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low comedy

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

Origin of low comedy

First recorded in 1600–10
Related formslow comedian, noun
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Related Words for low comedy

burlesque, farce, horseplay, slapstick

Examples from the Web for low comedy

Historical Examples of 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.'

British Dictionary definitions for low comedy

low comedy

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