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• a  of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy
  a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama
• s  manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
  the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman
• s  having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics
  her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad

• Its the quintessential Grillo tragicomic formula: use a touch of over-the-top humor to probe the serious social issues that leaders dont want to touch.
• Its power--a compound of rebel cheekiness, stylistic innovation and a tragicomic vision of media power--has never waned.
• He is the great tragicomic songwriter of his age equal parts Cole Porter and Charlie Brown and love is his unkickable football.

• tragicomical

News & Articles

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• America's Enemies Now Using Carrier Pigeons And Invisible Ink Letters: The Absurd, The Tragicomic And The Bizarre
  Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds America's Enemies Now Using Carrier Pigeons and Invisible Ink Letters: the Absurdist, Tragicomic Narratives of Domestic Surveillance If you know your electronic communication is being monitored, you start using couriers, carrier pigeons and invisible ink snail-mail--anything other than electronic communication. The recent confirmation of ...
  June 12, 2013 - Zero Hedge

Quotes

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• Diego Maradona in CBSSports.com
  No, this one hit his arm. It's pretty obvious, the ball even hit his arm twice,said Maradona. "The tragicomic thing is the smile of the referee afterwards, I didn't see the referee laugh after I scored the goal against England. The referee...
• Arnaud Montebourg in Reuters South Africa
  This visit is turning into a tragicomic farce,Socialist Arnaud Montebourg told parliament. "It ridicules France, weakens France's voice, tarnishes the universality of its message."