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anticomedy

anticomedy noun: a form of comedy that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of comedy.

Noun

anticomedy (uncountable)

  1. A form of comedy that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of comedy.
    • In the usual comedic parlance, “anticomedy” is a self-aware performance that mines laughs from its utter lack of conventional punch lines.2019, Ken Jennings, chapter 8, in Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 186

Origin of anticomedy

From anti- + comedy.

Questions about anticomedy

What does anticomedy mean?
Anticomedy means a form of comedy that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of comedy.
What part of speech is anticomedy?
Anticomedy is a noun.

Words near anticomedy in the dictionary

  1. anticolours
  2. anticombat
  3. anticombination
  4. anticomedic
  5. anticomedogenic
  6. anticomedy
  7. anticomic
  8. anticommandeering
  9. anticommensal
  10. anticommerce
  11. anticommercial

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