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A recognised characteristic of comedy is that it is an intensely personal enjoyment. People frequently fail to find the same things amusing, but when they do it can help to create powerful bonds.

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1.1 Forms

• Stand-up comedy
  • Alternative comedy - a largely British term relating to comedians in the ascendant throughout the 1980s and beyond.
  • Improvisational comedy - though not confined to stand-up, it is commonly held in high regard on the stand-up circuit.
  • Impressionists
• Sketch comedy - short comedy scenes as in contrast to sitcom.
• Television comedy and Radio comedy
  • Situation comedy
• Comedy filmFeel free to fill in individual parts of the heading skeleton, the whole thing or anywhere in between. And Add Your Own Nation Also: see A comedy film is a film/movie that seeks to provoke laughter in the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fic
  • gross-out filmGross-out films form a genre of scatological comedy movies in which the producers aim to "gross out" their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, also known as "toilet" humor. Gross-out films often feature jokes about feces, farting, snot, vomi
  • Parody filmA parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films. Examples include such films as Not Another Teen Movie Scary Movie This Is Spinal Tap and Spaceballs''. The five main conventions for this genre are: Sarcasm Huge stereot
  • romantic comedy filmRomantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two people meet, banter with each other, but despite an attraction obvious to the audience do not become romantically involved b
  • screwball comedy filmThe screwball comedy has proven to be one of the most elusive of the film genres. Very little consensus among students of film has been gathered on the film genre conventions that comprise the screwball comedy genre. As a result, the description "screwbal
  • slapstick filmSlapstick films are a type of comedy film that employ slapstick comedy with six main conventions: Pain with no real consequence, Editing to turn a situation more unrealistic, Impossible stiuations, Zooms to confuse the audience, Off screen use, using soun
  • splatstick filmSplatstick is a phrase coined by actor Bruce Campbell to describe the Evil Dead movies in which he starred. Splatstick" is physical comedy ( slapstick) that involves evisceration (things that go "splat!"). Some examples of splatstick would include Peter J (sic)
• Comic novelA comic novel is a work of fiction in which the writer seeks to amuse the reader: sometimes with subtlety and as part of a carefully woven narrative, sometimes above all other considerations. Some notable British comic novelists include Martin Amis, Terry
• Musical comedy
• Tragicomedy