musical comedy

noun

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Three Months Later, a new musical comedy about survival and art, will play a three-day engagement in Los Angeles starring Kristen Bell and Lea Thompson. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025 The filmmaker also directed the 2015 Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, featuring Lost in Translation actor Bill Murray. Alex Heigl, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025 Two fizzy and flawed musical comedies that shuttered far too soon, both with toe-tapping scores and sensational triple threats in Jasmine Amy Rogers and Robyn Hurder, respectively. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025 At the time, the project had Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, comedians behind the musical comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates, slated to write original music for the film, with Lindhome expected to write the film’s screenplay. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for musical comedy

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First Known Use

1765, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of musical comedy was in 1765

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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musical%20comedy. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.

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