Ancient Comedy

>>2259241
rape. im not joking

>>2259246
I know rape isn't funny, but you had to have been there.

I was about to joke about fox tossing and cockfighting and so on, but they took it way too seriously to call it mere entertainment.

>>2259241
Greeks employed lot of slapstick and physical comedy.

It's more what they were matter-of-fact about, that it funny, by today's standards. That Roman graffiti pretty much reads like the Blockbuster Uganda comedy meme page, on facebook.

>>2259241
Read Moliere. Even in translation, he is hilarious.

See Aristophanes' and Plautus' plays

Oldest known joke, written on a sumerian clay tablet, is a fart joke

>>2259241

Puns, wit, satire, and today's equivalent of "roasting" other gentry. Usually in plays or stage performance. Comedy hasn't changed the material just has.