How to scare your sister

The booby trap prank is a classic! You set an object up to fall as soon as your victim walks into or out of a place. A wonderful example is setting up ice cube trays at an incline, in order to stage an ice cream avalanche from the freezer. You could also rig a mannequin to fall out of a closet when it’s opened. As you can see, you can get quite creative with this one, especially around Halloween. That’s when there are a number of plastic spiders and skeletons for sale at local stores.

Kids Scare The Hell Out Of Their Dad

Notes can be great for pranks on people you don’t know too well. They are relatively unobtrusive, and also won’t get under your victim’s skin too much. If someone finds a humorous note in a place they don’t expect, it will just brighten their day and give them a good laugh. A tradition I’ve started with my husband is to attack him with an "Ant Brigade" note, which I leave in several odd places around our home. He never knows where the Ant Brigade is going to show up to pester him - the pantry, the couch, even the shower!

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Have you ever tried to pull a well-planned funny prank to get your day started off right? If not, this is your opportunity! Pranks are little jokes that we play on the people we know and love. If you do them right, they could make both of you laugh until milk is shooting out of your noses. The key to successful funny pranks is to ruffle your victim’s feathers without making them too angry or frightened. There’s a fine line between the two! Here are some tips and suggestions to ensure that your funny pranks go off without a hitch.

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For the first time, love became a principal element in the drama. The New Comedy relied on stock characters, such as the senex iratus, or "angry old man", the domineering parent who tries to thwart his son or daughter from achieving wedded happiness, and who is often led into the same vices and follies for which he has reproved his children, and the bragging soldier, newly returned from war with a noisy tongue, a full purse, and an empty head. The new comedy depicted Athenian society and the social morality of the period, presenting it in attractive colors but making no attempt to criticize or improve it.

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The new comedy lasted throughout the reign of the Macedonian rulers, ending about 260 BC.[citation needed]
Substantial fragments of New Comedy have survived, but no complete plays. The most substantially preserved text is the Dyskolos ("Difficult Man, Grouch") by Menander, discovered on a papyrus in 1958. The so-called "Cairo Codex" (found in 1907) also preserves long sections of plays as Epitrepontes ("Men at Arbitration"), The Girl from Samos, and Perikeiromene ("The Girl who had her Hair Shorn"). Much of the rest of our knowledge of New Comedy is derived from the Latin adaptations by Plautus and Terence

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The line between Old and Middle Comedy is not clearly marked chronologically, Aristophanes and others of the latest writers of the Old Comedy being sometimes regarded as the earliest Middle Comic poets. For ancient scholars, the term may have meant little more than "later than Aristophanes and his contemporaries, but earlier than Menander". Middle Comedy is generally seen as differing from Old Comedy in three essential particulars: the role of the chorus was diminished to the point where it had no influence on the plot; public characters were not impersonated or personified onstage; and the objects of ridicule were general rather than personal, literary rather than political. For at least a time, mythological burlesque was popular among the Middle Comic poets. Stock characters of all sorts also emerge: courtesans, parasites, revellers, philosophers, boastful soldiers, and especially the self-conceited cook with his parade of culinary science

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For modern readers, the most important Old Comic dramatist is Aristophanes, whose works, with their pungent political satire and abundance of sexual and scatological innuendo, effectively define the genre today. Aristophanes lampooned the most important personalities and institutions of his day, as can be seen, for example, in his buffoonish portrayal of Socrates in The Clouds, and in his racy feminist anti-war farce Lysistrata. It is nonetheless important to realize that he was only one of a large number of comic poets working in Athens in the late 5th century, his most important contemporary rival being Eupolis.

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The matrona (mother), mulier (woman), or uxor (wife) is shrewd. She loves her children, but is temperamental towards her husband. She does not have to be a devoted wife, but sometimes is. She wears a long garment with flowing sleeves and a mantel.The meretrix (prostitute) is either a mercenary or devoted. The first type is older or more experienced and has seen a lot. The second type is truly in love with the adulescens. Both are very attractive with a complex hairdo and outfit, which is yellow. She also has a mantel.The virgo (young maiden) is the love interest of the adulescens, but does not get much stage time. She is beautiful and virtuous with little personality. She is treated as a prize.

