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low comedy
noun
comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
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| comedy characterized by slapstick and physical action | |
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low comedy
dramatic or literary entertainment with no underlying purpose except to provoke laughter by boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery, and other riotous activity. Used either alone or added as comic relief to more serious forms, low comedy has origins in the comic improvisations of actors in ancient Greek and Roman comedy. Low comedy can also be found in medieval religious drama, in the works of William Shakespeare, in farce and vaudeville, in the antics of motion-picture comedians, and in television.
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Example sentences
For low comedy try a troupe of politicians in full cry against the evils of pork.
Irony you can find in any gallery these days, also low comedy, puerile cool and enigma.
The dramatic episodes are relieved by low comedy and other fun which is the more effective.
The prophet himself mixed strong language with low comedy in his sermons.
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