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as in comedy
humorous entertainment
an actor whose roles range from slapstick to serious drama
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as in hijinks
wildly playful or mischievous behavior
a lowbrow comedy that relies heavily on slapstick for its laughs
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Recent Examples of slapstick
Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
Lego Horizon Adventures is a delight, blending slapstick and action in the platformer.
—Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
Vengeance Most Fowl maintains the slapstick humor that made the duo beloved, while also offering some prescient commentary on suburban surveillance, the news media and the drawback of artificial intelligence.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
To boot, all the Looney Tunes characters adhere to their classic slapstick humor while providing enough modern updates to make A New Legacy feel like more than your run-of-the-mill reboot.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Though none of Sony’s Spider-Man-less Spider-Man movies have been sterling pieces of cinema, the goopy, slapstick romance of the Venom series was a surprise delight.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
Lego Horizon Adventures is a delight, blending slapstick and action in the platformer.
—Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
Vengeance Most Fowl maintains the slapstick humor that made the duo beloved, while also offering some prescient commentary on suburban surveillance, the news media and the drawback of artificial intelligence.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
To boot, all the Looney Tunes characters adhere to their classic slapstick humor while providing enough modern updates to make A New Legacy feel like more than your run-of-the-mill reboot.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slapstick
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Tim Lammers For example, SPE’s summer action comedy smash Bad Boys: Ride or Die opened in theaters on June 7 PVOD and arrived on PVOD about six weeks later, on July 23.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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The original did air on NBC, which could rebuild a comedy block to try to bring back Must-See TV.Emily Longeretta, Variety, 18 Jan. 2025
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After Stern retired in 2014, the code was relaxed, allowing for progressively zanier ’fits.Maya Singer, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
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Bong being Bong — and judging from the colorfully zany trailer — this adaptation of an Edward Ashton novel will likely make class warfare a key theme.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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Though, some adult viewers claimed the character was too joyful–not to mention the rise of anti-Barney humor at one point.Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 15 Jan. 2025
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Yet, the best way to experience Maniscalco’s nostalgic, observational brand of humor is to check him out in concert.Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
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As vice-president, Kamala Harris was generally regarded as unimpressive and slightly clownish, with her banal repetitions and too-frequent outbursts of too-exuberant laughter.Avi Nelson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 2024
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Its members' firm repudiation of the unqualified and clownish Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows that its members can still stiffen their sinews and summon up the courage to curb President-elect Donald Trump's appetite for surrounding himself with sycophantic boobs.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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Among its selections this spring is this 2001 satire that, considering climate change and our incoming administration, will probably still hit pretty hard.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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The body-horror satire that earned Demi Moore the first acting award of her career — yes, career — on Sunday night, is available to stream from home.Anna Tingley, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
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The comedy is very much a love letter to South L.A., offering pointed and amusing commentary on gentrification.Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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The film centers on Clémence, a quiet yet amusing Parisian, who had a complicated childhood.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery?Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Fans are fixated on his greatness juxtaposed against the rest of the Bengals’ buffoonery.The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
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But how much of that commentary, wonders James Adomian, was actually entertaining?Julie Seabaugh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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The memoirs of former national leaders are rarely entertaining, insightful, or revealing.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Slapstick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slapstick. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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