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.

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
Nummisuutarit
Budding Prospects dark comedy
The Woman from Samos New Comedy
Amphitruo
The Treasure
Sandi Toksvig’s Guide to Denmark humorous book
Fuddy Meers black comedy
As Bees in Honey Drown
Life Without George humorous book
Speaking of Operations humorous work
Pop. 1280 black comedy
radio series The Life of Riley
surface form: The Life of Riley (radio series)
situation comedy
Niggas vs. Black People routine comedy bit
The Three Swedes film comedy act
Un chapeau de paille d’Italie comic play
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze
The Workhouse Ward
The Tinker’s Wedding
The Beauty Queen of Leenane black comedy
Half Baked stoner comedy film
The Butcher Boy dark comedy
Fanfare d’amour (stage play)
surface form: Fanfare d’amour
theatrical comedy
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner series slapstick comedy series
The Lying Valet comic play
Miss in Her Teens
The Irish Widow
The Batterson Family
No Sex Please, We're British
The Seafarer (stage production) dark comedy