bawdy humor
Raunchy comedic material
Bawdy humor is comedy that deals with sex in a cheerful, unsubtle way—dirty jokes, double entendres, and ribald situations.
The tone is lusty rather than transgressive, more Chaucer than shock value.
The play's bawdy humor had the audience roaring.
Bawdy suggests earthiness and good spirits rather than cruelty or obscenity.
- double entendrePhrase with hidden lewdness
- innuendoOblique disparaging remark
- dirty jokeCrude comedic remark
- ribaldryVulgar or indecent humor
- off-color jokeInappropriate or crude witticism
folk tradition · burlesque · vaudeville · limericks · slapstick · Chaucer · laughter · farce · tension release · catharsis · shock value · parody · cabaret · stand-up comedy · sitcoms · artistic license · lewd · risqué
- adult humordirty jokes, dirty joke, risque joke, off-color jokes, adult material
- comic devicespuns, wordplay, slapstick, comic relief, witty banter
- Elizabethan comedyTwelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice
- RabelaisGargantua
- RabelaisianGargantua, carnivalesque, ribaldry, bawdiness, scatology
- Restoration Comedycomedy of manners, Drury Lane, rake, fops, libertines
bawdy humordry wit
Understated, ironic humor
subtle humor · wordplay · irony · bon mot · epigram
bawdy humorintellectual humor
Comedy requiring background knowledge
wit · satire · observational humor · political satire · social commentary
bawdy humordry wit
Understated, ironic humor
witty repartee · clever wordplay · subtle humor · comedy of manners