low comedy
Crude physical farce
Low comedy is humor that relies on physical gags, slapstick, crude jokes, and bodily functions rather than wit or wordplay.
Pratfalls, pie fights, and toilet humor are staples.
The term contrasts with high comedy, which depends on clever dialogue and social satire.
The film mixed low comedy with moments of genuine pathos.
- pratfallComedic fall on buttocks
- banana peel slipHumorous fall from fruit skin
- Commedia dell'arteItalian improvised masked theater
- farceAbsurd, laughable situation
- horseplayBoisterous rough behavior
slapstick · carnival traditions · burlesque · folk humor · street theater · toilet humor · bathroom humor · schadenfreude · crude jokes · scatological humor · whoopee cushion · vaudeville · dirty jokes · popular entertainment · bawdy humor · belly laugh · Punch and Judy · sight gags
- tomfoolerysilliness, foolery, clownery, clownishness, goofing off
- comedyjokes, humor, puns, sarcasm, stand-up
- theater termsplay, actors, stage play, limelight, directing
- farceslapstick, pratfall, mistaken identity, pratfalls, disguises
- French theaterRacine, Tartuffe, classical tragedy, Andromache, Horace
comedic sophistication
low comedyhigh comedy
Witty, intellectual humor
comedy of manners · wit · verbal wit · satirical comedy · intellectual humor