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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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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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Cannes-premiering Pillion, A24’s erotic comedy drama by British writer-director Harry Lighton, opens on four screens in New York (Lincoln Square, Angelika Film Center) and Los Angeles (AMC Grove, AMC Century City).—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2026
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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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The compact nature of the production, performed without intermission in just over 90 minutes, awkwardly exposes the melodrama that Ibsen took great pains to undercut.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Granted, some ceded ground is required in order to rebuild the story engine, but Season 2 still overindulges in comparably flat characters whose arcs are stuffed with unnecessary backstories and thin melodrama.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 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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Johnny’s life was cut short in a tragedy that still feels impossible to process — struck and killed by a car while riding his bicycle.—
Peter Folan,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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Victim families are deeply disappointed and warn that without action, another tragedy is inevitable.—
Josh Funk,
Los Angeles Times,
25 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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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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