comic drama
Humorous theatrical piece
Comic drama is a theatrical or literary work that blends humor with serious subject matter.
Unlike pure comedy, it doesn't aim primarily for laughs—the comedy serves to illuminate character or soften weightier themes.
Unlike tragedy, it typically resolves without devastating loss.
The play was a comic drama about family dysfunction, finding humor in painful truths.
- dramedyGenre mixing laughs and pathos
- dark humorComedy about taboo subjects
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
- laughterVocal expression of amusement
- laugh trackRecorded audience amusement
humor · wit · sarcasm · satire · timing · incongruity · parody · improvisation · absurdity · hyperbole · surprise · funny business · pantomime · straight man · understatement · resolution · juxtaposition · mistaken identity
- Chinese OperaBeijing opera, folk opera, painted faces, face-changing, dan
- comedyjokes, humor, puns, sarcasm, stand-up
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- Korean dramaHallyu, miniseries, chaebol, mini series, romcom
comic dramatragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
tragic drama · weepie · melodrama · tearjerker · social realism
comic dramafarce
Absurd, laughable situation
slapstick comedy · broad comedy · screwball comedy · low comedy · burlesque
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