Low comedy, in association to
comedy, is a dramatic or literary form of
entertainment with no primary purpose but to create
laughter by
boasting, boisterous jokes,
drunkenness, scolding,
fighting,
buffoonery and other riotous activity. It is also characterized by "horseplay",
slapstick or
farce. Other examples include somebody throwing a custard pie in another's face. This definition has also expanded to include lewd types of comedy that rely on physical jokes, for example, the
wedgie.