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Farce

Index Farce

In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. [1]

254 relations: 'Allo 'Allo!, A Flea in Her Ear, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Marriage Proposal, A Small Family Business, Abe Burrows, Absurdity, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Airplane!, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Akbari Asghari, Alan Ayckbourn, Aleksander Fredro, Alfred Delacour, Alfred Hennequin, AllMovie, Andaz Apna Apna, Andrew Norriss, Angoor (1982 film), Anonymity, Anthony Marriott, Anton Chekhov, Aphra Behn, Arsenic and Old Lace (play), Arthur Murphy (writer), Arthur Wing Pinero, Atellan Farce, Aulularia, Aunn Zara, Awara Paagal Deewana, Azar Ki Ayegi Baraat, Baadshah (1999 film), Bareilly Ki Barfi, Ben Travers, Beyond Therapy, Big Bad Mouse, Black Comedy (play), Blithe Spirit (play), Boeing-Boeing (play), Bol Bachchan, Box and Cox (farce), Brandon Thomas, Burn After Reading, Burt Shevelove, Cactus Flower (play), Candide, Carl Laufs, ChaalBaaz, Chachi 420, Chance in a Million, ..., Charles Dickens, Charley's Aunt, Christopher Durang, Chup Chup Ke, Clue (film), Comedy Nights with Kapil, Connie Booth, Coupling (UK TV series), Dario Fo, David Croft (TV producer), David Mamet, De Dana Dan, Dekh Bhai Dekh, Derek Benfield, Destiny Turns on the Radio, Devils on the Doorstep, Dhamaal, Don Quixote, Don't Dress for Dinner, Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!, Dyskolos, Elizabeth Inchbald, Ernst Bach, Eugène Marin Labiche, F.I.R. (TV series), Farces et moralités, Fawlty Towers, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Franz Arnold, Freaky Friday (1976 film), Funny Money, Gabriela Zapolska, Geoffrey Chaucer, Georges Feydeau, Giannina Braschi, Gol Maal, Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai, Good Neighbor Sam, Gujjubhai the Great, H. W. Wilson Company, Hadh Kar Di Aapne, Happy Days, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Haseena Maan Jaayegi, Hay Fever (play), Henry Fielding, Hera Pheri (2000 film), Herbie Rides Again, Horse Eats Hat, Hot Tub Time Machine, Housefull (2010 film), Housefull 2, Hulchul (2004 film), Hungama, Idhar Udhar, Instant Khichdi, Is He Dead?, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, It's Now or Never!, J. M. Barrie, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Jean Poiret, Jeremy Lloyd, Jessica Hynes, Jiang Wen, Joe Orton, John Chapman (English writer), John Cleese, John Maddison Morton, Joseph Kesselring, Kareena Kareena, Ken Friedman, Ken Ludwig, Khichdi (franchise), Kung Fu Hustle, Kyaa Kool Hai Hum, Kyōgen, La Cage aux Folles (play), La Farce de maître Pathelin, Larry Gelbart, Larry Shue, Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami!, Le Dindon, Le Procès Veauradieux, Leading Ladies, Lend Me a Tenor, Loot (play), Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?, Malamaal Weekly, Marc Camoletti (playwright), Mark Twain, Matt Stone, Menander, Michael Frayn, Michael Pertwee, Miguel de Cervantes, Mikhail Bulgakov, Miles Tredinnick, Million Dollar Baby (1941 film), Million Dollar Mystery, Molière, Monkey Business (1931 film), Mort & Phil, Neil Simon, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Nigel Williams (author), Nikolai Gogol, No Deposit, No Return, No Entry, No Sex Please, We're British, Noël Coward, Noh, Noises Off, Noises Off (film), Now You See Him, Now You Don't, Octave Mirbeau, On the Razzle (play), One Man, Two Guvnors, Orson Welles, Oscar (1991 film), Oscar Wilde, Pension Schöller (play), Peter Shaffer, Philip King (playwright), Phlyax play, Physical comedy, Plautus, Present Laughter, Problem Child (film), Querolus, Radioland Murders, Rat Race (film), Ray Cooney, Richard Bean, Robert Lopez, Romance (play), Room Service (1938 film), Rumors (play), Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo, Samuel Foote, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, Satyr play, Sławomir Mrożek, Scrubs (TV series), See How They Run (play), Simon Pegg, Spaced, Stephen Chow, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Moffat, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, Taking Steps, Tanu Weds Manu: Returns, Tartuffe, Terrence McNally, Thark (play), The Author's Farce, The Bank Dick, The Bear (play), The Book of Mormon (musical), The Boy and the Blind Man, The Canterbury Tales, The Cherry Orchard, The Comedy of Errors, The Foreigner (play), The God of Cookery, The Government Inspector, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Kapil Sharma Show, The Liar (Corneille play), The Love Bug, The Master and Margarita, The Matchmaker, The Mating Season (film), The Miser, The Nerd, The Pink Panther (1963 film), The Play That Goes Wrong, The Ritz (play), The Rover (play), The Second Shepherds' Play, The Shaggy Dog (1959 film), Theatre, Thornton Wilder, Tom Kempinski, Tom Stoppard, Trey Parker, Two Guys and a Girl, Umer Shareef, Unfaithfully Yours (1948 film), United States of Banana, Up Pompeii!, Voltaire, Welcome (2007 film), Wet Hot American Summer, What the Butler Saw (play), What's Up, Doc? (1972 film), Wilhelm Jacoby, William Shakespeare, Yang Jiang, Zemsta, Zhang Tianyi, 101 Dalmatians (1996 film), 30 Rock. Expand index (204 more) »

