Comic scene

A comic scene , which one commonly calls a sketch or, more classically, a Saynète , is a short representation ensured by one or more actors on a humorous tone .

History

Since the Antiquity, the comic scenes are one of the many springs Plays, putting at the antagonistic catches generally two characters (the Master and the servant, the rich person and the poor one, the poet and the peasant, the husband and the lover of its wife, etc), formula particularly employed by Molière. This form of confrontation remains still today the receipt of the comic duets.

The comic scenes develop particularly starting from the Moyen-âge with the itinerant spectacles, then with the Comedia Del Arte, which builds around small burlesques scenes .

The formula is largely taken again as from the 18th century with the Cirque, by the Clown S then, at the 19th century, with the Cabaret in numbers of artists Comique S. But it is with the emergence of the Music-hall that the sketches take their statute of true spectacle and become works of authors.

Forms of sketches

Popularized in the years 1950 and 1960 by the comic ones like Raymond Devos, Fernand Raynaud or Guy Bedos, the sketches constitute the basic repertory of many Humoriste S. In certain cases, the sketch can contain impromptu parts or be entirely impromptu. It can also take several forms:

  • personification makes it possible the humorist to interpret one or more characters on scene, with the manner of Élie Semoun, Pierre Palmade or Muriel Robin.
  • the Stand-up , particularly practiced in North America, puts in scene a humorist who tells what seems to be its own history and which does not hesitate to challenge the public. Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld is the most known representatives, but several French-speaking artists use the same formula, like Anthony Kavanagh, Franck Dubosc or Jamel Debbouze.
  • the development of the Télévision gave rise to sketches especially written to be diffused in an emission, like those of Omar and Fred, Eric and Ramzy or the series Caméra coffee and Kaamelott, entirely made up of sketches.

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