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
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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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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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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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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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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The beloved comedy, also starring Zooey Deschanel, Bob Newhart and James Caan, tells the story of a human, raised by elves, who eventually outgrows the North Pole.Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Gypsy is often named the greatest American musical of all time.Dave Quinn, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Sometimes new musicals don’t deliver with the songs but with Jeff Richmond’s music and Nell Benjamin’s lyrics there are many memorable musical moments.Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 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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Remus said the family is leaning into God to cope with the tragedy — along with being OK with laughter when remembering happy or funny moments.Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2024
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Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.Kirsten Grieshaber, Los Angeles Times, 21 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 30 Dec. 2024.
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