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Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française, also called the Théâtre-Français or Maison de Molière, is France's national theater, founded by Louis XIV in 1680 and resident at the Salle Richelieu in Paris since 1799.
Comedy
Comedy, from Greek kōmōidia, is a drama and entertainment genre meant to be funny, usually ending happily. It arose in 6th-century BCE Greece with Aristophanes and Menander, contrasts with tragedy, and is explained by superiority, relief, and incongruity theories of humor.
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Comedy Bang! Bang! (formerly Comedy Death-Ray Radio) is Scott Aukerman's long-running improvisational comedy podcast, launched 2009 on Indie 103.1, which spawned an IFC TV series, the Earwolf network, and Comedy Bang! Bang! World.
Comedy Bang! Bang! (TV series)
Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC, 2012–2016), also known as the CBB TV series, is Scott Aukerman's fake talk show adapted from his podcast, with Reggie Watts and Kid Cudi as sidekicks.
Comedy Central Roast
Comedy Central Roast: American televised celebrity insult-comedy series (1998-2019), from Friars Club telecasts to in-house roasts from Denis Leary (2003) to Alec Baldwin (2019), with international adaptations and a Netflix successor.
Comedy Circus (कॉमेडी सर्कस)
Comedy Circus (कॉमेडी सर्कस), Indian Hindi comedy competition on Sony TV from 16 June 2007, created by Optimystix; comedian-celebrity jodis judged weekly; Limca record 16 seasons; revivals 2018 and 2021.
Comedy film
Comedy film: the cinema genre built to amuse, spanning slapstick, screwball, parody, and black comedy from the 1895 Lumière short to today's streaming-era comedies.
Comedy horror
Comedy horror, also called horror-comedy or comedy-horror, is a film genre mixing scares and laughs, from The Bat (1926) and Abbott and Costello to Scream, Shaun of the Dead, and M3GAN.
Comedy Nights with Kapil
Comedy Nights with Kapil (कॉमेडी नाइट्स विद कपिल), also called CNWK, was an Indian Hindi sketch comedy and celebrity talk show hosted by Kapil Sharma on Colors TV, 2013–2016, featuring Gutthi, Palak, Daadi, and Bua, and ending in a rift with the channel.
Comedy of humours
The comedy of humours is a form of satirical drama, fashionable in late 16th-century England, in which each character is dominated by a single trait, or "humour".
Comedy of manners
Comedy of manners: realistic satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1700) mocking the manners of a sophisticated artificial society; also called Restoration comedy; defined by wit, stock characters like the fop, and contrast with Jonson's comedy of humours.
Comedy Premium League
Comedy Premium League (कॉमेडी प्रीमियम लीग) is a 2021 Netflix Indian Hindi comedy competition series: 16 comedians in four teams (Lovable Langoors, Naazuk Nevle, Gharelu Gilaharis, IDGAF Iguanas) compete over six episodes, hosted by Prajakta Koli, produced by OML.
Comet (film)
Comet (2014) is Sam Esmail's feature debut, an independent nonlinear romance starring Justin Long and Emmy Rossum as Dell and Kimberly, a couple whose six-year relationship unfolds across parallel universes; released by IFC Films, it scored 44% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy (1984) is a British comedy written, directed, and produced by Bill Forsyth, starring Bill Paterson as Glasgow DJ Alan 'Dicky' Bird, who mediates a turf war between rival ice cream vendors Mr Bunny and Mr McCool; music by Mark Knopfler, cinematography by Chris Menges.
Comic Book Guy
Comic Book Guy, real name Jeff Albertson, is The Simpsons' sarcastic owner of the Android's Dungeon comic shop, voiced by Hank Azaria; created in 1991 as a parody of Usenet fans who graded every episode, he gave the internet "Worst. Episode. Ever."
Comicstaan
Comicstaan is an Indian stand-up comedy reality competition on Amazon Prime Video (2018-2022, 3 seasons), where ten contestants perform weekly comedy genres, scored by judges and audience with no eliminations, for a Rs 10 lakh prize and Amazon special contract.
Coming 2 America
Coming 2 America (2021) is Craig Brewer's Amazon Prime Video comedy sequel to the 1988 Coming to America, with Eddie Murphy's King Akeem finding an heir in Queens; it holds 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Coming Home (1978 film)
Coming Home (1978) is Hal Ashby's Vietnam War drama starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern, about a Marine wife's affair with a paralyzed veteran. It won three Oscars (Actor, Actress, Original Screenplay) of eight nominations; The Deer Hunter took Best Picture the same year.
Coming Home (归来) (2014 film)
Coming Home (归来) is Zhang Yimou's 2014 Chinese drama adapted from Yan Geling's novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi, starring Gong Li and Chen Daoming as a couple reunited after the Cultural Revolution despite the wife's amnesia; it premiered Out of Competition at Cannes 2014 and earned over 200 million yuan in China.
Coming Out (1989 film)
Coming Out (1989), Heiner Carow's DEFA drama, the first and only East German feature film on homosexuality, premiered the night the Berlin Wall fell and won the 1990 Silver Bear and Teddy Award.
Coming Out Colton
Coming Out Colton is a six-episode Netflix reality docuseries (premiered December 3, 2021) following former NFL player and Bachelor star Colton Underwood, the first Bachelor lead to come out as gay, through his coming-out journey; mixed reviews.
Coming to America
Coming to America: 1988 Paramount romantic comedy directed by John Landis, starring Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem of Zamunda and Arsenio Hall; released 29 June 1988, grossed $288.8 million, followed by the 2021 sequel Coming 2 America.
Commander Karan Saxena
Commander Karan Saxena (कमांडर करण सक्सेना) is a 2024 Hindi action espionage web series on Disney+ Hotstar, based on Amit Khan's pulp novels, starring Gurmeet Choudhary as a RAW agent; 20 weekday episodes ran from 8 July to 2 August 2024.
Commander Steel
Commander Steel (Henry "Hank" Heywood) is DC Comics' cyborg WWII superhero, created by Gerry Conway and Don Heck in Steel, the Indestructible Man #1 (1978), an All-Star Squadron member distinct from John Henry Irons's Steel, with a legacy through Steel II and Citizen Steel.
Commando (1985 film)
Commando (1985), Mark L. Lester action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix, also known as the Joel Silver-produced Val Verde rescue movie; $34.9M US gross, 70% Tomatometer, no sequel.
Commando (2023 TV series)
Commando (2023) is a four-episode Hindi action thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar, created and directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, adapting the Vidyut Jammwal Commando film franchise with Prem Parija as the new commando Virat.
Commando 2: The Black Money Trail
Commando 2: The Black Money Trail is a 2017 Hindi action thriller, the second Commando film, directed by Deven Bhojani, starring Vidyut Jammwal, Adah Sharma, and Esha Gupta, about a team sent to Malaysia to catch black money launderer Vicky Chaddha.
Commando 3 (film)
Commando 3 (कमांडो 3) is a 2019 Hindi action thriller, the third Commando film, directed by Aditya Datt, starring Vidyut Jammwal as Karan Singh Dogra stopping a London-based terror plot by Gulshan Devaiah's Buraq Ansari; released 29 November 2019.
Commando: A One Man Army
Commando: A One Man Army is a 2013 Hindi action thriller directed by Dilip Ghosh, starring Vidyut Jammwal, Pooja Chopra, and Jaideep Ahlawat; first of the Commando series, released 10 April 2013, known for Jammwal's real stunts.
Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte: Italian professional improvised theatre with stock masked characters (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Pulcinella), arising mid-sixteenth century, earliest company Padua 1545, ending with the Goldoni-Gozzi reforms of the 1750s.