comedy drama

noun

Definition of comedy dramanext
as in musical comedy

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Recent Examples of comedy drama The comedy drama, co-created by Danielle Sanchez Witzel and based on Buteau’s memoir of the same name, premiered its first season in 2023. — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026 The actor’s film credits include the 2012 Juliette Binoche comedy drama Another Woman’s Life, as well as the French TV movies Murder on Omaha Beach (2018) and Fatal Reunion (2022). — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 The actor subsequently used the space to film parts of his 2011 comedy drama Newlyweds. — 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 See All Example Sentences for comedy drama
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedy drama
  1. musical comedy
  2. comedy
  3. musical
  4. melodrama
  5. tragicomedy
  6. tragedy
  7. psychodrama
Noun
  • Blackman first starred opposite Presley in the rock ‘n’ roll musical comedy Blue Hawaii in 1961.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Jesse Eisenberg’s musical comedy The Debut, starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, has been announced as the closing film of the BFI London Film Festival in October.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of musical comedy
Noun
  • Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, Jon Gries, William Atherton and Robert Prescott also starred in the comedy.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • While One Night Only is intended as a romantic-comedy, there are some obvious dystopian undertones that audiences can’t ignore.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of comedy
Noun
  • Oscar winner Moore plays a shy woman who is unexpectedly cast in a local production of an original musical.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This placed it more in the category of a new musical, which also meant needing to educate Broadway audiences about the subculture.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
Definition of musical
Noun
  • Clearly influenced by Berger, Yoon develops the idea London introduced with only rough-hewn melodrama over a century before, that a precocious enough dog might offer a unique window onto human character.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
  • As always, the ass-kickin’ melodrama begins and ends with our Mother Lioness, Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of melodrama
Noun
  • Carys made her professional stage debut in June, playing Nina in Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy The Seagull in Brooklyn.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
  • That’s what appears to be the case with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who first met in 1992 on the set of romantic tragicomedy Jamón Jamón.
    — Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2026
Definition of tragicomedy
Noun
  • There are also now safety measures being proposed along the river to prevent future tragedies.
    — Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Following her passing, Jane was the first sibling to hear the news and told her brother and sister of the tragedy.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of tragedy
Noun
  • Early loves his creation, enough to spin an entire psychodrama around her, one that will bring her high and low.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Part adult-film fever dream, part technicolor psychodrama, these cult favorites have ‘wtf’ written all over them, in the best way possible.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 24 June 2026
Definition of psychodrama

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“Comedy drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy%20drama. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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