Punch-and-Judy show
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Punch-and-Judy show
First recorded in 1875–80
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But isn’t there also a side effect, an off-label one if you will, of making the audience giggle along at this postmodern Punch-and-Judy show?
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2016
Pussycat is as old as the Punch-and-Judy show and as new as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the evening is filled with good, healthy, vulgar, neurotic laughter.
From Time Magazine Archive
After much inquiry he had discovered they had been seen with a Punch-and-Judy show and now he was trying to find the showmen.
From Tales from Dickens by Hallie Erminie Rives
To be an amusement merely is to degrade our stage to the level of a Punch-and-Judy show.
From The Light of the Star A Novel by Hamlin Garland
The Punch-and-Judy show grew tiresome, but the company seemed better than none.
From Tales from Dickens by Hallie Erminie Rives
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