Sentence examples for ludicrous wit from inspiring English sources
At the same time the art borrows a healthy strain of ludicrous wit from Samuel Beckett, who knew a thing or two about how to clown around smartly.
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.
With its world turned upside down, its ludicrous masks, grotesque bodies and destabilising wit, Bossy Burger is peculiarly cathartic, a contemporary form of carnival.
It's ludicrous, though, to suppose that checklists are going to do away with the need for courage, wits, and improvisation.
The distinctions that Hazlitt arrives at, then, in his essay "On Wit and Humour" are very much in the classic tradition of comic criticism: Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.
But a closer look reveals that Barnet brings both a sharp wit and a jolting immediacy to the action, putting degradation and repression at the forefront and offering a ludicrous contrast between official rhetoric and the actual state of things.
