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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
Like the original, all three projects were half-hour comedies.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
In a different era, advertisers would use their big budgets to procure similar stuff during primetime dramas and comedies.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
Having played a wry, cigar-chomping God in two hit comedies, George Burns needed a new challenge for the third.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The early 2000s saw a run of successful movie and TV comedies about men who didn't want to grow up.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The comedian of stoner comedies like Pineapple Express opens up about how the conversation around THC has shifted.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
The story of an aimless college grad’s dalliance with an older woman—only to fall for her daughter—is as sophisticated as comedies, and coming of age stories, get.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
Her references to her generation’s comedies, like Dumb and Dumber and Talladega Nights, were usually met with blank stares.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Audiences will come back to theaters for high-concept comedies that speak to a lot of people, like The Hangover or Wedding Crashers.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
In a different era, advertisers would use their big budgets to procure similar stuff during primetime dramas and comedies.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
Having played a wry, cigar-chomping God in two hit comedies, George Burns needed a new challenge for the third.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The early 2000s saw a run of successful movie and TV comedies about men who didn't want to grow up.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The comedian of stoner comedies like Pineapple Express opens up about how the conversation around THC has shifted.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
The story of an aimless college grad’s dalliance with an older woman—only to fall for her daughter—is as sophisticated as comedies, and coming of age stories, get.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
Her references to her generation’s comedies, like Dumb and Dumber and Talladega Nights, were usually met with blank stares.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Audiences will come back to theaters for high-concept comedies that speak to a lot of people, like The Hangover or Wedding Crashers.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedies
Noun
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Essentially, the genre someone gravitates towards can quietly reveal personality traits like our humors, values, and emotional wiring—the kind of clues that aren’t always captured in a dating app profile.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
22 Oct. 2025
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There are alignments of anemia with some of the early modern symptoms of green sickness—though very few people today are likely to think anemia is caused by a blockage of bodily humors curable by intercourse.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The name belonged to a London area with printing shops, booksellers and cheap lodgings where impoverished writers churned out pamphlets, satires, political tracts, sensational stories and hack journalism—whatever sold.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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The show spoofs recent Broadway blockbusters, including celebrity satires and pop culture zings, with hip-hop piano accompaniment.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His movies — farces, fables, experiments — reside in surreal worlds of their own.—
Jake Coyle,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Comedies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedies. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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