comedy

C11372
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.

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All labels observed (33)

Label Occurrences
dark comedy 51
comedy canonical 49
humorous book 24

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: comedy
Generated description
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.

Instances (229)

Instance Via concept surface
Blithe Spirit (stage)
surface form: Blithe Spirit
supernatural farce
The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (stage)
surface form: The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband
black comedy
A Long Way Down dark comedy
Pineapple Express stoner comedy film
Murder Most Fab dark comedy
The Playboy of the Western World —
Pygmalion —
Man and Superman philosophical comedy
Candida —
Banana
surface form: Banana (Despicable Me short film)
slapstick comedy
Tom and Jerry (theatrical shorts for MGM) slapstick comedy series
Minna von Barnhelm —
Marvin's Room (play) dark comedy
The Homecoming dark comedy
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle stoner comedy film
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas stoner comedy film
Harold & Kumar film series
surface form: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
stoner comedy film
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay stoner comedy film
A Modern Man comedy routine
Extreme Human Behavior comedy routine
The All-Suicide Channel comedy bit
Coast-to-Coast Emergency comedy routine
You Have No Rights comedy routine
Rights in America comedy routine
Jumpers philosophical comedy
film "How High"
surface form: How High
stoner comedy film
Guards at the Taj dark comedy
Up in Smoke stoner comedy film
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie stoner comedy film
Nice Dreams stoner comedy film
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! dark comedy
Rough for Theatre II dark comedy
Assassins dark comedy
Mac & Devin Go to High School stoner comedy film
Airport Security (bit) stand-up comedy bit
Advertising Lullaby (bit) stand-up comedy bit
Losing Things stand-up comedy bit
Sports stand-up comedy bit
Fear of Germs stand-up comedy bit
More Stuff stand-up comedy bit
“Sanctity of Life” routine
surface form: Sanctity of Life routine
comedy bit
“Capital Punishment” routine
surface form: Capital Punishment routine
comedy bit
“Familiar Expressions” routine
surface form: Familiar Expressions routine
comedy bit
“Free-Floating Hostility” segment
surface form: Free-Floating Hostility segment
stand-up comedy bit
The Confessional stand-up comedy bit
Dumb Americans comedy routine
Proud to Be an American comedy routine
The Big Electron stand-up comedy bit
Airline Announcements comedy bit
film "Up in Smoke"
surface form: Up in Smoke
stoner comedy film