'Allo 'Allo!

Allo Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising 85 episodes.

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A Flea in Her Ear

A Flea in Her Ear (La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

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A Marriage Proposal

A Marriage Proposal (sometimes translated as simply The Proposal, italic) is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov, written in 1888–1889 and first performed in 1890.

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A Small Family Business

A Small Family Business is a play by Alan Ayckbourn about the eponymous business and dealing with the Thatcherism of the time.

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Abe Burrows

Abe Burrows (December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage.

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Absurdity

An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, or the state of being so.

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Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Italian title: Morte accidentale di un anarchico) is a play by Italian playwright and left-wing activist Dario Fo.

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Airplane!

Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American satirical disaster film written and directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, and produced by Jon Davison.

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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (Unique Prem's (Love's) Amazing Story) is a 2009 Indian romantic comedy film.

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Akbari Asghari

Akbari Asghari is a Pakistani drama based on Mirat-ul-Uroos.

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Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific English playwright and director.

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Aleksander Fredro

Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires.

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Alfred Delacour

Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 – 31 March 1883) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

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Alfred Hennequin

Alfred Hennequin (13 January 1842 - 7 August 1887) was a Belgian dramatist who had a successful career as a writer of comedies.

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AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors.

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Andaz Apna Apna

Andaz Apna Apna (translation: Everyone has their own style) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, starring Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor and Paresh Rawal in the lead roles.

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Andrew Norriss

Andrew Norriss is a British children's author and a writer for television.

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Angoor (1982 film)

Angoor (lit) is a 1982 Indian Hindi-language comedy film starring Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma in dual roles, and directed by Gulzar.

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Anonymity

Anonymity, adjective "anonymous", is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness".

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Anthony Marriott

Anthony Marriott (17 January 1931, London, England – 17 April 2014) was a playwright and actor.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (14 December 1640? (baptismal date)–16 April 1689) was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.

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Arthur Murphy (writer)

Arthur Murphy (27 December 1727 – 18 June 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer.

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Arthur Wing Pinero

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 – 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director.

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Atellan Farce

The Atellan Farce (Latin: Atellanae Fabulae or Fabulae Atellanae, "favola atellana"; Atellanicum exhodium, "Atella comedies"), also known as the Oscan Games (Latin: ludi Osci, "Oscan plays"), were masked improvised farces.

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Aulularia

Aulularia is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus.

