How to Use comic relief in a Sentence

comic relief

noun
  • Dustin was just the smart comic relief.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Even some of the comic relief has been nice – there’s just been too much of it.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • But there is also a bit of comic relief.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And of course, comic relief—and a few cat fights—will never hurt.
    — Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Starr was the fastest to comic relief and most averse to pretension in any form.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • All of the women agree that Chaeryeong is the comic relief of the group.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2020
  • When so much of the play takes such a waggishly comedic tone, where’s the need for comic relief?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
  • As intense as the show can be, Culkin can be relied on for comic relief.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • So in plays and things, I was always cast as the comic relief, back in my ham-it-up days.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
  • There were a lot of emotional moments and there were comic reliefs part there, too.
    — refinery29.com, 19 June 2018
  • One was the leader, one was the femme fatale/comic relief, and one was the muscle.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Grofield isn’t just comic relief for Stanfield.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Either way, Druski blessed us all with some spot-on comic relief this week.
    — Christine Imarenezor, VIBE.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Others offered a mix of comic relief and hard truths about the cost of airport shopping.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Even in the midst of a grueling drill, Howard cannot help but insert comic relief.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • And after moving the whole wedding party to tears, the kid brought it home with some sweet comic relief.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Broadway is a pricey place for this kind of burlesque, but the need for comic relief these days is palpable.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • And yet at the same time, Miranda provides some of the comic relief.
    — Jennifer Vineyard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Kiki is the comic relief, of course; her and Marysol are tied for comic relief.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The old maid provides comic relief in your novella Kraków Times.
    — Wisława Szymborska, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The boy in the tutu and his twin brother had happily adopted the role of comic relief.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • And now for the hour’s comic relief, which comes in the form of Laoghaire trying to kill Jamie with her bare hands.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Thankfully, the writers snuck in a little comic relief after the two had a blowout.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Jan. 2019
  • Frangulis is also there to support her when the match doesn't go her way — and to offer a little comic relief.
    — Maddie Garfinkle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This silent trio is meant to provide big comic relief, pbut there are varying degrees of how broad that comedy can get.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • But according to Sterns, their presence off the field gives the team some needed comic relief at times.
    — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The rest of the expansive cast can be hard to keep track of, but there is plenty of comic relief from all the darker drama.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Eleanor Bron and William Daniels show up at just the perfect time for some antic comic relief.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • The latter provides much of the comic relief as a man whose cultural voice far outweighs his knowledge.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 8 May 2026
  • Because initially, the way it was written, there was some comic relief lines in there that were just excised in the moment.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025

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