slapstick

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It used to be slapstick gags like this all the way around.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2026

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 • Feb. 4, 2026

Russian humor, meanwhile, “is slapstick, only you actually die.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Park stages Man-su’s homicide attempts as slapstick set pieces in which our clumsy antihero himself barely gets out alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

Laughter came from the living room where my sisters and brothers watched Don Cholito’s slapstick.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago