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A wonderful night at the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip. Always gonna love these neon caricatures and, yes, I do recognize all of them!
I think this bull decided to give everyone a laugh today by putting on his comedy horns. It certainly made me laugh.
Terracotta figurine of actors with masks. During the Hellenistic age comedy grew so popular that its theatrical types became the subjects of mosaics, wall-paintings and a common non expensive motif figurines. All favorite subjects of comedy (the pedagogue, the villager, Heracles and old Silen) are often depicted as humorous, rotund figures wearing mask.
The actors wore tights that covered them from neck to wrists and ankles; under the tights they had heavy padding fixed over the belly and backside, and sometimes breasts as well. The seams down the sides of sleeves or leggings were often made clear by painters. On the outside of the tights at the front was affixed a large leather phallus.
Source: Gregory W. Dobrov, “Brill’s Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy”
Terracotta figurine
Ca. 4th century BC
Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum
1946; Jurgen by James Branch Cabell. A comedy of Justice. Cover art by Jonas? cover is uncredited but in the style of Robert Jonas
Highest position on Explore: # 225 on Saturday, August 23, 2008
I had the honor of meeting Dolphy, Philippine Cinema's Comedy King.
At 80, he still got the wit and energy of a 20 year-old, and he was really so funny, even in person.
It was an unforgettable experience for me, being a comedy writer :)
all about Dolphy on Wikipedia
Count Aleksander Fredro - comedy writer; the statue of him from 1897; in the background - Town Hall; Wroclaw; Poland
Though she acted in many light entertainment films, Clara Calamai's most famous role will for always be the one of the femme fatale Giovanna in Luchino Visconti's steamy (proto-)neorealist film Ossessione (1943).
Clara Calamai, born 1909 in Prato, Tuscany, debuted in 1938 in the film Pietro Micca, by Aldo Vergano. Soon she had an intense film career, playing in particular in period pieces such as La cena delle beffe (Alessandro Blasetti 1941) - in which she shortly showed her breasts, causing a sensation - but also glamorous comedies and drama's. In 1942 Luchino Visconti prepared his debut Ossessione with Anna Magnani, but she was so visibly pregnant that Calamai had to replace her. Visconti stripped Calamai of her usual glamour and turned her into the passionate but poor wife of a fat trattoria owner, who manages to convince her lover to kill her husband. The film, based on James M. Cain's The Postman Always Twice, is quite different though from the Tay Garnett version. The real eye catcher of the film is namely not the femme fatale Giovanna but the hunk she falls in love with: Gino, played by Massimo Girotti. Memorable is the scene in which Giovanna falls asleep amidst an enormous amount of dirty dishes. Ossessione had a very short circulation in catholic and fascist Italy because of its amorality and mocking of clergy. Outside of Italy it was shown only years after the war, because of copyright infringement. Clara Calamai played, again, in 1946 a role Magnani was supposed to have had: L'adultera, by Duilio Coletti, for which Calamai won a Nastro d'argento. Instead rumor goes Calamai was pregnant herself when the female lead of Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City (Roma, città aperta, 1945) was distributed. And so Magnani got the role, which immortalized her.
Clara Calamai worked again with Visconti in Le notti bianche (1957), in which she played a prostitute. NB Visconti suggests that Giovanna in Ossessione has slept with men for money before marrying. In Visconti's episode La strega bruciata viva (1966) of the episode film Le streghe, Calamai played a small part opposite the lead Silvana Mangano. After years of retirement, Calamai came back to the screen in Dario Argento's highly successful horror movie Profondo Rosso (1975). The film and her role got cult status with cinephiles. She was almost 90 when she died in Rimini in 1998. All in all, Clara Calamai has played in almost 50 films; most films date from the war years and the immediate aftermath.
(Source: IMDB, Wikipedia)
Photo Venturini, Roma. B.F.F. Edit. 20440.
