Comedy Essays

I recently read a book called A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews. The protagonist is a teenage girl named Nomi. Nomi is growing up trapped in a small Mennonite community called East Village in the middle of nowhere, in Canada. All her life Nomi was told what to believe, with …

“Your gonna’ grow up and be just like your father!” Much more than a forecast of an unfortunate demise, but this and other comments have rendered me as screwed up as I am today. A personal goal I have set is to be nothing like my father; the question why …

“Life is mirrored in the theatre of the times.” This quote is evidently true in the play Woza Albert written by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni and Barney Simon in 1983, which is during the time of apartheid in South Africa. This play is a Satirical Comedy set in the time of …

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, probably written in 1596 and 1597, and forms one of a group of such comedies, along with The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, andTwelfth Night. Romantic comedy was a popular and much-preferred type in Elizabethan theatre, and …

Jesus Shaves by David Sedaris takes place in a French classroom. David’s humor throughout the story plays an important role as he manages to keep the reader concentrated until the last sentence of the passage. “It was my second month of French class” (415) is what he states I deduced …

There are many jokes about men saying women do not belong in the kitchen, which is in fact strange because most men are unable to even fix themselves a sandwich. Men assume that whatever a woman can do a man can do it better. Which maybe true but now days …

Marketing companies are increasingly venturing into absurd methods to market products. In our consumer oriented society, the public’s gullibility is optimized by the marketing industry’s power. The Onion, a publication devoted to humor and satire, derides how products are marketed to consumers in order to illustrate the absurdity of marketing …

Moyez J. Vassanji was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1950 and raised in Tanzania. His parents were a part of a wave of Indians who immigrated to Africa. Vassanji studied at the University of Nairobi and then at MIT on a scholarship. He earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from …

“In the hope that public and political appetite for capital punishment would weary” – Personification. Robertson uses this to convey his opinion that people are quite savage and get pleasure from the death of people. “Michael X could have been executed at any moment, while his impoverished lawyer was waiting …

How Literary Criticism Met Your Mother Writing Assignment From the pilot episode of an American comedy TV show called How I Met Your Mother, I find that both Marxist criticism and Feminist criticism exist in this episode due to the roles of the characters, the ways they act and speak, …