as in musical comedy
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Recent Examples of comedy drama
At Vulture Festival’s 10-year anniversary reunion for the film, Hader said Craig Johnson’s comedy drama is also the reason that his HBO show Barry exists.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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This comedy drama presents a chaotic, dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner among friends, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2024
Goodrich—a new comedy drama starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis—is coming soon to digital streaming.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
It’s been ten years since Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader starred in the comedy drama The Skeleton Twins, and what better way to celebrate than talking to them both.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
More:These metro Detroit restaurants offer Thanksgiving dinner options 'Friendsgiving'
This comedy drama presents a chaotic, dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner among friends, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2024
Goodrich—a new comedy drama starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis—is coming soon to digital streaming.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
It’s been ten years since Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader starred in the comedy drama The Skeleton Twins, and what better way to celebrate than talking to them both.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedy drama
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More recently, Delano appeared in two films this year - the adventure Road to Dreamland and the bluegrass musical comedy Paradise: A Town of Sinners and Saints.Marc Berman, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Delano's last role was in the bluegrass musical comedy Paradise: A Town of Sinners and Saints, which was released in May.Esther Kang, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Sight gags baked into the production design (the books the Gromit reads or the signs that populate the sets) and gnome puns aplenty make for a ride in which every frame packs a dense layer of comedy, at times conspicuous, others not so much.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Your grandparent's bookshelf is no more: Today's books fit into distinct genres like romance or comedy increasingly rarely.Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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In director Jamie Lloyd’s electric and minimalist Broadway update of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1990s musical based on a ‘50s movie, the former Pussycat Doll nails the comedy of a camp diva — inhabiting former ingenue Norma’s delusion and ego without ever losing sight of her sincerity.EW Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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While many shows saw their grosses fall from last week, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical had the highest gross of its run so far – a promising sign for a new musical in a tough environment – bringing in $719,680 and playing to a capacity of 83 percent.Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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Simplistic binaries might make for powerful melodrama, where the world is divided into good and evil.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
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The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Here is where the films of Mike Leigh, a master of human tragedy and everyday comedy, land on a scale of tragic-comic circumstances.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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This monumental tragedy about today and tomorrow used its size and awe to burrow bold ideas into the multiplex.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Barney, as is often the case, reveals unexpected refinement, directing a black-and-white psychodrama about his alcoholism, but Homer, who’s on the judging panel, prefers the one with the football in the groin.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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Performing an intense psychodrama about your wife’s family, night after night, must be gruelling.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Comedy drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy%20drama. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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