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Learners of English as a second language usually know the word comedy once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning comedy meaning

What does comedy mean?

Definitions in simple English

comedy Noun

— A comedy is a humorous drama. This comedy is really funny.

comedy

— noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending

— noun (= drollery) a comic incident or series of incidents

Synonyms comedy synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as comedy?

comedy English » English

humor

farce

satire

pleasantry

funniness

fun

drollery

comic

humour

clowning

burlesque

wittiness

travestry

splatterspunk

play

parody

merriment

joke

jocularity

jocosity

humoursness

funny show

drollness

drama

comicalness

comicality

Topics comedy topics

What do people use comedy to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity

Drama

• What words refer to a type of drama?
  drama play skit comedy tragedy musical melodrama parody suspense film movie cinema show

Social behavior Social activity

Humor

• What words refer to humor in general?
  humor comedy comic relief fun caprice fooling kidding joshing wittiness salt whim drollery jocularity levity mirth

Examples comedy examples

How do I use comedy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Which movie genre do you prefer? Comedy or drama?

Tim is a huge fan of satirical comedy.

As a rule, I prefer a comedy to a tragedy.

Shakespeare wrote both tragedy and comedy.

I like to see comedy in the theater.

Comedy always includes a little tragedy. That's why there are sad clowns.

Love is a comedy in France, a tragedy in England, an opera in Italy, and a melodrama in Germany.

That comedy really made me laugh.

In sad times, comedy blooms.

Mary watched a romantic comedy.

Tom and Mary watched a romantic comedy.

Tom and Mary watched a romantic comedy together.

I used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it's a fucking comedy.

It's a comedy movie.

I prefer comedy to tragedy.

Comedy is much closer to real life than drama.

This film is a comedy.

I saw an amusing comedy last night.

I saw a funny comedy last night.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

I watched a romantic comedy.

Actually, it's a comedy.

Movie subtitles

The Adventurer, released October 17. 1917, was the last Charlie Chaplin Mutual comedy.

Cut the comedy.

Julian Marsh, the greatest musical comedy director in America today.

It's been advertised as a musical comedy with dancing!

I'll bet you could take a kid like that. and put her over to the producer of a musical comedy.

Musical comedy and whatnot.

Someday I'll be a musical-comedy star.

I daresay it's a comedy of errors, as the poet says.

What are they, tap dancers or musical-comedy producers?

John Lloyd Sullivan, the Caliph of Comedy.

I want to make a comedy.

He wants to make a comedy.

Everything here is just a black comedy.

It must have been a comedy.

We've now moved from melodrama into knockabout comedy, with the invisible man leading us through a parade of Whale's expertly choreographed physical wire effects, all carefully rigged and executed by Al Johnson and Bob Laslow.

Yes. An actor. Comedy. tragedy.

But they're inducing emotions mixed. with comedy.

Believe me, I never knew what a musical comedy girl looked like.

She isn't one of the musical comedy girls?

Of course you know that your big part is coming up in this comedy we are playing out here.

My new comedy is playing at the Royal Playhouse. Hold on.

You can do a lot for musical comedy. And it can do a lot for you, too.

Is it comedy or tragedy?

Comedy. I don't play tragedy.

I hope your comedy was funny.

But my dear, you surely are made for comedy.

The play that follows is neither comedy nor drama.

What a monstrous comedy!

Wouldn't you know it? What are they, tap dancers or musical-comedy producers?

I acted a very poor comedy on Christmas Eve.

Since the day you left the clinic. you've played an ignoble comedy.

What's your specialty? - Comedy songs.

What comedy?

Well, that musical comedy at the Royalty.

Comedy.

Later on, just for comedy relief, the real guy arrived with the baby coffin.

News and current affairs

Romania is not alone, of course, in reliving this dark comedy.

What China regards as Hong Kong's comedy of deference is quickly becoming a tragedy of errors for Hong Kong's citizens.

For many Filipinos, there is more than enough poetry in this fact, and certainly more irony than Estrada's action-comedy movies of the 1960's ever mustered.

The outcome resembles a Shakespeare comedy of confused identity.

The risk is that the comedy of misguided affection is resolved by punishing both the tempter and the tempted.

Those threats were heard in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and - rendered in black-comedy style - in Libya.

But the deal could be a script for a situation comedy: Japan and South Korea refuse to provide intelligence data to each other, leaving the US to play the middleman.

While staid TV pundits ask the usually vapid questions during presidential debates in the United States, candidates know that the really important thing is to get laughs on the comedy shows of David Letterman or Jay Leno.