Comedy Titles (Choose Another Genre)
| Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-120 |
| Description: | Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in the remote Australian desert; starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce |
| Keywords: | Transvestites; Australia |
| All's Well That Ends Well |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 57 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| All's Well That Ends Well |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 82- 4 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production; three parts |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Andy Warhol Presents "Heat" |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-107 |
| Description: | Sylvia is a fading, practically unknown star and Joe is a one-time child actor who live in a sunbaked motel in this high comedy/ low tragedy film |
| Keywords: | Andy Warhol |
| As You Like It |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 59 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| As You Like It |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 82- 3 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production; two parts |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| As You Like It |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare: From Page to Stage |
| Call Number: | VCR 85- 4 |
| Description: | Helps to provide the student with a sense of the play as a script for performance |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Atame! |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2005-182 |
| Description: | Almodovar's comedy about an orphaned mental patient who kidnaps a porn star in order to have a family; stars Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas |
| Keywords: | Spanish; Pedro Almodovar |
| Best of Ernie Kovacs |
| Series Title: | Best of Ernie Kovacs |
| Call Number: | VCR 2000- 51 |
| Description: | 5-volume collection |
| Keywords: | Ernie Kovacs |
| Birdcage |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007- 31 |
| Description: | Armand and Albert reluctantly accept Val?s intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator; when the fiancee?s family visits, the household is turned upside down |
| Keywords: | Jean Poiret; Robin Williams; Nathan Lane |
| Bolivar Soy Yo |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2007-112 |
| Description: | An actor abandons the production set of a popular soap opera about Simon Bolivar because he doesn't agree with the script; he begins to believe he is the real Simon Bolivar |
| Keywords: | Spanish; Columbia: Social Conditions |
| Bus Stop |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 90- 35 |
| Description: | Starring Marilyn Monroe |
| Keywords: | |
| But I'm a Cheerleader |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2006-241 |
| Description: | Megan lives a super normal suburban existence until her parents suspect that she may be showing deviant tendencies |
| Keywords: | Lesbian teenagers |
| Carro [The Car] |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2007-113 |
| Description: | The Velez family says goodbye to public transportation and hello to the material world with the purchase of a little red car, which proceeds to spark big problems |
| Keywords: | Spanish; Family life |
| Comedy of Errors |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 60 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Comedy of Errors |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 84- 8 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Comment je me suis disput |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2002- 21 |
| Description: | A romantic comedy about a group of twenty-something grad students trying to cope with life, love and everything in-between |
| Keywords: | French |
| Details of a Duel [Tecnicas de duelo] |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007- 27 |
| Description: | Two men, who only yesterday were friends and political allies, plan to duel each other; egged on by the clergy, the militia, and the town's bureaucrats, the duel becomes a spectacle |
| Keywords: | Spanish; Dueling |
| Dining Room |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 90- 44 |
| Description: | Film version of the play by A.R. Gurney |
| Keywords: | |
| Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West... |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 98- 43 |
| Description: | Satire about the USA's view of the Soviet Union |
| Keywords: | Silent; Soviet |
| Feuerzangenbowle |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2001-309 |
| Description: | Based on novel by Heinrich Spoerl |
| Keywords: | German; Heinrich Spoerl |
| Flesh |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2007-114 |
| Description: | Joe, a bisexual prostitute, takes to the streets and meets a variety of unusual characters who together form a "gallery of city grotesques" |
| Keywords: | Male Prostitutes |
| Floorwalker and By the Sea |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 98- 41 |
| Description: | Two Charlie Chaplin films; "Video Yesteryear" series |
| Keywords: | Silent; Chaplin |
| Fresa y chocolate [Strawberry and Chocolate] |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2004- 73 |
| Description: | Young college kid meets a writer and a passionate woman who teach him new things |
| Keywords: | Spanish (Cuba) |
| Honeymooners |
| Series Title: | Honeymooners |
| Call Number: | DVD 2006- 75 |
| Description: | Complete set of all 39 episodes of the classic television show, in five discs; disc one includes commentary |
| Keywords: | Television; Jackie Gleason |
| Hour of the Star |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2006-120 |
| Description: | Adaptation of the novel by Clarice Lispector, about a poor Brazilian woman in Sao Paulo |
| Keywords: | Portuguese (Brazil); Clarice Lispector |
| Kika |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2005-122 |
| Description: | Ditsy hairdresser Kika gets involved with a host of unusual characters |
| Keywords: | Spanish |
| Laurel & Hardy |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-197 |
| Description: | 5 short films featuring the famous comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy: "Night Owls," "Another Fine Mess," "Perfect Day," "Men O'War," and "Berth Marks"; Oversize (5-volume set) |
| Keywords: | Laurel, Stan; Hardy, Oliver |
| Love's Labor's Lost |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 86- 6 |
