Ealing comedy

noun2

1. •
   A genre of English comedy film, typically populist and satirical about life in post-WWII British society.

   • Ealing comedy is suddenly being regarded as the intellectual's treat. — 2004
2. •
   A film in this genre.

   • This new film follows the pattern of an Ealing comedy, with escalating chaos and fantasy as the entire fabric of life collapses for the inhabitants of a Leningrad apartment block — 1989