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Recent Examples of musical comedy
The festival will also include a variety show tribute to the late Pee-Wee Herman and musical comedy duo Flight on the Concords (Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie) will reunite for their first show in 10 years.
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Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Three Months Later, a new musical comedy about survival and art, will play a three-day engagement in Los Angeles starring Kristen Bell and Lea Thompson.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
The filmmaker also directed the 2015 Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, featuring Lost in Translation actor Bill Murray.
—Alex Heigl, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
At the time, the project had Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, comedians behind the musical comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates, slated to write original music for the film, with Lindhome expected to write the film’s screenplay.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
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Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Three Months Later, a new musical comedy about survival and art, will play a three-day engagement in Los Angeles starring Kristen Bell and Lea Thompson.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
The filmmaker also directed the 2015 Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, featuring Lost in Translation actor Bill Murray.
—Alex Heigl, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
At the time, the project had Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, comedians behind the musical comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates, slated to write original music for the film, with Lindhome expected to write the film’s screenplay.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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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
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Alongside Zegler and Marisa Tomei, who was also already announced, Ed Helms and Nat Wolff have also joined the comedy drama.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
12 Feb. 2026
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Catherine O’Hara’s illustrious career was given a warm send-off at the Actor Awards 2026 when the performer posthumously won the award for best female actor in a comedy series.—
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
2 Mar. 2026
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Continue reading … NO LAUGHING MATTER — 'Airplane' director says SNL died choosing ideology over comedy gold.—
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FOXNews.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Seyfried stars as the titular religious leader in Mona Fastvold's historical musical.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
27 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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Anderson is here for the melodrama, the special lessons and the climaxes that fall flat.—
Jessica Lipsky,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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What separates great literature from cheap melodrama is not the grief the story contains, but whether the writing has earned it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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Hints of the tragicomedy to come surfaced on the second day, when heavy clouds threatened rain and the meeting was held in the barracks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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With his work on Barry, a tragicomedy about a hitman trying to turn over a new leaf as an actor, only for the consequences of his actions to slowly but surely catch up with him, Hader became the rare winner of three DGA Awards, also winning multiple Emmys and Critics Choice Awards.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2026
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In 2021, 12-year-old Molly Steinsapir died after losing control of an e-bike on a steep hill in Pacific Palisades, a tragedy that led her parents to sue the manufacturer and brought new scrutiny to how e-bike companies market their products to families with children.—
Cierra Morgan
March 4,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Though the other children recovered, Nicholas died several days later, a tragedy Dominici said will shape the rest of her life.—
Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 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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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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