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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
In the international competition, Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot took home the 50,000 Swedish krona ($4,500) prize for his tragicomedy Memoir of a Snail.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
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Lorre, a veteran comedy creator, executive producer and writer, will speak as part of the Summit Series at the 46th edition of Banff from June 8 to 11, 2025.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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The comedy special Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life will premiere Saturday, April 26 at 10 pm on HBO (and stream on Max).—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
10 Apr. 2025
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So what starts out as this high-school melodrama done for laughs grows into something darker and more profound as the story progresses.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Directed by Vincente Minnelli, this romantic melodrama was filmed on the beaches of Big Sur.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Instagram comment sections are flooded with hearts and flowers; the media memorializes a tragedy.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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These events devastate local communities not just as the tragedy unfolds but in its aftermath.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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Just last night, the couple attended the opening of Smash—a smart musical about the making of a bad one—accompanied by their 15-year-old twins, just old enough to brave the celebrity circus with their parents as chaperones.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 2025
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Instead, the major drama comes in the form of Ivy’s corruption by her acting coach, as Ivy gradually goes method and becomes as difficult to work with as Marilyn was (one of this musical’s many meta moments).—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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The book by Bob Martin travels between Betty’s cartoon world and the real one — or at least the world of musical comedy (which isn’t all that real anyway).—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2025
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The musical comedy is about a French gay couple who own a drag nightclub.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Katt’s final on screen credit, according to IMDb, was in an episode of Hulu dramedy Casual in 2018.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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The dramedy about the behind-the-scenes lives, loves and pain of professional athletes rattled some cages with its hard-hitting depictions of alcohol and pain-drug abuse and solidified Kotcheff as a filmmaker to be reckoned with.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
11 Apr. 2025
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
Thomas Curran,
Time,
8 Aug. 2023
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Suzie Miller constructs her monodrama at the intersection of #MeToo and British justice, and though the dramatist appends a superfluous moral to the story, the proceedings amount to a virtuosic, blow-by-blow account of a process stacked against female victims.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
17 May 2022
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragicomedy. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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