Such sketches made during the 1970s and 1980s were "If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind" and the sequel "Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?", "The Groove Tube", "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", "The Kentucky Fried Movie" and its sequel "Amazon Women on the Moon", and Monty Python's "And Now for Something Completely Different" and "The Meaning of Life". More recent sketch films include "The Underground Comedy Movie", "InAPPropriate Comedy" and "Movie 43".
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy | Films
Several sketch films have been made like  "If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind" and the sequel "Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?" Yes, If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind, Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?, The Groove Tube etc Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. "If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind" and the sequel "Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?"
what is referred as ride me to hell?
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It is the third episode of the of the American animated television series "Ugly Americans", and the seventeenth overall episode of the series
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when was it aired?
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July 14, 2011
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who directed it?
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Aaron Augenblick and series creator Devin Clark
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any character from it?
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Grimes, Mark Lilly , Callie Maggotbone, Randall
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where was this episode aired?
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United States
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where is the former director from?
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Wilmington, Delaware
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can you mention any other work of his?
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Superjail!, Wonder Showzen and Golden Age
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has the first show been broadcasted internationally?
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It has been broadcast in Canada
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is it a film or tv series?
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Television series
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and the second work?
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Television series
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what's its genre?
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Sketch comedy
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what do you mean by this term?
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It comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long
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how is it related to festivals?
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The growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America
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and films?
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Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.
Sketch comedy | Festivals
A comedy festival is a celebration of comedy with many shows, venues, comedy performers (such as stand up comics, sketch troupes, variety performers, etc.) and is held over a specific block of time. Normally, each festival has a diverse range of comedy themes and genres.
Comedy festival | Introduction
Such sketches made during the 1970s and 1980s were "If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind" and the sequel "Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?", "The Groove Tube", "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", "The Kentucky Fried Movie" and its sequel "Amazon Women on the Moon", and Monty Python's "And Now for Something Completely Different" and "The Meaning of Life". More recent sketch films include "The Underground Comedy Movie", "InAPPropriate Comedy" and "Movie 43".
Sketch comedy | Films
Sketch comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall, where many brief, but humorous, acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In Britain, it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights, such as "Beyond the Fringe" and "A Clump of Plinths" (which evolved into "Cambridge Circus"), to radio, with such shows as "It's That Man Again" and "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", then to television, with such shows as "Not Only... But Also", "Monty Python's Flying Circus," "Not the Nine O'Clock News" (and its successor "Alas Smith and Jones"), and "A Bit of Fry and Laurie".
Sketch comedy | History
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and sketched down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy. An individual comedy sketch is a brief scene or vignette of the type formerly used in vaudeville, and now used widely in comedy and variety shows, talk shows and some children's television series (such as "Sesame Street").
Sketch comedy | Introduction
Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, including "Mad" and "Right Now Kapow". Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their product from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit") while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character or situation.
Sketch comedy | Introduction
The World of Comedy Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It usually takes place in the last week of February. It features comedies from Canada and all over the world.
World of Comedy Film Festival | Introduction
The Improv and Sketch Comedy discussion panel featured a discussion of both Improv and Sketch Comedy, as well as how the two forms of comedy influence each other. Panelists were: Video footage of this panel can be found as part of the Fracas! Improv Podcast.
Fracas! Improv Festival | Improv and Sketch Comedy
This is an index of lists of comedy films split by decade, nationality and subject.
Lists of comedy films | Introduction
The Comedy Festival, formerly known as the US Comedy Arts Festival, was a comedy festival that ran from 1995 to 2008. The festival included stand-up comedy performances, appearances by the casts of television shows, and has a film component called the Film Discovery Program.
The Comedy Festival | Introduction
SF Sketchfest, or The San Francisco Comedy Festival, is an American comedy festival founded in 2002 by Bay Area actor-comedians David Owen, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton. It takes place every January and February in a variety of Bay Area venues and features sketch comedy, improv comedy, film and television tributes and reunions, solo performers, podcasts and stand-up comedy performers.
SF Sketchfest | Introduction
Comedy Shorts Best-of-Fest Tour.
L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival | Introduction
The film "The Comedians of Comedy", shot during the fall of 2004, had its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival in March 2005. It is one of the first films to be financed by the DVD-rental service Netflix, also the film's distributor. The film inspired Comedy Central to commission a six-episode "Comedians of Comedy" television series, involving a six-city tour during the summer of 2005; the show premiered in November of that year. The episodes were shot in Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Boston and Martha's Vineyard. After ending their run on Comedy Central, Oswalt, Posehn, Mirman and Morgan Murphy performed in a 2006 "Comedians of Comedy" tour.
The Comedians of Comedy | Movies and series
The first edition of "Comedy Cluj" was held in 2009 and comprised 70 films coming from 19 countries, as well as several workshops, street theater shows, conferences and parties. The festival includes competitive and non competitive sections. Despite the late-2000s recession, "Comedy Cluj" had grown, so that its second edition (held in October 8–17, 2010) showed more than 100 films.
Comedy Cluj | History
The Third Annual SF Sketchfest featured a tribute to Amy Sedaris; a panel discussion with Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy and Michael J. Nelson from Mystery Science Theater 3000; and performances by Totally Looped featuring Dan Castellaneta and Rick Overton; Slovin & Allen; The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show featuring David Koechner from "Saturday Night Live"; Girl's Guitar Club featuring Karen Kilgariff and Mary Lynn Rajskub; and "Saturday Night Live" castmember Fred Armisen. Improvisational comedy was added to the festival with Beer Shark Mice featuring David Koechner and Neil Flynn. Film was added with the Bay Area premiere of "Martin & Orloff".
SF Sketchfest | 2004
A partial list of well-known comedy festivals includes:
Comedy festival | Comedy festivals
Daily shows contain four sketches, except from 1 April 2013 to 28 June 2013 when, because of changes in France 2's schedule, they only contained three. During each sketch, the four members of the jury may press at any time a "stop" button, called a buzzer. If two judges do this, the sketch is interrupted and the comedian is not scored. If the end of the sketch is reached, the comedian is scored: every member of the jury gives a score between 0 and 20. These are added to the average score given by the studio audience. The comedian must obtain a total of 60/100 (an average of 12/20) to be able to return several days later.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Shows
Sketch comedy programs differ from sitcoms in that they do not basically feature recurring characters (though some characters and scenarios may be repeated) and often draw upon current events and emphasize satire over character development. Sketch comedy was pioneered by Sid Caesar, whose "Your Show of Shows" debuted in 1950 and established many conventions of the genre. American sketch comedy reached a later peak in the mid-1970s with the debut han "Saturday Night Live", originally a variety program but soon devoted mostly to sketches. In the UK, two of the more successful examples are "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Little Britain".
Television comedy | Sketch comedy
Every show consists of several comedy sketches that vary in length and can contain several sketches or even one full length sketch.
Funny or Die Presents | Description
This is a list of notable sketch comedy groups by country.
List of sketch comedy groups | Introduction
Novak; Michael Showalter, John Vanderslice, Match Game Live, Comedy Death-Ray, a "Freaks and Geeks" reunion with Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, Samm Levine, Martin Starr, Busy Philipps, Dave (Gruber) Allen, Steve Bannos and Paul Feig; Patton Oswalt, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bro'in Out with Seth Morris with special guest Adam McKay; Upright Citizens Brigade with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Rachel Dratch, Rob Riggle, Kevin Dorff and guest monologist Neil Patrick Harris; The Whitest Kids U Know, and Tim and Eric.
SF Sketchfest | 2008
God Improv with Matthew Lillard; My Monster with Bill Corbett from Mystery Science Theater 3000; Reggie Watts; Kasper Hauser; Killing My Lobster; and stand-up sets from Nick Kroll, Jon Dore, Brent Weinbach, Matt Braunger, Kyle Kinane, and Jamie Kilstein.
SF Sketchfest | 2010
The 400-seat Cobb's Comedy Club was added as a larger venue.
SF Sketchfest | 2004
American comedy films are comedy films produced in the United States. The genre is one of the oldest in American cinema; some of the first silent movies were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and 1930s, comedic dialogue rose in prominence in the work of film comedians such as W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. By the 1950s, the television industry had become serious competition for the movie industry. The 1960s saw an increasing number of broad, star-packed comedies. In the 1970s, black comedies were popular.
American comedy films | Introduction
Comedy Cluj is an international film festival of comedy film organized annually in October in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania.
Comedy Cluj | Introduction
Tompkins; A table read of the unproduced script "They Came Together" by David Wain and Michael Showalter with an all-star cast including Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler; the return of Theme Park Improv with guest monologist Bob Odenkirk; Stella, the Classic Nightclub Show with house band Release The Sunbird; The Paul F. Tompkins Show with Judy Greer, John Hodgman and musical guest Ted Leo; Delocated Witness Protection Program Variety Show with Jon Glaser and guests including Brett Gelman, David Cross, Paul Rudd and Ben Gibbard; Set List: Comedy Without a Net with Matt Braunger, Jon Dore, Rick Overton, Eddie Pepitone, Chelsea Peretti, Greg Proops, Steve Agee and surprise guest Robin Williams; John Hodgman - An Evening of My Expertise, featuring Dana Gould and Lance Bangs; Bruce McCulloch's solo show The Pink Dot Stories; Harmontown with Dan Harmon; An Afternoon with Eagleheart with Chris Elliott; Pretty Good Friends with Eugene Mirman; Jon Benjamin Has a Van Live with H.
