Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Genre families · Working

Romantic comedy

Also called: rom-com

ELI5

A genre combining a central romantic relationship with a sustained comic engine.

Used in conversation

“The pitch describes the project as romantic comedy; the scene examples need to prove that promise.”

Pitch context

Use this when a deck or treatment needs to describe the people, world, tone or audience promise precisely.

Why it matters: Helps describe who the project follows, where it lives and what kind of experience it promises.

Connected terms

  • RomanceComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 6

Direct term-level sources and supporting source families.