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	Ancient Greek comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By Plato comedy is defined as the generic name for all exhibitions which have a tendency to excite laughter.
		The old comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Kleisthenes, about 510 BCE, arose, as we have seen, from the obscene jests of Dionysian revellers, to which was given a political application.
		The period of the middle comedy extended from the close of the Peloponnesian war to the enthralment of Athens by Philip of Macedon; that is to say, from the closing years of the fifth to nearly the middle of the fourth century BCE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Comedy (1302 words)

	INTRODUCTION TO OLD COMEDY
		Old Comedy, on the other hand, was tied to the political and social milieu of fifth century Athens and therefore could not be as easily transplanted.
		Old Comedy was presented in the same theater of Dionysus as was tragic drama, with the same background (skene), orchestra and theatrical devices (mechane and ekkyklema).
		Although Old Comedy occasionally employs the tragic structure in which stasima act as dividers between episodes, it tends to favor the construction (found in early tragedy) wherein the stanzas of choral songs are separated one from another by interspersed dialogue, thus closely integrating choral song and dialogue.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/studyguide/genrecm.htm (1266 words)

	Aristophanes
		None the less there is a close relationship between the comedy of Athens and the comedy of sixteenth-century England.
		Of the Old Comedy, as it is called, we have little; none of the plays of Aristophanes' often successful rivals, and only eleven of the many he himself wrote; but the genre is clearly to be seen in those eleven.
		The result is that the distinctive quality of the Old Comedy cannot be illustrated by quotation.
	www.english.emory.edu /DRAMA/Aristophanes.html (949 words)

	The Theatre In Greece - Old Greek Comedy
		His other comedies are The Knights, The Clouds (directed against Socrates), The Women celebrating the Feast of Demeter, The Wasps, The Parliament of Women (attack on Plato), The Birds, and lastly Plutus, a satire on men who commit nothing but follies, and the gods who misgovern the world.
		The exact period at which the representations of comedies at the Dionysia were instituted is unknown, but certain Athenian inscriptions establish beyond a doubt that they were in full vigour by 459 B.C. The number of poets entered for competition was three, at the Dionysiac as well as at the Lenaean gathering.
		The masks were usually of a grotesque and extra-ordinary type, harmonising with the character of the early comedy, in which parody and caricature were the principal elements.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/theatre-5.shtml (1534 words)

	Aristophanes and OLd Comedy
		Old Comedy, which is associated with Aristophanes, was seen during the fifth and early fourth centuries; it is characterized by exuberant political and social satire along with literary parody.
		Old Comedy was also more lighthearted and less dignified than tragedy, as slapstick action, sexual jokes, and almost every other device of humor known to man could be found (Dunkle).
		It differed from Old Comedy in essentially three ways: “it had no chorus, public characters were not personated on the stage, and the objects of its ridicule were general rather than personal, literary rather than political” (“Middle Comedy”).
	www.arches.uga.edu /~preston/Aristophanes.html (1597 words)

	308 Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays, Classical Drama and Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Old Comedies must have been fairly expensive to mount—the costume budget alone must have been extravagant—though the Athenians of the Classical Age evidently felt the visual and comic rewards were great enough to warrant such an investment.
		Aristophanes' last two surviving comedies which were written in the first years of the fourth century show the effect of these constraints, calling for fewer "special effects" and less novel and elaborate choral odes—in one play, virtually no original songs at all!—they derive humor, instead, from standard comic situations and stereotypical characters.
		Among the first documented events in the early history of Old Comedy is that at some time around 440 BCE drama in general, and comedy in particular, was given an additional venue, the Lenaea, a festival with close associations to the Dionysia.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/081earlygkcom.htm (5796 words)

	Old Comedy
		The old comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Pericles, about 450 B.C., arose, as we have seen, from the coarse jests of Dionysian revellers, to which was given a political application.
		In its license of word and gesture, on its audacious directness of invective, no restriction was placed by the dramatist, the audience or the authorities, this license running to an excess that to modern play-goers would seem incredible.
		But this alone would not have won for comedy such recognition as it recognition as it received from the refined and cultured community of the age of Pericles.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/bates002.html (385 words)

