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Comedy
see all genres ›Expressly designed to amuse, comedies use physical humor, sight gags, parody, farce and satire as they upend social convention and deliver belly laughs. Aristotle traced the origins of comedy back to boisterous phallic rituals. A survey of contemporary comedy places him not far off the mark.
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Genres / Comedy
SUB-GENRES · Anarchic Comedy · Black Comedy · Coming of Age · Dysfunctional Family · Farce · Mockumentary · Parody · Political Satire · Romantic Comedy · Screwball Comedy · Slapstick
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1988: The Remake
1988: THE REMAKE, the second film of the trilogy, is about a huge audition for the remake of the classic American musical "Showboat." For three nights, July 22-24, 1975, hundreds of San Francisco’s most bizarre talent turned up, while actor Ed Nylund, a real-life librarian and musicologist, tried to enact...Start your free trial to watch
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Aaltra
Comedians Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who wrote, directed, and co-star in this irreverent road movie, show a distinct flair for understated physical comedy and defiantly non-PC humor. Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in an agricultural tractor, leaving them both...Start your free trial to watch
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Adam's Apples
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. His current charges are a psychotic Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic tennis pro convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding...Start your free trial to watch
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The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
The ninth installment in the twelve episode OCTAVIUS AMATEUR DETECTIVE series (of which THE ADVENTURES OF THE WRONG SANTA CLAUS is or perhaps is not a part). Octavius is a bumbler who "never fails" to solve the crime due to an endless array of good luck and coincidence. He goes in search of local car...Start your free trial to watch
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Africa, F.O.B.
Featuring Monty Banks and William Blaisdell. This film features actors performing in blackface. Fandor does not condone racist stereotyping, but blackface is nonetheless a significant aspect of American history in general and film history specifically. Early cinema was deeply rooted in vaudeville, where blackface was a...Start your free trial to watch
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Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane
A smoldering car wreck moves two brothers to ask their mother about a significant difference in their upbringings. The Zellners’ knotty dialogue touches upon Pilgrims, foreskins, European sexual preferences and smallpox, a welter of neurosis and shame. If the script seems unlikely, an autobiographical...Start your free trial to watch
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Ain't She Sweet
19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Chops the Suey
A highly unusual Alice Comedy, featuring devices familiar from other cartoon series. The opening and closing are similar to those in the OUT OF THE INKWELL cartoons which the Fleischer Studio was producing at the same time, with the main characters emerging from, and disappearing back into, an ink bottle....Start your free trial to watch
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Alice in the Jungle
This short is a reworking of ALICE HUNTING IN AFRICA, which had been produced in 1924 with the original Alice, Virginia Davis. ALICE HUNTING IN AFRICA had received only limited release, and Disney's distributor asked him to produce this new version, with Virginia's original scenes combined with new...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Rattled by Rats
Several of the Alice Comedies, including this one, featured crowds of nondescript mice or rats. These rats bear scant resemblance to the later Mickey Mouse, but this particular short was loosely remade in 1929 as a Mickey Mouse cartoon, WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY. Here it's Alice who goes away, leaving Julius in...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Solves the Puzzle
Little Margie Gay, who would go on to play Alice in more than half of the Alice Comedies, made her first appearance in ALICE SOLVES THE PUZZLE (The title introducing her was lettered by Ub Iwerks, who was not only the studio's lead animator but also its lettering specialist). And this short also marked the...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice the Jail Bird
In this offbeat entry, Alice and her friends steal a pie from a windowsill and wind up on the wrong side of the law. The sight of a Disney character in prison stripes may seem incongruous today, but in fact this film anticipates a Mickey Mouse short, THE CHAIN GANG, produced five years later. Note that...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice the Whaler
This entry in the Alice Comedies was released near the end of the series. In it we can see the fourth and last of the girls who played Alice, the relatively little-known child actress Lois Hardwick. Notice that Ub Iwerks' drawing style has matured by 1927, and now looks very different from that in the 1925...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Balloon Race
Reflecting the mid-1920s obsession with air travel, stunts and competition, this short pits Julius against Pete as more or less friendly rivals. By late 1925 Julius had as more or less friendly rivals. By late 1925 Julius had effectively replaced Alice as the main protagonist in these films. Here Alice,...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Egg Plant
A child actress known as Dawn O'Day made her first and only appearance as Alice in this delightful short. In later years she would change her name and become much better known in the 1930s and 40s as Anne Shirley. Here she's the owner of an "Egg Plant," a factory in which hens lay eggs until incited by an...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Orphan
The title is a misnomer: Alice can be glimpsed here, but it's really Julius who finds, adopts and attempts to raise the orphan. The basic situation, and even some of the individual gags, are borrowed from Chaplin's feature-length comedy THE KID, released four years earlier. But Julius' unconventional parenting techniques are...Start your free trial to watch