| Description: | In two parts (tapes) |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Love's Labour's Lost |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 71 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Ma and Pa Kettle at Home |
| Series Title: | Ma & Pa Kettle Collection |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-185 |
| Description: | Ma and Pa Kettle try to spruce up their ramshackle nest before judges visit to decide if theirs is the dream farm |
| Keywords: | Marjorie Main; Percy Kilbride |
| Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki |
| Series Title: | Ma & Pa Kettle Collection |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-181 |
| Description: | The Kettles are summoned to Hawaii by an ailing relative to operate his pineapple factory until he recovers |
| Keywords: | Marjorie Main; Percy Kilbride |
| Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 75 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 84- 2 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production; two parts |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 76 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 83- 6 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 90- 27 |
| Description: | In two parts (tapes) |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Monty Python's Life of Brian |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-117 |
| Description: | The troupe behind "Monty Python's Flying Circus" satirize a host of topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean who is mistaken for Jesus Christ |
| Keywords: | Monty Python; Religious Satire |
| Much Ado about Nothing |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 77 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Muerta de un Burocrata [Death of a Bureaucrat] |
| Series Title: | Cuban Cinema |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007- 48 |
| Description: | A social satire about the tyranny of red tape in Cuba centered around a union card buried with its owner, whose widow needs it for her pension |
| Keywords: | Spanish: Cuba; Satire |
| My Little Chickadee |
| Series Title: | Ultimate Mae West Collection |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007- 56 |
| Description: | Mae West stars as Flowerbelle Lee, who seeks to improve her tarnished reputation by marrying Guthbert J. Twillie (Fields), whom she believes is quite a catch! |
| Keywords: | Mae West; W.C. Fields |
| Polyester |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-115 |
| Description: | Comic melodrama about a typical American housewife whose life is going to pot; starring Divine and Tab Hunter, written and directed by John Waters |
| Keywords: | John Waters; Divine |
| Puphedz: The Tattle Tale Heart |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2005- 69 |
| Description: | Satirical version of Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart," enacted by wooden puppets |
| Keywords: | Puppetry; Edgar Allan Poe |
| Reduced Shakespeare Company |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2004- 87 |
| Description: | Three-man troupe condenses Shakespeare's complete oeuvre into 90 hilarious minutes |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Ritz |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 90- 33 |
| Description: | 1976 film version of the play by Terrence McNally, starring Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston |
| Keywords: | Terrence McNally |
| School for Scandal |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2003-128 |
| Description: | Guthrie Theater Company production of Sheridan's classic comedy of manners |
| Keywords: | Richard Sheridan |
| Some Like it Hot |
| Series Title: | MGM/UA Vintage Classics |
| Call Number: | VCR 2007-100 |
| Description: | Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as two unemployed musicians, who accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians |
| Keywords: | Gangster Films; Tony Curtis; Jack Lemmon; Marilyn |
| Splash |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 86- 4 |
| Description: | Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah star in Ron Howard's comedy about a man who falls in love with a mermaid |
| Keywords: | Ron Howard; Mermaids; Fantasy |
| Story of Fausta |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2004- 68 |
| Description: | Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house |
| Keywords: | Portuguese |
| Taming of the Shrew |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 82 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Taming of the Shrew |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 83- 8 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production; three parts |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Taming of the Shrew |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare: From Page to Stage |
| Call Number: | VCR 85- 5 |
| Description: | Helps to provide the student with a sense of the play as a script for performance |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Tartuffe |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2003-127 |
| Description: | 1978 television production of Moliere's famous play |
| Keywords: | Moliere |
| Touch of Pink |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | DVD 2007-121 |
| Description: | A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life turned upset down when his devoutly Muslim mother visits in the hopes of setting him up with a "nice girl" |
| Keywords: | Gay men: Relationships; Mothers and Sons |
| TV Nation |
| Series Title: | TV Nation |
| Call Number: | VCR 2000- 83 |
| Description: | Episodes from Moore's mid-90s TV series; 2 volumes |
| Keywords: | Political Satire; Michael Moore |
| Twelfth Night |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 83- 10 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production; two parts |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare Plays |
| Call Number: | DVD 2004- 88 |
| Description: | 1980s BBC series |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| Series Title: | Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare |
| Call Number: | VCR 84- 3 |
| Description: | BBC Television Production; two parts |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare |
| Waltz of the Toreadors |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 90- 43 |
| Description: | 1962 film starring Peter Sellers |
| Keywords: | Peter Sellers |
| Xica |
| Series Title: | |
| Call Number: | VCR 2003- 13 |
| Description: | Brazilian slave seduces her way to being Empress of Brazil in 1700s |
| Keywords: | Portuguese (Brazil) |