How to Use musical comedy in a Sentence

musical comedy

noun
  • This feel-good musical comedy smash is based on the hit film.
    — Cindy Kent, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • This musical comedy begins with a small town that's beloved corn is dying.
    — Alex Golden, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
  • This musical comedy begins with a small town that's beloved corn is dying.
    — Alex Golden, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The musical comedy is about a French gay couple who own a drag nightclub.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • With so many stuck at home doom-scrolling, there was unslakable need for his brand of musical comedy relief.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • And Christine is a musical comedy person, so there’s a lot of that.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Frankly, no zombie-Christmas-high school musical comedy has a right to be this good.
    — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2017
  • In this musical comedy based on the Hasbro board game, the audience gets to pick.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
  • This is one of those rare times when a musical comedy actually lives up to the noun, not just the adjective.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Adam Devine reprises his role from the musical comedy franchise in this new spinoff series.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Adam Devine reprises his role from the musical comedy franchise in this new spinoff series.
    — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • In this musical comedy, ladies of the evening hang out and tell jokes in a dive in postwar Amsterdam.
    — John Timpane, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • My background is stand-up and musical comedy, and all my acting jobs have been musical theatre.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Rivera’s disappearance is the third major tragedy to befall the cast of the cheery musical comedy.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • The puppet show itself is a fun musical comedy for all ages, with a behind-the-scenes look into puppetry after the show.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Gascón also brought Victoria to see the filming of the musical comedy up close.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Broadway in Portland is back with the first national tour of the record-breaking musical comedy based on the hit film.
    — oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Bobin made a name for himself as one of the creators of the musical comedy series Flight of the Conchords.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2020
  • New Jersey’s first superhero takes the stage in this monster of a musical comedy, based on the classic cult film.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 June 2025
  • In choosing Tim Platt, who does a lot of musical comedy, for the first album, is that going to be a theme of your label?
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The romantic musical comedy is set in Paris during the late '50s and told in flashback.
    — Steve Rothaus, miamiherald, 31 May 2018
  • Not to be confused with New Zealand musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Season 3 of the musical comedy series is set to premiere on the streamer March 14, with all six episodes dropping that day.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This musical comedy-drama is an adaptation of the 1964 Broadway show by the same name.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Set in Paris in the 1930s, the show is a gender-bending musical comedy with themes that resonate with today’s times.
    — Pomerado News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Well, things are pretty scary right now, and on his first album of original songs since before the pandemic, Byrne is … writing musical comedy.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Gleeks will have a special place in their hearts for Guthrie, who played Roderick Meeks in the sixth and final season of the musical comedy show.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 12 June 2018
  • After a difficult divorce, an unemployed actor goes to absurd lengths to create an alter ego in order to spend time with his kids in this musical comedy.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Born in the Bronx in 1931, New York, Chianese got his start in musical comedy on stage.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Recently launching a new musical comedy podcast called Mom Said!
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'musical comedy.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: