anticomedy
nounEtymology From anti- + comedy.
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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:
- Related terms
- anticomedic, anticomic, antijoke