knockabout

The members of the controversial rap group Kneecap play themselves in a witty knockabout comedy, a Sundance hit, that tells the tale of their ongoing rise.

For better or worse, Liman revels in the movie-ness of his popcorn movies, their unwavering devotion to just-having-fun escapism, and he never stops juicing this knockabout comedy, squeezing the pulp for more jokes and odd digressions.

But there’s an infectious quality to the knockabout antics.

More than once in the book Richards uses the word “knockabout” to describe his school of comedy.

One of the films in his early days, it was a very different actor that I love so much, is called “His Girl Friday,” and it's this really end of pier knockabout comedy where they deliver the lines at five times the pace.