1.   He may be after blues seriousness or slapstick humor.

2.   Its premise is strong enough, but the film never gels into anything more than an excuse for slapstick humor and gratuitously sexual punch lines.

3.   Not an all-white painting, certainly, but a piece of severely modernistic nihilism, despite its slapstick humor.

4.   Not that people who read Bryson failed to be enraptured by his unique combination of serious insights and slapstick humor.

5.   Slapstick humor abounds.

6.   The band, featuring Smith on electrified violin, was popular, salting its vivid playing with slapstick humor.

7.   The program is infused with slapstick humor, making it a sort of hourlong science fiction comedy show.

8.   They tumble about the stage, splutter in pompous discomfiture, and engage in slapstick humor.

9.   A cartoonist best known for slapstick humor has ventured into a world of torture and execution with a merciless satire of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

10.   Trying to blend romance, slapstick humor and moral musings about social issues into a coherent musical is a tall order.