(a.) Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
(a.) Causing mirth; ludicrous.
(n.) A comedian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because such a possibility seems so remote as to be comic.
(2) NGOs and foundations • Comic Relief Announced new funding of £1m at the conference.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(5) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
(6) "The only thing missing for true greatness however has been that comical touch that comes each time England figure out a new way to completely discombobulate themselves as they crash out.
(7) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(8) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(9) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(10) That's in 1888; by 1890 the tone is of comic resignation (there is much comedy in these pages) as Edmond realises that he has devoted the whole of his life "to a special sort of literature: the sort that brings one trouble".
(11) He will continue to work part time for BBC radio on leadership development and take on an advisory role with Comic Relief.
(12) iPhone Shifter: Interactive Graphic Novel (Free) What was that about interesting things in the world of digital comics?
(13) Ian Livingstone is not all that keen on being photographed near the life-sized model of Lara Croft in his study – even though he was largely responsible for launching her on the world nearly 20 years ago, and the heroine of the Tomb Raider video games, comics and films helped to make his fortune.
(14) Trump’s tragic Nam story is captured in the film Apocalypse Ow.” On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the comic examined the timing of Trump’s Nordstrom tweet, noting that it came just 21 minutes after he was supposed to be in his daily intelligence briefing.
(15) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," Allen told the Guardian.
(16) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.
(17) The ex-comic ruled out giving a crucial confidence vote in parliament to a centre-left government and reiterated that the M5S's new legion of deputies and senators would vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
(18) There have always been geeks and fans here, it’s just now they call it Comic-Con.
(19) Zack Snyder's comic-book reimagining, which opens in the UK and US this Friday, is being tipped for an impressive box office haul.
(20) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
Monologue
Definition:
(n.) A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.
(n.) A dramatic composition for a single performer.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the show and that’s the best and worst thing about it,” he says, before using a recent parody of Beyoncé’s monologues in her visual album Lemonade as an example.
(2) But after 14 hours Danilkin's numbing monologue – almost a carbon copy of the prosecutors's case – is beginning to pall.
(3) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
(4) It's the kind of TV that makes for a wipe-your-weekend-plans box set: the ending of every crack-fix of an episode had me twitchily reaching for the remote to a muttered internal monologue of: "Next one, next one, now, now…" Danes carries the series as the bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, whose furious vigilance is hard to distinguish from pathological mania as she investigates, and ultimately falls for, Sergeant Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine who may or may not be a terrorist after eight years held captive by al-Qaida.
(5) They are less into the substance and more into the optics.” But there was an underlining danger that a freewheeling, tweet-happy Trump would become irritated with the formulaic pre-approved monologues he was likely to hear from his guest.
(6) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(7) At university she did her dissertation on child sexual abuse and prostitution, but became inspired to campaign against sexual violence when she volunteered for the organisation that stages the one-woman play, the Vagina Monologues.
(8) Astonishing as it may come to seem to media historians – especially if Desmond fulfils the worst expectations of observers – there was a time when Five specialised, in early evening peak time, in shows in which Tim Marlow delivered a monologue on an artist or art show.
(9) The older group’s videos usually involve a lengthy monologue in Arabic reminding Muslims of their various jihadi duties and little else.
(10) "If you didn't believe it before – and it's easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point – if you didn't believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world" Letterman during his monologue on his first show back after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
(11) It's one of the show's periodic "dark weeks", so the open-plan offices are almost empty, except for Oliver and his boss, Jon Stewart , who emerges briefly to perform an impromptu monologue about his plans to order falafel for lunch.
(12) Watching Fox News is like a rehearsed ballet: every show over the last week has claimed that president Obama’s response to the murder of journalist James Foley has been so weak because he issued a statement before going back to his golf game while on vacation – host Judge Jeanine’s monologue epitomised the channel’s sentiment.
(13) In his opening monologue he also referenced the police shootings in the US: “This year in the In Memoriam package, it’s just going to be black people who were shot by the cops on the way to the movies.” Rock made his personal stance on diversity in the film industry known in December 2014.
(14) Yet our confusions over the c-word are demonstrated by the fact that it has been common in recent years to find hundreds of women standing in a public arena and yelling the gynaecological obscenity: the setting is performances of the drama The Vagina Monologues, in which one sequence invites women to reclaim and empower the down-there noun.
(15) Ensler's brand of feminism has evolved since The Vagina Monologues.
(16) Four male volunteers provided 5-minute monologues in three conditions: Round 1,placebo; Round 2, 15 mg THC; Round 3, recovery.
(17) It's an unusual evening in a small, intimate theatre: just Lipton and three musicians telling the story, through song and monologue, of a man whose office is about to be relocated far, far away, taking his job with it.
(18) The patient provided 5-minute monologues both before and after drug effects.
(19) Results indicate that the semantic and conversational categories that occurred in monologue speech were similar to those that appeared in contextually matched dialogue speech but the proportional frequencies differed.
(20) He did the monologue, the sketch about the success of his presidency (featuring his daughter Ivanka playing herself), and a few other things, but his appearance was mostly limited to a few stray lines playing the straight man or quick appearances in the pre-taped sketches.