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.
• 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
• Ryan Reynolds has time to defend the skills of comedy actors.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Also, comedy and drama have merged, more or less, over the years.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• 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
• After 13 years off the air, the comedy is back for a reboot season, and Jennifer Garner joined the cast as a guest star.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 25 Mar. 2023
• Picnics, comedy, home tours and shopping are on the menu for Mother’s Day.
  — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Tatro is a comedian who does stand up on the road, and a lot of his YouTube content is sketch comedy.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
• What skills or mantras do young Black women need to succeed in comedy?
  — Tira Urquhart, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Madonna dropped by the New York comedy club this weekend and performed a surprise comedy set.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
• In December, Flores filmed his first comedy special which has not yet been released.
  — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2025