How to Use comedy drama in a Sentence

comedy drama

noun
  • Filming on the eight-part comedy drama will begin next year, we are told.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The comedy drama first arrived on Hulu in April.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The next year, in 2014, Sofia got her start with a guest role in the FX comedy drama Louie.
    — Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The comedy drama scooped awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes.
    — Clare Fisher, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • But her lead role as a working mom in this stress-inducing psychological comedy drama could provide her best performance yet.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
  • That marks a promising commencement for the new comedy drama, which Fox also says has generated about 1 billion minutes viewed across its first two episodes.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Private Eyes West Coast is a spinoff of Canadian detective comedy drama that ran for five seasons.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Fox is launching Best Medicine, an adaptation of the long-running medical comedy drama, in midseason.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The actor subsequently used the space to film parts of his 2011 comedy drama Newlyweds.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The comedy drama, about legitimate defense law, was released at Lunar New Year time and was a huge box office success.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The fantasy comedy drama kicked off back in 2008 with the first Good Witch movie, which evolved into a total of seven titles.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The Polish comedy drama potrays the generation of today’s 40-year-olds from the perspective of a woman who is in need of profound changes in her life.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 July 2022
  • Vanessa’s first role was alongside Scarlett in the 1996 comedy drama Manny & Lo, as part of a group in the background.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Goodrich—a new comedy drama starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis—is coming soon to digital streaming.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The dark comedy drama has been selected for Berlinale’s Series Market Selects.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Jay Kelly star George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, attended the red carpet premiere of the comedy drama on Thursday.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The comedy drama, co-created by Danielle Sanchez Witzel and based on Buteau’s memoir of the same name, premiered its first season in 2023.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
  • Deadline sat down with Crook and Isles to talk about their predictions for Small Prophets, the state of British comedy drama and whether Crook will return to film acting.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The comedy drama is directed and exec-produced by Trent O’Donnell (Colin From Accounts).
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As Hacks takes its final bow on HBO Max this week, the cast and creators are bidding a heartfelt farewell to the 5x Golden Globe-winning comedy drama.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 May 2026
  • While horror is a huge draw to Thai audiences, other popular genres in Thailand are comedy drama and BL (Boys’ Love) projects, Yoon said.
    — Jim Halterman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The film, which world premiered as the opening film of the Sarajevo Film Festival over the summer, is a comedy drama about a young woman who travels to a remote island to solve an issue of family inheritance.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Naishtat was last on the festival circuit with comedy drama Puan, which premiered at San Sebastian, winning frequent collaborator Subiotto best leading performance.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Edko Films’ comedy drama Night King topped the box office over the six month period with $15M (HK$118M) from its Lunar New Year release.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 2 July 2026
  • Vital Signs, also starring Louis Koo and Angela Yuen, is a comedy drama revolving around a group of paramedics which received funding from the Hong Kong Film Development Council.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Upcoming titles include Radu Jude’s comedy drama Kontinental ‘25, winner of Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Driving Miss Daisy, the 1989 comedy drama, details the unlikely friendship between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy, played by Jessica Tandy, and a Black chauffeur named Hoke, played by Freeman.
    — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Laurent Lafitte won best actor for his turn alongside Isabelle Huppert in Thierry Khifla’s comedy drama The Richest Woman In The World, loosely based on the 2010 Bettencourt Affair.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Born in Austin, Texas, Farrell made her onscreen debut in the second episode of M*A*S*H in 1972, appearing on the CBS war comedy drama as various nurses throughout the show’s 11-season run that concluded in 1983.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 1 May 2026
  • Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Zach Cherry and Kate Berlant have joined Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen in Babies, the new comedy drama from writer-director Lauren Miller Rogen now shooting in Los Angeles.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025

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