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Comedy of Errors, The

noun

  1. an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.


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Somewhere between a mafia movie and a comedy of errors, “The Alleys” turns all its characters into casualties of chance; every twist in this movie is unpredictable, because every character is both morally dubious and somewhat idiotic.

She later performed in stage productions of “Comedy of Errors,” “The Crucible,” “Into the Woods” and “South Pacific.”

The tour through Rob’s past breakups starts off as a comedy of errors, the equivalent of getting to the point where you look back on your old relationships and no longer wonder why you broke up but why you were ever together.

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Labeling the prosecutor’s office a “comedy of errors,” the judge assigned the penalty phase of the case to the state attorney general’s office.

“This whole proceeding and the whole way this came about is a comedy of errors,” the lead defense lawyer, Tony Buzbee, said, “but it’s not funny at all.”

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