bawdiness

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There’s enough pettiness, cruelty, bawdiness and perversity to turn it into whatever the opposite of Academy catnip is, making its 10 nominations seem like a win already.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2019

It's this lineage of comedy that Mrs Brown's Boys taps into, one that survives in Christmas pantomimes, with its end-of-the-pier bawdiness, underpinned by a pervading whiff of sentimentality.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

Stewart and Snoop’s new show channels the bawdiness of her roast performance, but, perhaps not surprisingly, the dual-fish-out-of-water premise is probably too much of a gimmick to sustain a series.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2016

Midler’s bawdiness still seems somehow precocious, Diamond’s rock ’n’ roll still plays as charmingly second-hand, and Streisand and Manilow still bring the house down simply for hitting their notes.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2015

It was Jumbo’s arrival from London in 1882, Dr. Wittmann said, that turned the circus into family entertainment; before that its rowdy bawdiness attracted mostly men.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012