- The Love of Comedy
- The Comic Vision of life
- Comic Structure Vs. Dramatic Structure
- The Comic Character
- Comic Turning Point
- The Comedy Genre - three grand conventions
- The Comedy Sub-genres
- Mixed Genres
- What is Laughter?
- Structure of a Joke
- The Substance of Jokes
- Comic Timing
- Comic Devices
- Comic Setup
- Clips throughout the day demonstrating 1. Interpolative Narrative, 2.
Turning Points, 3. Happy Endings, 4. Farce, 5. Set-ups, 6. Inversion, 7. Trivializing the Exalted, 8. Exalting the trivial, 9. Puns, 10.
Impersonation, 11. Nonsense, 12. Repetition, 13. Double Entendre, 14. Site
Gags, 15. Role Reversal and more! (Including clips from "There's Something About Mary," "The Producers,"
"Frasier," "Arthur," "Monty Python," "Where's Poppa," "Snatch," etc.)
- Screening and scene-by-scene
analysis of a Comedy Film
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