Movies - Comedies

Comedy is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy. The term must be carefully distinguished from its academic one, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece.

Screwball comedy derives its humor largely from bizarre, surprising situations or characters. Black comedy is defined by dark humor that makes light of so called dark or evil elements in human nature. Similarly scatological humor, sexual humor, and race humor create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways. A comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behavior and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a popular genre that depicts budding romance in humorous terms and focuses on the proplems of those who are falling in love.