The lovers turn to the household servants for help. After initially fumbling, the servants usually find a solution that is less than scrupulous but nonetheless effective. Originally, Commedia plays were performed as commercial breaks between the acts of epic plays both dramatic and tragic. Acrobatics, juggling, illusion or wrestling would be interwoven with the well-known stories. Speaking of wrestling, consider that modern television wrestling is comprised of broad archetypes, i.
Audiences world-wide appreciate these archetypes and enjoy the simple scenarios played out. The defining issues were the skill and originality with which the short plays were presented. Feel free to change their ages, sexes, physical idiosyncrasies and modernise their roles in life. These are the window dressing to the character themselves; the paint job, not the wheels.
Make them new and yours alone. As smart as Harlequin, Colombine is an attractive and largely capable woman. She is self-centred, impatient and can be flaky. She is suspicious of get-rich-quick schemes, but can emotionally and temporarily latch on to confident people.
But she remains beyond the true, lasting romantic love for any man, if only because of her own often unreasonable standards and love of independence.
Having made a choice of any kind, she quickly feels trapped. The ancestor of the Acerbic Servant, Harlequin is a more playful and fun-loving character. He is not devoted to his master at all, finding his chores a tiresome and pointless inconvenience.
Never truly engaged in his work, he sees the workplace as a playground. Peter Venkman Bill Murray, Ghostbusters needs intense provocation to become emotionally engaged in his troubles and those of others. Despite his brains, Harlequin can act short-sightedly when it comes to shirking responsibility or flirting with beautiful women, especially Colombine. But, having gotten himself into a mess, this plucky and cunning young man can manipulate himself out of it.
Tragically, Colombine remains forever beyond his grasp. Another Harlequin archetype with original and contemporary characteristics is the screen identity of Groucho Marx. He cheekily baits his betters, confounds his detractors, protects his companions and sees things from a fresh and funny perspective. He preferred a clever solution to a violent one and had little respect for convention. Sarcastic and selfish, he trusts no one. His complex world-view may be realistic, but is essentially cynical.
He has no joy in his heart and finds no joy in the world, beyond petty victories. With a thin skin, hair-trigger temper and an unhealthy sense of superiority, Brighella is a schemer capable of intricate but workable plans that defy the understanding of those around him. Even with the best of intentions i.
Where Punch hits Judy with a club, Mr Castanza hits his wife and his son with verbal abuse. Ah, love! How lofty its dialogue! The Innamorati are a pair of young lovers so smitten with each other they are incapable of rational thought if they ever were.
For these two blissful dopes, there is nothing in the world but their love. Blind to danger and deaf to advice, Robin and Marion worship each other with operatic intensity. The young lovers in every Marx Bros movie are classic Innamorati. The love of the Innamorati usually faces resistance, normally from older or more powerful male characters known as Vecchi. The dirty old millionaire. A filthy-rich miser, blinded by lust and greed. The wife of Pantalone. A tough-talking, battle-hardened, morally-sound lady, Marinetta suffers no fools and geniuses will have to prove themselves.
Modern incarnations of Marinetta are typically single as no man is good or strong enough to match them. Still, she maintains a distant hope that one day her man will come.
As such, they were just as funny as their fellow stock characters, and just as foolish. Long past his prime if he ever had a prime , he loves to promise great deeds but always finds excuses not to do them.
Audiences love to see him cut down to size by the end of a scenario. He was the most popular commedia character in Naples and has since been associated with the Neapolitan temperament. In an original pilot, it really helps if each character has a pretty clear type, as their comedic starting point.
These characters are just kind of mean to people, in ways that get laughs — like Carla on Cheers. Or many of the characters on Veep. Take Jay on Modern Family vs. Frank on Everybody Loves Raymond. Both are gruff patriarchs who are overly tough on others.
Whereas Jay does get his own stories, in which he can seem more like a more sympathetic Lovable Loser. Like Gloria on Modern Family. Often these characters have a sweet innocence to them, and the bizarre things they say are a go-to source of laughs. Phoebe is the wacky Cloudcuckoolander kind, while Joey is a rather dumb but well-meaning buddy. Haruhi from Haruhi Suzumiya has very little interest in conventional people and spends her time coming up with Zany Schemes to force the S.
