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Discover LudwigThe phrase "aggressive comedy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a style of comedy that is bold, confrontational, or provocative in nature.
Example: "The stand-up comedian's aggressive comedy style often left the audience in stitches, even as they squirmed at the edgy jokes."
Alternatives: "edgy humor" or "confrontational comedy".
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Largely forsaking the sweet multiculturalism of the original for white-dude bromance, and completely abandoning earnest teenagers-in-crisis melodrama in favor of crude, aggressive comedy, this "21 Jump Street" is an example of how formula-driven entertainment can succeed.
The very words goodfellas or wiseguys are steeped in duplicitous, aggressive comedy; no one rules a situation like a guy who's just got a laugh at someone else's expense.
Excerpts from Handel's music, some played on tape, some sung by Ms. Miller and Ms. Smyth, and culminating in a performance of the "Hallelujah" chorus by the entire cast, though not exactly elegant, provide welcome relief from the aggressive comedy of the play and the production.
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"Who, exactly, do Mr. Levinson and the screenwriter, Art Linson, expect to invest time and interest -- to say nothing of thought or feeling -- in this meandering, passive-aggressive comedy of Hollywood inconsequence?" A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in October.
What she proved is that there are areas of aggressive, shocking comedy where women could go further than men.
It's an aggressive black comedy about a 34-year-old balding loser who attempts to rid his parent's garage of a pesky raccoon.
Mr. Brooks, a godfather of neurotic, passive-aggressive film comedy, once made a movie called "Defending Your Life".
Strip away the personal charm and the strong strain of surrealist whimsy in his humor, and the line of descent from Rickles to the ultra-aggressive shock comedy of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison is clear.
Vegas's usually aggressive style of comedy has been much derided but, confronted with this more-controlled Johnny, I was left slightly unfulfilled.
The cable channel FX continued its aggressive expansion into comedy on Thursday with the announcement that it has signed Tracy Morgan, formerly a star of "30 Rock" and "Saturday Night Live," to headline a pilot for a new situation comedy.
In the 2014-15 schedunveilediled Sunday morning, the network backed away from its aggressive Thursday night comedy block after years of sub-par ratings.
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