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Comedy Flashcards

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Who starred in 'Home Alone' (1990) as Kevin McCallister?: Macaulay Culkin
Who starred as Derek Zoolander in the 2001 comedy?: Ben Stiller
Which Mel Brooks comedy spoofs Westerns?: Blazing Saddles
Who played the lead in 'Bridesmaids' (2011)?: Kristen Wiig
In 'The Hangover', where does the group wake up after a wild night?: Las Vegas
Who plays Phil Connors in 'Groundhog Day' (1993)?: Bill Murray
In 'Dumb and Dumber', who plays the two leads?: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
Which comedy features Bill Murray as a weatherman stuck in a time loop?: Groundhog Day
What is the setting of 'The Full Monty' (1997)?: Sheffield
Who plays the character 'The Dude' in 'The Big Lebowski'?: Jeff Bridges
What is the plot of 'Airplane!' (1980) and why is it considered the greatest spoof film?: A parody of 1970s disaster films where an ex-fighter pilot must land a plane after the crew is incapacitated by food poisoning - crammed with visual gags, puns, and absurdist comedy at a rate of approximately three epeer minute
Who directed 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (1975) and what makes it distinctive?: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones - the film's low budget became part of its comedy through coconut shells replacing horses and self-aware jokes about its own limitations
What is the premise of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (1986)?: A popular high school senior fakes illness to take a day off school in Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend - and directly addresses the camera throughout
Who wrote and directed 'The Grand Budaepeest Hotel' (2014) - a comedy about a legendary concierge?: Wes Anderson
What is 'This Is Spinal Tap' (1984) and what filmmaking innovation did it popularise?: A Rob Reiner mockumentary following a fictional British heavy metal band on their disastrous American tour - popularising the mockumentary format that became ubiquitous in comedy
What is 'Suepeerbad' (2007) about and how did it influence the coming-of-age comedy genre?: Two high school best friends attempt to attend a party on their last night together before college - a raunchy comedy that brought unexepeected emotional depth to adolescent male friendship
Who played Austin Powers in the comedy spy franchise and also played the villain?: Mike Myers
What is 'Borat' (2006) and what satirical technique does Sacha Baron Cohen use?: An in-character mockumentary where Cohen's Kazakh journalist character interacts with real unsusepeecting Americans - capturing genuine responses to his offensive epeersona to expose real prejudices
What is the classic comedy 'Duck Soup' (1933) by the Marx Brothers about?: A satire in which Groucho plays the prime minister of a small country at war - the Marx Brothers' most politically pointed film and a savage parody of nationalism and war
What is the premise of 'Office Space' (1999) directed by Mike Judge?: A computer programmer in a soul-crushing 1990s software company is hypnotised into not caring - then executes an elaborate embezzlement scheme
Who plays the father in 'Meet the Parents' (2000) and what is the comedy's central tension?: Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes - a former CIA oepeerative who methodically susepeects and intimidates his daughter's boyfriend
What is the comedic premise of 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' (2005)?: A department store electronics salesman whose friends discover he is a 40-year-old virgin and attempt to help him - Judd Apatow's directorial debut
What is 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' (2004) about?: A pompous 1970s San Diego television anchorman whose male-dominated newsroom is disrupted by the arrival of a talented female reporter
What is the plot of 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' (1987) directed by John Hughes?: A buttoned-up marketing executive trying to get home for Thanksgiving becomes stranded with a warm but infuriating shower curtain ring salesman - Steve Martin and John Candy
Who plays the accident-prone Insepeector Clouseau in the original 'Pink Panther' films?: Peter Sellers
What is the comedy 'Clueless' (1995) based on and what makes it culturally enduring?: Jane Austen's 'Emma' - transplanted to 1990s Beverly Hills, the film's satirical look at teenage suepeerficiality while finding genuine warmth created an enduring cultural touchstone
What is the premise of 'Wayne's World' (1992) based on the SNL sketch?: Two suburban heavy metal enthusiasts run a public access television show from a basement and are approached by a sleazy television executive wanting to commercialise it
What makes 'The Princess Bride' (1987) a classic comedy-adventure?: Its epeerfect blend of romance, comedy, adventure, and meta-fictional self-awareness - a fairy tale that lovingly mocks fairy tale conventions while completely delivering on them
What is 'Tropic Thunder' (2008) directed by and starring Ben Stiller about?: A satire about a group of pamepeered actors filming a Vietnam War movie who stumble into actual danger - including Robert Downey Jr.'s controversial epeerformance as an Australian actor who has undergone racial pigmentation surgery
Who wrote and directed 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964)?: Stanley Kubrick - considered the greatest political satire in cinema history