Talk:Comedy in the Philippines

The article is not yet finished
The article is not yet finished.Aikido Philippines (talk) 06:34, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the incovenience
please sorry for my incovenience, give me time to edit this article. I have my further reading, it's Katatawanan: History of Pinoy comedy (1500-present)Aikido Philippines (talk) 01:01, 24 July 2010 (UTC)\

not yet finished
Sorry, I am not finished with this article. I still have 200 more pages to go. Aikido Philippines (talk) 05:41, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The account was blocked in 2012. StrayBolt (talk) 19:00, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Too many falsehoods to tolerate.
I'm supposed to be busy doing other things, but there are just too many falsehoods right in the lede section of this paragraph for me to be able to let go of it in good conscience. For one thing, it claims that comedy began with the Spanish, despite the significant presence of humor in our recorded oral literature, which traces its roots back to pre-colonial times. This cannot stand, so I'm deleting a lot of unsourced stuff from the lede. Just letting the community know. - Alternativity (talk) 09:57, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Material from other wikis
I've tried to bring in material from the wikis of specific historical comedic forms. I think the stuff from Comedia (Spanish play) is sufficiently rewritten despite my dependence on that wiki's sources, and the mention of Moro-moro is new. But I'm lifting an entire section from the Bodabil page because almost the entire section about Bodabil in WWII is relevant to comedy - that's where Dolphy, Togo and Pugo, and Panchito got started, after all. Add appropriate documentation. - Alternativity (talk) 05:04, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

removed statements from the 'contemporary comedy' section
I'm temporary removing content from the "Contemporary Comedy" section because I can't find sources for them. But I'm replicating the paragraph here in case someone else can find sources and wants to return it. The paragraph reads:"In contrast to American and Western comedies, contemporary Pinoy Comedy is marked by a series of non-profane (marked dubious, date=September 2018) comedic words (although they use words like tanga, sira ulo etc.), funny faces, physical comedy, and comedic sound effects.(marked source needed, date=September 2018)" The reference to physical comedy is particularly true to my mind, so I hope someone does manage to find sources.Alternativity (talk) 05:19, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Pinoy humor
Considering how both articles pretty much tackle the same subject. Blake Gripling (talk) 05:57, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support merge of that stub into this article. – Reidgreg (talk) 20:31, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose reorientaton of Humor article into a much broader article - When it was suggested some time ago that the Comedy page needed attention, I went ahead and did a lot of expansion, but did within a specific frame -- performed humor. As such, the comedy page would be sorely lacking if it also became the main article for covering humor.  There is little here about humor in print, for example, and there is little about how humor works within the specific sociocultural milieu of Filipino culture.  I feel that Comedy should be subsumed in a larger article, Humor, which would in turn be subsumed under the umbrella of Filipino Psychology.  However, I have to agree that the content of the present article leaves much to be desired. - Alternativity (talk) 09:32, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, since discussion has stalled here since January and there was nothing of substance to merge, I boldly redirected the other article to this one. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 04:05, 19 April 2019 (UTC)