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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
Now, viewers for dramas, comedies and reality shows are harder to come by, because people now have the leeway to watch their favorites at any moment of their own choosing.
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 May 2026
These self-aware comedies, each following women trying to leave their mark in Hollywood before their cachet expires, have satirized the business with cutting specificity.
—Caroline Framke, The Atlantic, 14 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
But as production costs rose and financing grew more risk-averse, those ambitious historical spectacles gradually disappeared from the big screen, replaced by smaller auteur dramas, comedies and internationally portable genre films.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
This season, a mere 20 comedies aired across all of broadcast prime, and development is in such a state that even CBS only plans on scheduling two sitcoms this fall.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 May 2026
This community theater lives in a circa 1895 Pennsylvania Railroad freight station and puts on comedies, dramas, and other entertainment throughout the year.
—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 11 May 2026
That approach may have gone missing in a decade where most of the few studio comedies that got made went for high-concept laughs.
—Jake Coyle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
The last decade has not been good for big-screen comedies.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 May 2026
These self-aware comedies, each following women trying to leave their mark in Hollywood before their cachet expires, have satirized the business with cutting specificity.
—Caroline Framke, The Atlantic, 14 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
But as production costs rose and financing grew more risk-averse, those ambitious historical spectacles gradually disappeared from the big screen, replaced by smaller auteur dramas, comedies and internationally portable genre films.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
This season, a mere 20 comedies aired across all of broadcast prime, and development is in such a state that even CBS only plans on scheduling two sitcoms this fall.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 May 2026
This community theater lives in a circa 1895 Pennsylvania Railroad freight station and puts on comedies, dramas, and other entertainment throughout the year.
—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 11 May 2026
That approach may have gone missing in a decade where most of the few studio comedies that got made went for high-concept laughs.
—Jake Coyle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
The last decade has not been good for big-screen comedies.
—ABC News, 6 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
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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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