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  2. Low comedy - Wikipedia

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    Low comedy, or lowbrow humor, is a type of comedy that is a 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 characterized by "horseplay", slapstick or farce. Examples include the throwing ...

  3. Bomolochus - Wikipedia

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    This theatre -related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  4. Old Comedy - Wikipedia

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    This scene opens the play, and it is a reminder to the audience that nobody is above mockery in Old Comedy—not even its patron god and its practitioners. Gods, artists, politicians and ordinary citizens were legitimate targets; comedy was a kind of licensed buffoonery, [27] and there was no legal redress for anyone who was slandered in a play ...

  5. Clown - Wikipedia

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    A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.

  6. Hanswurst - Wikipedia

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    Hanswurst or Hans Wurst (German for "Johnny Sausage") was a popular coarse-comic stock character of German-speaking impromptu comedy. He is "a half doltish, half cunning, partly stupid, partly knowing, enterprising and cowardly, self indulgent and merry fellow, who, in accordance with circumstances, accentuated one or other of these characteristics."

  7. Golden mean (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The Quran states an example in finance, in that a person should not spend all he makes as not to be caught needing, and not to be stingy as to not live a comfortable life. Muhammad also had a saying "خير الأمور أوسطها" meaning the best choice is the middle ground/golden mean one.

  8. Eutrapelia - Wikipedia

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    Eutrapelia comes from the Greek for "wittiness" (Ancient Greek: εὐτραπελία, romanized: eutrapelia) and refers to pleasantness in conversation, with ease and a good sense of humor.

  9. Bergamask - Wikipedia

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    The dance is associated with clowns or buffoonery, as is the area of Bergamo, ... for example the song "Twist and Shout." Also of note, ...