Editing Comedy film (section)

==History==
===Silent film era===
[[File:Cinématographe Lumière.jpg|thumb|right|The film poster for the first comedy film, ''[[L'Arroseur Arrosé]]'' (1895)]]
The first comedy film was ''[[L'Arroseur Arrosé]]'' (1895), directed and produced by film pioneer [[Louis Lumière]]. Less than a minute long, it shows a boy playing a prank on a gardener. The most notable comedy actors of the [[silent film era]] (1895–1927) were [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Harold Lloyd]], and [[Buster Keaton]], though they were able to make the transition into "[[Sound film|talkies]]" after the 1920s.

====Social commentary in comedy====
Film-makers in the 1960s skillfully employed the use of comedy film to make social statements by building their narratives around sensitive cultural, political or social issues. Such films include [[Dr. Strangelove|Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb]], [[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner|Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?]] and [[The Graduate]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Staff |date=16 April 2014 |title=Laughs Of The Decades: A History Of Comedy In Film |url=https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/mediabeat/2014/04/16/laughs-of-the-decades-a-history-of-comedy-in-film/ |access-date=5 February 2024 |website=Indiana University Bloomington Library}}</ref> 

====Camp and bawdy comedy====
In America, the [[sexual revolution]] drove an appetite for comedies that celebrated and parodied changing social morals, including [[Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice]] and [[Fanny Hill (1964 film)|Fanny Hill]].<ref name=":5" /> In Britain, a [[Camp (style)|camp]] sensibility lay behind the successful [[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On films]], while in America subversive independent film-maker [[John Waters]] made camp films for college audiences with his [[drag queen]] friends that eventually found a mainstream audience.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marchese |first=David |date=18 March 2022 |title=John Waters Is Ready to Defend the Worst People in the World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/21/magazine/john-waters-interview.html |access-date=5 February 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> The success of the American television show [[Saturday Night Live]] drove decades of cinema with racier content allowed on television drawing on the program's stars and characters, with bigger successes including [[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]], [[Mean Girls]], [[Ghostbusters]] and [[Animal House]].<ref name=":5" />

===Present era===
Parody and joke-based films continue to find audiences.<ref name=":5" />