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    The National Comedy Theatre is a modern thrust theatre. The theater is located at 347 West 36th St in NYC. As you walk into the theatre, you can see a small bar on the left side. On the right, there is a box office for picking up the tickets. As you walk deeper in the middle you can see the entrance of the theatre. There are total 115 seats in this theatre. The seat is divided into three sections, each section has a different number of seats. The seat section that is close to the entrance has 66

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    Comedy is a way of using jokes, dialogue, or actions to make an audience laugh. The movie Stranger Than Fiction uses comedy constantly during the course of the movie. The movie is about a man named Harold Crick that is living an ordinary life as an IRS Auditor. He begins to hear a narrator narrate his entire life and his future. He then goes crazy and gets assigned to audit a baker. The baker, Ana Pascal, starts to hate Harold because of his job but soon falls in love with him throughout this funny

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    Jokes are jokes for a reason. They aren’t meant to be taken seriously. Comedic films have provided entertainment to the people of the world for years. They are the go-to method form of comic relief and is valued greatly in the world. A great example of this would be the movie, Hot Fuzz. Directed by Edgar Wright and released on March 14, 2007, Hot Fuzz is about a London police officer, Nicholas Angel, who is very good at his job and is “too good” for London, and is reassigned to a quiet town called

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    passion for acting at a young age and starred in many plays.She began her acting career starring as Laura Nelson in the comedy film North (1994). The acclaimed drama film The Horse Whisper (1998) brought Johansson critical praise and worldwide recognition. In 2003, she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, one for drama (Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and one for comedy (lost in translation (2003)). She dropped out of Mission : Impossible 3 (2006) due to scheduling conflicts. Her next

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    silliness to raise children’s spirit and imagination. DreamWorks and Disney are similar because their cartoons contain both valuable life lessons and impactful messages that affect the minds of adults and children, yet only one can be at the top of the box office charts, and that’s where they differ. Combining creativity, artistry, and storytelling, Walt Disney Studios is a technological filmmaker-driven animation studio responsible for creating some of the most beloved tales of all time. Disney’s first

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    Screenwriter to Achieve a $1 Million Hit Movie The film Girls Trip reached a $100-million dollar box-office hit which Hollywood execs could never have predicted nor expected with an all-black female cast. Movies featuring an all-black cast often lose its general appeal to the audience. Therefore, the rated-R comedy Girls Trip surprised everyone with the news. When it hit the theaters last July, the overall box-office receipts were actually low and towards the end of August it even went down by 14% compared

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    Mike Celestino is a small-time director and comedy fan, who looks at the inner workings of comedy to reflect on its effect on the shaping of American culture in his documentary, “That’s Not Funny.” The audience isn’t specific in nature, just anyone who has ears and an interest in comedy. His purpose was to argue the value of comedy, and the reflection of it on our lives. Analyzing the trends of comedy from the early times of film until now, the documentary expresses censorship and its importance

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    Dante’s Divine Comedy through a Jungian Lens Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is a poem about the process of working on one’s inner self and reflects the study of the human soul. Dante's quest illustrates a metaphor for personal growth and uses heaven, hell, and purgatory in relationship to the search for individuation. Although many believe Dante solely wrote this poem in response to the political and religious circumstances of his time, readers can see how Dante uses the text to make people think

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    to pursue his dream of becoming a comedian, eventually getting a spot on the comedy show In Living Color. Carrey soon after had huge box office success in comedies, including The Mask: Pet Detective and Dumb and Dumber, and had acclaimed dramatic performances in Mr. Popper’s Penguins and The truman show. Recent films including True Crimes (2016) and The Bad Batch(2016). Carrey got his start with a spot doing stand-up comedy at a club in toronto when he was

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    same as lottery ticket, if anyone who gets picked, then he/ she might be killed. As I read the store, I knew that in the story they murdered a little girl. This seems to be very silly, but this is the tradition in the village. For instance, the black box is a very important object in the

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