Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily". Another definition states that its "primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled".

Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies and stoner comedies. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies.

Description

The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters, usually a man and a woman, meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite. Sometimes the two leads meet and become involved initially, then must confront challenges to their union. Sometimes they are hesitant to become romantically involved because they believe that they do not like each other, because one of them already has a partner, or because of social pressures. However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other and that they would be a good love match. The protagonists often separate or seek time apart to sort out their feelings or deal with the external obstacles to their being together.

While the two protagonists are separated, one or both of them usually realizes that they are ideal for each other, or that they are in love with each other. Then, after one of the two makes some spectacular effort (sometimes called the ''grand gesture'') to find the other person and declare their love, or through an astonishing coincidental encounter, the two meet again. Then, perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other and the film ends happily. The couple does not, however, have to marry, or live together "happily ever after". The ending of a romantic comedy is meant to affirm the primary importance of the love relationship in its protagonists' lives, even if they physically separate in the end (e.g. ''Shakespeare in Love'', ''Roman Holiday'').

There are many variations on this basic plotline. Sometimes, instead of the two lead characters ending up in each other's arms, another love match will be made between one of the principal characters and a secondary character (e.g., ''My Best Friend's Wedding'' and ''My Super Ex-Girlfriend''). Alternatively, the film may be a rumination on the impossibility of love, as in Woody Allen's film ''Annie Hall.'' The basic format of a romantic comedy film can be found in much earlier sources, such as Shakespeare plays like ''Much Ado About Nothing'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.

Some comedy films, such as ''Knocked Up'', combine themes of romantic comedies and stoner comedies, creating a subgenre that appeals to both men and women. This genre is slowly becoming known as the "Bromcom" (Bro's Romantic Comedy) among reviewers, originally quoted by amateur film reviewer Luke Dilena in a number of his printed underground independent film review columns. Such films usually use sexual elements which bring the two characters together. Films in this genre include ''American Pie 2'' and even ''Wedding Crashers''.

Contrived romantic encounters: the "meet cute"

One of the conventions of romantic comedy films is the contrived encounter of two potential romantic partners in unusual or comic circumstances, which film critics such as Roger Ebert or the Associated Press' Christy Lemire have called a "meet-cute" situation. During a "meet-cute", scriptwriters often create a humorous sense of awkwardness between the two potential partners by depicting an initial clash of personalities or beliefs, an embarrassing situation, or by introducing a comical misunderstanding or mistaken identity situation. Sometimes the term is used without a hyphen (a "meet cute"), or as a verb ("to meet cute").

Roger Ebert describes the "concept of a Meet Cute" as "when boy meets girl in a cute way." As an example, he cites "The Meet Cute in ''Lost and Found'' [which] has Jackson and Segal running their cars into each other in Switzerland. Once recovered, they Meet Cute again when they run into each other while on skis. Eventually,... they fall in love."

In many romantic comedies, the potential couple comprises polar opposites, two people of different temperaments, situations, social statuses, or all three (''It Happened One Night''), who would not meet or talk under normal circumstances, and the meet cute's contrived situation provides the opportunity for these two people to meet.

Use of "meet cute" situations

Certain movies are entirely driven by the meet-cute situation, and contrived circumstances throw the couple together for much of the screenplay. However, movies in which the contrived situation is the main feature, such as ''Some Like It Hot'', rather than the romance being the main feature, are not considered "meet-cutes".

The use of the meet-cute is less marked in television series and novels, because these formats have more time to establish and develop romantic relationships. In situation comedies, relationships are static and meet-cute is not necessary, though flashbacks may recall one (''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''Mad About You'') and lighter fare may require contrived romantic meetings.

The heyday of "meet cute" in films was during the Great Depression in the 1930s; screwball comedy films made a heavy use of contrived romantic "meet cutes", perhaps because the more rigid class consciousness and class divisions of this period made cross-social class romances into tantalizing fantasies.

While film critic Roger Ebert has popularized the term "meet cute" in his reviews of romantic comedies, the term is mostly used in the film and screenwriting industries, where it provides a convenient shorthand for screenwriters who are doing a very compressed pitch to a film production company.

History

The ''Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms'' defines romantic comedy as "a general term for comedies that deal mainly with the follies and misunderstandings of young lovers, in a light‐hearted and happily concluded manner which usually avoids serious satire". This reference states that the "best‐known examples are Shakespeare's comedies of the late 1590s, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Twelfth Night'', and ''As You Like It'' being the most purely romantic, while ''Much Ado About Nothing'' approaches the comedy of manners and ''The Merchant of Venice'' is closer to tragicomedy.

Comedies since ancient Greece have often incorporated sexual or social elements.

It was not until the creation of romantic love in the western European medieval period, though, that "romance" came to refer to "romantic love" situations, rather than the heroic adventures of medieval Romance. These adventures, however, often revolved about a knight's feats on behalf of a lady, and so the modern themes of love were quickly woven into them, as in Chrétien de Troyes's ''Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart''.

Shakespearean comedy and Restoration comedy remain influential. The creation of huge economic social strata in the Gilded Age, combined with the heightened openness about sex after the Victorian era and the celebration of Sigmund Freud's theories, and the birth of the film industry in the early twentieth century, gave birth to the screwball comedy. As class consciousness declined and World War II unified various social orders, the savage screwball comedies of the twenties and thirties, proceeding through Rock Hudson–Doris Day-style comedies, gave way to more innocuous comedies. This style faded in the 1960s, and the genre lay mostly dormant until the more sexually charged ''When Harry Met Sally'' had a successful box office run in 1989, paving the way for a rebirth for the Hollywood romantic comedy in the mid-1990s.

