Thesaurus results for COMEDIES

comedies

noun

plural of comedy

as in humors

humorous entertainment presented a night of comedy as part of the weeklong celebrations

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Recent Examples of comedies At a moment when historically reliable sources of employment for mid-career comedians—writing for sitcoms and late night, supporting roles in film comedies, commercials—all seem to be in crisis, the podcast business is comparatively lucrative. — Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026 The show was one of just two comedies that NBC picked up for the 2026-2027 broadcast season. — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 The creators say their gentler take on vampires centers on relationships and family, setting it apart from vampire comedies. — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 On the occasion of this momentous anniversary, four Washington Post staffers gathered to discuss the abiding cultural significance — and iconic gags — of one of the greatest television comedies ever. — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026 Run by Garelick and President Will Phelps, American High was founded to fill a gap in the feature market by producing the kinds of teen comedies that are now seldom made elsewhere. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026 The speed and clarity with which Cruise delivers that monologue extends to his interactions with his co-stars in scenes that recall the whip-smart comedies of Preston Sturges in their fast badinage. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026 The best way to get plugged in is by seeing a show in the Aurora Theatre, where the town’s resident theater company puts on everything from Broadway-style musicals to intimate dramas and comedies. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026 The jury noted the film, which had its world premiere at Oldenburg, was made without a budget and praised the resourcefulness that constraint produced, comparing its tone to the irreverence of 1990s comedies. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

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All that guessing will create herding and noise trading as the crowd chases the crowd like a dog chases its tail, in a futile attempt to get ahead of the next unpredictable change in what humors the Big Player.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
European colonists commonly believed that the balance of humors – yellow and black biles, blood and phlegm – circulating through one’s body was important for health.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Did celebrated Italian auteur Nanni Moretti, known at home and abroad for his leftist political satires and introspective human comedies, just make his first straight-up soap opera?

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

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With sparse amounts of slapstick, this staging isn’t the most physical of farces, though Lutz and Enriquez in particular strike some laugh-out-loud poses.

— Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
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.

— Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026

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