My short comedy powerpoint, it highlights the history of the genre

1. Comedy:

2. History of comedy
• 1895 – 1930’s: dates back to silent films. Was hard to get across to the audience as there was no
verbal humour, only physical movement. Relied heavily on slapstick (physical comedy
• 1930-1950’s: comedy had advanced, because now technology had advanced. This lead to there
being verbal humour introduced into comedy now as silent films were going out of fashion. The
verbal humour included: puns, innuendos and jokes, these allowed for the new brand of comedy
to be successful.
• 1960’s: comedy became more dark and serious. And this new genre included social commentary
and spoofs. The most popular was Monty Python, and their ‘Life of Brian’ film was successful as it
was strange but that’s what made it funnier.
• 1990: The film Home Alone influenced comedy as it included mini humorous clips in which Kevin
(Macaulay Culkin) stops the intruders Harry and Marv (played by Joe Pesci + Daniel Stern. The film
has logical progression (unlike Monty Python), it’s an inspiration as nowadays most modern
comedy films include some sort of romance and or sex.
• 2000’s – onwards: The genre of action comedy had fallen because of an increase in competition
but spoofs were created which were popular. Although in the modern era most comedies are
mockumentaries. More recent examples include American Vandal