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  2. Surreal humour - Wikipedia

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    Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical.

  3. Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective - Wikipedia

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    The company was especially noteworthy for writing about women's issues with lacerating humor in often absurdist situations. Christopher Olsen in his book, Off Off Broadway 1968 -1970 The Second Wave (2011), [ 8 ] noted the playwrights’ abilities to balance a serious social message about the marginalization of women with a sense of humor and a ...

  4. Xavier: Renegade Angel - Wikipedia

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    The show is known for its use of ideologically critical dark comedy as well as surrealist and absurdist humor presented through a psychedelic and satirically New Age lens. The program is also normally rated TV MA for intense, graphic, often bloody violence, as well as strong sexual content, use of racially/ethnically offensive language, and ...

  5. Venice Award Winner Ahmad Ghossein on Absurdist Comedy ... - AOL

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    Five years after his feature debut “All This Victory” took the Grand Prize and the audience award at Venice’s Critics’ Week, Lebanese filmmaker Ahmad Ghossein is gearing up to shoot his ...

  6. ‘Yannick’ Review: A Brechtian Heckler Hijacks the Show in ...

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    He is also remarkably consistent, exploring a particular vein of absurdist humor conspicuously lacking from art houses, via short features. His longest (and wrongest) runs 94 minutes.

  7. Random Acts of Flyness - Wikipedia

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    The website's critical consensus reads, "Random Acts of Flyness ' poignant political poetry plays in harmony with its frenetic absurdist humor to create a singular musical television experience." [ 18 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 83 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

  8. 8 buddy cop films that bring the humor and the heat - AOL

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    "Last Action Hero" shows that a buddy cop movie doesn't have to be grounded in reality to work. After all, Jack Slater isn't even a real cop, and the events unfolding are taking place inside a movie .

  9. Absurdist fiction - Wikipedia

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    Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. [1]