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Comedy types:
- Slapstick comedy: Slapstick involves exaggerated physical actions that exceeds the normal amount included in physical comedy. This genre typically involves both intentional and accidental violence. Examples of this may include slamming doors in a character’s face, use of prop saws and ladders, ‘forgetting’ of lines and tripping over air. Examples: Mr bean, George of the Jungle, Flubber.
- Sitcoms: Sitcoms, or situational comedy, are tv shows that are centered on a group of characters that mostly carry over from each episode. They’re usually contrasted with sketch comedy. Examples: Brooklyn Nine Nine, How I met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory.
- One-liner: One liner comedy is a joke delivered in one line, usually very fast. A good one liner is meaningful. Examples: Jimmy Carr, Sean Hegarty, Jay London.
Hallmark:
Hallmark is a family-owned company that is well known for it’s card company based in Kansas City, Missouri. The company was founded by Joyce Hall in 1910. As well as being the largest manufacturer of greeting cards and party goods, the company is also involved in television, producing the Hallmark Hall Of Fame in 1951 as well as launching The Hallmark Channel. Hallmark Hall of Fame was originally named Hallmark Television Playhouse and is one of the longest running prime time series in the history of television. It still continues in this present day.
The company introduced the brand name ”Hallmark” in 1928, after originally being named the ”Hall Brothers”, and they were named after the Hallmark symbol used by goldsmiths in London.
Joyce Hall and his older brothers William and Rollie originally began the Norfolk Post Card Company durning the early 1920s post card craze that was initially headquartered in the Norfolk Nebraska Bookstore in which the brothers worked at. Rollie bought out the non- family business a year later which later became the ‘Hall Brothers’. The post card business eventually outgrew the stores resources and moved it Kansas City in 1910. With the post card craze eventually dying down in 1912, the company began to sell Christmas cards instead.
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