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slapstick style of humor. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We are playing improv games and working in slapstick — big picture issues. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Clowns] Reference
Sophisticated slapstick is difficult to achieve, and this is one of the finest success stories I can conjure. From Wordnik.com. [License request day: Rescues] Reference
It all adds up to another hilarious romp in Dorsey's unique style, one best described as slapstick-noir. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories] Reference
As you say it's about dialogue and there's slapstick, which is also intrinsically involved in the gore and the effects. From Wordnik.com. [The Hollywood News] Reference
I suppose it is Sasaki's constant cleaving to perpetual folly that lends his work so much of what we may call slapstick dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Not so great when Ben got punched … kind of slapstick if you ask me. From Wordnik.com. [The Tail Section » Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End” Afterthoughts] Reference
The Cowboy and The Frenchman, Lynch's 1988 "slapstick". From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
"It's that kind of slapstick humor that a lot of younger people enjoy.". From Wordnik.com. [State News Top Stories] Reference
Not that there’s anything you can call slapstick in “Master Race.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
Jim Carrey, indicating it will be the kind of slapstick animal movie that Carrey made his name on. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
She is sort of unintentionally comical or slapstick. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2005] Reference
Romance adds slapstick and shtick to a courtroom farce. From Wordnik.com. [Regina Weinreich: David Mamet's Romance at Bay Street: A Review] Reference
Mayer was a master of gentle humor with a slapstick twist. From Wordnik.com. ['Toon' Anthology Offers A Treasury Of Classic Comics] Reference
The gravelly contralto is a sister to the vocal slapstick of Bert Lahr. From Wordnik.com. [Unsinkable Dolly] Reference
Kids will love "Toy Story 3" for its cliffhangers and slapstick spills. From Wordnik.com. ['Toy Story 3': To Growing Up, And Beyond] Reference
At its screeching, wall-breaking best, "T3" achieves heavy-metal slapstick. From Wordnik.com. [Return To Circuit City] Reference
One thing they never called him was a slapstick comic -- until now, that is. From Wordnik.com. [Fujimori And The Fugitive] Reference
This city is a little quirky, perfect for Stephanie and her slapstick adventures. From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Plum: Trenton's Scrappy Bounty Hunter] Reference
The only forms of mass media entertainment available are slapstick and pornography. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzwords for blowhards] Reference
Entertaining his son with slapstick, creating a fiction to hide a horrible reality. From Wordnik.com. [Baghdad] Reference
More unhappy staring by Jimmy but this is at least entertaining in a slapstick kind of way. From Wordnik.com. [England v Pakistan - day four as it happened] Reference
Shenton recalls the music hall traditions of slapstick and comic dance, "which we tap into". From Wordnik.com. [New Art Club's ballet of belly laughs] Reference
No, you say, I can't do it anymore, it's martinis and slapstick comedies from here on out. From Wordnik.com. [The Impasse] Reference
Then pop goes the swelling birdy: a perfect slapstick symbol of the sea change in public taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Shrek Effect] Reference
Our ever slapstick comic relief, Blankenship goes out in the same fashion, barely moving at all. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: R.I.P. Miss Blankenship] Reference
They denounce "the slapstick reputation of his White House staff" and "his desire for liberal approval and a quiet life.". From Wordnik.com. [No Happy Warriors Here] Reference
Relocate "" Benson '' to the Lincoln White House and you get a rough idea of this slapstick satire's goofy high (or low) concept. From Wordnik.com. [Words Fly Over 'Diary'] Reference
Heretofore, Tommy has been crazy about the slapstick comedians of the movies; but I rather admire his taste if he likes this Hazel Gray. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund] Reference
There was a slapstick attempt to fire Scheunemann over the leaks -- he bragged at the end of the campaign that he had his final pay stubs. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Dunn: Palin Advisor Is a Former BP Lobbyist & Foreign Agent] Reference
As such, the tradition lay dormant for millennia -- until it became institutionalized in the great slapstick films of the silent film era. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Pie-Faced] Reference
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