low+comedy
111black humour — Humour marked by the use of morbid, ironic, or grotesquely comic episodes that ridicule human folly. The term came into common use in the 1960s to describe the work of novelists such as Joseph Heller, whose Catch 22 (1961) is an outstanding… …
112Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid — For the Supernatural episode, see Dead Men Don t Wear Plaid (Supernatural). Dead Men Don t Wear Plaid Theatrical poster Directed by Carl Reiner …
113Frederic Reynolds — (November 1, 1764 ndash; April 16, 1841) was a British playwright and theatrical producer in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.He was educated at Westminster School and entered the Middle Temple to study law; but he left the law …
114The Miller's Prologue and Tale — The Miller s Tale is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales (1380s 1390s), told by a drunken miller to quite (requite) The Knight s Tale. When the host Harry Bailey asks for something to quite with it, this can be taken to mean to pay… …
115Rebel High — Infobox Film name = Rebel High image size = director = Harry Jakobs producer = Harry Jakobs writer = Harry Jakobs Evan Keliher (novel) starring = Wayne Flemming Harvey Berger Kenny Robinson music = cinematography = editing = distributor =… …
116Fields, Dame Gracie — orig. Grace Stansfield born Jan. 9, 1898, Rochdale, Lancashire, Eng. died Sept. 27, 1979, Capri, Italy English music hall comedienne. She performed in music halls from age 13 and gained notice in the touring revue Mr. Tower of London (1918–25).… …
117Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus — orig. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart born Jan. 27, 1756, Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg died Dec. 5, 1791, Vienna Austrian composer. Son of the violinist and composer Leopold Mozart (1719–87), he was born the year of the… …
118DUTCH LITERATURE — Influence of the Bible The arrival, on October 27, 2004, of the Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling, a completely new translation into Dutch of the Bible and the Christian Apocrypha, initiated a fierce debate in Dutch literary circles. At the core was the… …
119Dan Leno — Leno in 1895 Dan Leno (20 December 1860 31 October 1904), born George Wild Galvin, was an English comedian and actor, famous for appearing in music hall and dozens of comic plays, pantomimes, Victorian burlesques and musical comedies during the… …
120Portuguese literature — This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language (i.e. Vulgar Latin) spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents …
