low comedy
noun
comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
Compare
high comedy.
Origin of low comedy
First recorded in 1600–10
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Example sentences from the Web for low comedy
You've been having a fine, low-comedy time laughing yourselves to death at me, haven't you?
Jason |Justus Miles FormanDidn't you s'pose I knew as well as any one that I got a low-comedy face and couldn't ever make the grade in a serious piece?
Merton of the Movies |Harry Leon WilsonOn the one hand, Lessing and George Eliot; on the other, the stock dramatist and novelist, with their low-comedy villain.'
The Grandchildren of the Ghetto |Israel Zangwill
British Dictionary definitions for low comedy
low comedy
noun
comedy characterized by slapstick and physical action