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

Through its narrow canon, the tone of “Star Wars” has always been determinedly self-serious, whereas the Marvel movies, like the decades of comics they sprang from, veer wildly from high drama to low comedy.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

In fact, my attitude was perilously near to that of the Arkansas audiences as analysed by the Duke in "Huckleberry Finn": "What they wanted was low comedy—and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy."

From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur