Minimum Length of Young Adult Comedy

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Will publishers ignore a comedy at 35,000 words?

That's not a novel-length work; it's a novella. There's a limited market for novellas in trade publishing. I'm not sure about YA novellas specifically, but don't think it's particularly larger.
 

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Definitely too short if you want to pitch it as a novel. For YA, I'd really aim at 50k as a minimum.