Talk:High comedy

The pages for high comedy and low comedy both claim that the subject of the page can be seen often in sitcoms. How can the main component of sitcom humor be both high and low comedy? 24.34.93.184 (talk)

Lol, I think both articles are written, or at least edited, by someone who is a bit of a comedy snob. My father's expressions of disdain for any sitcom created in the past 20 years have the exact same tone: an emphasis on contrasting "high" comedy from "low", i.e. comedy he likes and understands from comedy that he doesn't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.165.252.219 (talk) 10:36, 7 April 2013 (UTC).

I believe that the fact that George Meredith coined the term High Comedy in an 1877 essay on the idea of Comedy to be quite relevant especially though not exclusively because the article on Low Comedy mentions that John Dryden coined the latter term in his preface to an evening's love in 1670. Considering that it is not self-evident from the article who Meredith was and that Wikipedia actually has a page about him it is my intention to turn Meredith's name to an internal link. If you feel that my so doing disrupts your editing then please let me know in the talk page so that I know not to revert your later edits. Thank you.