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Aunn Zara

Aunn Zara (عون زارا) was a 2013 Pakistan drama series telecast on A-Plus Entertainment.

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Awara Paagal Deewana

Awara Paagal Deewana (आवारा पागल दीवाना, English: Wayward, Crazy, Insane) is a 2002 Indian Hindi action comedy film directed by Vikram Bhatt.

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Azar Ki Ayegi Baraat

Azar Ki Ayegi Baraat is a Pakistani comedy-drama from GEO TV.

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Baadshah (1999 film)

Baadshah (translation: King) is a 1999 Indian comedy thriller film directed by Abbas-Mustan.

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Bareilly Ki Barfi

Bareilly Ki Barfi (English: Bareilly's Barfi) is a 2017 Indian romantic comedy film, directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari.

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Ben Travers

Ben Travers CBE AFC (12 November 1886 – 18 December 1980) was an English writer.

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Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy is a play by Christopher Durang.

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Big Bad Mouse

Big Bad Mouse is a frequently revived 1960s British stage play and theatrical comedic farce that, although not specifically written for them, became famous as a loose vehicle for the many talents of the British comedy actors Jimmy Edwards and Eric Sykes and has constantly seen various revivals with other stars right up to 2008.

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Black Comedy (play)

Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward.

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Boeing-Boeing (play)

Boeing-Boeing is a farce written by the French playwright Marc Camoletti.

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Bol Bachchan

Bol Bachchan is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language comedy film.

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Box and Cox (farce)

Box and Cox is a one act farce by John Maddison Morton.

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Brandon Thomas

Walter Brandon Thomas (24 December 1848 – 19 June 1914) was an English actor, playwright and songwriter, best known as the author of the farce Charley's Aunt.

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Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

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Burt Shevelove

Burt Shevelove (September 19, 1915 – April 8, 1982) was an American musical theater playwright, lyricist, librettist, and director.

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Cactus Flower (play)

Cactus Flower is a farce by Abe Burrows.

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Candide

Candide, ou l'Optimisme, is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

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Carl Laufs

Carl Laufs (1858-1900) was a German playwright who concentrated largely on creating farces, notably the 1890 work Pension Schöller which he co-authored with Wilhelm Jacoby.

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ChaalBaaz

ChaalBaaz (English: Trickster) is a 1989 Indian slapstick comedy film directed by Pankaj Parashar in a screenplay written by Rajesh Mazumdar and Kamlesh Pandey.

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Chachi 420

Chachi 420 (The trickster aunt) is a 1997 Indian Hindi comedy film, co-written, co-produced and directed by Kamal Hassan.

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Chance in a Million

Chance in a Million is a British sitcom broadcast between 1984 and 1986, produced by Thames Television for Channel 4.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas.

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Christopher Durang

Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

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Chup Chup Ke

Chup Chup Ke (चुप चुप के; Quietly, Quietly) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Priyadarshan.

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Clue (film)

Clue is a 1985 American ensemble mystery comedy film based on the board game of the same name.

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Comedy Nights with Kapil

Comedy Nights With Kapil was an Indian sketch comedy and celebrity talk show hosted by Kapil Sharma, that premiered on Colors TV on 22 June 2013 and ended on 24 January 2016.

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Connie Booth

Constance Booth (born 1941 or 1944) is an American-born writer, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in Britain.

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Coupling (UK TV series)

Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from 12 May 2000 to 14 June 2004.

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Dario Fo

Dario Fo (24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian actor–playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter, political campaigner for the Italian left-wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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David Croft (TV producer)

Major David John Croft OBE (born David John Andrew Sharland; 7 September 1922 – 27 September 2011) was an English writer, producer and director.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author.

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De Dana Dan

De Dana Dan (English: Hit left and right) is a 2009 Indian Hindi comedy film directed by Priyadarshan.

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Dekh Bhai Dekh

Dekh Bhai Dekh (English: "Look, brother") was a Hindi sitcom which premiered on Doordarshan's Main channel, (DD2) on 6 May 1993.

