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Topic: Comedic foil

	EdgeCurve.com \| Written Words: Pirates: Perfect Comedic Foil
		The focus of this article, instead, will be to examine why the pirate is such an efficient instrument in comedy, especially in the role of comedic foil.
		By foil I mean something that serves by contrast to set off another thing.
		Pirates have played many roles over time, but perhaps the most important role that pirates play in modern society is that of the comedic foil.
	www.edgecurve.com /writtenwords/article.php?ID=12 (599 words)

	Comedic Foil Encyclopedia Articles @ HollywoodBlockbuster.com (Hollywood Blockbuster) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Comedic Foil Encyclopedia Articles @ HollywoodBlockbuster.com (Hollywood Blockbuster)
		When a woman is in the "straight man" role, she is more often referred to as a comic foil.
		Despite the names given to the roles, it is not always the comic who provides the act's humor.
	hollywoodblockbuster.com /encyclopedia/Comedic_foil (1436 words)

	June Carter Cash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
		With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce.
		She was married three times, first to honky-tonk singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/June_Carter_Cash (871 words)

	"Everybody Loves Raymond" : "Everybody Loves Raymond", dimwit blogs on sulekha, TV Shows blogs, dimwit blog from india
		This relationship between Ray and Debra, brought to focus the fact, that it is the mismatch of personalities and understandings that actually creates explosive screen chemistry.Â There is a realization that one is watching something that would be impractical in real life â“ giving it that extra something from the realm of impossibilities.
		Frank, the cantankerous Dad is the final foil of this sitcom family.Â Frankâs tag line is âWhat Crap!â because he doesnât believe in the fake niceness of etiquette and insists on saying out loud that which should remain unsaid if one follows a civil code of conduct.
		Given the runaway success of this sitcom, other similar ones sprang up after, but none could reach out and touch the viewers the way the raw comedy of this one did.Â The main reason for it was that each character was identifiable and relatable.
	dimwit.sulekha.com /blog/post/2007/04/everybody-loves-raymond.htm (481 words)

	The Ithacan Online \| Comedian continues sports parody crusade - April 5th, 2007
		Like its two predecessors, the results are not comedic brilliance, but more than enough laughs to justify its existence.
		But once Ferrell and the right comedic foil come together on screen, in all their makeup and costuming, to paraphrase “Field of Dreams”: If you film it, jokes will come.
		Ferrell’s foil in “Blades of Glory” is an eerily androgynous Jon Heder, who plays the delicate professional skater Jimmy MacElroy, a flamboyant combination of Clay Aiken and Brian Boitano.
	theithacan.org /am/publish/filmreview/200704_Comedian_continues_sports_parody_crusade.shtml (570 words)

	Meg Ryan Network \|\| Meg-Ryan.net » for the latest news & info about Meg Ryan
		Kasdan too often goes for cheap moments, whether dramatic or comedic - for example, Carter's regular gig is writing scripts for soft-core porn productions.
		Dukakis serves mostly as a comedic foil as the out-of-touch Granny, who doesn't quite believe that this young man is the same kid who used to visit.
		Holding down the center is Brody, late of TV's "The O.C." and "Gilmore Girls." His persona melds Topher Grace and Zach Brach without either's self-consciousness.
	www.meg-ryan.net (2208 words)

	Japan Hero > Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Tokusatsu Heroes and Anime Heroes
		Each episode ends on a cliffhanger, leaving me to dive for my DVD remote to click to the next episode.
		Souske suddenly ceases to be a comedic foil as he enters back into his element of serious Tom Clancy-esque military espionage.
		He slips in shadows, radios in to base, and makes crack shots with the pistol he took off an unsuspecting guard.
	www.japanhero.com /animation%20hero%20reviews/full_metal_panic-2.htm (1227 words)

	Hoot Gibson
		Cowboy star with a comedic bent who began his career in the rodeo then began doing stunts for silent films.
		In 1912, he won the title of The World's All-Around Cowboy Champion in Pendleton, Oregon, then went on to serve in the U.S. Army during World War I. He worked with director
		in a series of westerns, beginning a career that would span some 200 silent and 75 sound films, in which he functioned mostly as a comedic foil to the hero.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0761530.html (163 words)

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