Can the word "comedy" be used as adjective?

Your second interpretation. Comedy is always a noun. Comic would be the adjective.

Or “Comedic”.

comic is a noun. comical is the adjective.

Comic, comedic and comical are all adjectives. Comic can also be used as a noun.

Comedic or comical is the adjective of Comedy. How do you use comic as an adjective? It just sounds wrong to me. Well, I guess that’s just English sometimes.

Look at the link.

Of course “comedy” can be an adjective. The word can be shoved in front of store, stage, album, film, routine, circuit, etc.

@stanleybmanly
in those cases it is still used as a noun.

Adjective: a part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives are usually placed just before the words they qualify: shy child, blue notebook, comedy routine.

Every one of those examples—comedy store, comedy stage, comedy album, etc.—is a two-word noun, not one noun modified by an adjective.

I seem to remember that a compound noun could be either a group of nouns or combinations of adjectives and nouns. Back when nuns were allowed the luxury of corporal punishment, we were vividly encouraged to regard ANY word modifying a noun or pronoun as an adjective.

I think @stanleybmanly nailed it perfectly. GA!

Maybe, but @ragingloli and the elephant are also right. The thing about the questions here is that you REALLY have to pay attention to and often are forced to guess at what EXACTLY is being asked. And figuring that out can be exasperating.

That’s the thing in Norwegian and German… we use compound adjectives that describe the noun, but it is a noun in context. There are times when we say Comedy routine, but we can’t say… gee.. that routine was so comedy. That doesn’t sound right.