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- an actor whose roles range from slapstick to serious drama
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- a lowbrow comedy that relies heavily on slapstick for its laughs
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- boisterousness,
- rambunctiousness,
- rowdiness,
- rowdyism,
- rumbustiousness
- [chiefly British]
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“Slapstick.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slapstick. Accessed 25 January 2020.
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The first known use of slapstick was in 1896
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