Melbourne, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
The Comedy Theatre, opened in 1928, is a cherished landmark in Melbourne's East End Theatre District. Its distinctive architecture blends European influences, featuring a Florentine palace-inspired exterior and a strong Spanish interior. With a capacity of just over 1,000, it was designed as an intimate theatre for J.C. Williamson's. The venue has a rich history, having hosted a diverse range of performances beyond just comedy. It's renowned for staging prominent plays, musicals, and live entertainment. The theatre's original wrought-iron balcony seating and elegant staircase contribute to its classic charm. It has undergone refurbishments, ensuring its facilities remain modern while preserving its heritage. Crucially, the Comedy Theatre is a central venue for the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Its enduring popularity makes it a vital part of the city's vibrant arts scene.
About Dr. Takeshi Yamada:
Educator, medical assistant, author and artist Takeshi Yamada was born and raised at a traditional and respectable house of samurai in Osaka, Japan in 1960. He studied art at Nakanoshima College of Art in Osaka, Japan. As an international exchange student of Osaka Art University, he moved to the United States in 1983 and studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA and Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD in 1983-85, and completed his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in 1985.
Yamada obtained his Master of Fine Art Degree in 1987 at the University of Michigan, School of Art in Ann Arbor, MI. Yamada’s “Visual Anthropology Artworks” reflects unique, distinctive and often quickly disappearing culture around him. In 1987, Yamada moved to Chicago, and by 1990, Yamada successfully fused Eastern and Western visual culture and variety of cross-cultural mythology in urban allegories, and he became a major figure of the River North (“SUHU” district) art scene. During that time he also developed a provocative media persona and established his unique style of super-realism paintings furnishing ghostly images of people and optically enhanced pictorial structures. By 1990, his artworks were widely exhibited internationally. In 2000, Yamada moved to New York City.
Today, he is highly media-featured and internationally famed for his “rogue taxidermy” sculptures and large-scale installations, which he calls “specimens” rather than “artworks”. He also calls himself “super artist” and “gate keeper” rather than the “(self-expressing) artist“. His passion for Cabinet of Curiosities started when he was in kindergarten, collecting natural specimens and built his own Wunderkammer (German word to express “Cabinet of Curiosities“). At age eight, he started creating “rogue taxidermy monsters” such as two-headed lizards, by assembling different parts of animal carcasses.
Internationally, Yamada had over 600 major fine art exhibitions including 50 solo exhibitions including Spain, The Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Columbia, and the United States. Yamada also taught classes and made public speeches at over 40 educational institutions including American Museum of Natural History, Louisiana State Museum, Laurenand Rogers Museum of Art, International Museum of Surgical Science, University of Minnesota, Montana State University, Eastern Oregon University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Salem State College, Osaka College of Arts, Chemeketa Community College, Maryland Institute College of Art, etc. Yamada’s artworks are collection of over 30 museums and universities in addition to hundreds of corporate/private art collectors internationally. Yamada and his artworks were featured in over 400 video websites. In addition, rogue taxidermy artworks, sideshow gaffs, cryptozoological artworks, large sideshow banners and showfronts created by Yamada in the last 40 years have been exhibited at over 100 of state fairs and festivals annually nationwide, up to and including the present.
Yamada won numerous prestigious awards and honors i.e., “International Man of the Year”, “Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century”, “2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century”, “International Educator of the Year”, “One Thousand Great Americans”, “Outstanding People of the 20th Century”, “21st Century Award for Achievement”, “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in The World”. The Mayors of New Orleans, Louisiana and Gary, Indiana awarded him the “Key to the City”. Yamada’s artworks are collections of many museums and universities/colleges i.e., Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Chicago Athenaeum Museum, Eastern Oregon University, Montana State University and Ohio State University.
