domestic comedy
1comedy — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Thalia, agile wit, arlequinade, black comedy, black humor, bladder, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, camp, cap and bells, caricature, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy… …
2Comedy Gold (TV channel) — Comedy Gold Comedy Gold logo Launched September 7, 2001 Owned by Bell Media Picture format 480i (SDTV) Country …
3comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …
4Domestic tragedy — A Family Quarrel In English drama, a domestic tragedy is a play in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary middle class or lower class individuals. This subgenre contrasts with classical and Neoclassical tragedy, in which the protagonists are… …
5Situation comedy — A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring… …
6musical comedy — Synonyms and related words: Broadway musical, Singspiel, Thalia, arlequinade, ballad opera, ballet, ballet divertissement, black comedy, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, camp, chorus show, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse,… …
7situation comedy — Synonyms and related words: Grand Guignol, Passion play, Thalia, Tom show, antimasque, arlequinade, audience success, ballet, black comedy, bomb, broad comedy, broadcast drama, burlesque, burlesque show, burletta, camp, charade, cliff hanger,… …
8situation comedy — Situation comedies, or sitcoms, focus on a comic situation which is returned to by a small cast of actors in successive episodes. Much of the humour in these shows derives from character, and ‘straight’ actors appear in them more frequently… …
9New Comedy — Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century B.C. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage. Cf. Middle Comedy, Old… …
10Black comedy — This article is about the genre. For situation comedies featuring a predominantly African American cast, see Black sitcom. For the play by Peter Shaffer, see Black Comedy (Play). Black Humor redirects here. For the Spanish film, see Black Humor… …
