In the most common literally application, a comedy is a fictional work in which the materials are selected and managed primarily in order to interest and amuse us:the characters and their confusion and embarrassments engage our pleasurable attention rather than our profound concern, we are made to feel confident that no great disaster will occur, and usually the action turns out happily for the chief characters. The term comedy is customarily applied only to plays for the stage or to motion pictures; it should be noted,however, that the comic form, so defined, also occurs in prose fiction and narrative poetry.