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Derek Benfield

Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor.

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Destiny Turns on the Radio

Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995) is an American comedy film, directed by Jack Baran.

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Devils on the Doorstep

Devils on the Doorstep (鬼が来た!; literally "the devils are here") is a 2000 Chinese black comedy film directed, co-written and produced by Jiang Wen, starring Jiang himself, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding and Jiang Hongbo.

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Dhamaal

Dhamaal (धमाल; English translation: Fun) is a 2007 Indian comedy film directed by Indra Kumar and produced by Ashok Thakeria.

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Don Quixote

The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Don't Dress for Dinner

Don't Dress for Dinner is a two-act play by Robin Hawdon based loosely on a farce by French playwright Marc Camoletti, who wrote Boeing-Boeing. It ran in France and then in London, running there for six years, and opened on Broadway in 2012.

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Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! is a 1973 British film based on the popular "Whitehall Farce" written by Michael Pertwee, who also wrote the screenplay.

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Dyskolos

Dyskolos (Δύσκολος,, translated as The Grouch, The Misanthrope, The Curmudgeon, The Bad-tempered Man or Old Cantankerous) is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole New Comedy, that has survived in almost complete form.

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Elizabeth Inchbald

Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist.

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Ernst Bach

Ernst Bach (1876-1929) was a German actor and playwright.

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Eugène Marin Labiche

Eugène Marin Labiche (5 May 1815 – 23 January 1888) was a French dramatist, perhaps best known for his 1851 farce written with Marc-Michel, The Italian Straw Hat, which has since been adapted many times to stage and screen.

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F.I.R. (TV series)

F.I.R. is an Indian television sitcom that aired from 31 July 2006 to 23 January 2015, on SAB TV.

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Farces et moralités

Farces et moralités (Farces and morality plays) is a collection of six comedy plays in one act, written by the French novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau and published by Fasquelle in 1904: Vieux ménages (Old couples), L’Épidémie (The Epidemic, Bloomington, University of Denver Press, 1949), Les Amants (The Lovers), Scrupules (Scruples, New York, Samuel French, 1923), Le Portefeuille (The Purse) and Interview.

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Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American coming-of-age comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes, and co-produced by Tom Jacobson.

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Franz Arnold

Franz Arnold (1878–1960) was a German actor and playwright.

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Freaky Friday (1976 film)

Freaky Friday is a 1976 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Gary Nelson in a screenplay written by Mary Rodgers, based on her 1972 novel of the same name.

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Funny Money

Funny Money is a farce written by Ray Cooney.

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Gabriela Zapolska

Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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Georges Feydeau

Georges Feydeau (8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque.

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Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican writer.

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Gol Maal

Gol Maal (English: Mayhem) is a 1979 Indian comedy film, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and written by Rahi Masoom Raza and Sachin Bhowmick.

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Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai

Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai was an Indian romcom that was aired on SAB TV.

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Good Neighbor Sam

Good Neighbor Sam is a 1964 American Eastman Color comedy film co-written and directed by David Swift and starring Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine and Michael Connors.

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Gujjubhai the Great

Gujjubhai The Great (ગુજ્જુભાઈ ધ ગ્રેટ.) is a 2015 Gujarati comedy film directed by Ishaan Randeria.

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H. W. Wilson Company

The H. W. Wilson Company, Inc., was founded in 1898 and is located in The Bronx, New York.

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Hadh Kar Di Aapne

Hadh Kar Di Aapne (Hindi: हद कर दी आपने) (meaning - you have crossed the limits) is a 2000 Indian Hindi comedy movie directed by Manoj Agrawal.

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Happy Days

Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984 on ABC, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning eleven seasons.

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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (alternatively known as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a 2004 American stoner comedy film and the first installment of the ''Harold & Kumar'' series.

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Haseena Maan Jaayegi

Haseena Maan Jaayegi (हसीना मान जायेगी) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by David Dhawan.

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Hay Fever (play)

Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924 and first produced in 1925 with Marie Tempest as the first Judith Bliss.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones.

