Punch and Judy show

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But isn’t there also a side effect, an off-label one if you will, of making the audience giggle along at this postmodern Punch-and-Judy show?

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2016

Pussycat is as old as the Punch-and-Judy show and as new as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the evening is filled with good, healthy, vulgar, neurotic laughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Punch-and-Judy show grew tiresome, but the company seemed better than none.

From Tales from Dickens by Rives, Hallie Erminie

Every one of them was apparelled in black: they were, in fact, the people I had seen gaping at the Punch-and-Judy show.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

He had not seen the group around the Punch-and-Judy show; nor, if he had, is it likely he would have guessed the train of thought in the child's mind.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir