low comedy

noun

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

low comedy

noun

1. comedy characterized by slapstick and physical action

Derived Forms

• low comedian, noun

Other Words From

• low comedian noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of low comedy¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

She was making a low comedy sound which would have distressed her beyond measure if she had heard it.

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Ostensibly, you go to view the scenery, really, to be inveigled into paying for a low comedy of a dinner at the other end.

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Low comedy also draws well; and I have often wondered that Mr. Toole has not paid us a visit.

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His face and person are well adapted to a certain class of low comedy; his voice still more so.

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In the region of low comedy he is easily the most original, the most inexhaustible, the most wonderful, of modern humorists.

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