SF Sketchfest | 2012
Comedy festivals are used by industry professionals to seek out new comedians to hire. Stand-up comedy is the focus of four major international festivals: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland; Just for Laughs in Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada; HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
Stand-up comedy | Festivals
This is a list of the highest-grossing comedy films.
List of highest-grossing comedy films | Introduction
A theater was leased and sketch groups from around Chicago were invited to perform at no cost. The festival opened in January 2002, and ran for 7 weeks. Over 30 sketch comedy groups performed, nearly 2000 patrons attended.
Chicago Sketch Fest | Introduction
The film begins at the Monday morning pitch meeting, in which writers submit jokes. By Tuesday, writers are staying up all night to complete their sketches for the following day's table read. Fifty sketches are submitted, and only nine are broadcast. The film follows the construction of sets, rehearsals, and the eventual live show.
Saturday Night (2010 film) | Summary
The following is a list of comedy films which have sold more than tickets worldwide.
List of highest-grossing comedy films | Comedy films by box office admissions
Zach Galifianakis appeared via pre-recorded video/sketch and special guests included Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, and Aziz Ansari of Human Giant, along with Sarah Silverman. The show took place at Spreckles Theater in San Diego, California during the same weekend as the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con.
The Comedians of Comedy | History
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival (or SketchFest) is an annual nonprofit sketch comedy festival held in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood at Stage 773 (1225 W Belmont Ave). This is the world's largest sketch festival, featuring 160 sketch groups (totaling over 1,000 performers) in roughly 180 shows throughout the festival's two-weekend run. This year, SketchFest organizers are projecting an audience of over 11,000 patrons. Past SketchFest sponsors include Burt's Bees, Uber, Red Bull, Chipotle and Whole Foods, though many local businesses team up with Stage 773 in order to make SketchFest happen. The fourteenth installment will take place January 8–18, 2014. The idea for SketchFest was born in October 2001, when Chicago teacher/director Brian Posen wanted to create a venue to showcase the city's best sketch comedy troupes and provide a venue for up-and-coming troupes, all free from financial burden.
Chicago Sketch Fest | Introduction
DC Shorts Wins: special showcases of award-winning films from previous DC Shorts. Each year, some of the films have received Academy Award nominations. All of the films have won accolades worldwide. DC Shorts Laughs: favorite comedy films from previous DC Shorts, paired with live stand-up performances by the DC area’s top stand-up comics! Each 90-minute show combines film and live performance for a spectacular and lighthearted evening. Mentors: Through DC Shorts Mentors, independent filmmakers are encouraged to develop their skills to create outstanding media projects. Workshops led by film professionals and peers, these interactive sessions are designed to build upon one another, developing the skills needed to better compete in the crowded field of filmmakers.
DC Shorts Film Festival | Programming
In 2011, the festival celebrated its 10th Anniversary, now regularly utilizing nearly a dozen venues, including The Castro Theatre, Yoshi’s San Francisco, The Purple Onion and Marines’ Memorial Theatre. The annual Tribute award was split into a new Great Collaborator Series, showcasing fantastic comedy teams. The first was a 25th Anniversary Tribute to “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” with Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel appearing with moderator Zach Braff; second was an Airplane! Tribute to Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, moderated by Chris Hardwick; and the third was a Tribute to Murphy Brown with Candice Bergen and Diane English.
SF Sketchfest | 2011
The event usually begins with the Stand Up for Heroes benefit concert.
New York Comedy Festival | Introduction
"See" British comedy films (Cinema of the United Kingdom).
British comedy | Film comedy
A comedy film is a category of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film—and derived from the classical comedy in theatre—some of the earliest silent movies were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue.
Comedy film | Introduction
The L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival (LACS) is an annual film festival held in the spring in Los Angeles, California. LACS programs short films exclusively in the comedy genre, and is the largest festival of its kind in the United States. During the four-day event, between 60-90 comedy short films from around the world are screened at the festival's main venue in Downtown Los Angeles, with additional industry panels and parties taking place at various locations around the city. The festival culminates on the final night with a red carpet awards ceremony, where winning filmmakers and screenwriters are honored and the "Commie" award is presented to a comedy industry notable for career achievement and "excelling in achieving outstanding comedical achievements in the field of comedy excellence." The festival mission states that LACS is "dedicated to introducing the newest and hottest comedic talent to the industry, and helping them make the connections they need to take their careers to the next level." Each year, a selection of films from the festival is screened at multiple venues around the country as part of the L.A.
