Hello, does anyone know what the first known comedy play was? I presume it was by one of the greek dudes like Aristophanes?
Any ideas? Thanks in advance. 
First instance of comedy
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Well in the Deuteronomy there's a reference to Sarah wife of Abraham, finding it unbelievable God will enable her 100+ plus husband pregnant.
Also the references to Noah getting drunk after surviving the flood.
Humour may predate civilisation?
Apparently there's a cave picture of a cave man pointing at a mammoth, another cave man, and a maternal figure.
Apparently the world's first ever your mum joke may be 100,000 years ago, and made by Neolithic man, a form of humanity that is now extinct. Humour may outdate our species it's self.
I was refering to actual plays but thanks anyways sootyj!
I'm just interested if modern writers use the same techniques as they did back then, I think it would be kind of cool.
And yes, I am a geek.
Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard as a comedy. But it's rarely been performed as one.
Not that that was all that long ago. Early 1900s I think. So it has no relevance to the thread! Yay me.
The Frogs? The Women? Both early Greece, not sure of the author will certainly google.
In England Cantebury Tales have been performed as plays for centuries. And some were definitely comedic in nature.
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Perhaps even that risky moment whence we first crawled upon the earth.
Last of the Summer Wine?
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He said comedy...
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Apparently Adam and Eve were Irish, Adam said to Eve o hair and eve said to adam o tool.
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What, for making a bad joke?
Yes. No one has ever made a bad joke on here before. I dare you to try and find one.