3. What is Comedy?
Comedy is entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to
make an audience laugh.
This is generally found in stand up comedy shows such as “Live at the
Apollo” or films such as “This is the End” or “Snatch”. These films and
stand ups all have the same thing in common, to create humour for the
audience to enjoy, weather it is child-friendly or blatantly for adult eyes
and ears only.
4. The First Comedy Movie: The Sprinkler
Sprinkled (1895)
This was recorded when television was in its beginning stages. The
short film is about two men. One of the two waters his garden while
the other stands on top of the hosepipe, temporarily cutting off the
water. The person handling the hosepipe looks into the nosel of the
hose then the person standing on top steps off, resulting in water
splashed all over the handlers face. Then the sprinkled man chases the
prankster around the garden in a comedic fashion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooPPi1YzkM
5. Timeline of Comedy Movies 1975-1990
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
• The Jerk (1979)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic (1984)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Home Alone (1990)
7. Home Alone (1990)
Home Alone is a 1990 Christmas film written and produced by John Hughes
and directed by Chris Columbus.
The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy
who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their
Christmas vacation. While initially relishing time by himself, he is later
greeted by two house intruders. Kevin eventually manages to outwit them
with a series of booby traps. The film also features Daniel Stern, Joe Pesci,
Catherine O'Hara, John Heard and Roberts Blossom.
Home Alone is the highest grossing live action comedy of all time the United
States.
8. Timeline of Comedy Movies 1993-1999
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• "Pulp Fiction“(1994)
• Dumb and Dumber (1994)
• Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)
• Big Daddy (1999)
10. Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Wayne's World 2 is a 1993 comedy film starring Mike Myers and Dana
Carvey as hosts of a Public-access television cable TV show from
Aurora, Illinois. The film was adapted from a sketch on NBC's Saturday
Night Live and is the sequel to Wayne's World.
11. Timeline of Comedy Movies 2001-Present
• Shrek (2001)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• Nacho Libre (2006)
• Step Brothers (2008)
• "The Hangover“ (2009)
• Love Ranch (2010)
• Sausage Party (2016)
13. Shrek (2001)
Shrek is a 2001 computer-animated American comedy film, directed by Andrew
Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and starring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy,
Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow.
Based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, the film was produced
by DreamWorks Animation. Shrek was the first film to win an Academy Award for
Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001. It was released on DVD and
VHS on November 2, 2001.
The film stars Mike Myers as a large, strong, solitude-loving, intimidating ogre
named Shrek, from the German word "Schreck" meaning "terror" or Yiddish word
שרעק, meaning "fear". Shrek also features Cameron Diaz as the beautiful but very
down-to-earth and feisty Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as a talkative donkey
named Donkey, and Lithgow as the villainous Lord Farquaad.