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Hera Pheri (2000 film)

Hera Pheri is a 2000 Indian comedy film directed by Priyadarshan starring Sunil Shetty, Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Tabu.

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Herbie Rides Again

Herbie Rides Again is a 1974 American comedy film and a sequel to The Love Bug, released six years earlier, and the second installment of the ''Herbie'' franchise made by Walt Disney Productions starring an anthropomorphic (and quite autonomous) 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie.

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Horse Eats Hat

Horse Eats Hat is a 1936 farce play co-written and directed by Orson Welles (at the time 21 years of age), and presented under the auspices of the Federal Theatre Project.

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Hot Tub Time Machine

Hot Tub Time Machine is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Steve Pink and starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, Kellee Stewart, Crystal Lowe, Collette Wolfe and Chevy Chase.

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Housefull (2010 film)

Housefull is a 2010 Indian comedy film directed by Sajid Khan.

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Housefull 2

Housefull 2 (also known as Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen) is a 2012 Indian comedy film directed by Sajid Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under his banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, it is distributed by Eros International.

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Hulchul (2004 film)

Hulchul (translated: Commotion) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Priyadarshan.

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Hungama

Hungama (English: Mayhem) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language comedy film produced by Vijay Galani, co-written and directed by Priyadarshan.

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Idhar Udhar

Idhar Udhar was a Hindi sitcom which first aired on Doordarshan in 1985.

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Instant Khichdi

Instant Khichdi is an Indian sitcom that aired on STAR One from 1 July 2005 to 7 August 2005.

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Is He Dead?

Is He Dead? is a play by Mark Twain.

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast, about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers.

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It's Now or Never!

It's Now or Never! is a stage comedy written by Miles Tredinnick.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Devnagari: जाने भी दो यारों, English: Just Let It Go, Friends) is a 1983 Hindi comedy film directed by Kundan Shah and produced by NFDC.

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Jean Poiret

Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 in Paris – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter.

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Jeremy Lloyd

John Jeremy Lloyd, OBE (22 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an English writer, screenwriter, author, poet and actor, best known as co-author and writer of several successful British sitcoms, including Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!.

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Jessica Hynes

Tallulah Jessica Elina Hynes (née Stevenson; born 30 October 1972) is an English actress and writer.

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Jiang Wen

Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and director.

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Joe Orton

John Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967) was an English playwright and author.

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John Chapman (English writer)

John Roy Chapman (27 May 1927, London – 3 September 2001, Périgueux) was a British actor and playwright.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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John Maddison Morton

John Maddison Morton (3 January 1811 – 19 December 1891) was an English playwright who specialised in one-act farces.

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Joseph Kesselring

Joseph Otto Kesselring (July 21, 1902 – November 5, 1967) was an American playwright who was best known for writing Arsenic and Old Lace, a hit on Broadway from 1939 to 1944 and in other countries as well.

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Kareena Kareena

Kareena Kareena is a Zee TV comedy serial that aired from 1 September 2004 to 17 October 2005.

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Ken Friedman

Ken Friedman, (born September 19, 1949 in New London, Connecticut) was a member of Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, and music.

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Ken Ludwig

Ken Ludwig is an American playwright and theatre director whose work has been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages.

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Khichdi (franchise)

The Khichdi franchise is a Hindi language franchise of sitcom series and film created by Hats Off Productions and UTV Software Communications, which debuted on STAR Plus on 10 September 2002.

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Kung Fu Hustle

Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts gangster comedy film, directed, co-produced and co-written by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role.

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Kyaa Kool Hai Hum

Kyaa Kool Hain Hum (Translation: How Cool Are We) is a 2005 Bollywood adult comedy film directed by Sangeeth Sivan and produced by Ekta Kapoor.

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Kyōgen

is a form of traditional Japanese comic theater.

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La Cage aux Folles (play)

La Cage aux Folles is a 1973 French farce by Jean Poiret centering on confusion that ensues when Laurent, the son of a Saint Tropez night club owner, and his gay lover bring his fiancée's ultraconservative parents for dinner.

