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  1. noun A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
  2. noun The genre made up of such works.
  3. noun A literary or cinematic work of a comic nature or that uses the themes or methods of comedy.
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  • The recipient of more than 30 major awards, including Tony and Olivier awards for Best New Play, the comedy is about the anarchy of adolescence and the purpose of education. —  TheaterMania.com
  • Adding to the comedy is the fact that the incident took place in Hammond, Ind., the hometown of —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Can you mix it up a little with some dish other shows-like maybe the undersung CBS comedies? returns tonight, and Megyn Price and Patrick Warburton continue to be laugh-out-loud hilarious, which means that two out of five lead characters of this comedy are actually funny! —  E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • This comedy was adapted by Paul Osborn from Lawrence Watkin's novel of the same title. —  Playbill.com : News
  • "[W] hile the comedy is as low-brow and outrageous as ever, this new movie actually scores more points off the nation's paranoid and repressive post-9 / 11 mindset than all of Hollywood's hand-wringing war-on-terror dramas put together," writes —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. Middle English comedie, from Medieval Latin cōmēdia, from Latin cōmoedia, from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos, comic actor : kōmos, revel + aoidos, singer (from aeidein, to sing; see wed-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English commedy = Dutch komedie = German komödie = Danish komedie = Swedish komedi, from Old French comedie, French comédie = Provencal Spanish Portuguese comedia = Italian commedia, from Latin comœdia, from Greek κωμῳδία, a comedy, from κωμῳδός, Bœotian κωμα#567υδός (later L. comœdus), a comic actor, a comic writer, from κω̄μος, a festival, festal procession, carousal, revel (otherwise from κώμη, a village, which is prob. akin to κῶμος, the festival κῶμος originating ἐν κώμαις, in villages, or rather perhaps because κω̄μος was orig. a banquet (at which the guests reclined; cf. κλίνη, a couch, a dining-couch), both connected with κοίτη, a bed, κοιμᾱν, put to sleep, from κεῖσθαι, lie down, akin to English home), + ἀοιδός, contr. ᾠδός, Bœotian ἀ#567υδός, singing, a singer, ἀοιδή, contr. ᾠδή, a song: see Comus and ode.
 

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