Word Finder - comedy

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A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.

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A light, amusing play with a happy ending.

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(Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).

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A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.

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The genre of such works.

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Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.

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Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?

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The art of composing comedy.

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A humorous event.

He introduced genuine comedy among his countrymen.

Mrs. Keller and I watched the nursery comedy from the door.

British music is known and loved around the world, as is its comedy and royalty.

Entering the army at seventeen, he left it two years afterwards; and at nineteen he produced Azemire, a two-act drama (acted in 1786), and Edgar, ou le page suppose, a comedy (acted in 1785), which were failures.

The prose comedy, El Café ó la comedic nueva, given at the same theatre six years afterwards, at once became popular.

It is at first sight remarkable that Voltaire, whose comic power was undoubtedly far in excess of his tragic, should have written many tragedies of no small excellence in their way, but only one fair second-class comedy, Nanine.

Gammer Gurton's Needle is the second extant English comedy, properly so called.

She edited a monthly magazine; and wrote at least two dramatic works, The Marriage of Fabian, and a comedy entitled Toissiokoff.

They may have contributed to the formation of the style of comedy which appears at the very outset much more mature than that of serious poetry, tragic or epic. They gave the name and some of the characteristics to that special literary product of the Roman soil, the satura, addressed to readers, not to spectators, which ultimately was developed into pure poetic satire in Lucilius, Horace, Persius and Juvenal, into the prose and verse miscellany of Varro, and into something approaching the prose novel in Petronius.

But it was as a writer of comedy that he was most famous, most productive and most original.

It 's a tremendously funny, totally unique Comedy Central sketch comedy show.

Voltaire had made, however, a useful friend in another grand seigneur, as profligate and nearly as intelligent, the duke of Richelieu, and with him he passed 1724 and the next year chiefly, recasting Mariamne (which was now successful), writing the comedy of L'Indiscret, and courting the queen, the ministers, the favourites and everybody who seemed worth.

They prepared the mind of the people for the reception of regular comedy.

While humour and vivacity characterize the earlier, and urbanity of tone the later development of comedy, the tendency of serious literature had been in the main practical, ethical, commemorative and satirical.

The portraits by Reynolds include the celebrated " Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy."

She was "discovered" during a Laugh Factory kids' comedy showcase when a Nickelodeon executive spotted her performance.

He was entrusted by Ptolemy with the task of arranging the comedies in the Alexandrian library, and as the result of his labours composed a treatise On Comedy.

It's not quite a vanity project, but it is the second movie by the Broken Lizard comedy troupe.

SoI have decided to become a comedy turncoat and deny the splendor of Bill Hicks.

Moments of slapstick comedy are silly in the extreme.

Stephen began his career as a stand up comedian, and was a finalist in the 1998 Daily Telegraph New Comedy Awards.

Bynes' exposure to her dad's extracurricular stand-up comedy routines may have been the inspiration for Amanda's break into the big time.

Amanda Bynes' first taste of performing came at a comedy camp, where she was trained by Arsenio Hall and Richard Pryor.

Bynes also starred in the 2006 comedy She's the Man, where she disguised herself as a boy to play on a soccer team.

Poetry is the art of producing representations; (I) in words, rhythm and harmony (apyovia, " harmony " in the original sense); (2) of men like ourselves, or better as in tragedy, or worse as in comedy; (3) by means of narrative as in epic, or by action as in the drama.

The Letters breathe the spirit of the New Comedy and the Alexandrine poets; portions of Letter 33 are almost literally translated in Ben Jonson's Song to Celia, " Drink to me only with thine eyes."

Frau Neuber even accepted for performance Lessing's first comedy, Der junge Gelehrte (1748), which he had begun at school.

Hitherto Lessing had, as a dramatist, followed the methods of contemporary French comedy as cultivated in Leipzig; Miss Sara Sampson, however, marks the beginning of a new period in the history of the German drama.

Tellheim, the hero of the comedy, is an admirable study of a manly and sensitive soldier, with somewhat exaggerated ideas of conventional honour; and Minna, the heroine, is one of the brightest and most attractive figures in German comedy.

In 1587 he left Bologna for Pisa, and there, in his quality of professor, he made the curious mistake of printing Alberti's comedy Philodoxius as a work of the classic Lepidus.

It is full of quotations from writers whose works have not come down to us; nearly 800 writers and 2500 separate writings are referred to by Athenaeus; and he boasts of having read 800 plays of the Middle Comedy alone.

It was here that he wrote the Ecole des vieillards (1823), his best comedy, which gained his election to the Academy in 1825.

Six comedies entitled Sappho and two Phaon, were produced by the Middle Comedy; but, when we consider, for example, the way in which Socrates was caricatured by Aristophanes, we are justified in putting no faith whatever in such authority.

Epicharmus (540-450), carried as a babe to Sicily, is a link between native Siceliots and the strangers invited by Hiero; as the founder of the local Sicilian comedy, he ranks among Siceliots.

Till the appearance of Ennius, Roman literature, although it had produced the epic poem of Naevius and some adaptations of Greek tragedy, had been most successful in comedy.

He attempted comedy, but with so little success that in the canon of Volcacius Sedigitus he is mentioned, solely as a mark of respect "for his antiquity," tenth and last in the list of comic poets.

But it flows less smoothly and easily than that of the dialogue of Latin comedy.

He began an English prose version of Dante's Divine Comedy - which has earned him the name of " Dante Carlyle "- but only completed the translation of the Inferno (1849).

To his Leipzig student-days belong also two small plays in Alexandrines, Die Laune des Verliebten, a pastoral comedy in one act, which reflects the lighter side of the poet's love affair, and Die Mitschuldigen (published in a revised form, 1769), a more sombre picture, in which comedy is incongruously mingled with tragedy.

Faust has been well called the "divine comedy" of 18th-century humanism.

The ancients were undecided whether to class him among the writers of the New or Middle comedy.

If one of the two is to be rejected it must be the tenth, which is certainly the less Homeric. It relates a picturesque adventure, conceived in a vein more approaching that of comedy than any other part of the Iliad.

The Divine Comedy, the Canzoniere and the Decameron were works of monumental art, deriving neither form nor inspiration immediately from the classic's, but applying the originality of Italian genius Petrarch to matter drawn from previous medieval sources.

Seneca was chosen as the model of tragedy; Plautus and Terence supplied the groundwork of comedy.

His numerous works include the musical comedy, Pierre le Grand (1790), for Gretry's music, and the opera, Les Deux Journees (1800), music by Cherubini; also L' Abbe de l'epee (1800), and some other plays; and Causeries d'un vieillard (1807), Contes a ma fille (1809), and Les Adieux du vieux conteur (1835).

Laos and F ra (Davus, Geta) were common as names of slaves in Attic comedy and in the adaptations of Plautus and Terence.

Before this disaster he had been professor of jurisprudence in Upsala, where his first historical comedy Disa was performed in 1611 and the tragedy of Signill in 1612.

In his comedy of The Envious Man he introduced the manner of Moliere, or more properly that of Holberg.

He wrote fables, allegories, satires, and a successful comedy of manners, The Swedish Fop. He outlived his chief contemporaries so long that the new generation addressed him as " Father Gyllenborg."

His play, A Venetian Comedy, enjoyed a substantial success in 1904.