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La Farce de maître Pathelin

La Farce de maître Pathelin (in English The Farce of Master Pathelin; sometimes La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin, La Farce de Pathelin, Farce Maître Pierre Pathelin, or Farce de Maître Pathelin) is a fifteenth-century (1457) anonymous medieval farce written originally in French.

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Larry Gelbart

Larry Simon Gelbart (February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the television series M*A*S*H, and as co-writer of Broadway musicals City of Angels and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

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Larry Shue

Larry Howard Shue (July 23, 1946 – September 23, 1985) was an American playwright and actor, best known for writing two often-performed farces, The Nerd and The Foreigner.

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Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami!

Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami! is a stage comedy by Miles Tredinnick.

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Le Dindon

Le Dindon is a French comedy film from 1951, directed by Claude Barma and starring Nadine Alari and Louis de Funès.

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Le Procès Veauradieux

Le Procès Veauradieux is an 1875 farce written by Alfred Hennequin and Alfred Delacour.

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Leading Ladies

Ken Ludwig's Leading Ladies is a comedy play by Ken Ludwig.

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Lend Me a Tenor

Lend Me a Tenor is a comedy by Ken Ludwig.

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Loot (play)

Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton.

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Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?

Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya? (English: Why did I fall in love?) is a 2005 Indian Hindi romantic comedy film directed by David Dhawan.

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Malamaal Weekly

Malamaal Weekly is a 2006 Indian Hindi comedy film written and directed by Priyadarshan and starring Riteish Deshmukh Paresh Rawal and the late Om Puri As The Lead.

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Marc Camoletti (playwright)

Marc Camoletti (November 16, 1923 – July 18, 2003) was a French playwright best known for his classic farce Boeing-Boeing.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Matt Stone

Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American actor, animator, writer, director, producer, singer, and songwriter.

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Menander

Menander (Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy.

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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn, FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.

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Michael Pertwee

Michael Henry Pertwee (24 April 1916, Kensington, London – 17 April 1991, Camden, London) was an English playwright and screenwriter.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed)23 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.

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Miles Tredinnick

Miles Tredinnick, also known as Riff Regan, (born Warrington 18 February 1955) is a rock musician, songwriter and a stage and screenwriter.

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Million Dollar Baby (1941 film)

Million Dollar Baby is a 1941 romantic comedy film directed by Curtis Bernhardt.

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Million Dollar Mystery

Million Dollar Mystery (also known as Money Mania) is a 1987 American film released with a promotional tie-in for Glad-Lock brand bags.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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Monkey Business (1931 film)

Monkey Business is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film.

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Mort & Phil

Mort & Phil (Mortadelo y Filemón) is one of the most popular Spanish comics series, published in more than a dozen countries.

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author.

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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 Universal Pictures comedy film starring W. C. Fields.

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Nigel Williams (author)

Nigel Williams (born 20 January 1948) is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian speaking dramatist of Ukrainian origin.

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No Deposit, No Return

No Deposit, No Return is a 1976 comedy film directed by Norman Tokar.

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No Entry

No Entry is an Indian comedy film released in 2005.

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No Sex Please, We're British

No Sex Please, We're British is a British farce written by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott, which premiered in London's West End on 3 June 1971.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Noh

, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent", is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century.

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Noises Off

Noises Off is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael Frayn.

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Noises Off (film)

Noises Off is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

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Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Now You See Him, Now You Don't is a 1972 Walt Disney Productions film starring Kurt Russell as a chemistry student who accidentally discovers the secret to invisibility.

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Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.

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On the Razzle (play)

On the Razzle is a play by Tom Stoppard.

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One Man, Two Guvnors

One Man, Two Guvnors is a play by Richard Bean, an English adaptation of Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni), a 1743 Commedia dell'arte style comedy play by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Oscar (1991 film)

Oscar is a 1991 American screwball comedy film directed by John Landis.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Pension Schöller (play)

Pension Schöller (English:The Schöller Boardinghouse) is a German comedy play by Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs which was first performed in 1890.

