bawdry

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In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge.

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Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its love songs are unselfconsciously sentimental.

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He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos.

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It's movie analysis with a serrated edge; film criticism as stand-up bawdry; intellectual improvisation that soars into the highest form of word jazz.

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Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration.

From 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Twain, Mark