How to Use comedy in a Sentence

comedy

noun

• We couldn't help laughing out loud at the comedy of the situation.
• The movie includes a lot of physical comedy.
• The new comedy is the network's most popular television show.
• No one in this clobber-comedy movie seems to have a nervous system.
  — Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2022
• Ryan Reynolds has time to defend the skills of comedy actors.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
• Will Arnett were supposed to present the award for comedy-series writing?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2022
• The comedian was in Florida at the time and had just kickstarted a new comedy tour.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
• And to be fair to Reynolds, discerning comedy and drama has become a gray area for Hollywood.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
• The Twilight Zone was then replaced by a comedy series called Fair Exchange.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 31 Dec. 2022
• This Murphy comedy was shot in 2008 but kept getting shuffled on the release schedule.
  — Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• His comic timing and gift for physical comedy (and delivering physical punishment) are put to great use here.
  — Sezín Devi Koehler, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024
• The five uncles provide much of the comedy in the show.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 19 May 2023
• Their comedies have been produced thousands of times on stage across the U.S. and around the world.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 8 Oct. 2023
• But the people that’s going to make the comedies are the people that know how to make the comedies.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• No See has been producing some of the best comedy shows in clubs in and around the L.A. area for years.
  — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Adam, for so long you’ve been loved for your comedy work.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
• But what if there was a way to bring a new twist to this type of television, in the form of a dark comedy thriller?
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2023
• Three, thanks to comedy’s rule of threes, is funnier than two or one.
  — Vulture, 19 Apr. 2023
• The trouble is that, for all the comedy and the poignancy of this central concept, the movie requires a plot.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• Sources have said the show may have workplace comedy tones of The Office or Parks and Recreation.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2024
• Each of its 11 first-run episodes this season has been its week’s top comedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Hacks took home the award for best comedy series, a surprise win over The Bear, which won the trophy last year.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024
• As part of the film’s satire of/homage to ’80s teen comedies, Lisa is focused on losing her virginity to the right guy.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• As in a classic screwball comedy, the contrivances were part of the pleasure.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Doing a comedy set in Ancient Greece has been a passion of his for a long time.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
• She’s been a sketch and improv veteran at comedy venues across the Dallas area for the past 10 years.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Escola has been a revered cult figure in the comedy and New York cabaret scenes for more than 15 years.
  — Shane O’Neill, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
• His parents were a part of the popular 1960s comedy group Stiller and Meara.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 12 Aug. 2024
• Naveen Andrews is set to star in a comedy series at Freevee.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2023
• And what that speaks to is, to us, that this is a very tragic comedy about human nature in a certain way.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024