Keystone comedy

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noun

a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.

Slang. any situation or incident characterized by farcical bungling, misunderstandings, etc.

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Origin of Keystone comedy

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby Keystone comedy

keyslot, keysmash, key stage, key station, keystone, Keystone comedy, keystone joist, Keystone Kop, Keystoner, keystone species, Keystone State

How to use Keystone comedy in a sentence

This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.
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Decades ago, the writer-director wrote an episode of the animated comedy that never was.
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The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.
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Did he at all intrench upon your Sovereignty in Verse, because he had now and then written a Comedy that succeeded?
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The play may be pure comedy, comedy-drama, tragedyeven farceor melodrama.
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She laughed at the comedy and wept—she and the gaudy woman next to her wept over the tragedy.
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It was a comedy on both sides, but it remained a comedy so long as those papers were not forthcoming.
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I could not avoid meeting you, and I felt I could not play a comedy of lies as to my reason for not being able to go to Kamenka.
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