Comedy in which the subject and its treatment border on farce; comedy based on physical humour; slapstick.

That species of the drama which is constituted by such works.

A genre of comedy which is designed to be entertaining rather than thought-provoking. Also as a count noun: a production of this kind.

comedy of a sophisticated or intellectual nature (cf. low comedy, n. 1); (also) something which is very funny.

a type of comedy which depicts the manners, habits, or affectations of society or a social class humorously or satirically.

A short comedy, typically light-hearted or farcical in tone or subject matter.

attributive. Designating plays performed at or in a style characteristic of the Adelphi Theatre in London, esp. (in early use, chiefly in Adelphi scr…

Improvised popular comedy as played in Italian theatres from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries with actors representing stock…

As a mass noun: the genre comprising musical comedies (sometimes taken to include all musicals).

Comedy which treats violent or macabre subject matter in a humorous or farcical manner. Cf. black comedy at black, adj. 12b.

a style of comedy which rejects certain established (esp. racist or sexist) comic stereotypes, and is typically characterized by a left-wing…