The French film industry went in a completely different direction, with less inhibitions about sex. Virginia Woolf, tired of stories that ended in 'happily ever after' at the beginning of a serious relationship, called ''Middlemarch'' by George Eliot, with its portrayal of a difficult marriage, "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."

Television

Romantic comedy series have included:

''Living Single'' (1993–1998) (FOX)

''The Nanny'' (1993–1999) (CBS)

''Friends'' (1994–2004) (NBC)

''Ally McBeal'' (1997–2002) (FOX)

''For Your Love'' (1998–2002) (WB)

''Sex & The City'' (1998–2004) (HBO)

''Will & Grace'' (1998–2006) (NBC)

''The King of Queens'' (1998–2007) (CBS)

''Girlfriends'' (2000–2008) (UPN/CW)

''Half & Half'' (2002–2006) (UPN)

''All of Us'' (2003–2007) (UPN)

''Desperate Housewives'' (2004–) (ABC)

''How I Met Your Mother'' (2005–) (CBS)

''Emily's Reasons Why Not'' (2006) (ABC)

''Pepper Dennis'' (2006) (The WB)

''Hot Properties'' (2006) (ABC)

''Men In Trees'' (2006–2008) (ABC)

''Not Going Out'' (2006–2009) (BBC)

''Ugly Betty'' (2006–2010) (ABC and Channel 4(in the UK))

''The Big Bang Theory'' (2007-) (CBS)

''Gavin & Stacey'' (2007–2009) (BBC)

''Samantha Who?'' (2007–2009) (ABC)

''The Starter Wife'' (miniseries, 2007; series 2008–2009) (USA Network)

''Cashmere Mafia'' (2008) (ABC)

''Lost In Austen'' (2008) (ITV)

''The Ex List'' (2008) (CBS)

''Lipstick Jungle'' (2008–2009) (NBC)

''Mistresses'' (2008–) (BBC)

''Accidentally on Purpose (2009–2010) (CBS)

''Drop Dead Diva'' (2009-) (Lifetime)

''Cougar Town'' (2009–) (ABC)

''100 Questions'' (2010) (NBC)

''Romantically Challenged'' (2010) (ABC)

''Running Wilde (2010) (F0X)

''Love Bites (2010-) (NBC)

''Mike & Molly (2010-) (CBS)

''Better With You (2010-2011) (ABC)

''Friends With Benefits (2011-) (NBC)

''Perfect Couples (2011-) (NBC)

Film

This section lists examples of romantic comedy films, ordered by year of release.

Early

''Girl Shy'' (1924)

''City Lights'' (1931)

''Trouble in Paradise'' (1932)

''No Man of Her Own'' (1932)

''It Happened One Night'' (1934)

''Modern Times'' (1936)

''My Man Godfrey'' (1936)

''The Awful Truth'' (1937)

''Bringing Up Baby'' (1938)

''Holiday'' (1938)

''Ninotchka'' (1939)

''His Girl Friday'' (1940)

''The Philadelphia Story'' (1940)

''The Shop Around the Corner'' (1940)

''Ball of Fire'' (1941)

''The Lady Eve'' (1941)

''Woman of the Year'' (1942)

''Adam's Rib'' (1949)

''Born Yesterday'' (1950)

''Pat and Mike'' (1952)

''Roman Holiday'' (1953)

''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' (1953)

''Sabrina'' (1954)

''The Seven Year Itch'' (1955)

''Love in the Afternoon'' (1957)

''Desk Set'' (1957)

''Houseboat'' (1958)

''Pillow Talk'' (1959)

''The Apartment'' (1960)

''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961)

''That Touch of Mink'' (1962)

''Irma La Douce'' (1963)

Later

''Harold and Maude'' (1971)

''Annie Hall'' (1977)

''Romancing the Stone'' (1984)

''Pretty in Pink'' (1986)

''Moonstruck'' (1987)

''The Princess Bride'' (1987)

''Overboard '' (1987)

''Baby Boom '' (1987)

''Working Girl'' (1988)

''When Harry Met Sally'' (1989)

''Pretty Woman'' (1990)

''Green Card'' (1990)

''Doc Hollywood'' (1991)

''The Cutting Edge'' (1992)

''Boomerang'' (1992)

''Groundhog Day'' (1993)

''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993)

''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994)

''Only You'' (1994)

''French Kiss'' (1995)

''While You Were Sleeping'' (1995)

''Sabrina'' (1995)

''Beautiful Girls'' (1996)

''The Truth About Cats & Dogs'' (1996)

''One Fine Day'' (1996)

''As Good as It Gets'' (1997)

''Picture Perfect'' (1997)

''Fools Rush In'' (1997)

''My Best Friend's Wedding'' (1997)

''Overnight Delivery'' (1998)

''The Wedding Singer'' (1998)

''You've Got Mail'' (1998)

''Six Days Seven Nights'' (1998)

''There's Something About Mary'' (1998)

''10 Things I Hate About You'' (1999)

''Three to Tango'' (1999)

''Au Pair'' (1999)

''Never Been Kissed'' (1999)

''Notting Hill'' (1999)

''She's All That'' (1999)

''Runaway Bride'' (1999)

''Miss Congeniality'' (2000)

''Return to Me'' (2000)

''What Women Want'' (2000)

''Get Over It'' (2001)

