slapstick
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“Power Ballad” postures like a sincere drama but has the set pieces of a giant slapstick farce.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
O'Neill pulled off a feat of escapology that wouldn't have been required had the decision-makers above him not been so slapstick for so long.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
The narrator’s mishandling of his cellphone reprises the author’s delightful affinity for physical slapstick.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
It used to be slapstick gags like this all the way around.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2026
There was the newsreel that told of amazing inventions and adventures in far-off lands; there were the cartoons and the slapstick comedies, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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