as in humors
humorous entertainment
presented a night of comedy as part of the weeklong celebrations
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Recent Examples of comedies
Audiences will come back to theaters for high-concept comedies that speak to a lot of people, like The Hangover or Wedding Crashers.
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Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Game night flies by in a montage — the crutch of comedies that can’t sustain conversations and jokes at the same time (or, to be fair, feel crunched for time).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
However, despite the dip week-over-week, WBD notes that the season average is still about double that of other recent comedies like Somebody Somewhere and The Rehearsal.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
The move places Baumbach’s introspective yet humorous feature in a competitive awards-season field that includes both prestige comedies and musical tentpoles.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
When Hargitay first began to book TV roles, after early parts on Downtown and Falcon Crest, she was focused on comedies.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
The novel has been adapted, riffed on, and subverted in hundreds of films from silent shorts to modern teen comedies.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Like many of cinema’s best historical black comedies, Good News is based on fact.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
As an elementary school kid raised in the Bronx, Ducard discovered his love for creating documentaries, dramas, and comedies with his VHS video camera.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Game night flies by in a montage — the crutch of comedies that can’t sustain conversations and jokes at the same time (or, to be fair, feel crunched for time).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
However, despite the dip week-over-week, WBD notes that the season average is still about double that of other recent comedies like Somebody Somewhere and The Rehearsal.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
The move places Baumbach’s introspective yet humorous feature in a competitive awards-season field that includes both prestige comedies and musical tentpoles.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
When Hargitay first began to book TV roles, after early parts on Downtown and Falcon Crest, she was focused on comedies.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
The novel has been adapted, riffed on, and subverted in hundreds of films from silent shorts to modern teen comedies.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Like many of cinema’s best historical black comedies, Good News is based on fact.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
As an elementary school kid raised in the Bronx, Ducard discovered his love for creating documentaries, dramas, and comedies with his VHS video camera.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedies
Noun
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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
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And there’s a kinship between modern medicine’s aim to ascribe psychiatric disorders to a handful of chemicals in our brains and the medical catchall of the four-humors framework of centuries past.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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After all this is the guy who won an original screenplay Oscar for one of the all-time great horror satires, Get Out.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Comedies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedies. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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