''Bridget Jones's Diary'' (2001)

''Kate & Leopold'' (2001)

''Legally Blonde'' (2001)

''Serendipity'' (2001)

''The Brothers'' (2001)

''The Wedding Planner'' (2001)

''Two Can Play That Game'' (2001)

''Someone Like You'' (2001)

''Maid in Manhattan'' (2002)

''Sweet Home Alabama'' (2002)

''Two Weeks Notice'' (2002)

''Serving Sara'' (2002)

''Deliver Us From Eva'' (2003)

''How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days'' (2003)

''Love Actually'' (2003)

''Something's Gotta Give'' (2003)

''The Fighting Temptations'' (2003)

''The Sweetest Thing'' (2002)

''What a Girl Wants'' (2003)

''Along Came Polly'' (2003)

''Under the Tuscan Sun'' (2003)

''Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' (2004)

''13 Going on 30'' (2004)

''50 First Dates'' (2004)

''A Cinderella Story'' (2004)

''Bride and Prejudice'' (2004)

''Chasing Liberty '' (2004)

''The Prince and Me'' (2004)

''Saving Face'' (2004)

''Wimbledon'' (2004)

''Fever Pitch'' (2005)

''The 40 Year Old Virgin'' (2005)

''Hitch'' (2005)

''Just Friends'' (2005)

''Just Like Heaven'' (2005)

''Little Manhattan'' (2005)

''Monster-in-Law'' (2005)

''Must Love Dogs'' (2005)

''The Wedding Date'' (2005)

''Wedding Crashers'' (2005)

''Imagine me and you'' (2005)

''It's a Boy Girl Thing'' (2006)

''Just My Luck'' (2006)

''Failure to Launch'' (2006)

''P.S. I Love You'' (2007)

''My Super Ex-Girlfriend'' (2006)

''The Holiday'' (2006)

''A Good Year'' (2006)

''She's The Man'' (2006)

''The Heartbreak Kid'' (2007)

''I Think I Love My Wife'' (2007)

''Knocked Up'' (2007)

''Music and Lyrics'' (2007)

''Good Luck Chuck'' (2007)

''The Other End of the Line'' (2008)

''Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist'' (2008)

''Sex and the City'' (2008)

''27 Dresses'' (2008)

''Mamma Mia!'' (2008)

''Another Cinderella Story'' (2008)

''My Sassy Girl'' (2008)

''Definitely, Maybe'' (2008)

''Fool's Gold'' (2008)

''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'' (2008)

''Made of Honor'' (2008)

''What Happens in Vegas'' (2008)

''Picture This (2008)

''How to Lose Friends and Alienate People'' (2008)

''Zack and Miri Make a Porno'' (2008)

''My Best Friend's Girl'' (2008)

''Over Her Dead Body'' (2008)

''The Break-Up Artist'' (2009)

''Falling Up'' (2009)

''Bride Wars (2009)

''He's Just Not That Into You'' (2009)

''Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

''Duplicity'' (2009)

''The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'' (2009)

''My Life in Ruins'' (2009)

''The Proposal'' (2009)

''The Ugly Truth'' (2009)

''Did You Hear About the Morgans?'' (2009)

''It's Complicated'' (2009)

''The Rebound'' (2009)

''I Hate Valentine's Day'' (2009)

''Play the Game'' (2009)

''Leap Year'' (2010)

''Valentine's Day'' (2010)

''When in Rome'' (2010)

''She's Out of My League'' (2010)

''The Bounty Hunter'' (2010)

''The Back-Up Plan'' (2010)

''Letters to Juliet'' (2010)

''Killers'' (2010)

''Sex and the City 2'' (2010)

''Going the Distance'' (2010)

''The Switch'' (2010)

''You Again'' (2010)

''Life as We Know It'' (2010)

''Love and Other Drugs'' (2010)

''How Do You Know'' (2010)

''No Strings Attached'' (2011)

''From Prada to Nada'' (2011)

''Just Go With It'' (2011)

''Something Borrowed'' (2011)

''Friends With Benefits'' (2011)

''Crazy, Stupid, Love'' (2011)

''New Year's Eve'' (2011)

Top grossing

''As Good as It Gets'' (1997)

''Bringing Down the House'' (2003)

''Pretty Woman'' (1990)

''My Best Friend's Wedding'' (1997)

''Runaway Bride'' (1999)

''Notting Hill (film)'' (1999)

''Coming to America'' (1988)

''What Women Want'' (2000)

''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' (2002)

''Love Actually'' (2003)

''There's Something About Mary'' (1998)

''Hitch'' (2005)

''Knocked Up'' (2007)

''Sex and the City'' (2008)

''Sweet Home Alabama'' (2002)

''The Proposal'' (2009)

''Mamma Mia!'' (2008)

''Just Go with It'' (2011)

''27 Dresses'' (2008)

See also

Romance film

References

External links

Romantic Comedy Movies - from 1940s to future releases, with box office performance The Numbers

Market Performance of Romantic Comedies in United States - year-by-year analysis of box office performance of romantic comedies The Numbers

Romantic Comedy Movies - Top 290 (1978–present) by Box Office Mojo

Top Rated Romance Titles by IMDB

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Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences. The comedy genre humorously exaggerate situations, the way of speaking, the action and characters.

Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies. Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse, others contain political or social commentary (such as ''Wag the Dog'' and ''Man of the Year'').

