilities on how the US shares…

“Pygmalion” is one of the best works done by George Bernard Shaw. It is inspired by a Greek mythology of a sculptor name”Pygmalion” who makes a porcelain statue embodying his own ideal of womanhood, which he names Galatea. He is too mesmerized by his own…