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• n  a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
• n  a comedy with serious elements or overtones

• Devils on the Doorstep is Jiang's scalding tragicomedy set in a Chinese village during the wartime occupation by the Japanese.
• The Associated Press Saigon bureau chief, Richard Pyle, was less benign but more accurate when he called the briefings "the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia's .
• As both harangue and movie tragicomedy, Sicko is socko.

• seriocomedy

News & Articles

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• Critics hail Daniel Radcliffe's latest stage turn
  LONDON — Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan." The former "Harry Potter" star plays the title role in a Michael Grandage-directed production of McDonagh's scabrous tragicomedy at London's Noel Coward Theatre. First staged in 1996, the play is a raucously dark take on Irish identity from the ...
  June 19, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Carlos Mejía Godoy in International Herald Tribune
  I cannot allow songs inspired by the sacrifice of thousands of Nicaraguan people to serve as a musical backdrop for ...... the most embarrassing tragicomedy in recent years,said Mejia Godoy, who ran unsuccessfully for vice president in 2006...
• Isa Gambar in Reuters
  It's a farce, a tragicomedy,said Isa Gambar, leader of the main opposition Musavat party.
• François Bayrou in AFP
  Centrist MoDem party leader Francois Bayrou, who finished third in the 2007 presidential election, told French television the congress was a "tragicomedy or distressing, depending on whether you're close to or far from the PS (Socialist Party)."