The comedy genre can be considered the oldest film genre (and one of the most prolific and popular). Comedy was ideal for the early silent films, as it was dependent on visual action and physical humour rather than sound. Slapstick, one of the earliest forms of comedy, poked fun at physical mishap, usually in practical jokes, accidents and water soakings.

Types

A comedy of manners film satirises the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters. The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal. However, the plot is generally less important than its witty dialogue. This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back at least as far as ''Much Ado about Nothing'' by William Shakespeare.

Slapstick was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences. The term slapstick was taken from the wooden sticks that clowns slapped together to promote audience applause. Slapstick films involve aggressive, physical and visual action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags. Slapstick often required exquisite timing and well-honed performance skills.

In a fish out of water-style comedy, the main character or character finds himself in an unusual environment, which drives most of the humor. Situations can be swapping gender roles, as in ''Tootsie'' (1982); an age changing role, as in ''Big'' (1988); a freedom-loving individual fitting into a structured environment, as in ''Police Academy'' (1984); a rural backwoodsman in the big city, as in ''"Crocodile" Dundee'', and so forth. The Coen Brothers are known for using this technique in all of their films, though not always to comedic effect. Some films including people fitting the "fish-out-of-water" bill including ''The Big Lebowski'' and ''A Serious Man''.

A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films. Such films employ sarcasm, stereotyping, mockery of scenes from other films, and the obviousness of meaning in a character's actions. Examples of this form include ''Blazing Saddles'' (1974), ''Airplane!'' (1980), and ''Young Frankenstein'' (1974).

The anarchic comedy film uses nonsensical, stream-of-consciousness humor which often lampoons a form of authority. Films of this nature stem from a theatrical history of anarchic comedy on the stage. Well-known films of this sub-genre include ''Duck Soup'' (1933) and ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978).

The black comedy film deals with normally taboo subjects, including, death, murder, sexual relations, suicide and war, in a satirical manner. Examples include ''Arsenic and Old Lace'' (1944), ''Monsieur Verdoux'' (1947), ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949), ''The Ladykillers'' (1955), ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964), ''The Loved One'' (1965), ''MASH'' (1970), ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'' (1983), ''Brazil'' (1985), ''The War of the Roses'' (1989), ''Heathers'' (1989), ''Your Friends & Neighbors'' (1998), ''Keeping Mum'' (2005), and ''Burn After Reading'' (2008).

Gross-out films are a relatively recent development, and rely heavily on vulgar, sexual or "toilet" humour. Examples include ''Porky's'' (1982), ''Dumb and Dumber'' (1994), ''There's Something About Mary'' (1998), and ''American Pie'' (1999).

The romantic comedy sub-genre typically involves the development of a relationship between a man and a woman. The stereotyped plot line follows the "boy-gets-girl", "boy-loses-girl", "boy gets girl back again" sequence. Naturally there are innumerable variants to this plot, and much of the generally light-hearted comedy lies in the social interactions and sexual tensions between the pair. Examples of this style of film include ''It's a Wonderful World'' (1939), ''The Shop Around the Corner'' (1940), ''Sabrina'' (1954), ''Annie Hall'' (1977), ''When Harry Met Sally...'' (1989), ''Pretty Woman'' (1990), and ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994).

It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to also be a screwball comedy film. This form of comedy film was particularly popular during the 1930s and 1940s. There is no consensus definition of this film style, and it is often loosely applied to slapstick or romantic comedy films. Typically it can include a romantic element, an interplay between people of different economic strata, quick and witty repartee, some form of role reversal, and a happy ending. Some examples of the screwball comedy are: ''It Happened One Night'' (1934), ''Bringing Up Baby'' (1938), ''Philadelphia Story'' (1940), ''His Girl Friday'' (1940), and more recently ''What's Up, Doc?'' (1972).

Hybrid genres

Action comedy

Films in this sub-genre blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts. The genre became a specific draw in North America in the eighties when comedians such as Eddie Murphy started taking more action oriented roles such as in ''48 Hrs.'' and ''Beverly Hills Cop''. These type of films are often buddy films, with mismatched partners such as in ''Midnight Run'', ''Rush Hour'', ''Bad Boys'', and ''Hot Fuzz''. Slapstick martial arts films became a mainstay of Hong Kong action cinema through the work of Jackie Chan among others. It may also focus on superheroes such as The Incredibles, Hancock or Kick-Ass.

Comedy horror

Comedy horror is a type of horror film in which the usual dark themes are treated with a humorous approach. These films are either use goofy horror clichés such as in ''The Old Dark House'', ''Young Frankenstein'', ''Little Shop of Horrors'', ''Haunted Mansion'' and ''Scary Movie'' where campy styles are favoured. Some are much more subtle and don't parody horror, such as ''Shaun of the Dead''. Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in ''Dead Alive'' (1992), ''Evil Dead'' (1981), and ''Club Dread'' - such films are sometimes known as ''splatstick'', a portmanteau of the words ''splatter'' and ''slapstick''.

Fantasy comedy

Fantasy comedy films are types of films that uses magic, supernatural and or mythological figures for comic purposes. Most fantasy comedy includes an element of parody, or satire, turning many of the fantasy conventions on their head such as the hero becoming a cowardly fool, the princess being a klutz. Examples of these films include ''Being John Malkovich'', ''The Princess Bride'', ''Night at the Museum'', ''Groundhog Day'', ''Click'' and ''Shrek''.

Black comedy

Much like comedy-horror, black comedy, or dark comedy, is a type of comedy film that often uses cruelty as the source of humour. Most black comedies involve crime or other intense moments like average school/workplace bullying. Some examples of these films include ''The Cable Guy'', ''Ruthless People'' and ''Horrible Bosses''.

