This behavior may be "acting out" - but its appropriate on the stage.

In Plato's view, this goal of comedy grows from the Latin root for "bad."

By the time he set the record straight, comedy was already shifting from Old Comedy to New Comedy.

Horace warned against this type of comedy, which had been banned, as it led to violence.

Contrary to what you'd expect, this is not rain on your wedding day.

Not much of an award, unless you want to rest on them.

If you're like Aristotle, you don't need to be a rock star to leave behind a record.

While Mary Poppins might sing of it as a "spoonful of sugar," this latin term describes comedy as a "sweet instruction."

Not the thing your dentist makes, unless he's playing Christopher Walken on open mike night.

Strepsiades' final act involves billowing even though its not a cloud.

One Day, One Place, One Plot. Together, they sound like the title of a song from Les Miz.

Roman writers incorporated this comic form with a penchant for exaggeration and the absurd. A modern audience might expect it to mean something a bit more bawdy.

This form of theatre may have come from an ancient line of drunken fools.

Often thought of as a literary device, this mechanical basket once saved the (theatrical) day.

The idea that if the Poetics were good enough for the Greeks, they were essential to the French.

His name, an etymological cousin to a mutant ninja turtle, this Roman philosopher reinforced Cicero's notion that comedy is "an imitation of [daily] life."

This comic form about the nature of humans derives its name from something half human.

This Greeks stage persona infamously replaced his actual persona with grave results.

The satisfying force that PROBABLY keeps Peter Pan flying.

Although comedy was looked down upon by the medieval Christian church, this nun "cried strongly" for it - modeling her plays on the works of Terrence.