comedy
noun
[ ˈkɒmɪdi ]
• professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
• "a cabaret with music, dancing, and comedy"
Similar:
light entertainment,
comic play/film,
farce,
situation comedy,
burlesque,
pantomime,
slapstick,
satire,
vaudeville,
comic opera,
sitcom,
• a play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.
• "Shakespeare's comedies"
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’.
