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

Through its narrow canon, the tone of “Star Wars” has always been determinedly self-serious, whereas the Marvel movies, like the decades of comics they sprang from, veer wildly from high drama to low comedy.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

Gaiman views much of their behavior as essentially low comedy:

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2017

Two years later he was a regular member of the Drury Lane company in London, where he had a great success in the low comedy and servants' parts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various