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Don’t forget the recently completed fifth season of the spy caper “Slow Horses,” which leaned more into dark comedy and may have been its best and most well-balanced season yet.

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Sally says that when Python burst on the scene, in the late 1960s, "they played with the structure of comedy, defying the convention of gag and punchline".

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Few American novelists have ventured across so many registers of comedy and calamity.

Desperation, in comedy, is pathetic but not tragic; indeed, it’s a pillar of the form.

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When Apple TV first launched, it had just nine programs, but since then has expanded its library to include critically acclaimed shows and films including comedy “Ted Lasso,” drama “Severance” and “The Studio.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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