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Plot Summary:
And Now for Something Completely Different is a film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surreal, funny, absurd, spoof, sketch comedy, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, mind bending
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Rutland Weekend Television (1975)
Plot Summary:
Rutland Weekend Television was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, the second of seven in 1976. A Christmas special also aired on Boxing Day 1975. It was Idle's first television project after Monty Python's Flying Circus, which ended the previous year. The show was the catalyst for The Rutles. Rutland Weekend Television or RWT centred on "Britain's smallest television network", situated in England's smallest county, Rutland. The show's title alludes to London Weekend Television. A Rutland TV station would be pretty small, so a Rutland Weekend Television would have to be ridiculously tiny. The joke was doubly meaningful as Idle had accidentally been granted a presentation budget instead of the more lavish budgets associated with light entertainment - so the weekly patter about their inability to buy props and sets was in fact quite real. Indeed, the last show of the first series featured Idle and Innes, stripped and shivering in blankets under a bare bulb, singing about how the power's about to be shut off. Idle speaks bitterly about these conditions now but his attempts to overcome them formed the basis of a lot of the show's jokes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sketch comedy, spoof, parody, clever, offbeat, humorous, surreal, witty, cynical
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
Plot Summary:
Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution". In the tradition of films like Groove Tube (1974), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), and Saturday Night Live.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, sketch comedy, mondo, anthology, parody, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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Upright Citizens Brigade: Asssscat (2008)
Plot Summary:
On the heels of their enormously popular TV show, the Upright Citizens Brigade (Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh) bring you Asssscat - an unparalleled improv comedy juggernaut. Beginning with a suggestion from the audience, a guest monologist tells a story that kicks off a series of high-octane improvised sketches. From medical marijuana to embarrassing sexual encounters, no topic is off limits to the renegade performers who have helped make Asssscat one of the longest running improv shows in the history of the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, clever, realistic, parody, offbeat, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy, live comedy
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Little Britain: Live (2006)
Plot Summary:
The many hilarious characters of Little Britain are taken to the stage in this brilliant live performance by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, slapstick, sketch comedy, live comedy
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A Private Function (1984)
Plot Summary:
Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire, where strict post-war rationing is putting the squeeze on the townspeople. But when a working-class couple discover that the town's wealthy elite has been secretly fattening up an illegal pig for their own selfish gluttony, they hatch an outlandish kidnapping scheme that gives new meaning to the phrase bringing home the bacon!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, offbeat, witty, culinary, independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, tense
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The Missionary (1982)
Plot Summary:
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, sexy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, inspirational, thought provoking, touching, enigmatic
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The State (1993)
Plot Summary:
The State is a half-hour sketch-comedy television show, originally broadcast in the USA on MTV between December 17, 1993, and July 1, 1995. The show combined bizarre characters and scenarios to present sketches that won the favor of its target teenaged audience. The cast consisted of 11 twenty-something comedians who created, acted, wrote, directed and edited the show. Several memorable characters were created for the show, and for a short time their catchphrases entered into the vernacular. Often, the cast would appear as themselves and address the audience to promote fake contests or to deliver mock public service announcements. Much like Monty Python, The State's sketches were sometimes linked to each other in some way: a punchline or image that ended one sketch often provided a lead-in to the next. After years of legal issues related to the soundtrack to many of the episodes, the series was released on DVD on July 14, 2009. A State film featuring all of the original troupe members is in the works, but was delayed by the 2007-2008 screenwriters strike, and no release date for the project has been announced.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, slapstick, skit, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, not serious, independent film
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Little Britain (2003)
Plot Summary:
Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The show's title is an amalgamation of the terms 'Little England' and 'Great Britain', and is also the name of a Victorian neighbourhood and modern street in London. The show comprises sketches involving exaggerated parodies of British people from all walks of life in various situations familiar to the British. These sketches are presented to the viewer together with narration in a manner which suggests that the programme is a guide—aimed at non-British people—to the ways of life of various classes of British society. Despite the narrator's description of great British institutions, the comedy is derived from the British audience's self-deprecating understanding of either themselves or people known to them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, parody, humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, sitcom, funny, political, controversial
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Bit of Fry & Laurie is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on both BBC1 and BBC2 between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series and totalled 26 episodes, including a 35 minute pilot episode in 1987. As in The Two Ronnies, elaborate wordplay and innuendo were staples of its material. It frequently broke the fourth wall; characters would revert into their real-life actors mid-sketch, or the camera would often pan off set into the studio. In addition, the show was punctuated with non-sequitur vox pops in a similar style to those of Monty Python's Flying Circus, often making irrelevant statements, heavily based on wordplay. Laurie was also seen playing piano and a wide variety of other instruments and singing comical numbers.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sketch comedy, clever, witty, funny, multicultural, hilarious, mind blowing, realistic, not serious
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At Last the 1948 Show (1967)
Plot Summary:
At Last the 1948 Show is a satirical TV show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions, in association with Rediffusion London. Transmitted on Britain's ITV network during 1967 and 1968, it brought Cambridge Footlights humour to a broader audience. The show starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman and Aimi MacDonald. Cleese and Brooke-Taylor were also the programme editors. The director was Ian Fordyce.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, offbeat, humorous, surreal, witty, not serious, parody
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The Benny Hill Show (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show that starred Benny Hill and aired in various incarnations between 15 January 1955 and 30 May 1991 in over 140 countries. The show focused on sketches that were full of slapstick, mime, parody, and double-entendre. Thames Television cancelled production of the show in 1989 due to declining ratings and large production costs at £450,000 per show.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sketch comedy, sitcom, offbeat, controversial, slapstick, double entendre, naughty, sexy, humorous
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Da Ali G Show (2000)
Plot Summary:
BAFTA Award-winning Da Ali G Show is back, and this time Ali G gets to take on America. Ali G In Da USAiii, nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys, stars Sacha Baron-Cohen. The series, filmed in the USA for HBO and Channel 4, brings to life three unique characters: Ali G; Borat, the naive television reporter from Kazakhstan; and Bruno, a camp Austrian fashion reporter.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, sitcom, funny, parody, controversial, sketch comedy, political
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The Kids in the Hall (1988)
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The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBO in the United States. The theme song for the show was the instrumental "Having an Average Weekend" by the Canadian band Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. The troupe made one movie, Brain Candy, which was released in 1996. The troupe reformed for various tours and comedy festivals in 2000. They released an eight-part miniseries, Death Comes to Town in January, 2010. The name of the group came from Sid Caesar, who, if a joke didn't go over, or played worse than expected, would attribute it to "the kids in the hall", referring to a group of young writers hanging around the studio.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, humorous, not serious, surreal, witty, funny, clever, offbeat, realistic, biting
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Big Train (1998)
Plot Summary:
Big Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted. The first series was broadcast on BBC Two in 1998, while the second, in which Linehan was not involved, aired in 2002.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, sitcom, surreal, absurd, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995)
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Mr. Show with Bob and David is an American sketch comedy series starring and hosted by Saturday Night Live writer/actor Bob Odenkirk and stand up comedian/actor David Cross. It aired on HBO from November 3, 1995 to December 28, 1998. Cross and Odenkirk introduced most episodes as heightened versions of themselves, before transitioning to a mixture of live sketches and pre-taped segments. The show featured a number of alternative comedians as both cast members and writers, including Sarah Silverman, Paul F. Tompkins, Jack Black, Tom Kenny, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Brian Posehn, Jerry Minor, Scott Aukerman, and Dino Stamatopoulos. It was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Satellite Award.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, sitcom, surreal, funny, absurd, cult classic, parody, offbeat, humorous, witty
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The Birthday Boys (2013)
Plot Summary:
