Talk:Comedy

Semi-protected edit request on 14 July 2023

change "In a segment on President Obama's trip to China Stewart remarks..." in Studies on comic theory to "In a segment on President Obama's trip to China, Stewart remarks...". There must be a comma after 'China'. Jordanbkatz (talk) 19:29, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

 Done Thank you for pointing this out.—Anita5192 (talk) 20:21, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Lead section

Excuse this potentially stupid question, but should really be such a large focus on ancient greek comedy in the lead section? Seems like something that should be in a section of its own. I don't really want to change it myself, so here. SynthGuard (talk) 13:04, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't see a large focus on ancient greek comedy in the lead. There are a few sentences describing how comedy originated in Greece. To me this seems concise and necessary. There is already a section of its own elaborating upon Greek contributions to comedy.—Anita5192 (talk) 13:39, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

German: Lustspiel - "pleasure play"

a sub-genre:

"Lustspiel is first of all the German translation of comedy, just as mourning play is the translation of tragedy. Often the term is distinguished on the one hand from the refined courtly comedy of a Molière and on the other hand from coarser genres of comedic theatre such as Posse mit Gesang and Schwank (comedy). In the translation of the Greek-Latin term "comedy" into German, a contrast between “German” culture and Romanesque cultures plays a role, because the German language area still in the 19th Century was dominated by Italian and French operas and dramas. The pleasure play was therefore often understood as a specifically German and bourgeois type of comedy."

de:Lustspiel

Piñanana (talk) 20:02, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 April 2026

change "The other three genres are tragedy, epic poetry, and lyric poetry. Literature, in general, is defined by Aristotle as a mimesis, or imitation of life. Comedy is the third form of literature, being the most divorced from a true mimesis. Tragedy is the truest mimesis, followed by epic poetry, comedy, and lyric poetry."

to "The other three genres are tragedy, epic poetry, and lyric poetry. Literature, in general, is defined by Aristotle as a mimesis, or imitation of life. Comedy is the third form of literature, with the fourth form being the most divorced from a true mimesis. Tragedy is the truest mimesis, followed by epic poetry, comedy, and lyric poetry. Soapbar916 (talk) 04:09, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Why?—Anita5192 (talk) 04:51, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure what it should be changed to. The original didn't quite make sense because it lists 4 literature forms and suggests that comedy is the furthest from being a "true mimesis" but then when listing the types, lyric poetry comes after comedy which makes it seem like that form is the the furthest from a true mimesis. Would I try to find where this information came from in order to really sort it out? This is my first edit :-) Soapbar916 (talk) 16:31, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

I rewrote the paragraph to agree with Poetics (Aristotle). I think this is more accurate and more readable.—Anita5192 (talk) 19:14, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

cool, i just think it's confusing that lyric poetry comes after comedy in that list. what if we deleted the sentence that says "comedy is the most divorced from a true mimesis" Soapbar916 (talk) 19:59, 27 April 2026 (UTC)