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Comedies are light-hearted dramas, designed to amuse and provoke laughter.
The comedy genre exaggerates the situation, the language, action, and characters. Comedies observe the deficiencies, foibles, and frustrations of life, providing merriment. The term slapstick was taken from the wooden sticks that clowns slapped together to promote audience applause. Cartoons are the quintessential form of slapstick, i.e., the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, and others. Slapstick evolved and was reborn in the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.