Is there a name for this style of comedy?

[Politruk]

I mean the surreal, anything-can-happen-at-any-moment comedy of Airplane, The Naked Gun, Top Secret, etc.

Which somehow seems to be something fundamentally different from the surreal, anything-can-happen-at-any-moment comedy of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

 

[Not Normal]

Farce speaks to the ridiculousness. Though the movies you mention specifically are parodies.

 

[Politruk]

Farce speaks to the ridiculousness. Though the movies you mention specifically are parodies.

Lots of comedies could be described as ridiculous and as parodies -- I'm looking for some more narrow, specific name.

 

[Politruk]

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[NikolasMann]

I tend to think that the American comedies fall in the category of the slapstick, while the Monty python series seems to tap into a kind of burlesque humour

 

[TallMan69]

Spoof. Screwball. Campy. Lampoon.