comedy

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• WordNet 3.6
  • n comedy a comic incident or series of incidents
  • n comedy light and humorous drama with a happy ending
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• Interesting fact: There are songs in all of Shakespeare's plays except The Comedy of Errors.
• • n Comedy A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy. "With all the vivacity of comedy .""Are come to play a pleasant comedy ."
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• Interesting fact: In 1992, Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, better known to country music fans as singer/comedienne Minnie Pearl, was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George Bush. In 1994, Minnie became the first woman to be inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame. She was too frail and sick to attend the ceremony, and so good friend and comedian George Lindsey ("Goober") accepted the award for her. She died in 1996 at age 83.
• • n comedy That branch of the drama which addresses itself primarily to the sense of the humorous or the ridiculous: opposed to tragedy, which appeals to the more serious and profound emotions. See drama and tragedy.
  • n comedy In a restricted sense, a form of the drama which is humorous without being broadly or grossly comical: distinguished from farce.
  • n comedy A dramatic composition written in the style of comedy; a comic play or drama.
  • n comedy Hence A humorous or comic incident or series of incidents in real life.
  • n comedy A narrative poem: applied to the Divina Commedia (‘Divine Comedy’) of Dante. See Dante and Divina Commedia in the Cyclopedia of Names.
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• Interesting fact: Before he became famous for his TV comedy work, the late Phil Hartman worked as a talented and respected graphic designer. In fact, he was the designer of the logo for Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
• • n Comedy kom′e-di a dramatic piece of a pleasant or humorous character, originally accompanied with dancing and singing
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• Mark Twain

  

  “There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
• Angela Carter

  

  “Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
• Charlie Chaplin

  

  “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
• Marty Feldman

  

  “Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.”
• Christopher Fry

  

  “Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
• Warren Mitchell

  

  “Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.”

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