Absurdist in a sentence

From absurdist comedy to slapstick humor, comedy movies you can watch with the kids and ones to watch once they go to bed, there’s no shortage of options.

From one of the most successful sitcom spinoffs in history to a new spinoff that toes the line between comedy, drama, and gore to a funny absurdist comedy, here are three TV comedies on you need to watch in October.

In Descent Into Madness, absurdist comics and surreal stand-ups will head to the stage to make you laugh and weird you out.

Instead of numbers around the circumference, Time and the Troubles has 12 words, which make up “absurdist time”.

One of 2022's surprise breakout movies, and certainly A24's best comedy film, is the absurdist comedy-drama-fantasy-action Everything Everywhere All At Once, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

The film is an absurdist science fiction comedy-drama that tells the story of Evelyn, a laundromat owner who is going through a tax audit.

Their popularity, coupled with their absurdist humor, has made them a ready source of internet memes.

There is a surreality, uncanniness and psychological intensity alongside that famous cackling Britishness that aligns Lucas squarely with a European absurdist tradition.

What the series lacks in structure it makes up for in substance and absurdist jokes.

While undeniably the work of Matt Groening, has a unique sense of humor, with some jokes being absurdist and silly for the sake of it, and other jokes being so smart that you need a science degree to understand them.

Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece has baffled and beguiled audiences for 70 years.

How Red Riding Hood successfully manipulates the highly gullible Wolf adds a dark element of psychological thriller to the absurdist premise of the play.

In Igor and Ani’s bond, which develops — like everything else in — beneath the surface of its absurdist plot, Baker is able to hone in on the film’s subtextual, largely visual ideas about the nature of seeing and being seen.

The absurdist brilliance of "Monty Python's Flying Circus," which ran on the BBC from 1969 to 1974, saw comedians John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam rewrite the rules of comedy.

There’s been plenty of conversation surrounding how some people find it difficult to compartmentalize your absurdist comedy career and your very earnest musical releases.

Top of that roster: Ari Aster, whose artistic partner Lars Knudsen was chief enabler on this highly eccentric project — which is admirable for the absurdist earnestness with which it was created.

But this is more of an absurdist, bizarre, even existential jazz musical.

As satisfying as this is in a Coen-brothers absurdist comedy way, it won't do much to resolve the issues for Jamaicans or Americans.

But really, I just liked making absurdist, surreal, often times horror-influenced stuff.

Cheeky details like these recall the witty and absurdist tropes of the Victorian era, said Ms. Lock.