The difference between Comedy and Humour
When used as nouns, comedy means a choric song of celebration or revel, especially in ancient greece, whereas humour means the quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
Humour is also verb with the meaning: to pacify by indulging.
check bellow for the other definitions of Comedy and Humour
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Comedy as a noun (countable, historical):
A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.
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Comedy as a noun (countable):
A light, amusing play with a happy ending.
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Comedy as a noun (countable, Medieval Europe):
A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).
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Comedy as a noun (countable, drama):
A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.
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Comedy as a noun (drama):
The genre of such works.
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Comedy as a noun (uncountable):
Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.
Examples:
"Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?"
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Comedy as a noun:
The art of composing comedy.
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Comedy as a noun (countable):
A humorous event.
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Humour as a noun (uncountable):
The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
Examples:
"She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together."
"The sensitive subject was treated with humour, but in such way that no one was offended."
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Humour as a noun (uncountable):
A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
Examples:
"He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon."
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Humour as a noun (archaic, _, or, _, historical):
Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
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Humour as a noun (medicine):
Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
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Humour as a noun (obsolete):
Moist vapour, moisture.
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Humour as a verb (transitive):
To pacify by indulging.
Examples:
"I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true."