A Little Knowledge About The History Of Comedy

By Lester Hersch


Taking a look back in time at the movies of old we come to notice that a large bulk of them were silent movies. These were mostly in the genre of making people laugh while at the same time letting them know that good always reigns over evil in the end.

Most of the people who would go to watch films therefore would expect the movie to contain a lot of humor no matter what the subject matter was about. As time went by these comedies were slowly replaced with satires that would point fingers at different things in the community.

With the use of humor, movies were a good way to deliver messages to the masses about what was going on in their society while entertaining them at the same time. Movie producers came to realize that one way of captivating the audiences was through the use of gender swapping roles that let the women know what it was like to be a man and vice versa as well.

There then came the era of spoofs in which people developed a liking at seeing older classics being made fun of and being brought out to the audiences in new light. Most of these spoofs would rely on mocking the earlier classic so as to work on an already set loved foundation.

Another typical characteristic of those films was to make fun lightly of something which also strongly deals with the theme of the film. Humor was involved very strongly in those films that it became a classic. Characters used to treat each other using dialogue full of satire and sarcasm and thereby brought the sense of mockery.

Even it is observed that these parodies were so liked by the general audience that it crossed the limit likening in comparison to the original films. 'Blazing saddles', 'Airplane', were such movies where the original version of these movies could not even stand beside.

The audience gets to have a few laughs while watching the flick but as they do this they are warned that these taboos will always have dire consequences. War of the roses was one of the favorites back in the day.

By taking the combination of two genres there were many types of comedies that spawned like fantasy plus comedy to make fantasy comedies and drama and comedy to make dramedies.




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