Need some info. on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Friar's tale)

[Zarthak]

Having read the Friar's tale in Chaucer's Conterbury Tales, my teacher assigned me a few questions, some of which need(ed) some research. I dug up some info., but not to the extent of fully answering the questions...BTW, Here are the questions he gave us:

1) How Friar's Tale relates to the teller (the Friar) and some other tales in the Canterbury Tales (like with the Summoner's tale).

2) Who is the Friar, including a description of him from the General Prologue

3) A contemporary example like a Tv show or a film, of the same genre as the Friar's tale (the genre of Friar's tale being Jokes -> a tale where humourous incidents ridicule people, such as the summoner).

Any website or anyone out there that could assist me in finding more info. in answering the questions?

THANK YOU!

[Rores28]

You dug up some info? You mean like the answers?

Question 2 - look in the prologue, there will be a very short passage about the Friar

Question 3 - Unless you don't have TV and/or never watch movies this should be beyond easy

[Zarthak]

You dug up some info? You mean like the answers?

Question 2 - look in the prologue, there will be a very short passage about the Friar

Question 3 - Unless you don't have TV and/or never watch movies this should be beyond easy

Yeah I had to "search" for info (genre of the tale, the characters of a Friar and a summoner during the medieval times, etc).

For Question 1, I have related the Friar's tale with the Summoner's tale (the rift between the two led to their humourous, degrading tales), but outside of the summoner's story, I havn't been able to connect with any of Chaucer's other tales.

Hasn't been easy for me in coming up with a contemporary example of the Friar's tale, and thus the reason why I had originally asked for one. I havn't been able to come up with a TV show/film with a central character who decieves people in giving him/her assets/money for something they didn't do (from the Friar's tale, the summoner decieves the people who, according to him, "committed" infidelity and forces them to pay him a sum of money in order to avoid excommunication).

[Zarthak]

Although, just basing on the Friar's Tale's genre (Jokes, fabliau), maybe MadTV, SNL, South Park and the film 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' would be modern day examples? Not too sure though.