Unbenownst to her she's also proabably God Neil in The Inbetweeners is a ditz who is rarely bothered by, and seems barely aware of the crazy things going on around him.
Douglas in The IT Crowd is a highly affable guy who is unintentionally the world's worst boss. Due to his incompetance, lust, and general ditziness, finds himself in weird siuations such as losing his hand or getting a woman he's interested in divorce his wife for him.
Reese and Dewey in Malcolm in the Middle , sometimes Hal as well. Reese and Dewey are both simple-minded kids whose schemes and pranks lead to trouble. Reese is legitimately stupid, while Dewey is more of a Ditzy Genius. Meanwhile Hal is a Bumbling Dad whose antics don't usually drive the plot, but sometimes causes strange situations with his unusual hobbies.
Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation. After Characterization Marches On , he becomes a goofy, zany Cloudcuckoolander who is nevertheless friendly towards most people he meets. Homer in The Simpsons. An impulsive ditz and Bumbling Dad whose laziness and frequency to change jobs lead him into many a Zany Scheme and wacky situation. Fez and Kelso in That '70s Show. Kelso is a good-natured Dumb Jock , while Fez is a silly Funny Foreigner whose lack of familiarity with American culture is a source of zaniness and humor.
Examples of "The Charmer". Joey Tribbiani from Friends is definitely the Casanova version, as he's always hitting on women and easily has the most success with them out of the three male main characters.
Fez is a wannabe version of this in That '70s Show , though it seems to be pretty legitimate in the final season. Randy is a more refined Charmer. Charlie Harper in Two and a Half Men , a consummate ladies' man. Examples of "The Stick". Shirley in Community. As the Token Religious Teammate , Shirley sometimes has a Holier Than Thou attitude and often tries to force the rest of the main characters to adhere to her morals.
Frankie in Season 6 also counts. Friends : Ross. Monica, on countless occasions, had outright stifled any fun being had by bombarding everyone else with rules. Nagato in Haruhi Suzumiya , an alien robot and Emotionless Girl with no sense of humor who who underreacts to everything.
Hank on King of the Hill , a stubbornly wholesome, honest, conservative man whose dogged adherence to principle contrasts with everyone else on the show. Post- Flanderization Flanders in The Simpsons , an obnoxiously square religious conservative who raises his children in a comedically strict fashion.
Examples of "The Sage". Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh often fulfills this role. She's not actually older, just taller, but her quietness and serious personality causes all the other girls to respect her. The oldest member of the main cast, Holt has been on the force longer than anyone else and often has wisdom to dispense when referring to the job. Pierce Hawthorne in Community flipflops between this and The Bully. He likes to view himself as a mentor to the study group, and often has quiet moments where he dispenses wisdom, particularly to Annie and Jeff.
Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation. The cyncical, libertarian head of the Parks Department, Ron Swanson is nevertheless a noble patriarchal figure for the rest of his co-workers who puts a great emphasis on self-reliance. Examples of "The Bigmouth". Tomo from Azumanga Daioh , and to some degree, Kagura as well. Tomo is a Know-Nothing Know-It-All who does poorly in school yet constantly draws attention to herself and instists she knows things.
Kagura is a Dumb Jock with a high level of confidence, though she's not as outspoken as Tomo. Hitchcock is an Insufferable Imbecile and a Dirty Old Man who is almost never respected by the other members of the precinct. Scully is largely the same, but less so, and he has a Hidden Heart of Gold. Britta in Community constantly and ineffectually lectures the other members of the study group about whatever cause she's stumbled onto that week.
Other characters use her name as a verb meaning "ruined. Phoebe's Cloudcuckoolander antics can occasionally be grating for her friends, and she can sometimes be preachy about them, while Ross can sometimes be an overbearing know-it-all, especially towards his main love interest Rachel.
Jean-Ralphio Saperstein in Parks and Recreation is an obnoxious, slimy millionaire with several rather annoying habits such as breaking into song unprompted and hitting on every woman he meets. He's at best tolerated and at most loathed by everyone he meets with the exception of Tom Haverford.
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