Comedy Romantic Slapstick Situation Play Noun Bre ˈkɒmədi

• a romantic comedy
• slapstick comedy
• he didn't appreciate the comedy of the situation.
• does he play comedy?

comedy

1. a play or film/movie that is intended to be funny, usually with a happy ending; plays and films/movies of this type
• compare tragedy
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/tragedy
• a romantic comedy
• slapstick comedy
2. an amusing aspect of something
• synonym humour
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/humour_1
• He didn't appreciate the comedy of the situation.

Extra Examples

• Does he play comedy?
• The case quickly became a comedy of errors.
• The show contains some wonderful slapstick comedy.
• a popular romantic comedy
• He didn’t appreciate the comedy of the situation.
• It’s a romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
• The visual comedy of this scene is obvious.
• They spent hours watching comedy on television.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (as a genre of drama, also denoting a narrative poem with a happy ending, as in Dante's Divine Comedy): from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’.