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Low comedy, also known as lowbrow humor, in association to comedy, is a dramatic 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 also characterized by "horseplay", slapstick or farce. Examples include the throwing of a custard pie into another's face. This definition has also expanded to include types of comedy that rely on obvious physical jokes, such as, the wedgie.
The term "low comedy" was coined by John Dryden in his preface to his play An Evening's Love.[2]