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The Comedy of Oedipus

The Comedy of Oedipus, also known as Anta alladhi qatalta al-wahsh, is a 1970 play by the Egyptian writer Ali Salem reworking Sophocles as comedy.

The Comedy of Terrors

The Comedy of Terrors (1963/1964) is a Jacques Tourneur horror-comedy written by Richard Matheson, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone as murderous undertakers for AIP, released January 1964 and rereleased as The Graveside Story.

The Comedy Store

The Comedy Store: original stand-up club at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, founded 1972 by Sammy, Mitzi Shore and Rudy DeLuca; plus the unrelated London Comedy Store, opened 1979, cradle of UK alternative comedy.

The Comet Is Coming

The Comet Is Coming: London jazz trio (2013) of Shabaka Hutchings (King Shabaka), Dan Leavers (Danalogue), and Max Hallett (Betamax); Mercury Prize-shortlisted Channel the Spirits; apocalyptic space funk; now on hiatus.

The Comey Rule

The Comey Rule is a 2020 two-part Showtime political drama miniseries written and directed by Billy Ray, adapted from James Comey's memoir A Higher Loyalty, starring Jeff Daniels as Comey and Brendan Gleeson as Trump, covering the 2016 election and Comey's 2017 firing.

The Comic Bang (开画!少女漫)

The Comic Bang (开画!少女漫, alias 月刊少女) is a 2025 iQiyi Chinese romantic comedy series adapted from Izumi Tsubaki's manga Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, directed by Zhong Qing, starring Shen Yue and Wang Jingxuan, 33 episodes, aired May 22 to June 2025 after a three-year delay.

The Coming Race

The Coming Race, later titled Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton about an underground race called the Vril-ya and their energy, vril.

The Comments Section

The Comments Section is an American YouTube commentary show produced by The Daily Wire, hosted by Brett Cooper from 2022 to 2024 and Reagan Conrad since December 2024.

The Commish

The Commish is an ABC police comedy-drama (1991–1996, 5 seasons, 94 episodes) created by Stephen J. Cannell and Stephen Kronish, starring Michael Chiklis as creative small-town commissioner Tony Scali in Eastbridge, New York.

The Commissar (Комиссар)

The Commissar (Комиссар) is Alexander Askoldov's 1967 Soviet drama based on Vasily Grossman's story "In the Town of Berdichev", starring Nonna Mordyukova; banned in 1968, shelved about twenty years, released 1987–1988, and awarded a Silver Bear in Berlin.

The Commitments (film)

The Commitments (film): 1991 Alan Parker musical comedy-drama, from Roddy Doyle's 1987 Barrytown novel, about working-class Dubliners forming a soul covers band; cast of non-professional musicians, $13.9M US gross, four BAFTAs.

The Commitments (novel)

The Commitments, Roddy Doyle's 1987 debut novel (self-published, King Farouk), follows Jimmy Rabbitte managing a working-class Dublin soul band in Barrytown; first of the Barrytown Trilogy and basis of the 1991 Alan Parker film.

The Commitments (soundtrack)

The Commitments: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1991 MCA album of soul covers by the fictional Dublin band from Alan Parker's film, peaking at No. 8 on Billboard and going multi-platinum.

The Common Reader

The Common Reader is a two-volume collection of critical essays by Virginia Woolf, published by the Hogarth Press in 1925 and 1932, treating writers from Chaucer to Conrad for the ordinary reader.

The Communards

The Communards were a British synth-pop duo formed in London in 1985 by Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles; their Hi-NRG cover "Don't Leave Me This Way" topped the UK chart for four weeks and was 1986's best-selling single.

The Commune

The Commune (Kollektivet) is a 2016 Danish drama by Thomas Vinterberg, adapted from his stage play about his commune childhood, starring Ulrich Thomsen and Trine Dyrholm, who won the 2016 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress.

The Commuter (film)

The Commuter (2018) is a Jaume Collet-Serra action thriller starring Liam Neeson as fired insurance salesman Michael MacCauley, blackmailed by Vera Farmiga's Joanna into finding a hidden passenger on his Metro-North train; fourth Neeson-Collet-Serra film, 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Company (film)

The Company is Robert Altman's 2003 drama starring Neve Campbell, James Franco, and Malcolm McDowell with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, released December 25, 2003 by Sony Pictures Classics.

The Company Men

The Company Men is a 2010 American drama, John Wells's directing debut, starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, and Kevin Costner as GTX executives facing layoffs after the 2008 financial crisis.

The Company of Wolves

The Company of Wolves (1984) is a British horror-fantasy film directed by Neil Jordan and co-written with Angela Carter, adapting her Bloody Chamber stories and radio play into a dreamlike Little Red Riding Hood werewolf tale with practical transformation effects.

The Company You Keep (film)

The Company You Keep (2013) is a Robert Redford political thriller, based on Neil Gordon's 2003 novel, in which Redford's fugitive ex-Weather Underground lawyer is exposed by reporter Shia LaBeouf; Sony Pictures Classics released it April 5, 2013.

The Company You Keep (TV series)

The Company You Keep is a 2023 ABC crime drama, an adaptation of the Korean series My Fellow Citizens, starring Milo Ventimiglia as con man Charlie and Catherine Haena Kim as CIA officer Emma; one 10-episode season, canceled May 2023.

The Compleat Angler

The Compleat Angler is a book by the English writer Izaak Walton, first published in London in 1653, which teaches angling through dialogue and verse.

The Complete Budokan 1978

The Complete Budokan 1978, also styled Bob Dylan – The Complete Budokan 1978, is a 2023 Columbia/Legacy live box set of two complete February 28 and March 1, 1978 concerts at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan, 58 tracks, 36 unreleased, expanding the 1978 At Budokan album.

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House, 1994) gathers the poems of her five poetry collections, including On the Pulse of Morning, Still I Rise, and Phenomenal Woman, in one collector's hardcover.

The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore

The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore is a poetry collection assembled by the poet herself, first published in New York in 1967 and reissued with her final revisions in 1981.

The Complete Recordings (Robert Johnson album)

The Complete Recordings is Robert Johnson's 1990 Sony/Columbia two-CD box set of all 29 songs in 41 takes from his 1936–37 Texas sessions; it won the 1991 Grammy for Best Historical Album and sold over a million copies.

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is a six-episode Apple TV+ historical comedy starring Noel Fielding as the 18th-century highwayman, premiered March 1, 2024, renewed July 2024, then cancelled in January 2025 mid-shoot of season 2 after Fielding withdrew.

The Compound (Rawle novel)

The Compound is Aisling Rawle's 2025 debut novel, a dystopian satire in which contestant Lily competes on a desert-set reality TV show, blending Love Island-style dating-show mechanics with Lord of the Flies survivalism and consumerist critique.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a 1969 Walt Disney comedy starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, a student whose brain absorbs a computer's memory, including gangster A.J. Arno's gambling records; first of a Dexter Riley trilogy, remade for ABC in 1995.