Sci-fi comedy

Sci-fi comedy films, like most hybrid genre of comedy use the elements of science fiction films to over the top extremes and exaggerated science fiction stereotypical characters. Popular examples of these types of films include ''Back to the Future'', ''Spaceballs'', ''Ghostbusters'', ''Evolution'', ''Innerspace'', ''Galaxy Quest'', ''Mars Attacks!'', and ''Men in Black''.

Military comedy

Military comedy films, involve comic situations in a military setting. Examples of military comedy are ''The Secret War of Harry Frigg'', ''What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?'', ''Stripes'', ''Up the Academy'', ''MASH'', ''Private Benjamin'', ''Tropic Thunder'', ''The Private War of Major Benson'', and the boisterous ''Flagg and Quirt'' movies.

History

1895–1930

Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humor of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. A very early comedy short was ''Watering the Gardener'' (1895) by the Lumière brothers. In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin (although born in England, his success was principally in the U.S.), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. In his native France and throughout the world, Max Linder was a major comic feature and might qualify as the first true film star.

A popular trend during the 1920s and afterward was comedy in the form of animated cartoons. Several popular characters of the period received the cartoon treatment. Among these were Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Betty Boop.

1930–1950s

Toward the end of the 1920s, the introduction of sound into movies made possible dramatic new film styles and the use of verbal humor. During the 1930s, the silent film comedy was replaced by dialogue from film comedians such as the W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films. The comedian Charlie Chaplin was one of the last silent film hold-outs, and his films during the 1930s were devoid of dialogue, although they did employ sound effects.

Screwball comedies, such as produced by Frank Capra, exhibited a pleasing, idealized climate that portrayed reassuring social values and a certain optimism about everyday life. Movies still included slapstick humor and other physical comedy, but these were now frequently supplemental to the verbal interaction. Another common comic production from the 1930s was the short subject. Hal Roach Studio specialized in this form. While Columbia was prolific, producing 190 Three Stooges releases, alone. These non-feature productions only went into decline in the 1950s when they were migrated to the television.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time. In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the "Ealing comedies", from 1947 to 1957. They usually included a degree of social comment, and featured ensemble casts which often included Alec Guinness or Stanley Holloway. Among the most famous examples were ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949), ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951) and ''The Ladykillers'' (1955).

With the entry of the United States into World War II, Hollywood became focused on themes related to the conflict. Comedies portrayed military themes such as service, civil defense, boot-camp and shore-leave. The war-time restrictions on travel made this a boom time for Hollywood, and nearly a quarter of the money spent on attending movies.

The post-war period was an age of reflection on the war, and the emergence of a competing medium, the television. In 1948, television began to acquire commercial momentum and by the following year there were nearly a hundred television transmitters in American cities.

By the 1950s, the television industry had become a serious competition for the movie industry. Despite the technological limitations of the TV medium at the time, more and more people chose to stay home to watch the television. The Hollywood studios at first viewed the television as a threat, and later as a commercial market. Several comic forms that had previously been a staple of movie theaters transitioned to the television. Both the short subject and the cartoon now appeared on the television rather than in the theater, and the "B" movie also found its outlet on the television.

As television became filled with family-oriented comedies, the 1950s saw a trend toward more adult social situations. Only the Walt Disney studios continued to steadily release family comedies. The release of comedy films also went into a decline during this decade. In 1947 almost one in five films had been comic in nature, but by 1954 this was down to ten percent.

The 1950s saw the decline of past comedy stars and a certain paucity of new talent in Hollywood. Among the few popular new stars during this period were Judy Holliday and the comedy team phenom of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Lewis followed the legacy of such comedians as Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but his work was not well-received by critics in the United States (in contrast to France where he proved highly popular.)

The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy ''Carry On'' films. John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including ''Private's Progress'' (1956) and ''I'm All Right, Jack'' (1959). As in the United States, in the next decade much of this talent would move into television.

A number of French comedians were also able to find an English speaking audience in the 1950s, including Fernandel and Jacques Tati.

1960s–1980s

The next decade saw an increasing number of broad, star-packed comedies including ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' (1963), ''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'' (1965) and ''The Great Race'' (1965). By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film ''The Pink Panther''. The bumbling Inspector Clouseau was a character Sellers would continue to return to over the next decade.

Toward the end of the 1950s, darker humor and more serious themes had begun to emerge, including satire and social commentary. ''Dr. Strangelove'' (1964) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while ''The Apartment'' (1960), ''Alfie'' (1966) and ''The Graduate'' (1967) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.

In 1970, the black comedies ''Catch 22'' and ''M*A*S*H'' reflected the anti-war sentiment then prevalent, as well as treating the sensitive topic of suicide. ''M*A*S*H'' would be toned down and brought to television in the following decade as a long-running series.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. Both wrote, directed and appeared in their movies. Brooks' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films (''Young Frankenstein''), westerns (''Blazing Saddles'') and Hitchcock films (''High Anxiety''). Following his success on Broadway and on film with ''The Odd Couple'' playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon would also be prominent in the 1970s, with films like ''The Sunshine Boys'' and ''California Suite''. Other notable film comedians who appeared later in the decade were Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Burt Reynolds.

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including ''Dad's Army'' and ''On the Buses''. The greatest successes, however, came with the films of the Monty Python team, including ''And Now for Something Completely Different'' (1971), ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975) and ''Monty Python's Life of Brian'' in 1979.

