slapstick in English

noun
1
comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events.
slapstick humor

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1. Charlie's slapstick humor gets sold fast.

2. The show contains some wonderful slapstick comedy.

3. 4 The show contains some wonderful slapstick comedy.

4. And I don't think slapstick is funny.

5. That's why nuclear war is so frightening - like slapstick.

6. Except for very basic slapstick, humour travels uncertainly.

7. Real Wanzhu with these little slapstick essentially different.

8. ‘Chaplinesque opportunities for slapstick’ More example sentences ‘There was laughter when he launched himself into a slapstick dance routine that was nothing short of Chaplinesque.’

9. Fate seemed determined to translate his dramatic mission into slapstick.

10. Goofy slapstick and ridiculous out - of - date banter make the other 10 %.

11. Much of the comedy is slapstick and loaded with black slang.

12. Taking the slapstick route, he quarried for bits and shticks, not archetypes and myths.

13. Safe return home is not slapstick, all the way security is very important.

14. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes has been quite a revelation to me

15. Synonyms for Buffooneries include tomfoolery, clownings, horseplay, shenanigans, skylarking, foolery, hijinks, clownery, roughhouse and slapstick

16. Chopsocky Slapstick: Violence as Humorous Excess in the Kung-Fu Comedy From Jackie Chan to Stephen Chiau

17. Such feelings infuse Ekhrajiha, which is nonetheless an odd mix of slapstick humour and mawkish sentimentality.

18. A slapstick scene usually includes someone being hit in the face with a custard pie.

19. [Baskerville] finds the perfect mix of slapstick and thrills.” - Theatermania “★★★★½

20. He is playful, too, managing the difficult manoeuvre of translating wit into sound without resorting to slapstick.

21. Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels, drawn partly from comic cinema.

22. A Compellingly inventive retelling mixing slapstick and pathos with warm humour, this is a marvellously fun night

23. A typical programme starts with popular classical works and specially commissioned pieces, and finishes with jazz and slapstick!

24. Slapstick is comedy with broad, aggressive, physical action, harmless or painless cruelty and violence. horseplay , and sight gags.

25. It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

26. 13 She appropriated slapstick and hyperbole to the delicious purpose of lampooning the fathead who made her life miserable.

27. Filled with wicked wit and slapstick humor, Anchorman is the year's most wildly irreverent, must-see comedy hit! Director

28. 21 Slapstick is comedy with broad, aggressive, physical action, harmless or painless cruelty and violence. horseplay , and sight gags.

29. Assassination is a meticulously crafted film crammed with diverse elements, including sumptuously detailed set design, goofy slapstick humour, and even a meet cute

30. 8 Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels,[www.Sentencedict.com] drawn partly from comic cinema.

31. If you remember that slapstick comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, you may remember Ollie's standard line"another nice mess you've gotten me into."

32. Though unabashedly juvenile and silly, Airplane! is nevertheless an uproarious spoof comedy full of quotable lines and slapstick gags that endure to this day.

33. Carpool, the new Tom Arnold comedy, is one ride to avoid, unless truly idiotic car-chase slapstick comedies are the destination genre

34. The baggage carousel mix-up could've been slapstick or the inciting incident of a romantic comedy had the reality not sent her bolting back to J.F.

35. Catnip The show is aimed at an adult audience, features neutering, incontinence, cannibalism and Catnip overdoses and humour styles such as slapstick and farce.

36. Blithe Spirit whipsaws between slapstick material with a particular focus on invisible objects, and hoary jokes about erectile dysfunction that are neither frisky nor funny

37. The Broadways were a short-lived American punk band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1996 after the dissolution of the influential ska-punk band Slapstick

38. Parents need to know that The 'Burbs is a slapstick comedy with some light horror but no real gore.It's about men who suspect that their neighbors are serial killers

39. Unlike the infantile, unfunny, overused slapstick humour we're used to getting from Hollywood movies, Conception brings a good dose of witty humour we can usually find only in TV series

40. 20 The baggage carousel mix-up could've been slapstick or the inciting incident of a romantic comedy had the reality not sent her bolting back to J.F.

41. Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City

42. His 1953 manga version of Crime and Punishment has pages of distinctly non-Dostoyevskian slapstick, and a cameo by a regular Tezuka character who pops up to shout his catchphrase: "Here t'meet ya!"

43. For instance, the Knight’s tale of courtly love, chivalry, and destiny riffs on romance, while the tales of working-class narrators are generally comedies filled with scatological language, sexual deviance, and slapstick.

44. Newly restored Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman —the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece.

45. Newly restored Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman —the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece.

46. Koutsourakis’ book masterfully sets out the wide scope of Brecht’s aesthetics, from his 1923 venture with slapstick to the Brechtian footprints in the essay film, Realist and post-Deleuzian cinema theory and contemporary media archaeology’ Esther Leslie, Birkbeck

47. So in contrast to this very tight grid, we wanted to give these figures a very comical and slapstick-like quality, as if a puppeteer has taken them and physically animated them down the path.

48. Scott Adlerberg Simultaneously hilarious and seriously incisive, Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes is a dazzling demonstration of the way in which the female body in early film comedy is the privileged site for the display of the cinema’s

49. Burlesque show, stage entertainment, developed in the United States, that came to be designed for exclusively male patronage, compounded of slapstick sketches, dirty jokes, chorus numbers, and solo dances usually billed as “daring,” or “sensational,” in their female nudity

50. ‘It's got sex, violence, Absurdism, politics (including a wicked parody of Western European and American leaders) and lots and lots of drugs.’ ‘Trading in a unique mix of Absurdism and knowingly ancient music hall puns and wheezes, slapstick, cross-talk and gentle …