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The 1st silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" was created and released. It starred the famous and humorous Charlie Chaplin. It was directed by Mack Sennett. This film also led to the evolvution of the comedy genre and changed comedies forever.
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"Shuffle Along" was the first african-american comedy musical. This is one of the many most important events in comedy because it changed the viewers of comedy.
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Abott and Costello were one the most famous comedy duos. Their first radio show had aired on October, 8, 1942.
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The Flintstones was the first successful animated cartoon comedy and carried on for 6 years on ABC
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One of the popular black comedy films MASH was taken to TV and had a whole series created that was based on the film.
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Robin Williams wins the first comedy award for Good Morning Vietnam.
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The 1980s/1990s was the biggest time for situational comedies things like Seinfield and Friends were aired during this era
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Stand up comedy was the different type of comedy created in 1979 but really blew up when the famous Chris Rock began to take his career that way.
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Boy Meets World was one of the first ever Dramedies (Comedy & Drama) and was very known around america
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Kevin Hart is the face on comedy in todays era, he has a lot more to go in his career.