L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival | Introduction
Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness reenact famous movie scenes but the scenes are normally ruined by Keith who tends to go too far. "Movies Viewed"
The Keith Lemon Sketch Show | "Keith & Paddy's Film Bit"
The festival introduced their first Comedy Writing Award, presented to Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien scribe Robert Smigel, who was joined in conversation with Dana Carvey. Smigel also joined Dino Stamatopoulos, Doug Dale, the Anifriends and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog for a live stage version of the Comedy Central television show TV Funhouse. Other notable programming included A Salute to Bud Cort, interviewed after a screening of Harold and Maude at The Castro Theatre; A Fernwood Reunion with Martin Mull and Fred Willard; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!; Savage Steve Holland and Diane Franklin with a screening of Better Off Dead; The Hills: A Staged Reading with Janeane Garofalo, Rachael Harris, Tom Kenny, Rob Huebel, Rob Riggle, Dannah Feinglass, Danielle Schneider and Mike Phirman; Comedy Death-Ray with Zach Galifianakis, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Kindler, Chris Hardwick, Paul F.
SF Sketchfest | 2009
Little-known comedians, alone or in groups, professionals or amateurs, may appear in a sketch on the show. Each candidate is evaluated by a panel of judges, known as the jury, and by the audience. Candidates who obtain a sufficient score may come back with a new sketch. Each sketch is written by the candidate (with or without other writers) about a theme relating to current events chosen several days before the recording from a list. Comedians who have performed more than 10 times (known as "pensionnaires", "residents") do not get to choose from the list; their theme is imposed by Laurent Ruquier.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Format
Since 2007, the Comedy Festival runs in tandem with a Comedy Film Festival.
Cologne Comedy Festival | Offshoots
The Comedians of Comedy also appeared as one of the Friday opening acts at the 2007 Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival, including San Francisco Bay Area comedians Brent Weinbach and Jasper Redd. On October 2, 2007, a DVD of a live performance from the Troubador was released, featuring the cast of the film alongside other notables like Eugene Mirman, Jon Benjamin, David Cross, and others.
The Comedians of Comedy | Movies and series
This is a list of notable sketch comedy television series by country.
List of sketch comedy TV series | Introduction
Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse, others contain political or social commentary (such as "The King of Comedy" and "Wag the Dog"). The Screenwriters Taxonomy contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character and story, and therefore the labels "drama" and "comedy" are too broad to be considered a genre. Instead, the taxonomy contends that comedy films are a "Type" of film; listing at least a dozen different sub-types of comedy films.
Comedy film | Introduction
The Ninth Annual festival included Conan O'Brien, recipient of the annual Tribute Award, who was scheduled to appear on January 17, but had to be postponed due to the late night fiasco at NBC. The tribute was done later that summer on July 17 at the Herbst Theater, where O'Brien was joined by Andy Richter and moderator Patton Oswalt for an incredible, candid, three-hour conversation. The Comedy Writing Award was presented to author and humorist John Hodgman, who was joined in conversation with Dave Eggers. The festival presented their first Monty Python member in Terry Jones, who appeared in conversation at a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python’s Life of Brian at the Castro Theatre.
SF Sketchfest | 2010
Although it is mainly a vehicle for stand-up and cabaret acts, the festival has also included sketch shows, improvisational theatre, debates, musical shows and workshops.
Prague International Festival of Comedy | Introduction
In season 4, the show's final sketch was performed by a "historic" "pensionnaire" who is not scored. If a comedian does not get the required 60 points, they can be saved. This happened differently depending on the season.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Shows
Producer Gus Beattie began the show after noticing there were multiple shows about up-and-coming comedians but none showcasing sketch talent. Beattie chooses which sketch groups will perform on the show. He finds many of these groups at the Edinburgh Festival and online. The chosen groups gather at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to perform before a live audience.
Sketchorama | The making of
The festival's inaugural showing was October 25, 2013 (with an encore October 26, 2013), at Whistling Idiots Comedy Dinner Theatre in Bay City, Michigan. Prior to the 2014 event, the first formal festival committee was formed. This included Wade Lodewyk, Brian Donaldson and Nic White. The 2014 festival was held on October 17, with an encore October 19. The venue was the Westown Theater in Bay City, Michigan. The event was also informally called BUMP FEST.
