▲ 183 ▼ TIL for nearly a thousand years, the ancient world’s most popular and admired comedian was Menander of Athens. Ironically, his work was lost to history until 1952, when a single play was rediscovered (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 1 year ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/til@lemmy.ca 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] klemptor@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (2 children) I wonder if we'd find his work funny today. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 child) https://youtu.be/D17I2rEGYBU "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum." Modern writers took some old Roman comedies and turned them into a Broadway musical. Are the characters are types you've seen a zillion times; the horny, henpecked husband; the shrill wife; the dopey love sick son; the silly young girl; the scheming businessman; the schnook assistant, and so on. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago Everybody ought to have a maid! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 child) https://youtu.be/D17I2rEGYBU "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum." Modern writers took some old Roman comedies and turned them into a Broadway musical. Are the characters are types you've seen a zillion times; the horny, henpecked husband; the shrill wife; the dopey love sick son; the silly young girl; the scheming businessman; the schnook assistant, and so on. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago Everybody ought to have a maid! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago Everybody ought to have a maid! permalink fedilink source parent