comedy

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♦ com|edy /k'ɒmədi/ (comedies)
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Comedy consists of types of entertainment, such as plays and films, or particular scenes in them, that are intended to make people laugh.
Actor Dom Deluise talks about his career in comedy.
...a TV comedy series.
2 [N-COUNT]
A comedy is a play, film, or television programme that is intended to make people laugh.
≠ tragedy
3 [N-UNCOUNT]
The comedy of a situation involves those aspects of it that make you laugh.
Jackie sees the comedy in her millionaire husband's thrifty habits.
= humour
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see also situation comedymu|si|cal com|edy (musical comedies)
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Musical comedy is a type of play or film that has singing and dancing as part of the story and that is humorous and entertaining, especially one written before the middle of the twentieth century.situa|tion com|edy (situation comedies)
[N-VAR]
A situation comedy is an amusing television drama series about a set of characters. The abbreviation sitcom is also used.
...a situation comedy that was set in an acupuncture clinic.

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