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Recent Examples of comedy drama
But her lead role as a working mom in this stress-inducing psychological comedy drama could provide her best performance yet.
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Ben Rosenstock, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
While horror is a huge draw to Thai audiences, other popular genres in Thailand are comedy drama and BL (Boys’ Love) projects, Yoon said.
—Jim Halterman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Directed by Garry Marshall, this comedy drama has a riveting, deeply ambiguous scene that can be considered a kind of acting triumph for Lohan, who plays a troubled young woman, Rachel, spending the summer with her stern grandmother (Jane Fonda).
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Renewed for a third season in February, the procedural comedy drama sees the former Chicago lawyer working alongside the NYPD to catch criminals.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
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Ben Rosenstock, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
While horror is a huge draw to Thai audiences, other popular genres in Thailand are comedy drama and BL (Boys’ Love) projects, Yoon said.
—Jim Halterman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Directed by Garry Marshall, this comedy drama has a riveting, deeply ambiguous scene that can be considered a kind of acting triumph for Lohan, who plays a troubled young woman, Rachel, spending the summer with her stern grandmother (Jane Fonda).
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Renewed for a third season in February, the procedural comedy drama sees the former Chicago lawyer working alongside the NYPD to catch criminals.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedy drama
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Well, things are pretty scary right now, and on his first album of original songs since before the pandemic, Byrne is … writing musical comedy.—
Will Hermes,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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The puppet show itself is a fun musical comedy for all ages, with a behind-the-scenes look into puppetry after the show.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
18 Aug. 2025
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This 2023 crime comedy also stars Poorna Jagannathan, Richard Kind, Lil Rel Howery and more.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The 2008 comedy became one of Rogen's most beloved features and has since been talked about for years regarding a sequel.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The original musical follows a gay window dresser, Luis Molina, who shares a prison cell in Argentina with Marxist political prisoner Valentin Arregui.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
2 Sep. 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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In this 1950s melodrama, Korean War vet Lee (Will Poulter) wants to move from Kansas to California to begin a new life with wife Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The set-up could easily slip into grim melodrama, but Jackman infuses it with a pop-tastic fun.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 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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Watts said the child welfare agency also will maintain collaboration with public health officials, law enforcement and treatment providers to prevent tragedies connected to fentanyl and other drugs.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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Here is the emphasis on the hardscrabble beginnings and obstacles to be overcome, here is the recognition of a truly raw but once-in-a-lifetime talent that converts the nonbelivers, here are the early wins and the training montages and the tragedies and the comebacks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 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 10 Sep. 2025.
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