Comedy and Lampoon

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Comedy noun - The amusing quality or element in something.

Usage example: I just don't see the comedy in someone flunking a driving test that they really needed to pass

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Lampoon and comedy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lampoon" instead a noun "Comedy".

Nearby Word: comedian

Lampoon noun - A creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general.

Usage example: this classic musical is a lampoon of the movie business at the time when sound was introduced

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Comedy and lampoon are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comedy" instead a noun "Lampoon".

Nearby Words: lampooning, lampooned

They lampoon various aspects of society, though its apparent through their comedy that they don't take themselves too seriously.

Source: Creator / The Other Ones
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter definitely played up the comedy elements, with the Twenty Minutes with Jerks feeling very much like a teen comedy that could easily be called National Lampoon's Friday The 13th.

Source: Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror
There's actually a whole genre of comedy based on this sort of thing, films like Big Trouble and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and books like A Confederacy of Dunces.

Source: Anthropic Principle

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