In 1980, the gag-based comedy ''Airplane!'', a spoof of the previous decade's disaster film series was released and paved the way for more of the same including ''Top Secret!'' (1984) and the ''Naked Gun'' films. Popular comedy stars in the 1980s included Dudley Moore, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Many had come to prominence on the American TV series ''Saturday Night Live'', including Bill Murray, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase. Eddie Murphy made a success of comedy-action films including ''48 Hrs.'' (1982) and the ''Beverly Hills Cop'' series (1984–1993).

Also popular were the films of John Hughes such as ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''. He would later become best known for the ''Home Alone'' series of the early 1990s. The latter film helped a revival in comedies aimed at a family audience, along with ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' and its sequels.

1990s–2010s

One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of ''When Harry Met Sally...'' in 1989. Other examples included ''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993), ''Clueless'' (1995) and ''You've Got Mail'' (1998) from the United States, and ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), ''Sliding Doors'' (1998) and ''Notting Hill'' (1999) from the United Kingdom. Spoofs remained popular as well, especially with the ''Scary Movie'' series and ''Not Another Teen Movie'' series.

Probably more representative of British humour were the working class comedies ''Brassed Off'' (1996) and ''The Full Monty'' (1997). Other British comedies examined the role of the Asian community in British life, including ''Bhaji on the Beach'' (1993), ''East Is East'' (1999), ''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002) and ''Anita and Me'' (2003).

Also there were "stoner" comedies, which usually involve two guys on an adventure with random things happening to them along the way. Big movies of this sub-genre would be ''Dude, Where's My Car'', ''Big Nothing'', ''Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'', and ''Pineapple Express''. These movies usually have drug-related jokes and crude content.

Another development was the increasing use of "gross-out humor" usually aimed at a younger audience, in films like ''There's Something About Mary'', ''American Pie'' and its sequels, and ''Freddy Got Fingered''. In mid 2000s, the trend of "gross-out" movies is continuing, with adult-oriented comedies picking up the box office. But serious black comedies (also known as dramatic comedies or dramedies) were performing also well, such as ''The Weather Man'', ''Broken Flowers'' and ''Shopgirl''. In late 2006, ''Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'' blended vulgar humor with cultural satire.

See also

AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs (1924–1998, list made in 2000)

Humour

List of British comedy films

List of United States comedy films

List of Indian comedy films

Silent comedy film

Slapstick film

References

Bibliography

Thomas W. Bohn and Richard L. Stromgren, ''Light and Shadows: A History of Potion Pictures'', 1975, Mayfield Publishing.

External links

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Name	He Said
Background	solo_singer
Years active	–
Associated acts	WireDuet EmmoDome
Label	Mute Records }}

He Said was the name used by Wire member Graham Lewis for his solo record releases in the 1980s.

Background

The first He Said album titled ''Hail'' was released by Mute Records in October 1986. It was produced by Graham Lewis and John Fyer and recorded at Blackwing Studios in London. Collaborators on the album included fellow Wire member Bruce Gilbert and musician Brian Eno, who played a Yamaha DX7 synthesiser on the track ''I Fall into Your Arms''. Two singles were released from the initial album, including ''Pump'' and ''Only One I''. The CD release included the September single release, ''Pulling 3g's / Pale Feet''.

In July 1988 Mute released the single ''Could You'', again produced by Lewis and Fryer. This single was included on the last He Said album titled ''Take Care'' which was released by Mute the following year.

Discography

Albums

''Hail'' (Mute Records 1986)

''Take Care'' (Mute Records 1989)

Singles

''Only One I'' (1985)

''Pump'' (1986)

''Pulling 3g's / Pale Feet'' (1986)

''Could you?'' (1988)

References

Category:Mute Records artists

birthname	Jason Jordan Segel
birth date	January 18, 1980
birth place	Los Angeles
occupation	Actor, screenwriter, musician
years active	1998–present
homepage	http://www.jason-segel.net/ }}

Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American television and film actor, screenwriter, puppeteer and musician, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the short-lived television series ''Freaks and Geeks'' and ''Undeclared'', the movies ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', ''Knocked Up'', ''I Love You, Man'', ''Gulliver's Travels'', and ''Despicable Me'', and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother''.

Early life

Segel was born in Los Angeles, the son of Jillian (née Jordan), a homemaker, and Alvin G. Segel, a lawyer, and was raised in Pacific Palisades, California. His father is Jewish and his mother is Christian; he was raised in his father's religion, but also attended St. Matthew's Parish School, a Christian school. He has stated that he and his older half brother, Adam, were not close while growing up.

Following elementary school, Segel completed his middle and high school studies at Harvard-Westlake School, where his frame helped him as an active member of the 1996 state champion boys' basketball team. He was the team's backup center behind Jason Collins. Segel had hopes of becoming a professional actor while in college, and acted in local theater productions at Palisades Playhouse.

Career

thumb|150px|Segel attending an evening with the cast of How I Met Your Mother. He is known for his role "Freak" Nick Andopolis on the short-lived NBC comedy-drama series ''Freaks and Geeks'', about a group of suburban Detroit high school students circa 1980. He also personally wrote a song for his character, Nick, to sing to the lead female character, Lindsay (Linda Cardellini), in an episode of ''Freaks and Geeks.'' She and Segel dated for a few years following the show's cancellation. It was rumored that she broke up with him for gaining twenty pounds, but it has since emerged that the statement was in fact a joke taken out of context.