Things That Go Bump In The Night Film Festival | History
In October 2016, Sony Pictures Classics acquired U.S distribution rights to the film, with plans to release the film in December, in order to qualify for awards. The film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 11, 2016. It hit theaters in a limited release on December 9, 2016, with a wide opening on February 3, 2017. It was originally scheduled to open on January 13, but was pushed back to February 3.
The Comedian (2016 film) | Release
These movies usually have drug-related jokes and crude content. Another development was the increasing use of "gross-out humour" usually aimed at a younger audience, in films like the "Austin Powers" films, "There's Something About Mary", "American Pie" and its sequels, and "Freddy Got Fingered". In mid-2000s, the trend of "gross-out" movies is continuing, with adult-oriented comedies picking up the box office. But serious black comedies (also known as dramatic comedies or dramedies) were performing also well, such as "The Weather Man", "Broken Flowers" and "Shopgirl". In late 2006, "" blended vulgar humour with cultural satire.
American comedy films | 1990s–2010s
The Sketchersons are a sketch comedy troupe based in Toronto, Ontario. They are winners of the 2007 Canadian Comedy Award for best Sketch Troupe, an award they had been nominated for each of the 3 years prior. The Sketchersons were again nominated for the award in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2013. The Sketchersons have performed across Canada and the United States, including at the 2005 and 2006 Montreal Fringe Festivals, the 2006 New York Fringe Festival, the 2008 Just For Laughs Sketch Comedy Gala in Toronto, the 2009 Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, and at the 2012 JFL42 Festival. Members of the troupe are also active in Toronto's comedy scene and can be seen at various shows around the city including Laugh Sabbath, The Last Comedy Show and Projectproject amongst others.
The Sketchersons | Introduction
Various other shows have been organized under the Canadian Comedy Awards banner. These include the charity shows "Canadian Comedy Award Nominees vs. Cancer", fundraisers for local charities, and benefits for comics suffering from illness. The CCA has also organized comedy shows for other performing arts festivals, such as Canada's Walk of Fame Festival.
Canadian Comedy Awards | Associated events
Original comedy is an entirely original event in which competitors write a comic story, the structure of which is entirely up to them. The story often involves a main character and several different side characters which the competitor will "pop" in and out of quickly. No introduction is required and no props or manuscript are allowed. This is a high school event with a time limit of 8 minutes.
Individual events (speech) | Original comedy
The Goons' influence spread to the American radio and recording troupe the Firesign Theatre. American cinema has produced a great number of globally renowned comedy artists, from Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, as well as Bob Hope during the mid-20th century, to performers like George Carlin, Robin Williams, and Eddie Murphy at the end of the century. Hollywood attracted many international talents like the British comics Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore and Sacha Baron Cohen, Canadian comics Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, and Mike Myers, and the Australian comedian Paul Hogan, famous for "Crocodile Dundee".
Comedy | 20th century film, records, radio, and television
Tompkins, Mary Lynn Rajskub; Celebrity Autobiography with Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole, Scott Thompson, Rachel Dratch, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis, and Laraine Newman; Sunday with Moral Orel with Dino Stamatopoulos and Scott Adsit; Upright Citizens Brigade ASSSSCAT Improv with Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Tim Meadows, Andrew Daly, Danielle Schneider and monologist Andy Richter; Totally Looped movie dubbing show with Laraine Newman, Maria Bamford, Oscar Nunez, and Rick Overton; Invite Them Up with Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale and guests including Todd Barry and Paul Scheer; Facebook Improv with Rob Corddry, Rob Riggle, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Seth Morris, Chad Carter and Owen Burke; Theme Park Improv with Scott Adsit, Oscar Nunez, Kate Flannery, Jessica Makinson, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton; Scott Thompson’s solo show Scottastrophe!; Cartoon Dump with Frank Conniff; Never Not Funny Live with Jimmy Pardo, Jon Hamm and Pat Francis; The Sound of Young America Live with Jesse Thorn, Sean Cullen, Jello Biafra and Kasper Hauser; Monsters of Podcasting with Jordan, Jesse, Go and You Like Nice Today; and stand-up sets from Doug Benson, Aziz Ansari and Will Durst.
SF Sketchfest | 2009
This is a list of British comedy films.
List of British comedy films | Introduction
Numerous political caricatures by Méliès, presumably similar to those made in the "A Lightning Sketch" films, survive in the collection of the Centre national du cinéma. All four films in the "A Lightning Sketch" series are currently presumed lost.