Yamada was profiled in numerous TV programs in the United States, Japan and Philippine, Columbia, i.e., A&E History Channel, Brooklyn Cable Access Television, “Chicago’s Very Own” in Chicago, “Takeshi Yamada’s Divine Comedy” in New Orleans, and Chicago Public Television’s Channel ID. Yamada also published 22 books based on his each major fine art projects i.e., “Homage to the Horseshoe Crab”, Medical Journal of the Artist”, “Graphic Works 1996-1999”, “Phantom City”, “Divine Comedy”, “Miniatures”, “Louisville”, “Visual Anthropology 2000”, “Heaven and Hell”, “Citizen Kings” and “Dukes and Saints” in the United States. In prints, Yamada and his artworks have been featured in numerous books, magazine and newspapers internationally i.e., The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time out New York (full page color interview), Washington Times, The Fine Art Index, New American Paintings, Village Voice 9full page interview), Chicago Art Scene (front cover), Chicago Tribune Magazine (major color article), Chicago Japanese American News, Strong Coffee, Reader, Milwaukee Journal, Clarion, Kaleidoscope, Laurel Leader-Call, The Advertiser News, Times-Picayune (front page, major color articles), Michigan Alumnus (major color article), Michigan Today (major color article), Mardi Gras Guide (major color article), The Ann Arbor News (front covers), Park Slope Courier (color pages), 24/7 (color pages), Brooklyn Free Press (front cover) and The World Tribune.
(updated November 24, 2012)
Reference (videos featuring sea rabbits and Dr. Takeshi Yamada):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ek-GsW9ay0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK04yQUX2o&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrCCxV5S-EE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0QnW26dQKg&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVCqEjFXk0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NlcIZTFIj8&feature=fvw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UPzGvwq57g
s87.photobucket.com/albums/k130/katiecavell/NYC%2008/Coney%20Island/?action=view¤t=SeaRabbitVid.mp4
www.animalnewyork.com/2012/what-are-you-doing-tonight-con...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeAdsChmSR8
Reference (sea rabbit artifacts)
www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/06/coney-island-sea-rabbit...
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit3/5417188428/in/photostream
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit3/5417189548/in/photostream
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit3/5416579163/in/photostream
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit3/5417191794/in/photostream
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit3/5417192426/in/photostream
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit3/5417192938/in/photostream
Reference (flickr):
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit15/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit14/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit13
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit12
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit11
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit10
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit9/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit8/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit7
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit6
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit5/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit4/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit3/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit2/
www.flickr.com/photos/searabbit1/
www.flickr.com/photos/museumofworldwonders3/
www.flickr.com/photos/museumofworldwonders2
www.flickr.com/photos/museumofworldwonders/
www.flickr.com/photos/takeshiyamadapaintings/
Reference (newspaper articles and reviews):
www.amctv.com/shows/immortalized/about
blogs.amctv.com/photo-galleries/immortalized-cast-photos/...
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704828104576021750...
www.villagevoice.com/2006-11-07/nyc-life/the-stuffing-dre...
karlshuker.blogspot.com/2011/06/giant-sea-serpents-and-ch...
amusingthezillion.com/2011/12/08/takeshi-yamadas-jersey-d...
amusingthezillion.com/2010/12/07/art-of-the-day-freak-tax...
amusingthezillion.com/2010/10/27/oct-29-at-coney-island-l...
amusingthezillion.com/2010/09/18/photo-of-the-day-takeshi...
amusingthezillion.com/2009/11/07/thru-dec-31-at-coney-isl...
4strange.blogspot.com/2009/02/ten-of-takeshi-yamada-colle...
www.flickr.com/photos/museumofworldwonders/5440224421/siz...
Reference (fine art websites):
www.roguetaxidermy.com/members_detail.php?id=528
www.brooklynartproject.com/photo/photo/listForContributor...
www.bsagarts.org/member-listing/takeshi-yamada/
www.horseshoecrab.org/poem/feature/takeshi.html
www.artfagcity.com/2012/09/06/recommended-go-brooklyn-stu...
Reference (other videos):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=otSh91iC3C4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhIR-lz1Mrs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BttREu63Ksg
(updated November 24, 2012)
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The Silent Comedy | 7th Annual Bro-Am at Moonlight Beach, Encinitas, CA 6.18.11
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Sneek peek at the awesomeness that was the Switchfoot Bro-Am! Had such a ridiculously fun time with everyone yesterday!