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The servi (slaves) take up about half of the cast and often have the most monologues. They are not the toilers typical of a real Roman home. The servus callidus or clever slave is always talkative, but his other traits vary. Most of the time he is loyal, more so to the adulescens than the senex. He brings tricks and comedy and tends to drive the plot. He is often the one who finds the truth out at the end of the play. He could be identified by his tendency to use alliteration and meter in his speech. The servi wear tunics and hold or carry scarves.The ancilla is a maid or nurse of no particular age. She is a minor character used to move the plot by presenting information or helping to develop another character. She is a tool of her mistress and may be used as a messenger.

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The leno runs the brothel. The love interest of the adulescens may be owned by the leno and work at his brothel so the adulescens is often forced to deal with him. He is unabashedly amoral and is only interested in money. He dresses in a tunic and mantel and is often bald with a moneybag.The miles gloriosus, literally braggart soldier, is a character that is especially familiar today. He loves himself more than anything else and sees himself as handsome and brave, while in reality he is very stupid, cowardly, and gullible. He may be interested in the same girl as the adulescens'. He wears a tunic with long sleeves and has curly hair.The parasitus or parasite lives only for himself. He is often seen begging meals or being refused them. He lies for his own gain. He dresses in a long, black or gray garment with long, doubled sleeves.

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The adulescens was the hero, who is young, rich, love-struck and none too brave. He tends to bemoan his fate and requires backup. Another character often has to take action on his behalf. His father is often the senex, whom he fears, but does not respect. He wears a dark wig and his clothes are usually crimson.The senex (old man) has several incarnations. As the father he is either too strict or too soft; either one he does out of love for his son. As the lover he embarrasses his son, his slave, and his wife. He tends to be passionately in love with the same woman as his son, who is much too young for the senex. He never gets the girl and is often dragged off by his irate wife. Sometimes he is a friend of the family who helps the adulescens. He is often a miser, who wears a straight undergarment with long doubled sleeves. It is white and he sometimes carries a staff.

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Stock characters were very important in Roman comedy. A stock character is one that the audience will be familiar with and that is used in many plays. Some examples are a braggart soldier, a strong victorious soldier, a clever and scheming slave, a strict father, a playboy son, a cheap slave dealer, and a cook. They were greatly used by Plautus. Stock characters could sometimes even be recognized by their speeches. The costumes they wore varied with the type of show but were used to identify the type of character. Over time these outfits became more realistic. The standard costume base was a tunic and cloak. At first masks were common because actors would play multiple characters and the masks made them easier to distinguish. Over time the comedic masks became grotesquely exaggerated

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The Romans preferred comedies, especially exaggerated ones. Mime, or performing without speaking, was popular with the audiences. Such mimes recreated and made fun of middle class citizens, as well as famous myths. Features included drunkenness, obscenity, dances, greed, acrobatics, and jokes. By the end of the Roman Empire, a particular type of mime began to emerge. One actor played all the parts in the performance (wearing masks), danced and mimed while a chorus narrated or told the story he was acting out to music. This became known as pantomime, and still survives today in children's plays.

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From tis prank you will come to know how to do pranks in schools and colleges with teachers and friends.
here are some new pranks you will come to see.The Roman theatre consisted of many different types of plays. The Romans copied and modified many aspects of Greek culture such as their religion and drama to suit themselves. They tried to take many Greek plays and adapt them for the Roman stage as well as pay for writers such as Andronicus to write poems glorifying and praising Rome. However, most plays were set in Greece and actors wore Greek masks and costumes. At Roman festivals, plays were part of the entertainment. Not much work survives from the Roman theatre with the exception of Plautus and Terence. Both men copied Greek plays and adapted and changed them to suit the Romans. As a result there is no such thing as a 'typical' Roman play, like in Greek Tragedies, except for the later comedies.

