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Recent Examples of comedy drama
The actor subsequently used the space to film parts of his 2011 comedy drama Newlyweds.
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Emma Banks,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
Laurent Lafitte won best actor for his turn alongside Isabelle Huppert in Thierry Khifla’s comedy drama The Richest Woman In The World, loosely based on the 2010 Bettencourt Affair.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Feb. 2026
Driving Miss Daisy, the 1989 comedy drama, details the unlikely friendship between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy, played by Jessica Tandy, and a Black chauffeur named Hoke, played by Freeman.
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Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
25 Nov. 2025
Lauren Miller Rogen, Jen W. Ray, Stuart Ford, Steve Barnett
Key cast: Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick
An ensemble comedy drama about the journey to parenthood … or not.
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Carole Horst,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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Emma Banks,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
Laurent Lafitte won best actor for his turn alongside Isabelle Huppert in Thierry Khifla’s comedy drama The Richest Woman In The World, loosely based on the 2010 Bettencourt Affair.
—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Feb. 2026
Driving Miss Daisy, the 1989 comedy drama, details the unlikely friendship between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy, played by Jessica Tandy, and a Black chauffeur named Hoke, played by Freeman.
—
Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
25 Nov. 2025
Lauren Miller Rogen, Jen W. Ray, Stuart Ford, Steve Barnett
Key cast: Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick
An ensemble comedy drama about the journey to parenthood … or not.
—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedy drama
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New Zealand actor and comedian Jemaine Clement is having a moment thanks to recent reunion gigs for Flight of the Conchords, his musical comedy act with Bret McKenzie, and co-starring role in buzzy Disney+ relationship drama Alice & Steve.
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Frankie stars in the musical comedy, a parody of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic set to a score of songs by Céline Dion.
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The two first crossed paths on André's Adult Swim late-night talk show comedy series The Eric André Show in 2020.
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In the latest installment of the comedy franchise, written by Chris Hazzard and Mike Fontana, Nick faces his biggest challenge yet… grandkids.
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Of course, bringing an original musical to New York is no small feat.
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The Rocky Horror Show began life as a theatrical musical on London’s West End in 1973.
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With a deep baritone and a flair for hyperbolic sentimentality, Clayton-Thomas’ melodrama fueled a string of hits for Blood, Sweat, and Tears in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
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Griffith’s own work looks stiff and sentimental, weighed down with melodrama and grandiosity that may have seemed dated even in 1915.
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As opposed to tragedy’s narrative arc of historical fate, tragicomedy unfolds in an infinite present.
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Set in Shanghai, the film is a tragicomedy about a mother and daughter grieving their loss while trying to act normal.
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First a human scores a model’s outputs — say, how likely a character in a drama would be to react to news of a tragedy with a host of jokes or expressions of sympathy — going back with one score after another to various responses.
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The parents of the teen killed in the horse carriage crash in Central Park are remembering their son as rides resume a week after the tragedy.
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Unlike Magazine Dreams, the modest but satisfying Test avoids the lurid descent into violent psychodrama that swerved into hallucinatory Taxi Driver territory and undercut that film’s integrity.
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And Malia is also achingly lonesome for her family life, with a sister about to get married and a doting father played, in this headache-inducingly twisty psychodrama’s most refreshing meta-twist, by Romanian director Radu Jude.
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“Comedy drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy%20drama. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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