	LYSISTRATA and Old Comedy
		The plays of Greek Old Comedy tend to employ plots of a very fanciful nature and contain elements of fantasy, farce, satire, parody, and explicit references to contemporary political and/or social problems.
		The members of the chorus are thus on the stage to witness, or even participate in, the agon — another structural element of Greek Old Comedy — in which the merits and pitfalls of the “happy idea” are debated.
		Kenneth McLeish points out that the structure of Aristophanic comedy is more closely related to the techniques of stand-up comedy than to the types of comic drama we have become accustomed to today.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2002/lysistrata/old_comedy.html (602 words)

	Do you miss Naruto's old comedy element? - Naruto Forums
		As the characters mature, and the issues within the story become more serious, I expect the old comedy to be less apparent/non-existent because it would be outta place...and IMO could take away from the importance of some major events.
		Comedy was a wonderful way to introduce people to the series and get hooked on it, and now that there's more story to it, it won't get repetitive to people who don't like constant comedy.
		In the old series Kishimoto managed to go to comedy quite swiftly after action - for example not long after the battle on the bridge in the Wave Country the comedy Naruto/Sakura/Sasuke three way love spat started up again, and despite the seriousness of Zabuza and Haku's deaths, it managed to work.
	forums.narutofan.com /showthread.php?t=63108 (1482 words)

	Comedy - Free Old Time Radio Shows - OTR Shows Downloads
		Old time radio often called "otr" refers to radio shows from the early days of radio broadcasting.
		The term usually applies to dramas, comedies, mystery shows, westerns and variety shows that were acted out by professional actors and sent out over the airwaves.
		You are never too young to appreciate the talented actors and actresses from the golden age of radio.
	www.oldtimeradiofans.com /cat_template.php?category=Comedy (243 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.02.44
		On the other hand, St. finds it curious "how a comedy could have turned on a youth like Autolykos" (85); but our oldest source for the play's contents from Hellenistic times (Herodicus) attests this unequivocally, and there is nothing strange about such a subject of an Old Comedy.
		The section 'Paracomedy' (297-300) convincingly deals with Sidwell's questionable concept of Old Comedy as aimed more or less exclusively at the poets themselves (with the plays being nothing more than reactions to their predecessors).
		The last long chapter ('Eupolis and Comedy', 304-377) tries to present a comprehensive picture of Eupolis as comic poet and to situate him within his genre.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-02-44.html (3864 words)

	The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Something about the 40 Year Old Virgin and the other comedy hit of the summer, Wedding Crashers, is similar, but they are two different films in some respects.
		Both are romantic comedies that have that kind of over-the-top, crazy sensibility that keeps the teens and guys in their 20's along with the usual dating crowd to go see the films.
		As the title suggests, Andy is the 40 year old who is like the nice guy friend with still a little Pee-Wee Herman in him (the opening over the credits of his his apartment is hilarious, a good sign).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0405422 (1076 words)

	old russian comedy video download (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Archive From James I'm doing a history project and this is a perfect comedy to put with On the end of the tail was a Russian bear The old bear growled and.
		This Adam Sandler comedy centers on a man with an unusual remote control that A year old Chinese American boy is befriended by one of the clients at without download If the wrong.
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	The Old Comedy Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Just before the end of the 1950s, a comedy writer was born in Philadelphia during the height of popularity of Erle Stanley Gardner (writer of "Perry Mason").
		Among these are The Bogus Bulletin, Home of the Old Comedywriter, Earl's Web Ramblings, and the usual Personal Home Page.
		He was the only one in his second grade class with a perfect score in a music test to qualify to play a musical instrument.
	home.onemain.com /~nospamtoday/bio.htm (609 words)

	Old Comedy * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Old Comedy * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Greek comedy of the fifth century BCE which was derived from fertility rites in honor of Dionysus and combined robust humor with biting personal and political satire.
		"People, Places and Things: Old Comedy", Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Old_Comedy_1.html (207 words)

	Leithart.com \| Old Comedy and New
		Russ McDonald has this shrewd comment about the combination of slapstick comedy and satisfied resolution in MSND: "Even as we anticipate a happy ending, we take pleasure in watching shenanigans, pretension, and the well-aimed custard pie.
		This tension amounts to a contest between the end and the middle: The resolution provokes the laughter of satisfaction; the comic conflict, the laughter of scorn." This, I think, is a wonderful way to describe the difference between the old comedy of Aristophanes and the comedy of Christian literature.
		The latter does not delete the slapstick, the scorned, or the satirical; but it embeds this in a larger framework where what James Wood has called the comedy of forgiveness reigns.
	www.leithart.com /archives/001096.php (286 words)

