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Recent Examples of dramedy
It was announced in May that the beloved Back to the Future star would appear in an undisclosed guest-star capacity on the Apple TV dramedy.
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Noah Baumbach's dramedy lets Clooney cook in a meta character study full of humor and self-reflection.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
In the first season of Jack Rooke’s semi-autobiographical, silly-sad dramedy, two depressed young men—one straight and eager to fit in, the other gay and nervous about exploring his sexuality—become college roommates, then fast friends.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
Last year, the Best Feature prize went to a totally out-of-nowhere pick: the dark dramedy A Different Man.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
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Rudd's latest project, the comedy Anaconda, which costars Jack Black, is now in theaters.—
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Jade Catta-Preta Jade Catta-Preta pivoted from a career in theater to a career in comedy.—
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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.—
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The citizen in you laughs heartily as this film, a tragicomedy, skewers the hypocrisies and ironies of the repressed West.—
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Demon Slayer, the first of a series-ending film trilogy, is a master class in hyper-kinetic, violent battles and high-stakes melodrama, in which a sequence of epic duels is intercut with emotional character backstories.—
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Dabis embraces the conventions of melodrama with sombre grace.—
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
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Accordingly, the film is a historical musical.—
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The show comes to Broadway as the season has a slim number of new musicals, which could all be vying for the Tony for best musical.—
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Reactions to this tragedy from friends on social media align completely with their political persuasions.—
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Thirasak Wongsoongnern, a member of staff on the train, told local media outlet Thairath Online, that the train had been traveling at around 74mph when the tragedy occurred, according to the BBC.—
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Jim Parsons will return to Broadway in the upcoming musical comedy Titanique, producers announced today, with other new cast members including Deborah Cox, Frankie Grande and the show’s co-creator Constantine Rousouli.—
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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.—
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“Dramedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramedy. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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