Segel had recurring roles on ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' as Neil Jansen and on ''Undeclared'' as Eric. He currently plays Marshall Eriksen on the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother''. Feature film appearances include ''Slackers'', ''SLC Punk!'', ''The Good Humor Man'', and ''Dead Man on Campus''. In 2007, he appeared in ''Knocked Up'', directed by ''Freaks and Geeks'' creator Judd Apatow. Segel starred in the lead role of 2008's ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', a film he wrote and Apatow produced with Shauna Robertson for Universal Pictures. In it, he appeared fully nude on camera. He also starred in ''I Love You, Man'', which was released on March 20, 2009 by Dreamworks.

Along with director Nicholas Stoller, Segel has recently been enlisted by Disney to write the next Muppets film. In ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', Segel's character writes a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets. During an interview with Opie and Anthony, when they were on 104.1 WBCN in Boston, he stated that the Dracula musical with puppets, as well as being broken up with while naked, were real experiences he wrote into the movie. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie. Segel performed his Dracula's Lament on the 1000th episode of Craig Ferguson's show, ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson''.

For the 2010 comedy ''Get Him to the Greek'', Segel co-wrote most of the soundtrack's music which was performed by the fictional band Infant Sorrow. He also appeared on ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'' and sang an original song entitled "Wonky Eyed Girl".

In 2010, he voiced main character Gru's arch-rival Vector in the Universal hit CGI movie ''Despicable Me''. Later in the same year, Segel appeared as "Horatio" in a fantasy comedy film ''Gulliver's Travels'' directed by Rob Letterman and very loosely based on Part One of the 18th-century novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift.

Segel was scheduled to film ''Five-Year Engagement'' with Emily Blunt in Spring 2011, in Michigan. He appeared in ''Bad Teacher'', starring Cameron Diaz, which opened in June 2011. He played gym teacher and thwarted suitor Russell Gettis.

Filmography

Film

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
	''Can't Hardly Wait''	Watermelon Guy
''Dead Man on Campus''	Kyle
''SLC Punk!''	Mike
1999	''New Jersey Turnpikes''	Unknown
2001	''North Hollywood''	Unknown	TV Movie
2002		Sam Schechter
	''11:14''	Leon (Paramedic #1)
''Certainly Not a Fairytale''	Leo
2004	''LolliLove''	Jason
2005	''''	Smelly Bob
	''Bye Bye Benjamin''	Theodore Everest
''Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny''	Frat Boy	Scenes deleted
2007	''Knocked Up''	Jason
2008	''Forgetting Sarah Marshall''	Peter Bretter	WriterNominated – MTV Movie Awards
2009	''[[I Love You, Man''	Sydney Fife
	''Despicable Me''	Vector	Voice only
''Get Him to the Greek''	N/A	Writer, Producer
	Horatio
''Todd vs. High School''	Himself	Post-Production
	''''	Gary	Writer; Post-Production
	Luke	Cameo appearance
''Bad Teacher''	Russell Gettis
	''Five-Year Engagement''		Filming; Writer
''This Is Forty''	Jason	Filming

Television

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1999–2000	''Freaks and Geeks''		Main role, 18 episodes
2001–2002	''Undeclared''	Eric	Recurring role, 7 episodes
2004	''Harry Green and Eugene''	Eugene Green	Unaired pilot
2004–2005	''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''	Neil Jansen	Episode: "Mea Culpa" Episode: "Compulsion" Episode: "Iced"
2005		Sam Hauser	Episode: "The Road Home"
2005–present	''How I Met Your Mother''		Main role, 136 episodes
2009	''Family Guy''	Marshall Eriksen	Episode: "Peter's Progress"

References

External links

in 2009

Bio on ''Freaks and Geeks'' official website

Bio on ''How I Met Your Mother'' official website

Spontaneously singing a duet from the musical ''Les Misérables'' with ''How I Met Your Mother'' co-star Neil Patrick Harris while the cast were guests on ''The Megan Mullally Show'' in December 2006.

Jason Segel Interview

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Birthname	Emily Olivia Leah Blunt
Birth date	February 23, 1983
Birth place	London, England
Yearsactive	2003–present
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	John Krasinski (2010–present)
Relatives	Crispin Blunt (uncle)Peter Blunt (grandfather) }}

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is an English actress best known for her roles in ''The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006), ''The Young Victoria'' (2009), and ''The Adjustment Bureau'' (2011). She has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, two London Film Critics' Circle Awards, and one BAFTA Award. She won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the BBC television drama ''Gideon's Daughter'' (2007).

Early life

Emily Blunt was born 23 February 1983 in Roehampton, London, England. She is the second of four children born to Janice M. (née Dixon), an English teacher and former actress, and barrister Oliver Simon Peter Blunt, QC, one of the highest-profile barristers in the United Kingdom Her grandfather was Major-General Peter Blunt and one of her paternal uncles is Crispin Blunt, Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate.

At the age of 16, Blunt went to Hurtwood House, a private sixth-form college known for its performing arts programme. There, she was discovered by an agent. Blunt made her professional debut in ''Bliss'', a new musical written by Paul Sellar, at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe while she was still an A-level student. She went on to perform at the National Theatre and at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Film career

In 2003, Blunt made her screen debut in the British television drama ''Boudica'', about the life of the ancient Celtic warrior-queen who fought the Romans. That same year, she was praised for her performance as the 16th-century queen Catherine Howard in the two-part British television drama ''Henry VIII''.

