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Shaun Micallef's Stairway To Heaven
''Shaun Micallef's Stairway to Heaven'' is an Australian television factual series on SBS, starring comedian and writer Shaun Micallef. Episodes The series first screened as a documentary in 2015 titled "Gods, Gurus and the Ganges". It returned on 18 January 2017 as a 3-part series with episodes titled "Mormons", "Spiritual Healing" and "Armageddon". References External links *Artemis Films 2015 Australian television series debuts Special Broadcasting Service original programming Australian comedy television series {{Australia-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
