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Recent Examples of high comedy
But there was no real high drama or high comedy in those final 20 minutes.
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there was no real high drama or high comedy in those final 20 minutes.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Buy Now: In Tongues on Bookshop | Amazon Lies and Weddings, Kevin Kwan (May 21)
From Kevin Kwan, the author of Crazy Rich Asians, a high comedy sure to delight fans of Jane Austen.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 May 2024
That particular transformation comes off as high comedy; despite his tragic life, Schulz was a very funny writer.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
In a scene of high comedy, French Inspector Lavalle, insists that the criminal mastermind behind the theft must be French.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
Its other engine is humor: The scenes that take place in 1809 are, for a long time, high comedy in the Oscar Wilde vein, and the play’s modern characters are no slouches in the wit department either.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
Performing for a Dutch audience presents a high comedy bar, Meyers explained.
—Nina Siegal, New York Times, 19 June 2023
The hosts’ easy banter buoys the conversation from debate to high comedy.
—Time, 16 June 2023
Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there was no real high drama or high comedy in those final 20 minutes.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Buy Now: In Tongues on Bookshop | Amazon Lies and Weddings, Kevin Kwan (May 21)
From Kevin Kwan, the author of Crazy Rich Asians, a high comedy sure to delight fans of Jane Austen.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 May 2024
That particular transformation comes off as high comedy; despite his tragic life, Schulz was a very funny writer.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
In a scene of high comedy, French Inspector Lavalle, insists that the criminal mastermind behind the theft must be French.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
Its other engine is humor: The scenes that take place in 1809 are, for a long time, high comedy in the Oscar Wilde vein, and the play’s modern characters are no slouches in the wit department either.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
Performing for a Dutch audience presents a high comedy bar, Meyers explained.
—Nina Siegal, New York Times, 19 June 2023
The hosts’ easy banter buoys the conversation from debate to high comedy.
—Time, 16 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high comedy
low comedy
Noun
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And to your point, even the small things like the Cockney asylum porters come from the low comedy of the Tod Browning film and Dracula's Daughter and the Hammer films.—
Angela Watercutter,
WIRED,
25 Dec. 2024
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After a few moments of low comedy, my colleague figured out how to fold the two halves over without losing too much of their cargo.—
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14 Feb. 2023
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“High comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20comedy. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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