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Recent Examples of high comedy
The mood toggles between high comedy and dark drama with slippery ease until the story reaches its unforgettable conclusion.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Dec. 2025
Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.
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Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
24 Sep. 2025
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Dec. 2025
Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.
—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high comedy
low comedy
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And to your point, even the small things like the Cockney asylum porters come from the low comedy of the Tod Browning film and Dracula's Daughter and the Hammer films.
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After a few moments of low comedy, my colleague figured out how to fold the two halves over without losing too much of their cargo.
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“High comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20comedy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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