Slapstick Comedy

1885-1930

Watering the gardener (L'Arroseur Arrosé)

1895See Blog Post for video

Charlie Chaplin

1914

Animated Cartoons

1920+

Felix the Cat

1919

Mickey Mouse

1928

Frank Capra

1885-1930

Introduction of Sound into Movies

1930

Introduction of humor through dialogue

1935

Kind hearts and coronets

1949

The lavender hill mob

1951

The lady killers

1955

Spin offs from TV comedy shows

1960

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world

1963See Blog Post For

Video

The pink panther

1964See Blog Post For Video

Those significant men in their flying machines

1965

Introduction of sexual themes (dark comedy)

The graduate (1967)

Dr.StrangeloveUse of sensitive topics in

comedy (cold war paranoia)

Monty Python

1970’s

Spoofs started to occur

1980

Airplane! (spoof)

1980See Blog Post For Video

Quentin Jerome Tarantino

Started making movies (1987)

‘My Best Friend’s Birthday’

Honey I shrunk the kids

1990

When Harry Met Sally

1989

Romantic comedy became very popular

1990

Adult topic related comedy became very

popular

1990

Pulp fiction

1994See Blog Post For Video

The Full Monty1997

American Pie1999

Scary Movie(s)

2000-2013

Borat

2006

The Hangover

2009

Ted

2012