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Recent Examples of comedy Burrell was nominated for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series from 2010 to 2017 and took home the prize in 2011 and 2014. Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024 Actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick will team up for the upcoming comedy thriller, Family Movie. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024 So much so, in fact, that the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley created its own version for Hooli CEO Gavin Belson’s conference room in 2016. Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024 From Joe Rogan to Greg Gutfeld, conservative comedy’s influence grows Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team. Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for comedy 
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Noun
  • Black Dog was a case of the latter, with dark humor framing its gritty tale of an ex-con returning to his rural hometown to start his life again.
    Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But being in your early thirties and playing yourself as a junior high school student and then surrounding yourself with age-appropriate actors who are actually going through that hellish rite of passage brings a whole new layer of cringe and humor.
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Beloved satire website the Onion bought Alex Jones’s misinformation hub in a bankruptcy auction, the New York Times reports.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • But Grande does have experience on both the stage and screen, having appeared on Broadway's 13: The Musical and starring on Nickelodeon sitcoms Victorious and Sam & Cat, as well as Adam McKay's sci-fi political satire Don't Look Up.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The irony, of course, is that Aaron’s crimes have far surpassed the type that once prevented Dennis from reaching his full potential.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Trump basically ripped us away from any detached sense of irony in interacting with and covering these things.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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