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Definitions of comedy in various dictionaries:
noun - light and humorous drama with a happy ending
noun - a comic incident or series of incidents
A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
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| ''The Odd Couple,'' e.g. |
| Second part |
| 92 Across' field |
| Foxworthy's field |
| Field for Fields |
| Humorous movie |
| Theater genre |
| See 30-Across |
| Funny stuff |
| Stand-up stuff |
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| Dramatic form, from Greek for "merrymaking" |
| Royall Tyler created the flirtatious fop Billy Dimple in "The Contrast", the USA's first play of this type |
| "Nothing portentous or polite, tragedy tomorrow", this "tonight" |
| Melpomene is the muse of tragedy & her sister Thalia, of this |
| With knee-slappers like "Is she a widow? I love her better therefore", "Ralph Roister Doister" is the oldest English one |
| Ancient Greeks might have asked if you heard the one about Thalia, the muse of this |
| Aristophanes' style is called "old" this; Menander's, less high-spirited, is "new "this |
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| A play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. |
| Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. |
| professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. |
| a comic incident or series of incidents |
| light and humorous drama with a happy ending |
| a play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. |
| a (type of) film, play, or book that is intentionally funny either in its characters or its action: |
| the humorous part of a situation: |
| a type of comedy in which the social behaviour of a particular group of people is made to appear silly |
| a movie, play, or book that is intentionally amusing either in its characters or its action: |
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| In a modern sense, comedy (from the Greek: , kmidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old." A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little cho |