Slapstick

Japanese: スラプスティック(英語表記)slapstick
Slapstick
A compound word of slap and stick, it refers to a type of slapstick comedy characterized by violent, dramatic movements, exaggerated acting, and other farcical scenes and lines. It is said to have originally come from the Italian commedia dell'arte (improvised masked comedy), and referred to a bamboo stick or a flexible stick made of two pieces of wood used by clowns in pantomime, burlesque, vaudeville, and music halls to hit their opponents.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
slap(ぴしゃりとたたく)とstick(棒きれ)の合成語で,激しくそうぞうしい動き,誇張された演技,そのほか茶番めいた場面やせりふが特徴の〈どたばた喜劇〉のこと。もともとはイタリアのコメディア・デラルテ(即興仮面喜劇)に由来するものともいわれ,パントマイム(無言劇),バーレスク(道化芝居),ボードビル(寄席演芸),あるいはミュージック・ホール(軽演芸場)の道化役が相手役をたたくのに用いた竹の棒,または,しなやかな2枚の板を合わせた棒のことであった。

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