A Lightning Sketch | Introduction
In New York City, musical house teams have become common at all of the major comedy theaters.
New York Musical Improv Festival | Introduction
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 24% based on 109 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""The Comedian" boasts an incredibly talented cast, but they're put to poor use in an aimless rom-com whose handful of memorable moments never add up to a compelling story." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 40 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
The Comedian (2016 film) | Critical response
Tompkins Show featuring Dave Foley, Illeana Douglas and musical guest Grant-Lee Phillips; Comedy Death-Ray with Michael Ian Black, Dana Gould, Doug Benson, Natasha Leggero, James Adomian, musical guest Aimee Mann and host Scott Aukerman; the return of Facebook Improv; Game Show Explosion with Jimmy Pardo; The Red Wine Boys with Todd Barry and H. Jon Benjamin and guests Larry Murphy, Brendon Small and musical guests Mates of State; Invite Them Up with Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale; The Whitest Kids U’ Know; Greg Behrendt’s Bring the Rock featuring Matt Nathanson; The Jill and Julia Show with Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney; Ask A Ninja Live; The Big Gay Sketch Show; Theme Park Improv with Edie McClurg, Danny Pudi, Scott Adsit, Rachel Dratch, Jessica Makinson, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton; Never Not Funny Live with Jimmy Pardo and guest Dave Foley; The Benson Interruption with Doug Benson, Steve Agee, Graham Elwood and more; Doug Loves Movies and Comedy Death Ray Radio Live; The Shit Show with Rob Huebel; Dr.
SF Sketchfest | 2010
Parody 48 Hour Film Contest is exactly what it says. Participating teams get 48 hours to watch their assigned film, come up with a parody script, cast it, shoot it, edit it, lay down a soundtrack, and get the organizers the final version on DVD. All participating filmmakers meeting all film requirements will have their films screened shortly after the contest. Attendees of the screenings will rate each film, and Audience Choice Awards will be given to the three top-rated films. Winning films will receive bragging rights and an awesome prize package! The festival has since closed.
Cieri Media International Corporation | Parody 48 Hour Film Contest
Days of Comedy (: "Денови на комедија") is an international theater comedy festival in Kumanovo, Macedonia. The festival is held at the Cultural Center Trajko Prokopiev annually. Theaters from Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and other countries participate.
Days of Comedy | Introduction
For 26 minutes, in public, comedians have to produce a scene identical to that in a theatre, while improvising their text based on a situation evolving from the characteristics of their characters (which were determined prior to the sketch). To do this, each comedian wears an earpiece, connected live to the microphone of the show's presenter (in this case Benjamin Castaldi, in France). He gives games for the artists in the scene to improvise. In France, each episode took place in the apartment of Sören and Noémie (brother and sister), with their different friends and co-workers visiting.
Totale impro | Premise
Comedy projects submitted by writers and filmmakers.
Moondance International Film Festival | Starfish Award
This is a list of American comedy films. Comedy films are separated into two categories: short films and feature films. Any film over 40 minutes long is considered to be of feature-length (although most feature films produced since 1950 are considerably longer, those made in earlier boom quently ranged from little more than an hour to as little as four reels, which amounted to about 44 minutes).
List of American comedy films | Introduction
Peniscola hosted an annual comedy film festival that draws Spanish and foreign actors and filmmakers, and features screenings in historic venues. That the festival celebrates comedy is a natural fit; the city was the backdrop for Luis García Berlanga's comedic masterpiece "Calabuch".
Peniscola | Film festival
Farcical films exaggerate situations beyond the realm of possibility – thereby making them entertaining. Film examples include: "In the Loop" (2009) and "Some Like it Hot" (1959).
Comedy film | Farce
Cinequest Film Festival Cleveland International Film Festival Carmel Art and Film Festival
Dying to Do Letterman | Film festivals and awards
Kamau Bell; Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo and guest David Koechner; Nerdist with Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray and Matt Mira with guest Zach Galifianakis; Pop My Culture Podcast with Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland and guest Bob Odenkirk; Sklarbro Country with the Sklar Brothers and guests Michael Ian Black, Har Mar Superstar and Bill Romanowski; Citizen Radio with Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny and guest Markos Moulitsas; The Sound of Young America with Jesse Thorn and guests John Vanderslice and Steve Dildarian; and Monsters of Podcasting.
SF Sketchfest | 2011
French comedy films are often based on linguistic differences:
French comedy films | Other characteristics
The second segment varies every week and lasts from 15 to 25 minutes. The band members usually participate in sketch comedies and games. Sketch comedies include both originals and parodies of popular films and television series. International guests include: Madonna, Janet Jackson, Destiny's Child, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Cruise, etc.