In 2004, Blunt delivered her breakout performance as Tamsin in the dark British film, ''My Summer of Love'', a story of deception and lesbian love in the English countryside. She shared an Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer with co-star Natalie Press.

In 2005, Blunt co-starred with Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson in the British television drama ''Gideon's Daughter'', an original screenplay written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, in which she played the troubled only child of New Labour spin doctor Gideon Warner, played by Nighy. Blunt won a Golden Globe for her performance.

In 2006, Blunt appeared opposite Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in the box-office success ''The Devil Wears Prada''. Streep and Hathaway received most of the critical attention initially, but Blunt proved to be equally memorable with ''Entertainment Weekly'' naming her the Best Female Scene-Stealer in their end-of-summer special issue. She appeared at the 79th Academy Awards where she co-presented the award for best costume design with her ''Prada'' co-star Hathaway. Blunt spoke about the weight loss, claiming she had to go "painfully thin." That same year, Blunt co-starred with Susan Sarandon in the independent drama ''Irresistible''. Following production, Sarandon strongly suggested to director David Auburn that he cast Blunt in his next film, ''The Girl in the Park''— a role she did not accept.

In 2007, Blunt appeared in four films: ''Wind Chill'', ''The Jane Austen Book Club'', ''Dan in Real Life'', and ''Charlie Wilson's War''. In 2008, Blunt appeared in two films, ''Sunshine Cleaning'' in the role of Norah Lorkowski, and ''The Great Buck Howard'' as Valerie Brennan.

In 2009, Blunt played Queen Victoria in ''The Young Victoria'', directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by Julian Fellowes. She also starred in the Toby Spanton-directed short film ''Curiosity''. She was director Jon Favreau's first choice to play the Black Widow in ''Iron Man 2'' but scheduling conflicts with ''Gulliver's Travels'' forced her to cede the role to Scarlett Johansson. She voiced Angelina's mother, Matilda Mouseling, in the television series, ''Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps''.

In 2010, Blunt co-starred with Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins in the big-budget movie ''The Wolfman'', which was released on 12 February. She also starred in ''Gulliver's Travels'' and in ''The Adjustment Bureau'', alongside Matt Damon, as a ballet dancer "being mysteriously kept apart" from Damon's character. Blunt was offered the female lead in the ''Captain America: The First Avenger'' movie but turned it down.

In January 2011, Blunt began filming an American science-fiction film ''Looper'', directed by Rian Johnson and co-starring Bruce Willis. She appeared in the British comedy film ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'', directed by Lasse Hallström and co-starring Ewan McGregor and Kristin Scott Thomas. She also completed work on the upcoming film ''The Five-Year Engagement'', directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-starring Jason Segel. She is scheduled to star in "Arthur Newman, Golf Pro" with Colin Firth in 2012.

Personal life

Blunt had a three-year relationship with Canadian singer Michael Bublé. They met in Melbourne backstage at the Australian television Logie Awards in 2005 and later shared a home in Vancouver, Canada. They broke up in 2008.

In November 2008, Blunt began dating American actor John Krasinski. On 10 July 2010, they married in Como, Italy.

Filmography

+ Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003		Isolda
2003		Catherine Howard	Television film
2003	''Foyle's War''	Lucy Markham
2004	''Agatha Christie's Poirot''	Linnet Ridgeway
2004	''My Summer of Love''	Tamsin
2005		Camane	Miniseries
2005	''The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle''	Jean Leckie	Television film
2005	''Gideon's Daughter''	Natasha	Television film
2006		Mara
2006	''''	Emily
2007		Girl
2007	''''	Prudie
2007	''Dan in Real Life''	Ruthie Draper
2007	''Charlie Wilson's War''	Jane Liddle
2008	''Sunshine Cleaning''	Norah Lorkowski
2008	''''	Valerie Brennan
2009	''''	Juliet Hobbes (voice)	Episode: "Lisa the Drama Queen"
2009	''''	Queen Victoria
2009	''Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps''	Matilda Mouseling (voice)	Television series
2009		Emma	Short film
2010	''Wild Target''	Rose
2010	''''	Gwen Conliffe
2010		Princess Mary
2011	''Gnomeo & Juliet''	Juliet (voice)
2011	''''	Elise Sellas
2011	''Your Sister's Sister''	Iris
2011	''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen''	Harriet Chetwode-Talbot
2011	''''	Miss Piggy's receptionist
2012	''The Five-Year Engagement''	Violet Barnes	''Post-production''
2012		Sara	''Post-production''

+ Theatre
Year	Title	Role	Theatre
2000	''Bliss''	Maddy	Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2001	''''	Gwen	West End Theatre
2002	''Vincent in Brixton''	Eugenie Loyer	RNT
2002	''Romeo & Juliet''	Juliet	Chichester Festival Theatre
2004	''Bumps and Bruises''	Holly	BBC Radio 4

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2004		Most Promising Newcomer
		British Newcomer of the Year
	Most Promising Newcomer
2006	Teen Choice Award	Choice Breakout	rowspan="7"
		Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Rising Star
	British Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role
MTV Movie Award	Best Comedic Performance
ALFS Award	British Supporting Actress of the Year
	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television	''Gideon's Daughter ''
		Best Actress	rowspan="4"
Satellite Awards	Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Broadcast Film Critics Association	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Golden Globes	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture
Satellite Awards	Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture	''Sunshine Cleaning''

References

External links

Emily Blunt Interview: Blunt Force ''Los Angeles Times Magazine''

Emily Blunt Video Interview ''Los Angeles Times Magazine''

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