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Low comedy

noun

A comedy characterized by slapstick and burlesque.

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"Low comedy" Quotes from Famous Books

... what he says, Aristophanes has not always disdained this sort of low comedy—for instance, ...

— Peace • Aristophanes

... detected a new flavour to Mr. Michob Ader. It had not been myrrh or balm or hyssop that I had smelled. The emanation was the odour of bad whiskey—and, worse still, of low comedy—the sort that small humorists manufacture by clothing the grave and reverend things of legend and history in the vulgar, topical frippery that passes for a certain kind of wit. Michob Ader as an impostor, claiming nineteen hundred years, and playing his part with ...

— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry

... Miss Hender; but seeing that Kate did not understand, she hastened to explain that the low comedy parts meant the ...

— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore

... low comedy, the melodrama, or whatever it was," proposed the boatbuilder. "Let us get down to the regular business of the day. We want more money here, if we can get it on a fair and square basis. If we can't, we'll do our ...

— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham

Words linked to "Low comedy" : comedy