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    A dramedy is a movie or program that balances the elements of a drama and a comedy. Also known as a comedy drama, this hybrid genre often deals with real life situations, grounded characters, and believable situations.

  2. v. t. e. Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. [1] For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy ending. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and ...

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    Theatre

    Traditional theatre was separated from its earliest days into comedy and tragedy. Authors such as Anton Chekov and George Bernard Shawfamously blurred the line between comedy and drama.

    Early television

    In live theatre the difference between comedy and tragedy became less and less significant, in mass media, comedy and drama were clearly separated. Comedies, especially, were meant to only have jokesand not any serious content. By the early 1960s, television had started to present half-hour long "comedy" series, or one hour long "dramas." Half-hour series were mostly situation comedy or family comedy. One hour dramas could have detective series, westerns and science fiction.

    A drama-comedy today is usually an hour-long dramatic series with funny jokes such as Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Eureka, Life on Mars, House, Desperate Housewives, Charmed, Popular, Skins, Monk, Psych, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Ally McBeal, Ugly Betty, Brothers & Si...

    "Genre: Comedy Drama". All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2006-04-29. Retrieved 2024-05-16.

  3. British comedy-drama television shows. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories.

  4. List of comedy drama television series. This is a list of television series in the comedy drama (aka dramedy) genre.

  5. The Micallef Program (satire/sketch comedy) (2001–2003) (Series 2 was known as The Micallef Programme; series 3 was known as The Micallef Pogram, without the first "r" and the "-me") Minty (Australian/British production) (1998)

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