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Peter Shaffer

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, of which several have been turned into films.

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Philip King (playwright)

Philip King (30 October 1904 – 9 February 1979) was an English playwright and actor, born in Yorkshire.

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Phlyax play

A Phlyax play (φλύαξ, also phlyakes), also known as a hilarotragedy, was a burlesque dramatic form that developed in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in the 4th century BCE.

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Physical comedy

Physical comedy is a form of comedy focused on manipulation of the body for a humorous effect.

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Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.

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Present Laughter

Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward.

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Problem Child (film)

Problem Child is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by Robert Simonds.

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Querolus

Querolus (The Complainer) or Aulularia (The Pot) is an anonymous Latin comedy from late antiquity, the only Latin drama to survive from this period and the only ancient Latin comedy outside the works of Plautus and Terence.

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Radioland Murders

Radioland Murders is a 1994 comedy mystery film directed by Mel Smith and co-written and produced by George Lucas.

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Rat Race (film)

Rat Race is a 2001 American ensemble comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker, written by Andy Breckman, and starring Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanai Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, Wayne Knight, John Cleese, Dave Thomas, Dean Cain, and Kathy Bates.

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Ray Cooney

Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright and actor.

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Richard Bean

Richard Bean (born Richard Anthony Bean in East Hull, 11 June 1956) is an English playwright.

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Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is an American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the Disney animated films Frozen and Coco.

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Romance (play)

Romance is a play by David Mamet.

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Room Service (1938 film)

Room Service is a 1938 RKO film comedy directed by William A. Seiter, based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray.

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Rumors (play)

Rumors is a farcical play by Neil Simon.

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Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo

Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo (SRJMB), is a Hindi sitcom telecast on SAB TV.

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Samuel Foote

Samuel Foote (January 1720 – 21 October 1777) was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall.

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Sarabhai vs Sarabhai

Sarabhai vs Sarabhai is an Indian sitcom created by Jamnadas Majethia and Aatish Kapadia.

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Satyr play

Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar in spirit to the bawdy satire of burlesque.

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Sławomir Mrożek

Sławomir Mrożek (29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was a Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist.

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Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs (stylized as) is an American medical comedy-drama television series created by Bill Lawrence that aired from October 2, 2001, to March 17, 2010, on NBC and later ABC.

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See How They Run (play)

See How They Run is an English comedy in three acts by Philip King.

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Simon Pegg

Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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Spaced

Spaced is a British television sitcom created, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright, about the (often comic and sometimes surreal and absurd) exploits of Daisy Steiner and Tim Bisley, two twenty-something Londoners who, despite only having just met, decide to move in together after she gives up on squatting and he is kicked out by his ex-girlfriend.

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Stephen Chow

Stephen Chow Sing-chi (born 22 June 1962) is a Chinese film director, actor, producer, political adviser of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and martial artist.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Steven Moffat

Steven William Moffat (born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer and producer, best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock.

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Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah

Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (English: Taarak Mehta's Different Perspective) is India's longest running sitcom serial.

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Taking Steps

Taking Steps is a 1979 farce by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn.

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Tanu Weds Manu: Returns

Tanu Weds Manu Returns is a 2015 Indian romantic comedy film directed by Aanand L. Rai which serves as a sequel to the 2011 film Tanu Weds Manu.

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Tartuffe

Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite (Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière.

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Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1938) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.

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Thark (play)

Thark is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers.

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The Author's Farce

The Author's Farce and the Pleasures of the Town is a play by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding, first performed on 30 March 1730 at the Little Theatre, Haymarket.

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The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 comedy film starring W. C. Fields.

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The Bear (play)

The Bear: A Joke in One Act, or The Boor (Medved': Shutka v odnom deystvii, 1888), is a one-act comedic play written by Russian author Anton Chekhov.

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The Book of Mormon (musical)

The Book of Mormon is a musical comedy about two young Mormon missionaries who travel to Uganda to preach the Mormon religion.

