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  2. 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]

  3. Theatre of the absurd - Wikipedia

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    Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.

  4. List of humorists - Wikipedia

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    Seba Smith (1792–1868) American writer and editor, [33] most famous for his editorial character, Jack Downing. [50] Sholom Aleichem [51] (1859–1916) pen name of the leading Yiddish author and playwright Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, on whose stories the musical Fiddler on the Roof was based. Simo Puupponen [52] Tabitha Gilman Tenney [5]

  5. List of satirists and satires - Wikipedia

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    American History X satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting; They Live; Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration; The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion; The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler; Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity

  6. Surreal humour - Wikipedia

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    One example is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt". This became one of the most famous and influential pieces of art in history, and one of the earliest examples of the found object movement. It is also a joke, relying on the inversion of the item's function as expressed by its title as well as its incongruous ...

  7. 16 of the Most Famous Malapropism Examples - AOL

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    The post 16 of the Most Famous Malapropism Examples appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... use words incorrectly as a funny quirk of her character. Her name became the default term for misusing a ...

  8. Absurdism - Wikipedia

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    Absurdism is the philosophical thesis that life, or the world in general, is absurd. There is wide agreement that the term "absurd" implies a lack of meaning or purpose but there is also significant dispute concerning its exact definition and various versions have been suggested.

  9. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Max and Moritz - Principal characters of the book of the same name written by Wilhelm Busch in 1865. Famous for their tricks, Max and Moritz quickly became famous characters in Germany. The Mask - Wears a mask imbued with Loki's powers and lack of inhibition. Mister Mxyzptlk - An imp from the fifth dimension featured in the Superman comics.