Comedy Essay Examples

When people look back on their past there are inevitably things that they would want to go back and change, wondering what effects those changes would have on their future and how it would potentially improve their life. If an individual could live their life...

Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet is a foreign-language comedy that follows the story of Wai-Tung, a young, gay, Taiwanese man and his struggle to appease his parents’ wish for grandchildren while living in America with his white boyfriend. While the title and the central plot...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a show that first aired on FOX on September 17th, 2013. It is a comedy about the lives of the New York Police Department and their adventures. With a multi-racial cast, incredibly represented male and female characters, and well-timed jokes, the show...

“‘I will come,’ said Peter, but he sat on for a moment. What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was,” explains Peter Walsh...

Can Taming of the Shrew be named a comedy? Can a play in which the main character is tortured by sleep deprivation, starvation, humiliation, mockery of the logic and common sense be called a comedy? Certainly, Catherine is not an angel. She is quite rude...

The heading itself conveys many cultural traits and gender insensitivity. This phrase was peculiarly used by the Indian Matrimonial Ads and especially by the boy’s side of the family to attract the girl’s family. It clearly showcased that the Mother-in-law is very pious, dedicated and...

In ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, comedy is used in a way to simplify topics that are mentioned in the text and portrays it in a way that engages the audience, makes a point and makes it easy to comprehend and understand. Comedic techniques are...

If the events of the movie or comic book involving Deadpool are taken for surface value, one may think that Deadpool is a villain, or at most, an anti-hero. If you analyze his origin story, one may very quickly realize that every single event that...

Shakespeare’s Elizabethan comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, is an illustration of the imbalance of power in a patriarchal society and the expected gender roles of its time. Gil Junger’s modern adaptation, the film 10 Things I Hate About You, depicts a more hopeful perspective...

William Shakespeare’s 16th century play ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ portrays an indisputable notion of the imbalance in power between men and women and how they are perceived in society, which remains constant in the 20th century film adaptation ’10 Things I Hate About You’....