noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comedy actor
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Jason was voted top TV comedy actor.
a comedy/tragic drama (= about funny/very sad events )
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Martin Clunes is to star in a new comedy drama.
black comedy
comedy of manners
musical comedy
Restoration comedy/drama (= plays written during this time in England )
romantic comedy
screwball comedy
situation comedy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
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The naughty postcard camp king of alternative comedy .
black
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And then there is black comedy .
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Even black comedies should be taken seriously by their makers.
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I thought it was a campy black comedy .
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This haunting black comedy touches and menaces in equal parts.
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Alternatively the violation can be inverted; like a black comedy , or the assertion of a stark revenge or retribution.
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This was on-the-edge black comedy that dispelled any vestige of condescension that might have been felt towards the performers.
good
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After all, the best comedy has a serious intent, and Forsyth clearly wants to evoke more than just laughter.
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The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it.
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His other real interests are, he concludes, Guinness and good comedy .
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Lane might just be the best comedy and musical man working on Broadway.
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And if you want the best stand-up comedy available for a dollar, try a speaker meeting on skid row.
light
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The West End then beckoned, and he appeared as a solid juvenile in a sequence of light comedies .
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After the war Marius Steen continued to put on shows and gradually he forsook revue for musicals and light comedies .
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Clooney will show that he can cut it as the leading man of a light comedy .
musical
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Captain McArthur was a musical comedy aficionado, and not pleased when Mrs Kingswood spoke critically of the form.
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The Black Hills Playhouse presents musical , comedy and dramatic productions throughout the summer.
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My dream is to direct a musical comedy one day.
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Bill started acting in musical comedy .
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As some one who likes musical comedies to be comedies, the frivolity of this piece proved irresistible.
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The daughter of a famous musical comedy actress would scarcely fit in.
new
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I looked at the paper, and realised that a new comedy show was about to start on Channel 4.
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This mutual stretching of personas is what works best in the new romantic comedy about a couple of blue-collar thieves.
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She's talking about her new role in comedy film, Housesitter, opposite funnyman Steve Martin.
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On that particular day, the feature show was Cocoanuts, the new Marx Brothers comedy set in Florida.
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In 1999, I asked readers to submit ideas for new comedies .
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Between numbers by the unflappable Ramblers, the stars are birthing new comedy duets.
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A new comedy wave, I suppose, is waiting in the wings.
physical
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He is so funny with his physical comedy .
popular
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Even popular television war comedies were taken off the air, for fear of jarring too awkwardly with endless hours of Gulf coverage.
romantic
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There will be fewer big action pictures and more romantic comedies .
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Which she did in a scene familiar from countless romantic comedies: She throws him out, followed by his suitcase.
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Once, coming back from New York, we were all watching a romantic comedy .
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This surprisingly funny, reverse-Cyrano lark is witty, wise and the most romantic comedy so far this year.
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They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.
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It is a romantic comedy , and I play a really bad person.
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A romantic comedy , with Steve Guttenberg as a man with a new face and Shelley Long as his novelist sister.
sentimental
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As Big showed, Penny Marshall's strength is sentimental comedy .
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These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy .
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The same posturing and gesturing, typical of sentimental comedy , is found in La conjuracion de Venecia.
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If Nivelle de la Chaussee was the great playwright of sentimental comedy , then Denise Diderot was the great theorist.
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In its subordination of character to plot, sentimental comedy moves in the direction of Romantic drama.
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Several of these sentimental comedies were imitations of El delincuente honrado.
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Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the sentimental comedy is that it represented a new form of tragi-comedy.
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Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
slapstick
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It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
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He then added his own slapstick comedy , each night diving head first through a serving hatch and generally being thrown around.
■ NOUN
actor
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His replacement was comedy actor Derek Nimmo.
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Both videos are situations comedies made by a top television light entertainment director and an experienced cast of comedy actors .
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The video has been made using a highly-experienced cast of comedy actors and a top television light entertainment director.
film
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Pop corn and carrot cake with a comedy film bonanza.
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The stimulus material was a short silent comedy film made by Mack Sennet around 1925.
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They were the most successful comedy films of all time.
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She's talking about her new role in comedy film , Housesitter, opposite funnyman Steve Martin.
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Some of the more interesting comedy films were made outside these generic contexts.
series
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Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series .
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You might start a personal channel that gathers all new information about the comedy series for you.
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She lost best actress in a comedy series to Cybill Shepherd.! folo!
show
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I looked at the paper, and realised that a new comedy show was about to start on Channel 4.
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I think we tried to use it once, and it was like a comedy show , it was crazy.
situation
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Both videos are sparkling situation comedies written especially for adult and young adult learners.
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I thought I wanted to write a situation comedy with a woman in the lead.
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Drama and situation comedy are likely to be next.
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Both videos are situations comedies made by a top television light entertainment director and an experienced cast of comedy actors.
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Let's face it, there have already been plenty of situation comedies in this situation before.
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Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series.
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I might change my mind about becoming a vet and try writing situation comedy for television.
television
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She played Mrs Thatcher in Anyone for Denis and in a television comedy .
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Or take the scene in a New York police station as portrayed in a television comedy .
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And television comedy will never be the same again.
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Producer Michael Mills saw the opportunity to team up a new writer with an actor new to television comedy .
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The catchphrase, after all, is a fixture in an otherwise protean world of television comedy .
■ VERB
direct
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My dream is to direct a musical comedy one day.
play
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Sylvester Stallone is playing comedy again.
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We were all playing roles in a comedy . l tried to prove to Sonya that withholding herself from me was hypocritical.
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Now they play music videos and comedy clips.
write
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I thought I wanted to write a situation comedy with a woman in the lead.
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Goldman says he can't write comedy , by the way.
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I was writing a comedy with sinister undertones about the villa renters and expats of Chiantishire.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'One Fine Day' was a romantic comedy with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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a comedy show on Channel 4
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It was a brilliant play - full of drama, and both sadness and comedy .
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Much of the comedy in Pratchett's books comes from the clever way he plays around with words and ideas.
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The movie's a black comedy about a pair of junkie musicians who are trying to kick the drug habit.
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The movie swings from broad comedy to moving drama in a single scene.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bill started acting in musical comedy .
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But the comedy is smart and funny, and Michael Douglas and Annette Bening are charming.
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In general, the violations of the unities in sentimental comedy are slight.
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So is the prejudice against mixing tragedy and comedy .
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The aggressive style of mainland cabaret comedy is only now reaching Northern Ireland.
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The tribute includes a 1960s episode of Coronation Street and the comedy Nearest and Dearest.
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This one, obviously, is not a comedy .