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squibs

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plural of squib

as in comedies

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The difference is that climate-change comedies have trouble choking out a laugh.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Run by Garelick and President Will Phelps, American High was founded to fill a gap in the feature market by producing the kinds of teen comedies that are now seldom made elsewhere.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of comedies

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Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Did celebrated Italian auteur Nanni Moretti, known at home and abroad for his leftist political satires and introspective human comedies, just make his first straight-up soap opera?

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

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Focus Features Director Curry Barker is one of those internet stars, a YouTube content creator who gained a huge following making horror shorts and comedy skits.

— Luke Burbank, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026
Two of the skits were based on The View and depicted the Republican cohost as ditzy — during an interview with Jenny McCarthy (Emma Stone), Bryant’s McCain was more concerned with chatting about The Masked Singer than vaccines.

— Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of skits

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Alex and Phoebe and Christian were writing and making sketches of stuff.

— Christine Werthman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
Sotheby’s said Turner based the painting on sketches made during an 1828 visit and probably began it in Rome before completing it in London for exhibition at the Royal Academy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of sketches

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With sparse amounts of slapstick, this staging isn’t the most physical of farces, though Lutz and Enriquez in particular strike some laugh-out-loud poses.

— Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Two suburban groups, Plano’s Rover Dramawerks and MainStage Irving-Las Colinas, are opening the new year with farces by prolific British playwrights that are marked by mistaken identity and other comic twists.

— Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026

Definition of farces

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