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comedy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | drama |
| Has types | farce comedy, high comedy, low comedy, melodrama, seriocomedy, sitcom, situation comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy, black comedy, travesty, commedia dell'arte, dark comedy, farce |
| Derivation | comic, comical |
Examples of comedy
comedy
Affable comedy with Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman as friends with benefits.
From the sacbee.com
This hockey version, however, is more of a reality show than a situation comedy.
From the stltoday.com
The result, in Mr. Wright's artful telling, is social comedy with a rueful edge.
From the online.wsj.com
It has laughs, but the tone is detached in what is basically a formulaic comedy.
From the kentucky.com
Also, started watching Suburgatory and think it's the best new comedy this fall.
From the stltoday.com
Earlier this year, Haggard had a small part in the Matt LeBlanc comedy Episodes.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Pantomimes, performance poetry, skits and clean comedy acts are also encouraged.
From the democratandchronicle.com
The problems that arise are comedy afterwards, but very much not so at the time.
From the independent.co.uk
Madeleine Sami plays five different characters in new comedy series, Super City.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
- Drollery: a comic incident or series of incidents
- (comedian) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
- (comedian) an actor in a comedy
- In a modern sense, comedy (from the Greek: u03BAu03C9u03BCu1FF3u03B4u03AFu03B1, ku014Dmu014Didu00EDa) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece...
- Comedy is a double album recorded by Paul Kelly & The Messengers and originally released in 1991. It was the last album released before the partnership of Kelly and The Messengers was dissolved.
- Comedy was the second official album by Black, released in 1988. It reached No.32 in the UK album charts.
- Comedy is a word that Greeks and Romans confined to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. In this sense A. Dante used the term in the title of his poem, La Divina Commedia. ...
- Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies. ...