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Un enorme vacío
Simulacro de coherencia
De locura existencial
Un enorme desvarío
Un pedido de clemencia
A esta necesidad
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A huge void
Mock consistency
Existential madness
Huge delirium
A request for clemency to this need.
Comedy is fun. And funny. It can be something you totally saw coming, or it can be something completely unexpected. The great thing about comedy is that it can mean so many different things to different people.
For example, my son thinks all great comedy begins with the word naked. And underwear. And wee-wee. All of the bathroom words, really. In fact, if you want to make him laugh, ask him to say naked underwear wee-wee fanny without laughing.
He can't do it.
For my beloved, it's all about a pie in the face or a guy getting hit in the crotch. Although, I don't understand why a man would think that another man getting cracked in the junk is funny. I certainly would never think that a woman getting her boobs smashed in was hilarious. We just call that a mammogram.
(and there's nothing funny about it)
(and there's nothing sexy about the gynecologist either)
(that doesn't have anything to do with comedy, I just want to make that clear, because It always seems to come up)
("The stirrups. Yeeeahh, baby."......No.)
I'm getting away from my point. My point is that comedy is funny.
Here are a few things that I think are funny:
1. People falling down.
2. People walking into glass doors.
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3. People falling down after walking into a glass door.
4. Anything on America's Funniest Home Videos that's not about dogs or guys getting kicked in the crotch.
5. The audio book of Ellen Degeneres' Seriously...I'm Kidding.
(I laughed so hard the other day on the way to the grocery store I almost drove off the road)
6. Vince Vaughn.
7. Nora Ephron.
8. Jenna McCarthy.
(Not Jenny. Jenna. Jenna makes me belly-laugh so hard it actually tones my stomach muscles in a way that never doing sit-ups has not. Jenny makes me point and laugh in a mocking, horrified way.)
9. My son asking to be home schooled so he doesn't have to get his 6th grade booster shot.
10. Every line in Annie Hall,
Bull Durham, and
When Harry Met Sally (see #7)
I hope you find something to laugh at today. I hope you laugh so hard you cry, and your sides hurt and you get a headache. But in a good way.
I hope you know how much I love ya'.
Seriously.
Pyramus & Thisby - A Magical Comedy!
The wild fairies are back to tickle and tease Colombo audiences with their supernatural mayhem in this wild adaptation of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'! Watch them as you've never seen before in this updated version of the show!
Devised and Choreographed by Jehan Aloysius and presented by CentreStage Productions
Sponsored by The Lionel Wendt Memorial Trust.
Co-Sponsored by Cargills.
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19-20 November 2016
Blackpool's brand new Comedy Carpet sits in the shadow of the world famous Blackpool Tower – and it’s one of the largest pieces of public art ever commissioned in the UK. Artist Gordon Young, in association with leading design agency Why Not Associates, created the Blackpool Comedy Carpet. 850 writers and comedians are represented on the Comedy Carpet - with letters ranging in size from a few centimetres to almost a metre tall so that the laughs can be enjoyed from all sides and from both close up and at height from the Tower.
"Created by artist Gordon Young, THE COMEDY CARPET is a celebration of comedy on an extraordinary scale. Referring to the work of more than 1,000 comedians and comedy writers, the carpet gives visual form to jokes, songs and catchphrases dating from the early days of variety to the present. Sited in front of Blackpool Tower, the work of art contains over 160,000 granite letters embedded into concrete, pushing the boundaries of public art and typography to their limits. A remarkable homage to those who have made the nation laugh,
The Comedy Carpet was commissioned by Blackpool Council as part of the multi-million pound regeneration of the sea front including vital sea defence works."
Blacktop Comedy is an Improv Comedy Theater in Rocklin, CA.
In honor of Teen Slasher’s return to Blacktop Comedy. We asked the cast “why should people come see Teen Slasher?
What is Teen Slasher? 6 performers take the stage and the audience decides the title of the improvised story and who will play each of the stock characters; the jock, the nerd, the good girl, the slut, the rebel, and the druggie.