Low comedy
Dramatic works intended to provoke only laughter without intellectual or other motives / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Low comedy, also known as lowbrow humor, in association to comedy, is a dramatic form of popular entertainment without any primary purpose other than to create laughter through boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery and other riotous activity.[1] It is also characterized by "horseplay", slapstick or farce. Examples include the throwing of a custard pie into another's face. This definition has also expanded to include types of comedy that rely on obvious physical jokes, such as, the wedgie.
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The term "low comedy" was coined by John Dryden in his preface to his play An Evening's Love.[2]