Örsler, M. MertKennedy-Karpat, Colleen2021-02-172021-02-1720200195-6051http://hdl.handle.net/11693/75415Cem Yılmaz has become nearly synonymous with Turkish comedy through comedies like Arif V 216 (2018). Taking this film as its focus, this article situates Yılmaz among his competitors while tracing his roots in Turkish entertainment by discussing his relationship to mid-twentieth-century Yeşilçam and to the meddah storytelling tradition. ©, Copyright Taylor & Francis.EnglishComedyCycleGenreNational cinemaParodyTurkeyYeşilçamArticle10.1080/01956051.2019.1657060