Draft:Comedy Verite

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Comedy verite or Comedy vérité is a television format that presents fictional Comedy series in the staged form of a Docusoap.[1].

Humorous situations and characters are presented as if they were spontaneous and real observations of everyday life at first sight.

The term Comedy Verite is a compound word of comedy and vérité (French for "truth") to emphasize the fusion of Situation comedy with Cinema vérité. Cinema vérité stands for a French documentary style of the 1950s and 60s in which the filmmaker constantly intervenes in the filming process and thus stands for stylized productions, interactions between filmmaker and subject, and even moments of deliberate provocation.

Comedy Verite refers to a series with episodes of up to half an hour in length that combines to the specifications of a classic Sitcom in terms of narration and character constellation, but on a formal level gives the impression that it is a Docusoap.

In Comedy verite, the clichés and stereotypes of classic Sitcoms are parodied[2]

Well-known examples of this are series like The Office, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development, What We Do in the Shadows and Abbott Elementary.

Further Reading[edit]

  • Mills, Brett: „Comedy verite: contemporary sitcom form”, Screen, Volume 45, Issue 1, Spring 2004: pp. 63–78.
  • Thompson, Ethan: „Comedy Verité? The Observational Documentary Meets the Televisual Sitcom”, The Velvet Light Trap, No. 60, Fall 2007: pp. 63–72.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Mills, Brett: „Comedy verite: contemporary sitcom form” Screen, Volume 45, Issue 1, Spring 2004: p. 63–78, p. 65
  2. ^ Mills, Brett: „Comedy verite: contemporary sitcom form” Screen, Volume 45, Issue 1, Spring 2004: p. 63–78, p. 78