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Recent Examples of comedy drama
Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Zach Cherry and Kate Berlant have joined Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen in Babies, the new comedy drama from writer-director Lauren Miller Rogen now shooting in Los Angeles.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
Tyriq Withers and Marlon Wayans unite for the sports horror Him, Cillian Murphy stars in Netflix's collegiate comedy drama Steve, and Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell take viewers on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey in a bid for box office glory.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Jay Kelly star George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, attended the red carpet premiere of the comedy drama on Thursday.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
But her lead role as a working mom in this stress-inducing psychological comedy drama could provide her best performance yet.
—Ben Rosenstock, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
Tyriq Withers and Marlon Wayans unite for the sports horror Him, Cillian Murphy stars in Netflix's collegiate comedy drama Steve, and Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell take viewers on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey in a bid for box office glory.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Jay Kelly star George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, attended the red carpet premiere of the comedy drama on Thursday.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
But her lead role as a working mom in this stress-inducing psychological comedy drama could provide her best performance yet.
—Ben Rosenstock, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedy drama
Noun
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My background is stand-up and musical comedy, and all my acting jobs have been musical theatre.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2026
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Netflix may be eyeing two of them with its surprise hit of 2025, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans’s musical comedy on K-pop stars who moonlight as demon hunters.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The heist comedy is stacked with names that signal SXSW’s continued pull as both launchpad and spectacle.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Feb. 2026
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In drama, because comedy is not currency, everybody’s just cracking jokes all the time.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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The film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, is based on her book from the 1999 musical of the same name.—
Nada Aboul Kheir,
Deadline,
22 Feb. 2026
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Because San Diego is one of the biggest creators of new plays and musicals in the United States, the new musical and play categories were the highlights of the evening.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Writer/director Hammer, though, downplays the melodrama inherent to this scenario, even while shooting sequences, whether in Martin and Leslie’s apartment or in various hospitals, with a bracing handheld intimacy.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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Other artists have tried to tackle this melodrama by grounding us in specific characters’ perspectives, or by heightening the performances, but Fennell embraces the story’s fundamental absurdism by giving us absurd and often glorious images.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Turner stars in Rosebush Pruning, a satirical tragicomedy thriller, alongside Pamela Anderson, Elle Fanning, Jamie Bell, and Lukas Gage.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
15 Feb. 2026
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Stoppard broke through in 1966 with his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an ambitious tragicomedy that reimagines the lives of two minor characters in Shakespare’s Hamlet, and which became a landmark moment in British theater.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This tragedy has affected each and every one of us.—
Michael James,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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One year after their deaths, those closest to Hackman and Arakawa say their legacy is not defined by tragedy, but by devotion — a partnership rooted in privacy, dignity and a love story that endured long after Hollywood faded from view.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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The trauma drama — ideally multigenerational and tied to addiction, abuse or both — is a tough one for audiences that tends to work better as an acting showcase than as involving psychodrama.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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In exerting this apparent influence, Rubio has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama.—
Ross Douthat,
Mercury News,
26 Dec. 2025
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“Comedy drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy%20drama. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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