Thesaurus results for COMEDIES

comedies

noun

plural of comedy

as in humors

humorous entertainment presented a night of comedy as part of the weeklong celebrations

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Recent Examples of comedies Two solid first-year comedies, FX’s The Lowdown and HBO’s I Love LA, were completely shut out, as was network TV’s best hope other than Abbott Elementary, NBC’s The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026 Getty Images The medical drama The Pitt led the Primetime Emmy Awards nominations on Wednesday with 25 nods, while the comedies Hacks was next with 24 and Widow's Bay with 19. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 This July will include an intriguing mix of madcap comedies, sweeping action epics and independent fare hoping to get as many viewers into theaters — or in front of their televisions — as possible. — David Faris, TheWeek, 6 July 2026 Meanwhile, Hollywood doesn’t make many broad theatrical comedies like this anymore. — Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 Their journey to the top of tinseltown is a pure delight, and its rapid pacing and joke-a-minute structure is in the vein of the classic silent comedies that provided the very foundation of cinema. — Barry Levitt, Time, 3 July 2026 There is an appetite for theatrical films and comedies. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 June 2026 The hallowed movie organization released a list of the 100 greatest comedies back in 2004, ranking three Brooks' classics, including Blazing Saddles at number 6. — Rance Collins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 June 2026 After his success on TV, Brooks began writing and then directing comedies, including Blazing Saddles (seen here with Cleavon Little and Harvey Korman), which was a massive success — and an enduring one. — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026

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Noun

European colonists commonly believed that the balance of humors – yellow and black biles, blood and phlegm – circulating through one’s body was important for health.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
However, Khatima also maintained that the four humors played a role in determining the plague’s course.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026

Definition of humors

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By 1775, at age 47, as the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, her anonymous satires and plays were already shaping public opinion in support of independence.

— Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026
His ten other, wildly disparate books include two satires of media and marketing and an elegiac zombie novel set in Manhattan.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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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
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

Definition of farces

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