| 喜剧 | xǐ jù | a comedy / CL:部[bu4],齣|出[chu1] |  |
| 搞笑片 | gǎo xiào piàn | comedy film / comedy / CL:部[bu4] | |
| 笑剧 | xiào jù | comedy / farce |  |
| 滑稽 | huá jī | comical / funny / amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]) / huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang | |
| 神曲 | Shén qǔ | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁 | |
| 但丁 | Dàn dīng | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲 | |
| 脱口秀 | tuō kǒu xiù | (loanword) talk show / stand-up comedy | |
| 爱情喜剧 | ài qíng xǐ jù | romantic comedy | |
| 元曲 | Yuán qǔ | Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy | |
| 杂剧 | zá jù | a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy | |
| 同乐会 | tóng lè huì | social gathering at which those attending take it in turns to perform for the whole group (music, dancing or comedy etc) | |
| 关汉卿 | Guān Hàn qīng | Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
| 莫里哀 | Mò lǐ āi | Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy | |
| 马致远 | Mǎ Zhì yuǎn | Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[Yuan2 qu3 Si4 Da4 jia1] | |
| 逢场作戏 | féng chǎng zuò xì | lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom) / to join in the fun / to play along according to local conditions | |
| 小强 | Xiǎo Qiáng | (slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.) | |
| 仲夏夜之梦 | Zhòng xià yè zhī mèng | Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4] | |
| 白朴 | Bái Pǔ | Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
| 郑光祖 | Zhèng Guāng zǔ | Zheng Guangzu, Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
| 吐槽大会 | Tù cáo Dà huì | Roast! (PRC comedy series) | |
| 步子太大，容易扯着蛋 | bù zi tài dà , róng yì chě zhe dàn | if you take too big a stride, you could easily rip your balls (catchphrase) (line spoken by actor 葛優|葛优[Ge3 You1] in the 2010 action comedy movie 讓子彈飛|让子弹飞[Rang4 Zi3 dan4 Fei1]) / (fig.) take things one step at a time | |
