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These comedians had “the instinct to self-ironize, to use crude bodily humor, to use slapstick and situational comedy, and the willingness to make the audience the butt of the joke.” Yet if Wade’s new ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sky Studios has put in development a comedy series about medieval Essex from The Great writer Ava Pickett and Big Talk Studios. Pickett, who is also penning the BBC’s Prêt-à-Porter ...

Are you ready for a NSFW medieval comedy? Great. And did we mention it’s stop motion animation? If you’re a fan of Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords is surely going to be right up your alley. While Hulu ...

A new study about a medieval tome includes the comedy script of an unnamed traveling entertainer, known as a minstrel, and provides a direct glimpse into the oral tradition of English minstrel acts.

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...

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"Til death do we party." Let's dance! Netflix has unveiled the full-length official trailer for their raunchy new series called The Decameron, created by TV writer Kathleen Jordan. The lewd and crass ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 (UPI) --The fate of humanity is no longer at stake in TBS' comedy Miracle Workers. Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi return for Season 2, set in the medieval past where they find ...

A Knight's Tale, the 2001 medieval adventure starring Heath Ledger, is riding its way into the realm of free streaming. This pitch-perfect genre blend of action, romance and comedy will land on ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sky Studios has put in development a comedy series about medieval Essex from The Great writer Ava Pickett and Big Talk Studios. The project is in its early stages and hasn’t yet been ...

Let's hear a snippet from a 15th-century comedy act. JAMES WADE: If thou have a great black bowl in thy hand and it be full of good ale and thou leave anything therein, thou puttest thy soul into ...