Comedy.
To send the audience home happy after the afternoon tragedies, the Greeks invented the comic afterpiece, which was presented as the fourth play. Though the play was composed of mythical elements such as Chorus’s mythical costumes, the comics were not based on myths rather presented the fun of greed and corruption in the Athenian society. The plays became so popular that the audience made it a habit of going to the theatre to be entertained and laugh. The led to the rise of the comedy institution. Comedy is based on the situations in which trivial mistakes lead to hilarious consequences. Over time, comedy has evolved into many different forms that have endured through the ages. More than one kind of comedy can exist in the same play. Among the different forms of comedy are satire, comedy of character, farce, and parody.
Satire.
Satire is a form of comedy that ridicules society’s problems, such as corrupt government agencies, inequality, warmongering, which tend to solve human problems, and hypocrisy in a hilarious manner. The satirical comedy is mainly interested in making the audience laugh and is ridiculed over societal problems. It intends to make society much better through laughter. The Athenian comic actors performed the comedy in costumes identifying them as mythical creatures, half-man, half-goat. The comedians made fun of tragedies the audience had and the personalities in the society in a ridiculous manner.