low comedy

Example Sentences

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Beckett, who miraculously balanced high literature with low comedy, is too complex for single-minded interpretations.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2019

But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2019

Despite the borderline low comedy of the outhouse dialogue, Friedenberg is more alert to the couple’s mutual regard.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016

Hugh Laurie is one of those stars, from low comedy to high drama and everything in between.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2016

His face and person are well adapted to a certain class of low comedy; his voice still more so.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)