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Recent Examples of comedy drama
The 30-year-old, born and raised in Nantes, has starred in the likes of comedy drama series Greek Salad and drama film The Passengers of the Night.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
The comedy drama scooped awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes.
—Clare Fisher, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The nine-episode comedy drama featured an ensemble cast including veteran actors Gajraj Rao, Renuka Shahane, Bhuvan Arora, Sparsh Shrivastava, Shivani Raghuvanshi, and Yashpal Sharma.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The latter sports comedy drama, starring Bernal and Diego Luna as two brothers working on a banana plantation with dreams of breaking into professional football, was produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
The comedy drama scooped awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes.
—Clare Fisher, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The nine-episode comedy drama featured an ensemble cast including veteran actors Gajraj Rao, Renuka Shahane, Bhuvan Arora, Sparsh Shrivastava, Shivani Raghuvanshi, and Yashpal Sharma.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The latter sports comedy drama, starring Bernal and Diego Luna as two brothers working on a banana plantation with dreams of breaking into professional football, was produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedy drama
Noun
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In film, he's appeared in the musical comedy World's Best (2023) and Tessa Blake's indie coming-of-age drama Boundary Waters (2024).—
Katie Labovitz,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Hercules: The Muse-ical could be seen on the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder from 1998 through 2008, and was earmarked as a musical comedy.—
Megan duBois,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Paramount Pictures’ reboot/sequel of the comedy film series The Naked Gun is projected by Deadline to earn $8.1 million in its second weekend from 3,363 locations.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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These are the words her character, Dr. Tess Coleman, yelled out the car window to her daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) in the 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Many of Lloyd Webber’s detractors believe his musicals have about the same depth as a scrape.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
10 Aug. 2025
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At a time when many companies are undergoing identity crises or struggling to connect with audiences, this one endures by programming original musicals anchored in local history, institutions, archetypes and customs.—
Elisabeth Vincentelli,
Twin Cities,
9 Aug. 2025
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What should be a tender, feminist-minded story centered on a young woman rediscovering her dormant childhood dreamer turns into a middling melodrama about being with a cute guy in desperate need of her rescue.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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Dunham’s genius, and what made Girls a legitimate cultural event, was to meld heartfelt James L. Brooks-style melodrama with brutally honest reportage about millennial mores, desires, and deficits.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
25 July 2025
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Its jacket copy states, With a voice somewhere between Violeta Parra and Bad Bunny, Paulina Flores paints a portrait of a city, a generation, and its distinctive characteristics in this tragicomedy.—
Diana Arterian
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Told with a classic heist structure and hints of tragicomedy, the story follows an ordinary government employee obsessed with winning the Melate lottery.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 July 2025
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Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day Through the voice of an aging butler, Ishiguro explores dignity, regret, and the quiet tragedies of a life spent serving others.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The council additionally issued a two-day state of mourning in response to the tragedy, per a statement shared on Aug. 9.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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“Comedy drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy%20drama. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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