comedy
 
comedy
 (kŏmʹĭ-dē) noun
Abbr. com.
1.
	a. A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict. b. The genre made up of such works.
2.	A literary or cinematic work of a comic nature or that uses the themes or methods of comedy. 
3.	Popular entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance. 
4.	The art of composing or performing comedy. 
5.	A humorous element of life or literature: the human comedy of political campaigns. 
6.	A humorous occurrence. 
noun
, attributive.
Often used to modify another noun: a comedy writer; a comedy show. 
 
idiom.
comedy of errors
A ludicrous event or sequence of events: The candidate's campaign turned out to be a political comedy of errors. 
 
[Middle English comedie, from Medieval Latin cōmēdia, from Latin cōmoedia, from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos, comic actor : kōmos, revel + aoidos, singer (from aeidein, to sing).]