SMAP×SMAP | Sketch comedy and games
The Broad Humor Film Festival is a film festival that takes place every year in Los Angeles, California. It focuses exclusively on comedic films written and directed by women. Begun in 2005, it is held yearly in the summer months and brings together female writers and directors for a weekend of screenings, readings and events with the aim of fostering greater opportunity for women as the creators of film content. The festival has film and screenplay competitions for both feature-length and short films. Projects can be narrative or documentary. In addition, the festival offers continuing support to festival filmmakers and writers through its Legacy Program, a series of initiatives encouraging alumnae to create and screen new work.
Broad Humor Film Festival | Introduction
The third Comedy Writing Award was presented by James L. Brooks, who candidly chatted with Danny DeVito before a screening of Brooks’ classic Broadcast News. The festival teamed with local drag superstar Peaches Christ for an evening with Cloris Leachman and a screening of High Anxiety, and presented a 25th Anniversary screening of True Stories with Talking Heads’ frontman David Byrne. Other great events included a Saturday Night Live: The Originals panel with Dan Aykroyd, Tom Davis, Laraine Newman, Don Novello and moderator Carl Arnheiter; Brian Henson in conversation with Neil Patrick Harris featuring a live puppet demonstration; The Thrilling Adventure Hour with a star-studded cast including Neil Patrick Harris, Colin Hanks, Alison Brie, John DiMaggio, Donal Logue, Danny Pudi, James Urbaniak, Busy Philipps, Samm Levine, John Ennis and Paul F.
SF Sketchfest | 2011
The Canadian International Comedy Film Festival, formerly the Shärt International Comedy Film Festival takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada each February. It was founded in 2013 with a grant from the Shärt Foundation, and named the Shärt International Comedy Film Festival, but parted ways with the foundation acrimoniously and after legal proceedings was revived in 2018 as the Canadian International Comedy Film Festival. The 8th festival is scheduled for 29 February 2020, and takes place at the Park Theatre, Winnipeg.
Canadian International Comedy Film Festival | Introduction
When the festival came to New Brunswick, James Mullinger and Lloyd Ravn stayed to build a comedy scene in the province. Seven years later Mullinger staged the show "Every Comedian in New Brunswick" featuring 42 local comics.
10th Canadian Comedy Awards | Related events
Also selected to screen at the following film festivals:
Stomp! Shout! Scream! | Festival screenings and awards
In 1999, Mask and Wig established an annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival to showcase the talent of the nation's best collegiate sketch comedy troupes. The mission of the festival is not just to put on a hilarious show that cultivates new talent, but also to honor and showcase a well-known comedian. Each host does a stand-up routine for the audience and participates in sketches with Mask and Wig. Past college sketch troupes include: Past guest hosts include:
Mask and Wig | ComFest
In North America, "The Comedian" was released alongside "Rings" and "The Space Between Us", and was projected to gross $1–3 million from about 800 theaters in its opening weekend. It ended up debuting to just $892,021, finishing 21st at the box office. Deadline Hollywood attributed the film's poor opening to negative critical reception and lack of award buzz, similar to "Gold" the week prior.
The Comedian (2016 film) | Box office
Performance Production Design
Pure Comedy | Personnel
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon the festival's focus, can include international and domestic releases. Some festivals focus on a specific film-maker or genre (e.g. film noir) or subject matter (e.g. horror film festivals). A number of film festivals specialise in short films of a defined maximum length. Film festivals are typically annual events. Some film historians, including Jerry Beck, do not consider film festivals official releases of film.
Film festival | Introduction
The National College Comedy Festival is an annual not-for-profit festival of student sketch and improvisational comedy that takes place each winter on campus. The festival, which first was held in February 1990, includes professional workshops. Among the colleges and universities that regularly participate are Bard, Bates, Brandeis, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Emerson, George Washington, Haverford & Bryn Mawr, Kenyon, Manhattan, Marist, NYU, Oaksterdam University, School of Visual Arts, Skidmore, SUNY Binghamton, Swarthmore, Tufts, University of Arizona, University of Maryland, University of Southern California, Vassar, Wesleyan, William & Mary, and Yale.
Skidmore College | National College Comedy Festival
This is a list of theatrical comedies.
List of theatrical comedies | Introduction
"Saturday Night Live" found itself in controversy when a sketch was performed, imitating politician David Paterson for both his political abilities and his blindness. This brought up the idea of two central forms of humour that comedies will use: one prioritizes the joke itself and how it generates laughter from an audience, while the other prioritizes the personal characteristics of whom an actor is impersonating.
