as in humors
humorous entertainment
presented a night of comedy as part of the weeklong celebrations
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Recent Examples of comedies
His comedies are known to be simple with some political incorrectness and a good tone.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026
Not surprisingly, seven of the 12 titles confirmed by Atresmedia Cine to open in cinemas in 2026, or at least shoot next year, are comedies.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
Penny Marshall directed one of the great American sports comedies with her work on A League of Their Own.
—Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
Several popular books are becoming movies and shows in 2026, from literary classics to twisty thrillers and contemporary comedies.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
Bardot expanded her cinematic genre range into comedies, starring in La Parisienne and Babette Goes to War in the 1950s.
—Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
The movie selection spans war stories, musicals, thrillers, Westerns, comedies and more, coming from directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hughes and Salvador Dalí.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 Dec. 2025
Having played a wry, cigar-chomping God in two hit comedies, George Burns needed a new challenge for the third.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The early 2000s saw a run of successful movie and TV comedies about men who didn't want to grow up.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedies
Noun
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These are the records that best balanced my humors and kept me afloat.—
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Essentially, the genre someone gravitates towards can quietly reveal personality traits like our humors, values, and emotional wiring—the kind of clues that aren’t always captured in a dating app profile.—
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More than a hundred years before the French Revolution, his riotous, scathing satires dared to speak truth to some of the most absolute power in the world.—
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Christopher Guest really took up the mantle of putting real emotional elements in these satires — look at A Mighty Wind.—
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Two suburban groups, Plano’s Rover Dramawerks and MainStage Irving-Las Colinas, are opening the new year with farces by prolific British playwrights that are marked by mistaken identity and other comic twists.—
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His air of louche mischief attended his farces about Dada and James Joyce and moral determinism, his cleverness worn as lightly as a scarf.—
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“Comedies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedies. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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