slapstick

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
2. A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.

Konzepte

geräuschvoll

Klamauk

polternd

Pritsche

Situationskomik

mit Höllenlärm

Slapstick

Synonyme

farce

clumpy

crass

horseplay

noise

noisy

rank

whip

buffoonery

farce comedy

Etymologie (Englisch)

From slap + stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.