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People who watch a film and cannot stop laughing are probably watching some sort of comedy. A comedy is defined as any film with a humorous plot (Dirks). The three main types of comedies are slapstick comedy, screwball comedy, and dark comedy.
Slapstick comedy is one of the earliest forms of comedy. ... Some movies that illustrate slapstick comedy are Biodome and Freddy Got Fingered. ...
Screwball comedy includes one or both of two important ingredients; role manipulation and wacky and oddball behavior (Mills and Screwball). Two movies that show examples of screwball comedy are My Man Godfrey and Bringing Up Baby. ... An example of screwball comedy in this film is when Molly, the Bullock’s maid, is arguing with Godfrey and she doesn’t really understand what Godfrey is trying to say, so she keeps arguing with him. ... ” (Bringing)
Dark Comedy is a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements, especially one in which a character suffers an irreparable loss or grimly sarcastic humor (Styan). Two movies that show examples of dark comedy are The Cable Guy and Dead Man on Campus. ... An example of dark comedy in this film is when Steven first meets his new cable guy and says, “My friend told me this story about this guy who gave his cable guy fifty bucks and he got all the movie channels for free, you ever here about anything like that?
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