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  2. Humorous Interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Humorous Interpretation (often shortened to "HI", or "Humor") is an event in competitive middle and high school forensics leagues such as the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association and the National Speech and Debate Association. It consists of a piece from any published work, edited to fit within a 10-minute span with a 30 ...

  3. Individual events (speech) - Wikipedia

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    Humorous Interpretation. In Humorous Interpretation (shortened to HI or humorous), the humorous alternative to DI at the high-school level, a competitor performs an eight- to ten-minute selection from a humorous literary work. Much of the rules for HI are identical to its dramatic counterpart with the only difference being that the presentation ...

  4. Dramatic Interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic Interpretation (often shortened to "Dramatic Interp," "Drama" or just "DI") is an event in National Speech and Debate Association (and NSDA-related) high school forensics competitions. In the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association and the National Catholic Forensic League , the event is combined with Humorous ...

  5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Wikipedia

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    Plot. In AD 932, King Arthur and his squire, Patsy, travel Britain searching for men to join the Knights of the Round Table.Along the way, Arthur debates whether swallows could carry coconuts, passes through a town infected with the plague, recounts receiving Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake to two anarcho-syndicalist peasants, defeats the Black Knight, and observes an impromptu witch trial.

  6. Pygmalion (play) - Wikipedia

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    Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure.It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German.

  7. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    There are many theories of humor which attempt to explain what it is, what social functions it serves, and what would be considered humorous. Although various classical theories of humor and laughter may be found, in contemporary academic literature, three theories of humor appear repeatedly: relief theory, superiority theory, and incongruity ...

  8. Michael Caine - Wikipedia

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    Early life Blue plaque marking Caine's birthplace at St Olave's Hospital in Rotherhithe, south-east London Blue plaque at the former school in North Runcton where, as a wartime evacuee, Caine made his stage debut Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite at St Olave's Hospital in the Rotherhithe district of London on 14 March 1933, the son of cook and charwoman Ellen Frances Marie ...

  9. Aliens (film) - Wikipedia

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    Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron.It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, and the second film in the Alien franchise.