comedy vs drama

comedy and drama both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
comedy	Yes	No	No	No
drama	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, drama is a hypernym of comedy; that is, drama is a word with a broader meaning than comedy:

comedy (noun)	drama (noun)
light and humorous drama with a happy ending	the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
a comic incident or series of incidents	the literary genre of works intended for the theater
	a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
	an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional