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noun

Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.

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Compare Middle Comedy, Old Comedy.

Origin of New Comedy

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby New Comedy

New Church, New City, new-collar, Newcomb, Newcombe, New Comedy, Newcomen, newcomer, New Country, new covenant, new criticism

How to use New Comedy in a sentence

Listening to Sarah Palin talk about history is like watching an episode of the new Comedy Central show Drunk History.
Sarah Palin Is Perfect for ‘The View’|Dean Obeidallah|July 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wilson was an unusual and refreshing new comedy presence in Hollywood.
Rebel Wilson’s ‘Super Fun Night’ Is Not So Fun|Kevin Fallon|October 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The new comedy, premiering Wednesday night on ABC, stars Rebel Wilson.
Rebel Wilson’s ‘Super Fun Night’ Is Not So Fun|Kevin Fallon|October 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
That, in a nutshell, is the response of three right-wing media outlets to the new comedy documentary The Muslims Are Coming!
Why the Right Is Bashing My Muslim Comedy Movie|Dean Obeidallah|September 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Splitsider calls it “far and away the most promising new comedy of the season.”
Andy Samberg and Lonely Island Move On From ‘Saturday Night Live’|Kevin Fallon|June 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Go to the play in the evening with Hunt and Marianne, and see a new comedy damned.
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2)|Florence A. Thomas Marshall
In the evening I went to the theater to see a new comedy by a Spaniard.
Records of a Girlhood|Frances Ann Kemble
The most distinguished poet of the New Comedy; fragments of his comedies have come down to us.
Quintus Claudius, Volume 1 of 2|Ernst Eckstein
They are adaptations or combinations from the works of Menander, Diphilus, Philemon, and other writers of the new comedy.
The Roman Poets of the Republic|W. Y. Sellar
I must finish the new comedy and I can't finish it if I stay in town and see Cecily.
Changing Winds|St. John G. Ervine