Comedy vs. Humour — What's the Difference?

Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōdía) is a genre of fiction comprised of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in Ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.

Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.

Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh

The quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech

A play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity

A mood or state of mind

A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

Each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy)) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present.

The genre made up of such works.

Comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be

A literary or cinematic work of a comic nature or that uses the themes or methods of comedy.

Variant of humor.

Popular entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

The art of composing or performing comedy.

(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.

A humorous element of life or literature

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.

A humorous occurrence.

(medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.

(obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.

(countable) A light, amusing play with a happy ending.

(transitive) To pacify by indulging.

A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).

Same as humor.

A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

(drama) The genre of such works.

A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

(uncountable) Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.

(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state;

The art of composing comedy.

The liquid parts of the body

(countable) A humorous event.

The quality of being funny;

A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; - opposed to tragedy.

The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous;

Light and humorous drama with a happy ending

Put into a good mood

A comic incident or series of incidents