slapstick
Example Sentences
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Indeed, even without its central gimmick, “Company Retreat” would still make a decent sitcom; there are funny characters speaking funny lines; there’s some good slapstick.
From Los Angeles Times
Unlike such Pixar heroines as Riley in the “Inside Out” movies and Mei in “Turning Red,” she isn’t especially relatable, and the script by Jesse Andrews relies heavily on dull slapstick and broad gags.
Stuttgart added another in slapstick fashion when Atakan Karazor fell in the box and squeezed the ball over the line with his hip in stoppage time.
From Barron's
It’s a shade of slapstick in a movie constructed around juvenile pratfalls and targeted destruction that allows O’Hara’s mom to retain her dignity.
From Salon
The writing is terrifically funny and also grounded, anecdotes filled with slapstick but no punchlines, befitting a story that includes hookups, weddings, children, a funeral and an unknowable future.
From Los Angeles Times
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