Those Boring Dead White Males who wrote satire and comedy (Rabelais, Swift, Sterne, et al.) customarily portrayed theory-besotted professors as preening, droning, ridiculous creatures.

Terri Wagener's sweet-natured comedy "The Greenhouse Keeper Died Over the Weekend" portrays the double-date of affluent college students with two "townies" named Baby and Bubba.

This comedy of dizzy, cocaine-snorting socialites and tabloid gossip mongering portrays desperate Jazz Age party monsters as shrill, shallow flibbertigibbets.

This dark comedy, full of dry humor and deflected emotions, centers on the Fishers, portrayed by, above from left, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy and Peter Krause.

The comedy portrayed the three women juggling a career, childcare and housewife.

In marriage relationships, his comedies often portray these struggles with plots of marital difficulties or fading love, sometimes leading to separation, divorce and child custody battles.

A comedy, the film portrays the effect of instant wealth on three working class men and was released with moderate success in Australia.

Based on the star's famous love of animals, this musical comedy portrays Billy setting out to add a sheepdog to his vast entourage of animals and coming back with an irresistible horse named Armitage instead.

Because of its regional isolation, Colombian comedy in the media did not properly portrayed people from backgrounds different to the andean region.

Aristophanes' comedy The Clouds, produced in 423 BC, portrays Socrates as a sophist.