A Shot in the Dark (1964 film) adapted from the French play "L'Idiote" by Marcel Achard. The film was released only a few months after the first Clouseau film, "The Pink Panther". Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) of the Sûreté, the French national police, is called to the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders) to investigate the murder of his chauffeur, Miguel Ostos. The chauffeur was having an affair with one of the maids, Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), and attacked her in her bedroom after she broke off with him. Miguel was shot and killed in her bedroom and Maria was found with the smoking gun
Comedy in the Philippines and Chris Martinez and Marlon Rivera's Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank, and deadpan mockumentaries such as Mike de Leon's Bayaning Third World. Comedic elements found their way even into documentaries like Ramona S. Diaz' 2003 documentary Imelda, which brought up some of the more absurd character traits of the former First Lady of the Philippines. More successful than these were a new wave of romantic comedies such as J.P. Habac's 2017 film I’m Drunk, I Love You, Dan Villegas' 2014 film English Only, Please and (Antoinette Jadaone's 2014 film That Thing Called Tadhana. Stand-up comedy began to grow in the