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Main Difference
The main difference between Comedy and Drama is that the Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous and Drama is a artwork intended for performance, formal type of literature.
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Comedy
In a modern sense, comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a “Society of Youth” and a “Society of the Old.” A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse in ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of their humor. Parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them.
Other forms of comedy include screwball comedy, which derives its humor largely from bizarre, surprising (and improbable) situations or characters, and black comedy, which is characterized by a form of humor that includes darker aspects of human behavior or human nature. Similarly scatological humor, sexual humor, and race humor create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways. A comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society (usually upper-class society) and uses humor to parody or satirize the behavior and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a popular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love.
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Drama
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. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.The term “drama” comes from a Greek word meaning “action” (Classical Greek: δρᾶμα, drama), which is derived from “I do” (Classical Greek: δράω, drao). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy.
In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word play or game (translating the Anglo-Saxon pleġan or Latin ludus) was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare’s time—just as its creator was a play-maker rather than a dramatist and the building was a play-house rather than a theatre.The use of “drama” in a more narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the modern era. “Drama” in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example, Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (1873) or Chekhov’s Ivanov (1887). It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies, adopted to describe “drama” as a genre within their respective media. The term ‘Radio drama has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a live performance. May also refer to the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio.
The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception.Mime is a form of drama where the action of a story is told only through the movement of the body. Drama can be combined with music: the dramatic text in opera is generally sung throughout; as for in some ballets dance “expresses or imitates emotion, character, and narrative action”. Musicals include both spoken dialogue and songs; and some forms of drama have incidental music or musical accompaniment underscoring the dialogue (melodrama and Japanese Nō, for example). Closet drama is a form that is intended to be read, rather than performed. In improvisation, the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance; performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience.
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Comedy (noun)
A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.
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Comedy (noun)
A light, amusing play with a happy ending.
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Comedy (noun)
A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).
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Comedy (noun)
A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.
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Comedy (noun)
The genre of such works.
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Comedy (noun)
Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.
“Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?”
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Comedy (noun)
The art of composing comedy.
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Comedy (noun)
A humorous event.
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Drama (noun)
A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
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Drama (noun)
Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
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Drama (noun)
Theatrical plays in general
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Drama (noun)
A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play
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Drama (noun)
Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.
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Comedy (noun)
professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh
“the show combines theatre with the best of stand-up comedy”
“a cabaret with music, dancing, and comedy”
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Comedy (noun)
a film, play, or broadcast programme intended to make an audience laugh
“a comedy film”
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Comedy (noun)
the style or genre represented by comedy films, plays, and broadcast programmes
“the conventions of romantic comedy have grown more appealing with the passage of time”
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Comedy (noun)
the humorous or amusing aspects of something
“advertising people see the comedy in their work”
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Comedy (noun)
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
“Shakespeare’s comedies”
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Comedy (noun)
the dramatic genre represented by comedies
“satiric comedy”
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Drama (noun)
a play for theatre, radio, or television
“a gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem”
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Drama (noun)
plays as a genre or style of literature
“Renaissance drama”
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Drama (noun)
the activity of acting
“drama school”
“teachers who use drama are working in partnership with pupils”
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Drama (noun)
an exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance
“a hostage drama”
“an afternoon of high drama at Wembley”