comedy

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concept

Comedy is a conceptual class of works or performances designed to amuse and entertain by highlighting humor, often through exaggeration, irony, or playful treatment of everyday situations.

All labels observed (33)

Label Occurrences
dark comedy 51
comedy canonical 49
humorous book 24

Instances (229)

Instance Via concept surface
L’Attaché d’ambassade comic play
Le Roi Candaule
La Boulangère a des écus comic play
The Pain of My Belligerence dark comedy
A Spot of Bother dark comedy
I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard dark comedy
How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them dark comedy
Hurlyburly black comedy
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife dark comedy
Die, Mommie, Die! black comedy
The Amazing World of Gumball surreal comedy
Blood Sugar dark comedy
Shear Madness
Doomed dark comedy
Narrow Dog to Carcassonne humorous book
Narrow Dog to Indian River humorous book
Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier humorous book
Liam Digby is mistaken for an adult comic situation
Hangmen (stage play)
surface form: Hangmen
dark comedy
As You Like It pastoral comedy
Love's Labour's Lost
Le Misanthrope
L’École des maris
L’Avare
Entertaining Mr Sloane (stage production)
surface form: Entertaining Mr Sloane
black comedy
A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Cake humorous work
The Conscious Lovers sentimental comedy
Laurel and Hardy film comedy act
Lady Windermere’s Fan
An Ideal Husband
Tuva or Bust! with Richard Feynman humorous book
Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA humorous book
The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Murder Your Employer dark comedy
Quitters, Inc. dark comedy
The Sundial dark comedy
Life Among the Savages humorous book
A Majority of One
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead absurdist comedy film
I’m Bored (children’s book)
surface form: I'm Bored
humorous book
Arsenic and Old Lace (play) black comedy
New Comedy comedy genre
Perikeiromene New Comedy
The Motherfucker with the Hat dark comedy
Buried Child dark comedy
True West dark comedy
Curse of the Starving Class dark comedy
Dude, Where's My Car? stoner comedy film
Much Ado About Nothing
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Mudbone Goes to Hollywood comedy routine