low comedy
Example Sentences
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Bottom’s acting troupe, meanwhile, provides low comedy of the highest order, as the bickering performers rehearse their play with a heaping dose of vaudevillian slapstick.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2022
Beckett, who miraculously balanced high literature with low comedy, is too complex for single-minded interpretations.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2019
But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2019
Despite the borderline low comedy of the outhouse dialogue, Friedenberg is more alert to the couple’s mutual regard.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016
Two years later he was a regular member of the Drury Lane company in London, where he had a great success in the low comedy and servants' parts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
