Comedy (Genre)

Comedy did not originally mean funny. Rather, in the time of the ancient Greeks, it would fall into what today is drama with a happy ending. As late as Dante's Divine Comedy (1320) the term was used this way.A happy ending for the main character. For everybody in Hell, it's largely satire with a little bit of wish fulfillment thrown in..
Some types of Comedy:
*Absurdism - effectively weird for the sake of being weird. Take things to their logical conclusion...even if it is off the nearest cliff.
*Irony - using a word in the opposite way it means
*Parody - making fun of something specific
**The original version (1988) of Murphy's Rules with Conman the Barbarian, Sailbad the Sinner, Daniel Boom, Captain Quirk, Wight Brothers and several others.
*Satire - making fun of something specific with a message
==Notes==
==References==
*Game Overthinker - GTA V is not a satire (probably)
Category:Comedy