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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.
—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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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
Noun
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Jonas stars as famous singer Danny Wilson in the musical comedy film, directed by John Carney.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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At the height of Beatlemania, the Fab Four made this irreverent, cinéma vérité musical comedy depicting a few days in the lives of the biggest band in the world.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
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Pasta & Tacos Productions — the name nodding to the founders’ Mexican-American and Italian-American backgrounds, respectively — quietly launched in 2025 but went public this week with its development slate across film and television, spanning true crime, comedy and thriller projects.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
8 June 2026
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Awarded at the most recent edition of Canneseries, Boho is a comedy that explores themes of integration and the condition of women in contemporary society.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
8 June 2026
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The tribute also coincided with the 30th anniversary of Larson's groundbreaking musical, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1996 before transferring to Broadway and becoming a cultural phenomenon.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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In the audience will be Pink's mother — who took her to shows growing up in Philadelphia, instilling a love of musicals — and Pink's two children, a passing of the musical theater baton.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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Other landmark credits include ensemble buddy, road trip, coming-of-age film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), directed by Zoya Akhtar, and family melodrama Kabhi Khushi Khabhie Gham (2001), directed by Karan Johar.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 June 2026
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The emotion that the melodrama required was happening.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
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These blunders were a tragicomedy—a circus act entirely devoid of peanuts or joy.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
27 May 2026
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New art forms also emerged, such as the tragicomedy—a play or novel consisting of both comedic and tragic elements.—
Tham Thi Nguyen,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Noun
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With swift footwork, Bottura activates his celebrity to focus the world’s attention on the tragedy in Modena.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Formed by Duane and Gregg Allman in the late 1960s, the Allman Brothers Band became one of the most influential and popular American rock bands despite personal turmoil and tragedy.—
DeAsia Paige,
AJC.com,
10 June 2026
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Deliberately schlocky and over-the-top, the production is a mere backdrop for the psychodrama happening off set between Elle and her costar Dominique (Havana Rose Liu), a girl her own age who’s also unfortunately her stepmother.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
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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.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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“Comedy drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy%20drama. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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