Drama vs. Humor — What's the Difference?

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c.

The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness

A play for theatre, radio, or television

That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement

An exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance

The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd

A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action.

One of the four fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile, whose relative proportions were thought in ancient and medieval physiology to determine a person's disposition and general health.

A serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema.

A body fluid, such as blood, lymph, or bile.

Theatrical plays of a particular kind or period

Aqueous humor.

The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works.

Vitreous humor.

A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play

A person's characteristic disposition or temperament

The quality or condition of being dramatic

An often temporary state of mind; a mood

A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

A sudden, unanticipated inclination; a whim.

Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)

Capricious or peculiar behavior.

Theatrical plays in general

To comply with the wishes or ideas of (another) in order to keep that person satisfied or unaware of criticism; indulge

A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play

To adapt or accommodate oneself to

(slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

Alternative spelling of humour

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

Alternative spelling of humour

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.

A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage;

State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.

An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.

The literary genre of works intended for the theater

That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

The quality of being arresting or highly emotional

To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

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

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

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

The quality of being funny;

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

The liquid parts of the body

Put into a good mood