"The Birthday Boys" is a scripted original sketch comedy, executive produced by Bob Odenkirk ("Breaking Bad", "Mr. Show") and Ben Stiller ("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "Zoolander"). The series features the Los Angeles comedy group of the same name (UCB Theatre Los Angeles, Just for Laughs Festival) along with Odenkirk and is in the classic vein of absurd/silly/smart/funny variety shows ("Mr. Show", Monty Python), featuring sketches that twist real-life moments and cultural touchstones.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, humorous, realistic, surreal, not serious, dark comedy, skit, offbeat, independent film, slapstick comedy
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Upright Citizens Brigade (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The most recent incarnation consists of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh. The original incarnation of the group consisted of Besser, Ali Farahnakian, Drew Franklin, Adam McKay, Roberts, Rick Roman, and Horatio Sanz. Other early members included Neil Flynn, Armando Diaz, and Rich Fulcher.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, funny, surreal, offbeat, humorous, not serious, independent film, parody, spoof, odd
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Jam (2000)
Plot Summary:
A collection of bleakly dark comedy sketches pushing the boundaries of taste, decency and television in general, shot using new and different techniques and fading slowly in and out of each other against a slow musical soundtrack. Regular themes include death, insanity and, most often of all, the medical profession.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: surreal, postmodern, atmospheric, humorous, cynical, not serious, sketch comedy, dark comedy, controversial, absurd
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Plot Summary:
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, surreal, philosophical, absurd, spoof, existential, hilarious, black comedy, sketch comedy
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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1972)
Plot Summary:
It is essentially the same concept as an English Monty Python's episode, but in German. The paintings by Albrecht Dürer, fall victim to silly animations. Little Red Riding Hood shows up too. A number of familiar sketches, including the Lumberjack song, all in German.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, sketch comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, dark comedy, cult movie cast
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Plot Summary:
Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines. It also featured animations by Terry Gilliam, often sequenced or merged with live action. The first episode was recorded on 7 September and broadcast on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. The show often targets the idiosyncrasies of British life, especially that of professionals, and is at times politically charged. The members of Monty Python were highly educated. Terry Jones and Michael Palin are Oxford University graduates; Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University; and American-born member Terry Gilliam is an Occidental College graduate. Their comedy is often pointedly intellectual, with numerous erudite references to philosophers and literary figures. The series followed and elaborated upon the style used by Spike Milligan in his ground breaking series Q5, rather than the traditional sketch show format. The team intended their humour to be impossible to categorise, and succeeded so completely that the adjective "Pythonesque" was invented to define it and, later, similar material.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, surreal, sitcom, humorous, parody, funny, psychedelic, political, absurd, avant garde
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The Groove Tube (1974)
Plot Summary:
Chevy Chase makes his film debut in this riotous collection of live skits. Directed by Ken Shapiro and featuring Chase, Richard Belzer and others, The Groove Tube mocks TV Land and its trappings by spoofing kids' shows -- from a marijuana-smoking Koko the Clown who resides in Make Believe Land, to Safety Sam, the penis with a plan who gleefully informs the audience of the perils of casual sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, sketch comedy, surreal, cult classic, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Fierce Creatures (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, absurd, black comedy, funny, clever, witty, sweet, dark comedy, romantic comedy
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The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Plot Summary:
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, light, talky, spoof, not serious, witty, surreal, sketch comedy
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, black and white, gothic, humorous, cult classic, slapstick, hilarious, horror comedy
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Plot Summary:
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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Brain Donors (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, light, clever, unusual plot structure, surreal, absurd, talky, stylized
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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Plot Summary:
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, humorous, light, satirical, dramatic, hilarious, feel good
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Life of Brian (1979)
Plot Summary:
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 418000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, satirical, surreal, absurd, controversial, black comedy
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Plot Summary:
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 563000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, surreal, parody, ironic, spoof, funny, slapstick, hilarious, dark comedy