Choose a form of television comedy that is not a Sit Com and analyze its conventions.
Television studies
Comedy is and was all throughout the history of the human culture undoubtedly among the most popular genres in the entertainment industry overall and especially on the television since it has become one of the favorite recreation alternatives for the modern people. In television, the comedy has taken a solid place from the very beginning of the broadcasting. Probably, it is for this reason that with time, the forms, or types of the comedy have been multiplied and varied to the point, where they become the most numerous among the other entertaining genres. Also, a lot of genres that are not precisely comedy, often bear some comedy features. Like this, the most popular and wide-spread comedy genres include sitcom, aka situation comedy, sketch comedy, comedy-drama, improvisational comedy, gameshow comedy, stand-up comedy, and even animated cartoons. For the reason of the wide popularity of the comedy genre, it is important to research its influence on the audience and understand the factors that make it so loved by the public. It is significant from the point of view of defining the determinants that later have the power of formation of the cultural, political and social viewpoints of the people who watch comedies. In this paper, one of the most wide-spread forms of the comedy, sketch comedy will be researched in order to understand the influences of it on the different aspects of life of people of the American society. Moreover, investigating the differences between sketch comedies and the sitcom, which is the other widely popular form of the comedy, will provide an understanding of the different influences they have on the audience and the aspects they mostly focus on from the political, social and cultures perspectives.
First of all, it is necessary to explain, which place do sketch comedies take in the comedy genre and describe this form on the whole. This will be necessary in understanding the nature of this form and its conventions, as well
Comedy is and was all throughout the history of the human culture undoubtedly among the most popular genres in the entertainment industry overall and especially on the television since it has become one of the favorite recreation alternatives for the modern people. In television, the comedy has taken a solid place from the very beginning of the broadcasting. Probably, it is for this reason that with time, the forms, or types of the comedy have been multiplied and varied to the point, where they become the most numerous among the other entertaining genres. Also, a lot of genres that are not precisely comedy, often bear some comedy features. Like this, the most popular and wide-spread comedy genres include sitcom, aka situation comedy, sketch comedy, comedy-drama, improvisational comedy, gameshow comedy, stand-up comedy, and even animated cartoons. For the reason of the wide popularity of the comedy genre, it is important to research its influence on the audience and understand the factors that make it so loved by the public. It is significant from the point of view of defining the determinants that later have the power of formation of the cultural, political and social viewpoints of the people who watch comedies. In this paper, one of the most wide-spread forms of the comedy, sketch comedy will be researched in order to understand the influences of it on the different aspects of life of people of the American society. Moreover, investigating the differences between sketch comedies and the sitcom, which is the other widely popular form of the comedy, will provide an understanding of the different influences they have on the audience and the aspects they mostly focus on from the political, social and cultures perspectives.
First of all, it is necessary to explain, which place do sketch comedies take in the comedy genre and describe this form on the whole. This will be necessary in understanding the nature of this form and its conventions, as well
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