slapstick

Only his point wasn't that there weren't slapstick or action movies back in the day, mostly for mindless fun.

So most of the reddit front page is cat pictures and slapstick humour because that's what everyone can appreciate.

You don't see this happening so much because there's so much slapstick bullshit that it's no fun at all.

A lot of them devolved into slapstick comedy that was 'too easy' for the more maturing audience.

You can't expect OpenSSL nor LibreSSL to cater to the slapstick that is linux kernel development.

It obviously doesn't work with ladders you're carrying otherwise the slapstick genre would be 50% smaller.

You can enjoy it as slapstick, but there is tremendous depth to the series.

Furthermore, regardless of the novelty of the idea expressed, these slapstick humor, childish one liners do not invite debate or lead to lively discussions.

Did it really top the Locus poll just because of slapstick humour?

The Candid Camera episodes I remember watching often involved slapstick humor and ridiculous clown music.

Those that are comedy are much more slapstick than subtle.

It's a bit like Hadelman's Forever War mixed with slapstick.

I was just about to say this reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick, where people get automatically assigned to an extended family.

'Slapstick', where I grabbed the quote, was written in 1976.