The phrase "silly performance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a ridiculous or comical display or act. You can use it in a sentence like: "The clown's silly performance had the whole audience laughing uncontrollably."
As you might imagine, the Blue Man Group, the seriously silly performance ensemble with productions in New York, Chicago, Boston and Las Vegas, has a similar affection for the color.
Put the weird sisters from "Macbeth" into a giant pot, add a smidgen of the blind prophet Tiresias from Greek myth and mix in spare parts from sketch comedy and a Broadway belter, and you have the majestically silly performance of Harriet Harris in "Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)," the new musical by the creators of "Urinetown" that, thematically, is something of a prequel.
British magazine The Spectator described Presley's evolution from his "silly" performance in Loving You to "dangerously near being repulsive".
(Trying to shelve books, Sarah keeps dropping them on the floor. Sarah wanders offstage in the middle of a duet. Sarah puts Drano in the coffee instead of cream....) Most of the show's appeal derives from the exuberantly silly performances that the director, John Rando, elicits from his cast of five.
For me, and for people my age, he was a guide into a more adult world in what was likely his very silliest performance: as the voice of the Genie in Disney's 1992 animated movie "Aladdin".
Then, it was time for the soulful mentor and mentee to take on the Wild Cherry classic in what was definitely the silliest performance of the night.
It has the silliest lines, the silliest setpieces, the silliest performances of anything I can ever remember seeing.
He assumes it is "some sort of silly art performance" and joins in, cheerfully burning the books of writers he envies.
The script is fantastically silly, the performances ripe and ragged, and the overall bludgeoning effect ultimately wearisome.
For a more comprehensive ― but equally silly ― history of performance art, check out our brief survey of confusing performance art here.
But anyone who doubted Joachim Low's faith that the Real Madrid midfielder could last the tournament were made to look silly by his brilliant performance against Brazil.
