Process of Creating a Successful Comedy

Process of Creating a Successful Comedy

According to White (2006), a comedy is a kind of drama that invokes laughter especially at the actions created by human beings. It includes romantic love and in most cases, involves a successful conclusion. It is important that a comedy hold the view of a comic spirit, linked with both physical and energetic views. In most cases, comedies have the tendency of involving the issues of rebirth and renewal and that is the reason why a good number of comedies have their endings with weddings implying the general union of a couple and the expected reproduction of children (White 45). A successful comedy has to include exaggeration, surprise, repetition, incongruity and sarcasm within it and all these devices may be used in writing different comedies such as situation comedies, romantic, sentimental comedies together with comedies of manners and farce.

In order to create a successful comedy involves developing a plot, which is viewed as the main strategy for coming up with an interesting comedy. This can be seen through the plays of comedians Plautus and Shakespeare, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Taming of the Shrew respectively. In this plays the writers demonstrated well-created comedies using plots. For any comedy to succeed, it must have a theme and a plot of the story in order to help the audiences know what the storyline is all about. These steps were taken by writers of the above-mentioned stories to achieve their goals as comedians. In the process of plot writing, there has to be elements such as character, action and feelings of the writer, which reveal the intention of writing a particular play or comedy. For instance, actions could be broken down to show what the characters are doing during the time of the play. For example, certain signs such as age, wealth, profession and education among other traits could differentiate the characters.

This is clearly demonstrated in the plays A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Taming of the Shrew by comedians Plautus and Shakespeare where different characters have different traits inclusive of problems, complications, crisis, and climax among others. The problem trait is what leads in starting the play and it introduces the plot. Complication issues are experienced when the characters try to find a solution to a particular problem in the play. The crisis part occurs at the time when a character wants to make a decision concerning the issue at hand. While the climax demonstrates the peak of the play, this is the part where emotions are revealed and it involves making of the final decision among the characters during the play (Rishel 18). A good number of audiences get attracted to romantic comedies and comedies dealing with love issues as they feel connected to the story being shown. For instance, Plautus and Shakespeare have successfully achieved their comedy creation through involving love issues in their storyline especially in the end of the play. This could be seen in the Taming of the Shrew comedy, which is a romantic comedy where the mutual roughness of Kate and Petruchio brings out a primal appeal and yet the humor of their relationship is highly sophisticated.

In order for the plot to work out during the creation of comedy, any person wishing to create a successful comedy needs to include the process of theme developing. For instance, the theme of social roles on ones happiness is well revealed in the play The Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio`s daughter is portrayed as a very violent girl to people around her because of the lack of happiness that comes as a result of her wicked behavior. This action in the plays shows the use of charisma in attracting attention of the audience to the play because such an action leaves people laughing throughout, which is the major goal of the comedy. Both plays illustrate imitation of the character's role. For instance,