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The Comedy of Errors Presented by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at the Angus Bowmer Theatre, Ashland, Oregon. February 20-October 31, 2004. Directed by Bill Rauch. Set by William Bloodgood. Costumes by Joyce Kim Lee. Lighting by Robert Peterson. Sound by Todd Barton. Fights by John Sipes. With Mark Murphey (Solinus), Clive Rosengren (Egeon), Ray Porter (Antipholus of Syracuse, Antipholus of Ephesus), Christopher DuVal (Dromio of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus), Crystal Fox (Adriana), Aisha Kabia (Luciana), Josiah Phillips (Balthazar), Julie Oda (Angela the goldsmith), Maya Thomas (Courtesan), Eileen DeSandre (Dr. Pinch), Catherine E. Coulson (Emilia), and others.The Oregon Shakespeare Festival opened its sixty-ninth year with a colorful production of The Comedy of Errors in the Bowmer Theatre. Director Bill Rauch translated Shakespeare's antique …

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Nicole is originally from Las Vegas, where she's best known for her portrayal of Dorothy at MGM Grand Hotel. She laughs that she's a celebrity in Japan, but her best role might have been as a waitress at Hooters. "That's where I did my best acting," Nicole jokes.Russ and Nicole took their love of improv comedy to the Impulse Theatre, where they met Brian, who brags about being a fellow Colorado native since he was three years old. Brian found time to work at Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theater while at the Impulse. It's at the Impulse Theatre where Brian met his match and his wife Renee.The friends have lived their lives through improv comedy ever since. In fact, it was onstage where Brian proposed to Renee...doing a rapping bit."I didn't know what was going on until probably the second or third line," Renee admits."We got the whole thing on tape because Russ was out of town, which was probably a good thing because he might have ruined it," Brian said.

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"It's common to sometimes get inappropriate suggestions from the audience," Russ said. "We just ignore those suggestions. It's a much more exciting and difficult challenge to be creative with clean topics than be dirty."It's no coincidence that the Madcap group wants a family atmosphere, because the group is literally a family in many ways.Russ met his wife Nicole, a fellow Madcap improv actor, while studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Russ, a Colorado native, gave up his rebel-without-a-cause image and returned home after finding his love for improv in small, Los Angeles comedy clubs.

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"We both knew it was love...unfortunately, we were both married," Brian said.Madcap Theater brings its own style of clean and tasteful improv comedy to the Denver metro area. The theatre is located in the heart of the Westminster Promenade, the entertainment wonderland this side of downtown."We wanted to create a place that the family can enjoy," Russ said, "I think so much of the downtown scene is geared towards a younger, single crowd that it scares families away. We want families to come and enjoy a clean comedy show."A comfortable, tasteful environment is just what the actors at Madcap want to provide and what the audience to experience. Audience participation is one of the most important elements of the show.

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Have you ever wondered what happened to that kid in high school who could make anyone laugh? What about he friends who always made you laugh, no matter what the situation? What happens to those funny kids once they graduate?"I was a tap dancer in high school. I wasn't very popular," Brian Harper jokes.Brian can definitely puff out his chest at the next reunion...because he might very well be the reunion's scheduled entertainment. Brian and his good friend Russ Faillaci discovered that funny kids become funny adults, so they melded their comedic minds to create Madcap Theatre. "I still tap dance," Brian says, "It's just funnier now."While working at the Impulse Theater, downtown, Brian and Russ discovered their shared love of improv comedy.

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Comedies since ancient Greece have often incorporated sexual or social elements.
It was not until the creation of romantic love in the western European medieval period, though, that "romance" came to refer to "romantic love" situations, rather than the heroic adventures of medieval Romance. These adventures, however, often revolved about a knight's feats on behalf of a lady, and so the modern themes of love were quickly woven into them, as in Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart.
Shakespearean comedy and Restoration comedy remain influential. The creation of huge economic social strata in the Gilded Age[citation needed], combined with the heightened openness about sex after the Victorian era and the celebration of Sigmund Freud's theories, and the birth of the film industry in the early twentieth century, gave birth to the screwball comedy.As class consciousness declined and World War II unified various social orders, the savage screwball comedies of the twenties and thirties, proceeding through Rock Hudson–Doris Day-style comedies, gave way to more innocuous comedies.