Examples of this can be found in the Gravedigger Scene in V.i.
The scene opens with two gravediggers (clowns) in a graveyard engaging in comical banter.
Some people say that incongruity is the basis of comedy and this is proved true in this scene. As the gravediggers or clowns, as they are described as in the stage directions, although they are described as rustic and lowly they discuss the matter of Ophelias death in deep profound, theological sense. They talks about Christian doctrines and arrange their arguments with the rules of Aristotelian logic. Moreover, when the first gravedigger and Hamlet banter about whose grave it is that they the gravediggers are digging. Even Hamlet comments to Horatio about the gravediggers speech saying,
"We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us...
The age has grown so picked that the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe" (V.i. 141- 145)
Stating how he and Horatio needs to speak precisely to the gravedigger or he will get the better of he and Horatio. This contrasting theme of the gravediggers lowly status and their sardonic wit allowing them to better their social superiors, would have appealed to the groundlings or commoners who came to watch the