comedy gold
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- noun
- Informal
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oro cómico
- Will anything come close to touching the comedy gold of watching MSNBC on election night as Romney blasts to a surprisingly easy victory over Obama?
Jlo walking parts Katy Perry as she tries to put her hamburger costume back on is comedy gold.
- Jlo walking parts Katy Perry as she tries to put her hamburger costume back on is comedy gold.
- Like the lines are so good and you're like, God, this is comedy gold on so many aspects.
Examples
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1950s comedy gold, that one was.
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Fred Willard is comedy gold in Best in Show.
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Sure, Die Another Day is worse, but at least there they went so over the top that it can be seen as comedy gold.
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This is turning into comedy gold.
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Pure comedy gold right there, folks.
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I'm not sure... maybe I was drunk, but George S had the comedy gold of the night.
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And every moment of their cognitive dissonance is comedy gold.
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Please keep going, the unintentional comedy you're dropping is just comedy gold.
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It was comedy gold!
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The comedian's newest stand-up special is pure comedy gold, with hilarious stories that had the audience in stitches.
Synonyms
The quality of being very funny and making people laugh a lot
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'something exceptionally funny or valuable as comedic material' is directly inferable from 'comedy' (funny material) combined with 'gold' (a familiar metaphor for high value or excellence). This noun–noun composition and the metaphorical use of 'gold' are common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will very likely understand the MWE.
Etymology
Comedy gold comes from the idea that very funny jokes are like gold, a valuable metal that people prize. So when something is called comedy gold, it means it is 'very funny' and 'valuable' for performers.