comedy

comedy
n
1. farce, comic opera, It. commedia dell'arte. comedy of manners, comedy of errors, musical, musical comedy; burlesque, Theat. burletta, commedietta, travesty, sock, skit; parody, satire, lampoon, gallows humor; harlequinade, pantomime, mimicry; vaudeville, slapstick, low comedy, high comedy.
2. fun, humor, wit, salt, Attic salt; drollery, wittiness, buffoonery, foolery, waggery, horseplay; banter, pleasantry, persiflage, raillery, chaffing, badinage; jesting, joking, japing, jocosity, jocularity; frivolity, jollity, joviality, jocundity; hilarity, levity, facetiousness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, farcicality; tomfoolery, silliness, Inf. shenanigans; inanity, foolishness, giddiness

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