History Main / PuttingTheMedicInComedic

* The ''Film/CarryOn'' film series had four comedies based around hospitals (''Film/CarryOnNurse'', ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'', ''Film/CarryOnAgainDoctor'' and ''Film/CarryOnMatron''), featuring hijinks such as [[Bernard Bresslaw a man]] in drag as a nurse, [[Creator/CharlesHawtrey a man]] suffering from prenatal depression, [[Creator/FrankieHowerd someone]] getting injected in the bottom, and gangsters being chased by pregnant women.

* The ''Film/CarryOn'' film series had four comedies based around hospitals (''Film/CarryOnNurse'', ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'', ''Film/CarryOnAgainDoctor'' and ''Film/CarryOnMatron''), featuring hijinks such as a man in drag as a nurse, a man suffering from pre-natal depression, [[Creator/FrankieHowerd someone]] getting injected in the bottom, and gangsters being chased by pregnant women.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' was a comedy about a U.S. Army Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. It featured a cast of oddball likable characters working to save lives in a sometimes grim situation.

* The 1998 French series ''H'' was a hospital comedy prone to surreal humor.

This is simply a comedy about the medical profession, whether it's about the staff in a hospital or a doctor's office, or the antics of the patients. It's not always doom and gloom after having your appendix removed -- your bedside neighbor could be misdiagnosed with anaesthetics that makes them act a little loopy, or DoctorJerk has suddenly gained a softer side for a dare, or you have front-row entertainment to the ongoing drama between your doctor and their failed attempts of flirting with another member of staff.

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* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' is a comedy drama set in a hospital full of cutaway scenes and exaggerated character stereotypes.

* ''Series/SurgicalSpirit'', a 1980s BritCom television series about an Italian surgeon who is struggled to be understood by her patients.
* ''Series/DocMartin'' is about a former surgeon who had to give up his speciality after developing a phobia of blood, becomes a GP [[note]]General Practictioner - The US equivalent is a "family doctor" or Primary Care Physician[[/note]] in sleepy coastal village where he's a fish out of water and his curmudgeonly personality, poor bedside manner and lack of social skills cause friction with the locals, but his superior diagnostic abilities gain him grudging respect (essentially a comedy version of ''Series/{{House}}'').

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* ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'': In the short "Medical Mess" of ''Dadliest Catch'', Tommy and Stacy are telling a story about Octodad working as a nurse, helping patients and even assisting with a surgery. Part of the humor comes from the fact that the kids have very little medical knowledge, and so they like to make up diseases, such as "unicornitis".

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** ''WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle'' turn into surgeons giving Chesty the Bulldog the onceover in "Magpie Madness" (1947) as they try to spring Dimwit from an asylum.

** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny gives the Tasmanian Devil the onceover at a jungle hospital in 1964's "Dr. Devil And Mr. Hare."

* ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'': In the short "Medical Mess" of ''Dadliest Catch'', Tommy and Stacy are telling a story about Octodad working as a nurse, helping patients and even assisting with a surgery. Part of the humor comes from the fact that the kids have very little medical knowledge, and so they like to make up diseases, such as "unicornitis".

The world of medicine isn't really the best place to have a giggle at, mostly because it's a profession full of {{serious business}} in which the fate of a patient's well-being is in the hands of surgeons and doctors, but sometimes, it's okay to laugh at something that seems terrifying so that there's not much to worry about. Maybe that really tall, [[HelloNurse attractive and intimidating nurse]] that's taking your temperature has a sense of humour!

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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': TheMedic is a German MadDoctor whose antics are frequently played for BlackComedy. E.g in ''Meet the Medic'' video, he tells an anecdote to the Heavy in which a doctor somehow made his patient lose his skeleton and that the doctor is never heard from again... And then he admits that's how he lost his medical license.

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** BugsBunny gives the Tasmanian Devil the onceover at a jungle hospital in 1964's "Dr. Devil And Mr. Hare."

** WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} takes Lydia to a Neitherworld hospital to treat her injured foot "Generally Hysterical Hospital") where she's misdiagnosed and assigned to have her body removed from her soul. Guess who her surgeon is.

* ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'': In the short "Medical Mess" of ''Dadliest Catch'', Tommy and Stacy are telling a story about Octodad working as a nurse, helping patients and even assisting with a surgery. Part of the humor comes from the fact that the kids have very little medical knowledge, and so they like to make up diseases, such as "unicornitis".

* The 1998 French series ''H'' was a hospital comedy prone to surreal humour.

* ''Series/DoctorInTheHouse'' was a series of sitcoms and TV movies about medical students and doctors in a hospital in London and/or other locations. For example, the TV movie ''Doctor at Sea'' (set on a cruise ship) and ''Doctor Down Under'' (guess where?). It was initially adapted from the 1950s comic novels by Richard Gordon of the same name, but when they'd run out of the original novels, then semi-known writers such as Creator/GrahamChapman, Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/TerryJones and [[Series/TheGoodies Graeme Garden]] took over writing fresh scripts with new scenarios for Gordon's characters.

* ''Series/DocMartin'' is about a former surgeon who had to give up his speciality after developing a phobia of blood, becomes a GP [[note]]General Practictioner - The US equivalent of a "family doctor" or Primary Care Physician[[/note]] in sleepy coastal village where he's a fish out of water and his curmudgeonly personality, poor bedside manner and lack of social skills cause friction with the locals, but his superior diagnostic abilities gain him grudging respect (essentially a comedy version of ''Series/{{House}}'').

Comedy in Casualty is simply a comedy about the medical profession, whether it's about the staff in a hospital or a doctor's office, or the antics of the patients. It's not always doom and gloom after having your appendix removed -- your bedside neighbor could be misdiagnosed with anaesthetics that makes them act a little loopy, or DoctorJerk has suddenly gained a softer side for a dare, or you have front-row entertainment to the ongoing drama between your doctor and their failed attempts of flirting with another member of staff.

* ''Series/DocMartin'' is about a former surgeon who had to give up his speciality after developing a phobia of blood, becomes a GP [[note]]General Practictioner - The US equivalent of a "family doctor" or Primary Care Physician[[/note]] in sleepy coastal village where the locals have curmudgeonly personalities, poor bedside manner, dim-witted, and lack of social skills, but his superior diagnostic abilities gain him grudging respect (essentially a comedy version of ''Series/{{House}}'').

* ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'': In the short "Medical Mess" of ''Dadliest Catch'', Tommy and Stacy are telling a story about Octodad working as a nurse, helping patients and even assisting with a surgery. Part of the humor comes from the fact that the kids have very little medical knowledge, and so they like to make up diseases, such as "unicornitis".
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Possible Redirection Names:
* ComedyInCasualty
* AccidentAndEntertainment