	Best Old Comedy Sources
		The plots of Old Comedy have certain characteristics in common In Old Comedy, the contrast with the dignity and seriousness of tragedy
		Notice: This material is the ed property of the author and should not be reproduced without the author's permission.
		The historical origins of tragedy and comedy are often sought in Greek religious ritual in the so-called Old Comedy* that can be employed to
	www.comediansnow.com /comedy/old-comedy.html (564 words)

	eBay - old comedy, CDs, Audiobooks items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		old time historical comedy groups photo's set of 3
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	Listen to Free Online Comedy Radio Stations - Live365 Internet Radio
		Comedy radio offers listeners jokes and amusing, humorous routines sometimes through the use of satire or parody.
		Today much of the comedy performed needs a "mature" label applied.
		DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED Old Time Radio Shows -- The BEST in Old Time Radio featuring Johnny Dollar, Jack Benny, Richard Diamond, Fibber McGee, The Whistler, Amos & Andy, and all your favorites.
	www.live365.com /cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=comedy (304 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Grumpy Old Men
		The show side-stepped political correctness and tapped a rich vein of sardonic, eloquent and well informed grumpiness that got right to the nub of each issue.
		The grumpy old men included, amongst others, Arthur Smith, Will Self, John Peel, Rick Wakeman and Jeremy Clarkson.
		The information in the bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy is complied from 'The Radio Times Guide to Television Comedy' by Mark Lewisohn, published by BBC Books.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/g/grumpyoldmen_999031010.shtml (187 words)

	Busymom.net: 10 year old comedy
		In another 10 year old stand-up comedy moment, Busy Girl says something like, "I think Will likes me, he's always looking at me in class." Advanced Busy Friend replies: "He looks at you because you're talking.
		It's too funny how grown up they were all trying to be.
		I have a 6 year old whose dry wit reminds me of a 40 year old!
	www.busymom.net /archives/001612.html (377 words)

	Aristophanes and Old Comedy
		"Comedy" in Greece divides into "Old Comedy" (referred to as OC below), and "New Comedy" (which is later than what we are studying).
		AD, claimed to have read 800 comedies from the years 400-325 BC alone
		nostalgia for the good old days of early democracy, when the Persians were defeated and the empire was being built
	www.uvm.edu /~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/clouds.html (781 words)

	Old Lady Comedy - Related Articles @ Funny.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Old Lady Comedy - Related Articles @ Funny.co.uk
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	Find in a Library: Eupolis, poet of old comedy
		Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/fe71f8cc1083e0eea19afeb4da09e526.html (65 words)

	Old Gold Comedy OTR MP3 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sponsored by Old Gold “Not a Cough in the Car” Cigarettes, “Only radio programs which brings you the greatest stars and the greatest comedies.”
		Old Gold Comedy 450114 Nothing But The Truth
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	Old Time Radio Comedy otr
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		Ernest Hemingway, Old Time Radio Show plays based upon his works otr mp3 cd
		Old Time Radio Comedy Classics DVD 1122 Shows
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	The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Old comedy, new confusion
		The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Old comedy, new confusion
		Yes, this is the season of smiles and laughs, and comedy does appear to be the best medicine.
		But hang on, deliver it with some panache, some novelty, an iota of credibility, and we will happily queue up.
	www.hindu.com /2006/04/22/stories/2006042218540200.htm (417 words)

	Old School (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		from Tucson, AZ Much like the tradition of the raunchy flicks of the 80s, Old School encompasses the age old tradition of tactless and tasteless film creation.
		Buy the oddity of the situation, this is one of those films I can tolerate.
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	www.imdb.com /title/tt0302886 (420 words)

	BBC - Comedy - Grumpy Old Men Christmas Special
		BBC - Comedy - Grumpy Old Men Christmas Special
		What better way to spend your special day of festive cheer in the company of the grumpy old men?
		All the usual ranting suspects feature - Rory McGrath, Arthur Smith, Will Self and John Peel, along with new comers to gripeing Andrew Marr, Jeremy Clarkson and John Sergeant.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/previews/grumpyoldmen.shtml (131 words)

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