Television comedy | Audience interpretations
The following is a list of some of the comedians who have performed at the show, and the dates they performed. Dates before 2007 are difficult to ascertain due to lack of 3rd party details. To add to the confusion, some performers have only performed in the German shows, some in both, and some in the English shows. the list is by no means exhaustive, and only includes notable comedians and doesn't include show presenters. Key : C - Cologne, B - Bonn, F - Cologne Comedy Fest
Hollywood's Comedy Nights | Performers
LACS also hosts the L.A. Comedy Scripts Screenplay Competition, which judges feature-length and short comedy screenplays from around the world. L.A. Comedy Scripts finalists and winners are honored at the LACS awards event. For the 2010 festival, L.A. Comedy Scripts added the half-hour comedy TV pilots category.
L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival | L.A. Comedy Scripts
. . ." In his work as a comedy promoter, Andy Wood created a venue where the comedy market was struggling, and has promoted the venue to as a regional and national event. Part of Wood's approach in creating 'draw' to a weak comedy market was to couple art with philanthropy. In 2014, Kristi Turnquist of The Oregonian wrote that "The annual event brings comedians from around the country together with some of the Northwest's top acts, for four jam-packed days of hilarity."
Bridgetown Comedy Festival | Reception
The British Film Institute commented, "Its twinning of height and social position, combined with a minimal script, created a classic TV moment." The sketch's influence has persisted to the present day, having been referred to in 21st-century discussions of politics, sociology, and even football.
Class sketch | Reception and influence
French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies.
French comedy films | Characteristics of French comedy films
It would be reasonable to put "Ghostbusters" in this category.
Comedy film | Horror comedy
"Screen International: The international film & television directory, Volume 3". EMAP Media Information, 1993.
Sketchup (TV series) | Bibliography
L.A. Comedy Shorts was founded in 2009 by Gary Anthony Williams of "Boston Legal", along with Festival Director Jeannie Roshar and Festival Producer Ryan Higman. The inaugural festival took place March 5–8, 2009 at The Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles, and was sponsored by Funny Or Die, Atom.com and The Onion. Participating celebrities included Mark Hamill, Aisha Tyler, Sean Astin, and awards show host Adam Carolla. In 2011, LACS added a prize for comedy short student films. Currently not in operation.
L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival | History
Submissions for the festival come primarily from the United States and Canada, though submissions have been received from Europe, Asia and Australia as well. The festival has been invited twice to Italy, screening a Broads Abroad program in Rome in 2007 and again in 2008 to the launch of the Tuscany Tourism Office programs for women, "Benvenute in Toscana".
Broad Humor Film Festival | History
In October 2008, "" film was released at 15 screens in U.S. cinemas. The documentary/concert film, which was created from the longest-running comedy tour in America, follows Amer, Moss and Usman as they perform at comedy clubs around the country, and mostly features a performance before an audience at the Heritage Forum in Anaheim, California in August 2007. The film pauses between acts to chronicle how they make comedy from their personal experiences as Muslims in post 9/11 America, behind-the-scenes footage into the comedians' day-to-day family lives, the work that goes into their show and how they prepare new material.
Allah Made Me Funny | 2008–present (mainstream success and critical acclaim)
Categories are divided by format, organized into those for live performances (including stand-up, improvisation, and plays), television, and film. Internet media was added in 2008 and categories that considered works across different formats were labelled as multimedia.
Canadian Comedy Awards | Awards and categories
Comedy Central Films is the motion picture production arm of the adult-oriented comedy television cable channel Comedy Central. The studio produces comedy films aimed at a mature audience and based on Comedy Central shows. Many of which were distributed by Paramount Pictures. These are films that were theatrically released and based on Comedy Central properties.
Comedy Central Films | Introduction
Other FunnyFest events are the monthly comedy series, the Christmas Comedy Fest and there is a Comedy Workshop that runs 6 times per year. The FunnyFest Talent Search has talent competitions over 6 different nights to find the funniest person. Anyone with original comedy material can apply to compete. FunnyFest is a combination of entertainment through its comedy performances throughout the year; learning via workshops on topics, such as, "Learning How to become a Stand Up Comic" and "Laughter in the Workplace": cultivating local talent through seminars & workshops; comedy industry advocacy, socializing as part of community engagement and also volunteering and fundraising collaborations on behalf of non-profits and charities.
FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival | Introduction
Comedians who have appeared at The Sydney Comedy Festival include:
Sydney Comedy Festival | Comics