Question: The comedy of intrigue, also known as the comedy of situation, is a genre of comedy in which dramatic action is prioritised over the development of character, complicated strategems and conspiracies drive the plot, and in theatre, which is a term that describes a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable?

Context articles: Teen sitcom
Forum theatre
Farce
Bizarro fiction
Comedy of intrigue
Dialect comedy
Il Penseroso
Spymonkey
Scenario (artwork)
Sex comedy

A teen situation comedy, or teen sitcom, is a subgenre of comedic television programs targeted towards preteens and teenagers.
 In general, these type of programs focus primarily on characters between 13 and 19 years of age and routinely feature characters involved in humorous situations (either realistic or fantasy in style, depending on the program's plotline), and often focus on the characters' family and social lives.
 The primary plot of each episode often involves the lead character(s) that the program centers on, while secondary plotlines often focus on the character(s') parents, siblings (assuming the main character has any and they are not one of the leads) or friends – although the secondary characters may also or instead be involved in the episode's main plot.
Forum theatre is a type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitioner Augusto Boal as part of what he calls his "Theatre of the Oppressed."
 Boal created Forum theatre as a forum for teaching people how to change their world.
 While practicing earlier in his career, Boal would apply 'simultaneous dramaturgy'.
 In this process the actors or audience members could stop a performance, often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way.
 The audience would suggest different actions for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt to change the outcome of what they were seeing.
 This was an attempt to undo the traditional actor partition and bring audience members into the performance, to have an input into the dramatic action they were watching.
 Eventually this 'simultaneous dramaturgy' became Forum theatre when audience members were asked not just to suggest different actions, but to come on stage and perform their own interventions.
In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable.
 Farce is also characterized by physical humor, the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, and broadly stylized performances.
 Farces have been written for the stage and film.
 Furthermore, a farce is also often set in one particular location, where all events occur.
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive, weird, and entertaining works.
 The term was adopted in 2005 by the independent publishing companies Eraserhead Press, Raw Dog Screaming Press, and Afterbirth Books.
 Much of its community revolves around Eraserhead Press, which is based in Portland, Oregon, and has hosted the BizarroCon yearly since 2008.
 The introduction to the first "Bizarro Starter Kit" describes Bizarro as "literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store" and a genre that "strives not only to be strange, but fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read."
 According to Rose O'Keefe of Eraserhead Press: "Basically, if an audience enjoys a book or film primarily because of its weirdness, then it is Bizarro.
 Weirdness might not be the work's only appealing quality, but it is the major one."
The comedy of intrigue, also known as the comedy of situation, is a genre of comedy in which dramatic action is prioritised over the development of character, complicated strategems and conspiracies drive the plot, and farcical humour and contrived or ridiculous dramatic situations are often employed.
 Characterisation tends to be defined only vaguely and the plot gives the illusion of dynamic, constant movement.
 The German philosopher Hegel argued that characters pursue their aims in such comedies via the use of deception.
 The genre was first developed in the theatre of classical Rome by Plautus and Terence.
 Examples of comedies of intrigue include Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Mandrake" (1524), the anonymous Italian play "The Deceived Ones" (1531), Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" (c. 1596) and "Much Ado About Nothing", Thomas Heywood's "The Wise Woman of Hoxton" (c. 1604), Molière's "Scapin the Schemer" (1671), and the plays of Aphra Behn and Thomas D'Urfey.
The term "Dialect comedy" was coined by David Marc in his essay, "Origins of the genre".
 Dialect comedies are a genre of radio (and later television) sitcoms that were popular between the 1920s and the 1950s.
 They relied on the exaggerated and highly stylized portrayal of stereotypes, usually based on ethnic humor.
 The genre has its roots on the vaudeville stage and in the minstrel shows that became popular in the 19th century.
 The ethnicities of the actual actors portraying the dialects did not have to match the characters; while much Jewish dialect comedy was created and portrayed by actual Jews, other dialect comedies, such as those involving blackface, were often not.
Il Penseroso (The Serious Man) is a vision of poetic melancholy by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses "The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin", published by Humphrey Moseley.
 It was presented as a companion piece to "L'Allegro", a vision of poetic mirth.
 The speaker of this reflective ode dispels "vain deluding Joys" from his mind in a ten-line prelude, before invoking "divinest Melancholy" to inspire his future verses.
 The melancholic mood is idealised by the speaker as a means by which to "attain / To something like prophetic strain," and for the central action of "Il Penseroso" – which, like "L'Allegro", proceeds in couplets of iambic tetrameter – the speaker speculates about the poetic inspiration that would transpire if the imagined goddess of Melancholy he invokes were his Muse.
 The highly digressive style Milton employs in "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" dually precludes any summary of the poems' dramatic action as it renders them interpretively ambiguous to critics.
 However, it can surely be said that the vision of poetic inspiration offered by the speaker of "Il Penseroso" is an allegorical exploration of a contemplative paradigm of poetic genre.
Spymonkey is an international comedy and physical theatre company, based in Brighton.
 Its members are Toby Park and Petra Massey, both British, Aitor Basauri, a Spaniard, and Stephan Kreiss, a German.
 According to the theatre director, Tom Morris, ‘Spymonkey follow a rich comic tradition which runs from Tommy Cooper through Morecambe and Wise to Reeves and Mortimer.
 They are clowns supreme, the high priests of foolery.'
 For Julian Crouch of Improbable Theatre, they are ‘groundbreaking and sharply brilliant, Spymonkey dance along the very boundary of artistic bravery.
 They take big risks in their work, and manage to be both true to a highly experimental process AND take their audience with them on that journey.'
Scenario is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer graphic interactive installation, directed by the artist Dennis Del Favero, and developed in collaboration with scriptwriter Stephen Sewell, AI scientist Maurice Pagnucco working with computer scientists Anuraag Sridhar, Arcot Sowmya and Paul Compton.
 It is a 360-degree 3D cinematic work whose narrative is interactively produced by the audience and humanoid characters.
 The title is a Commedia dell'arte term (ʃeˈnarjo) referring to the way dramatic action is dependent on the way actors and audience interact.
 "Scenario" was developed at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research  at the University of New South Wales.
Sex comedy or more broadly sexual comedy is a genre in which comedy is motivated by sexual situations and love affairs.
 Although "sex comedy" is primarily a description of dramatic forms such as theatre and film, literary works such as those of Ovid and Chaucer may be considered sex comedies.