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musical comedy

noun as in humorous musical performance

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This past spring, executive producer Tina Fey and creator Meredith Scardino offered up Girls5eva, a hilarious musical comedy that traced the reunion of a late-’90s one-hit-wonder girl group.

From Time

The Pirates of Penzance is a romantic musical comedy from 1983.

Other musical comedy fans are probably also wondering why Peacock’s “Girls5eva” didn’t make the list.

This month’s highlights include a modern Masterpiece, an offbeat British rom-com, an homage to Anaïs Nin, a musical comedy about finding oneself in punk rock and the darkly funny origin story of an ’80s aerobics mogul.

From Time

A radio and TV writer with no previous musical comedy experience, Burrows almost instantly solved the problems with the book.

His big break came when he was cast as Finn on Ryan Murphy's musical-comedy TV series Glee.

I was also expecting a surprise nomination for Channing Tatum as best actor/musical comedy, since he was in every movie this year.

From heckling hecklers to his musical comedy, WATCH VIDEO of seven of his classic moments.

Jace Lacob on where the Fox musical-comedy has gone horribly, offensively wrong.

I daresay you know Lord Woldo saw me in a musical comedy at Scarborough—he has a place near there, ye know.

It was as much like musical comedy as any stage setting of war at the Gaiety.

Great care has been taken to follow the usual musical-comedy plan of making the Second Act even worse than the first.

His Iole was the basis of a delightful musical comedy produced in New York in 1913.

In hours of ease some business men follow baseball, others golf, tired ones musical comedy.

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

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