high comedy in English
noun
1
comedy employing sophisticated wit and often satirizing the upper classes.
Saunders wrote many of the scripts and her way with words and her cross between slapstick and high comedy meld well here, foreshadowing the masterpiece of British comedy that she would create with French in ‘Ab Fab.’
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1. Fertile ground for high comedy.
2. If the characters do not have backbone, Articulacy and humour, then that pretty much scuppers high comedy
3. The show deftly maintains its balance of Breeziness and sincerity, of zany high-comedy and well-observed nuance