Comedy thread (in plays, books, movies, musicals, etc.)

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*Before you guys proceed into the thread, just asnwear me if you know tips on how to organize plots in comedy plays and movies. For example, the comedies of Shakespeare have a lot of identity confusions, mistakes, convoluted and complex plots, and when I try to think on a comedy I never know how to organize the plot, how to model the scenes in such a complex way as, for example, the confusions of the couples in A Midsummer Night Dream. I can think on good ideas for comedies, but I don’t know how to make such complex structures as plots, and I wonder if there is a way to learn this.

What are the greatest comedies of all time, and I mean in all the different kinds of comedy there are.

Let’s say, for example, romantic comedy.

>Twelfth Night
>A Midsummer Night Dream
>The Merchant of Venice
>The Way of the World

all of them come to mind. But why stop only in plays? What about movie and musical scripts? Example:

>Some Like it Hot
>A Little Night Music
>Amelie

And what about the deep satiric kind of comedy? Some examples:

>Volpone
>The Alchemist
>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

And what about more darker comedies, or political comedies, like:

>Network
>Doctor Strangelove
>Lolita (this is one of the funniest books I ever read, despite the terrible themes of child abuse and pedophilia)
>A Fish Called Wanda

So, can you guys offer other suggestions?