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humorous entertainment
presented a night of comedy as part of the weeklong celebrations
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Recent Examples of comedies
In recent years, Hollywood decided adult comedies were not good bets in movie theaters, and instead focused heavily on superheroes and animated films.
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Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
Successful network comedies are still rare, so stakes were high, and despite the veteran group, there was an element of novelty to the production.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
These whodunits range from goofy comedies to disturbing thrillers.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Now that just about every show—even comedies—must have some element of crime, writers who care about characters are improving the genre.
—Judy Berman, Time, 20 May 2026
Unlike traditional college comedies like Road Trip or Revenge of the Nerds, the male protagonists of Off Campus were written by women.
—Anna Rinderspacher, Glamour, 20 May 2026
This is especially apparent in scenes with multiple characters speaking, recalling 1930s American screwball comedies with a dash of French realism.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 19 May 2026
There are also young and new comedies like Scrubs and Eternally Yours.
—Ted Linhart, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Black Ops has quietly become one of the BBC’s most successful comedies of the past few years and it was given a third season greenlight yesterday.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 May 2026
Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
Successful network comedies are still rare, so stakes were high, and despite the veteran group, there was an element of novelty to the production.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
These whodunits range from goofy comedies to disturbing thrillers.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Now that just about every show—even comedies—must have some element of crime, writers who care about characters are improving the genre.
—Judy Berman, Time, 20 May 2026
Unlike traditional college comedies like Road Trip or Revenge of the Nerds, the male protagonists of Off Campus were written by women.
—Anna Rinderspacher, Glamour, 20 May 2026
This is especially apparent in scenes with multiple characters speaking, recalling 1930s American screwball comedies with a dash of French realism.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 19 May 2026
There are also young and new comedies like Scrubs and Eternally Yours.
—Ted Linhart, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Black Ops has quietly become one of the BBC’s most successful comedies of the past few years and it was given a third season greenlight yesterday.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedies
Noun
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Restoring the balance of the humors through profusely bleeding the patient or inducing vomiting or diarrhea with the poisonous plant hellebore.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates divided the lives of men into only four stages, a number that mirrored the four humors and the four elements.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Filmmakers have used the Civil War as a setting for many decades now, inspiring stories of epic military battles, romantic melodramas, and even satires, from sweeping Best Picture winners like Gone With the Wind (1939) to revisionist Westerns like Django Unchained (2012).—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Apr. 2026
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The role demands charisma, vocal chops, and sharp comedic timing, all deployed within one of the most cynical satires in the musical theater canon.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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With sparse amounts of slapstick, this staging isn’t the most physical of farces, though Lutz and Enriquez in particular strike some laugh-out-loud poses.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Two suburban groups, Plano’s Rover Dramawerks and MainStage Irving-Las Colinas, are opening the new year with farces by prolific British playwrights that are marked by mistaken identity and other comic twists.—
Manuel Mendoza,
Dallas Morning News,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Comedies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedies. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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