Tragicomedy

As a lover of both potty-mouthed satire and knockabout tragicomedy, I’m delighted that Monday promises a healthy portion of each.

The unsung hero of my COVID tragicomedy: Paxlovid.

He was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a BAFTA for his role in tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin (2023).

Running just short of two-and-a-half hours, the pic is a complex and formally ambitious tale, perhaps best described as a tragicomedy, set in a deathly busy New York City restaurant called The Grill.

The Angelina Jolie-directed war film “Without Blood," a documentary about Bruce Springsteen and Mike Leigh’s contemporary tragicomedy “Hard Truths” will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall.

It is the kind of bizarre, unexpected tale of tragicomedy that excelled at bringing to the big screen in his prime.

Just as the common man has no control over the ups and downs of the share market, the public too has nothing to do with the tragicomedy of politics.

There is the odd scissors-kick and the bicycle kick, but not enough to bring back memories of Atlee’s atrocious misrepresentation of the game of football in the tragicomedy that was.

Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot main, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts".