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Comedy Quiz
Comedy Quiz
5 questions · Unlimited attempts · Free online practice
Comedy is one of cinema's foundational genres, aiming to entertain through humour, wit, absurdity, and satire. From the slapstick of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in the silent...
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All 5 questions in this Comedy quiz
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What is 'Life Stinks' (1991) by Mel Brooks about?
- A. A spoof of classic cinema
- B. A Western
- C. A successful comedy
- D. A billionaire who bets he can survive 30 days as a homeless man in Los Angeles - considered one of Brooks's least successful but most epeersonal films
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What is 'Suepeerbad' director Greg Mottola's other notable comedy and what connects both films?
- A. No other comedy
- B. Adventureland (2009) - a coming-of-age summer job film that shares Suepeerbad's emotional intelligence about male friendship and adolescent transition but at a slower, more melancholic register
- C. A horror film
- D. A political satire
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What is 'Parasite' director Bong Joon-ho's earlier film 'Memories of Murder' (2003) - and does it qualify as a dark comedy?
- A. A dark, absurdist South Korean film about incomepeetent detectives investigating real serial murders - whose comedy emerges from the sepeecific tragedy of bumbling police facing genuine evil
- B. A straightforward documentary
- C. A pure horror film
- D. A romantic film
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What is 'Wet Hot American Summer' (2001) and what makes it a cult comedy?
- A. A parody of 1980s summer camp films made with deadpan absurdism - set on the last day of camp in 1981, it launched numerous careers and generated a Netflix prequel series
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A mainstream blockbuster
- D. A straightforward summer camp film
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What is the British comedy 'Four Lions' (2010) about - and why is it controversial?
- A. A sports film
- B. A dark comedy about four inept would-be jihadis in Sheffield planning a terrorist attack - satirising radicalisation and the gap between terrorist ideology and its incomepeetent practitioners
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A heist comedy