Word Finder - slapstick

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A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.

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A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.

It was just like an old-fashioned slapstick comedy where people threw cakes at each other.

This is one of those juvenile movies that's full of goofy slapstick and gooey sentiment.

Maybe fans of zany slapstick will find it less wearing than I did at times.

His slapstick scene with Little John (Philip Bosworth) was hilarious.

There's nothing necessarily new about that, but the same films often also treat us to moments of transcendentally silly slapstick as well.

Thanks to its two stars, plus the best slapstick since I Love Lucy, Laverne & Shirley became a Tuesday night institution.

While the film does keep adults and kids relatively entertained, it also drifts into both lame slapstick and sappy sentimentality.

Like club music, the work repeats, loops and returns over a rhythm of slapstick laced with formal, painterly considerations.

This is one of those juvenile movies that 's full of goofy slapstick and gooey sentiment.

Evolving from slapstick comedy into much more serious roles has given him both professional substance and serious attention from female film fans.

Jewish movie stars have been a part of Hollywood since the very beginning, since the days of Mae West challenging men to come up and see her sometime and the Three Stooges doing slapstick.

He's extreme - over the top - just short of being slapstick in his delivery.

Much fairy mischief ensues, mischief which turns the lives of the mortals upside down with slapstick antics.

The man's stance suggests that he is engaged in a slapstick comedy routine, kicking the backside of the hapless fellow in front.

In a few hours they are to launch their provincial tour of " Nothing On, " a slapstick farce.

I wanted to have that slapstick which also deals with very dangerous things.

The Captain of the Guard (Ray Pascoe) and Lilly Bakewell (Jimmy Ellis) provided the slapstick in an hilarious fashion.

At times The Pinhoe Egg was DWJ doing slapstick, with some vividly entertaining scenes.

There were scenes in there that were pure slapstick, that made me laugh harder and harder as the scene developed.

Add slapstick, surrealism and sci-fi and what more could anyone want?

There 's nothing necessarily new about that, but the same films often also treat us to moments of transcendentally silly slapstick as well.

Moments of slapstick comedy are silly in the extreme.

The dame is crucial to pantomime 's slapstick humor.

Mark Twain does not write with the slapstick humor which today 's youth find so very funny.

I found it one of the funnier pieces of slapstick in this pantomime.