What is comedy? What is comedy? A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.The genre made up of such works.A literary or cinematic work of a comic nature or that uses the themes or methods of comedy. Popular entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.The art of composing or performing comedy.A humorous element of life or literature: the human comedy of political campaigns. A humorous occurrence.comedy of errors A ludicrous event or sequence of events: The candidate's campaign turned out to be a political comedy of errors.