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The Boy and the Blind Man

The Boy and the Blind Man (Le Garçon et l'aveugle) is the name of a 13th-century French play; considered the oldest surviving French farce.

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

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The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard (translit) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

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The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays.

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The Foreigner (play)

The Foreigner is a two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue.

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The God of Cookery

The God of Cookery is a 1996 film produced, written, starring, and directed by Stephen Chow.

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The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General («Ревизор», Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by the Russian and Ukrainian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

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The Kapil Sharma Show

The Kapil Sharma Show is an Indian Hindi stand-up comedy and talk show which premiered on 23 April 2016 and is broadcast by Sony TV.

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The Liar (Corneille play)

The Liar (Le Menteur) is a farcical play by Pierre Corneille that was first performed in 1644.

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The Love Bug

The Love Bug (sometimes referred to as Herbie the Love Bug) is a 1968 American comedy film and the first in a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie.

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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita (Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime.

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The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker is a 1954 play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers.

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The Mating Season (film)

The Mating Season is a 1951 classic farce with elements of screwball comedy.

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The Miser

The Miser (L'Avare) is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière.

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The Nerd

The Nerd is a two-act comedy written by American actor/playwright Larry Shue.

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The Pink Panther (1963 film)

The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale.

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The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company.

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The Ritz (play)

The Ritz is a comedic farce by Terrence McNally.

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The Rover (play)

The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn.

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The Second Shepherds' Play

The Second Shepherds' Play (also known as The Second Shepherds' Pageant) is a famous medieval mystery play which is contained in the manuscript HM1, the unique manuscript of the Wakefield Cycle.

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The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)

The Shaggy Dog is a black-and-white 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias is transformed into the title character, a shaggy Old English Sheepdog.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Tom Kempinski

Tom Kempinski (born 24 March 1938) is an English playwright and actor.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Trey Parker

Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, director, producer, singer, and songwriter.

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Two Guys and a Girl

Two Guys and a Girl (titled Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place for the first two seasons) is an American sitcom created by Kenny Schwartz and Danny Jacobson.

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Umer Shareef

Umer Shareef, TI, also spelled Omer Sharif, is a Pakistani stand-up comedian and stage, film, and television actor.

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Unfaithfully Yours (1948 film)

Unfaithfully Yours is a 1948 American screwball black comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallée and Barbara Lawrence.

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United States of Banana

United States of Banana is a 2011 postcolonial work of fiction by the Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi.

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Up Pompeii!

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Welcome (2007 film)

Welcome is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee and produced by Firoz A. Nadiadwala and Ronnie Screwvala under the banner of UTV Motion Pictures and "Base Industries Group".

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Wet Hot American Summer

Wet Hot American Summer is a 2001 American satirical comedy film directed by David Wain from a screenplay written by Wain and Michael Showalter.

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What the Butler Saw (play)

What the Butler Saw is a farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton.

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What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)

What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 American screwball comedy film released by Warner Bros., directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, and Madeline Kahn in her first feature film role (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe).

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Wilhelm Jacoby

Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925) was a German playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces notably the 1890 work Pension Schöller which he co-authored with Carl Laufs.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Yang Jiang

Yang Jiang (17 July 1911 – 25 May 2016) was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator.

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Zemsta

Zemsta (Revenge) is a Polish comedy by Aleksander Fredro, a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions.

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Zhang Tianyi

Zhang Tianyi, real name: Zhang Yuanding; 26 September 1906 – 28 April 1985) was a 20th-century Chinese left-wing writer and children's author, whose novels and short stories achieved acclaim in the 1930s for his satiric wit.

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101 Dalmatians (1996 film)

101 Dalmatians is a 1996 American live-action comedy adventure film based on Walt Disney's animated 1961 movie adaptation of Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Directed by Stephen Herek and co-produced by John Hughes and Ricardo Mestres, it stars Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie, Mark Williams and Tim McInnerny.

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30 Rock

30 Rock is an American satirical television sitcom created by Tina Fey that ran on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farce

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