If you have laughed at one point or the other, you have encountered comedy, you just didn't know.As it refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous 
What kinds of comedy are there?
Well, I can't say categorically but Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous 
Interesting, who's a good comedian?
Someone that can make one laugh. The history can be traced as far back as to Ancient Greece
Do you know anything about comedy in ancient Greece?
Comedy
In a modern sense, comedy (from the , "kōmōidía") refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a
, Veitch had said in an interview with the "Melbourne Age" that "I think that there is a hunger for comedy. We need something to hold the mirror up and look at the familiar in a different way. So much of the world is presented to us as a kind of impervious block of information, and what satire does is say well, actually, no, you don't have to look at everything the way that society wants you to look at it."
From 2006 to 2009, Veitch