slapstick
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The action, which is not bloody or at all deadly, has the fizzy charm and slapstick charge of prime Jackie Chan.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026
Scotland don't just concede goals, they create calamities - the sort of slapstick defending that a player such as Vini Jr is waiting to take advantage of.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
Nobody was better at playing a very handsome guy, the center of attention, who was also nonthreatening, not above a bit of slapstick, a little silly—above all, likable.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Mostly the comedy in “The Sheep Detectives” derives from slapstick high jinks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
There was the newsreel that told of amazing inventions and adventures in far-off lands; there were the cartoons and the slapstick comedies, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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