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noun

comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.

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RELATED WORDS

burlesque, farce, horseplay, slapstick

Nearby words

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Compare high comedy.

Origin of low comedy

First recorded in 1600–10
Related formslow comedian, noun
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Examples from the Web for low comedy

  • You've been having a fine, low-comedy time laughing yourselves to death at me, haven't you?

    Jason|Justus Miles Forman

  • Didn't you s'pose I knew as well as any one that I got a low-comedy face and couldn't ever make the grade in a serious piece?

    Merton of the Movies|Harry Leon Wilson

  • On the one hand, Lessing and George Eliot; on the other, the stock dramatist and novelist, with their low-comedy villain.'

    The Grandchildren of the Ghetto|Israel Zangwill
British Dictionary definitions for low comedy

low comedy

noun

comedy characterized by slapstick and physical action
Derived Formslow comedian, noun
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