types of comedy

Here are a number of different types of comedy:

* Black comedy: Serious and macabre things made funny (eg. death).
* Burlesque: Earthy skits and sketches.
* Classic comedy: General humor with a happy ending (vs. classic tragedy, where people generally die).
* Comedy of errors: Hapless people make many mistakes.
* Commedia Dell'Arte: Italian (16th-18th century) improvisation on standard situations and stock characters.
* Farce: People keep just missing one another. Lots of hiding in wardrobes and misunderstanding.
* Melodrama: Exaggerated situational comedy. Hysteria and stupidity.
* Parody: Imperfect copying of traditional situations (including exaggeration, error, etc.).
* Romantic comedy: People fall in love, act stupidly and eventually get together.
* Satire: Caustic mockery of serious people and situations.
* Situation comedy: Humor in everyday life situations.
* Slapstick: Custard pies, falling over, chase, collision and other visual gags.
* Screwball: Manic people do ridiculous things.


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