Its breath was so potent, so toxic, and it swirled up my nose to make me gag. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He pulled Red screaming and gagging toward the wagon, then tripped him with his bad leg. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart pounded, and she almost threw up—her stomach contracted and turned over, and she felt a gag reflex in her throat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Corporal ordered we should gag him; and gladly we did, to stop up such filth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I try to stand and scream through the gag, straining at the bonds around my wrists. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or in the trunk of some car, bound and gagged. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

High John raised an eyebrow at the statue with the gummy gag still over her mouth, and Gum Baby and I looked at each other. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The smell of those things made me gag, but I loved doing math with someone who understood me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Give him one of these every hour to keep him quiet, Janie, and stay out of his way when he gets in one of his fits of gagging and choking.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Oops, my mistake, that was someone gagging in the next booth. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frantically he gagged harder, twisting his head, straining until he felt blood vessels bulge on his face. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She collapsed, gagging and retching, her whole body shaking violently. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Everything a whale needs to be happy,” said another, pretending to gag. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Silence her,” Morgant said coldly, and in another moment a gag muffled her cries. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I caught a whiff of the smoke, I didn’t gag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“My gag reflex is working his way up.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mark gagged, gasping for breath as his airway was cut off. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes!” said Hermione, causing both Harry and Ron to gag on their breakfast. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t reply around the ball gag, so I just shrugged and gave him the finger. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She stayed in there until the gagging subsided, shaking and trying to catch her breath. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We gagged the man and hauled him into his loft, where we left him lying, entombed by heat, eyes expressive of the greatest terror. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Rani laughs as I gag and spit it out. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Farid had quickly gagged the guard and was expertly tying a rope around the man's legs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The slave-girl tries to speak through her gag, but it’s knotted too tightly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I gagged and yanked my collar up over my nose. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ron gagged on a large piece of kipper. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We all gagged and pushed it away from us as fast as we could. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Follow me. And please gag him, if you don’t mind. We wouldn't want him yelling obscenities the whole time, would we?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There is a lot of gagging behind my back. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The houses were consumed; the bricks of houses still standing were blackened; the air so thick with soot that we now all coughed and gagged at every step. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She crawled inside the crate, gagging as she riffled through the bits of straw on the floor and felt the walls for signs of safes or hidden compartments. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

First thing she does is pull the gag off, and I take a deep, deep breath that makes my lungs burn. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, a bit disappointed that she hadn’t at least gagged. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gagged a few times and held on to his stomach, rocking back and forth and searching for his wind. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gimpy said thats what I thought it was some kind of a gag. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a heavy sorrow gagging my heart, and it was hard to breathe. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Petey, not wanting to appear weak and abused in front of Anna, smiled as if he was in on the gag. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he brought the fork to his lips, he gagged and pushed the plate away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I removed the gag first, as quickly as I could, and threw it aside. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She dodged one set of slashing fangs and tumbled under another, weaving through the dragons heads as she ran in our direction, gagging from the monsters horrible breath. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Piper had a gag in her mouth, so apparently the dolphins had discovered she could charmspeak. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever heard of a gag order?” he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A few young men forced her to sit down, then bound and gagged her. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave it to him, and he gagged Mr. Kendall the way Mr. Kendall had gagged them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Thin cords shot from Lupin’s wand this time, and next moment, Pettigrew was wriggling on the floor, bound and gagged. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She vaguely remembered that she used to make a gagging motion at that, but she was too dazed for snarkiness just now. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

These must be the customers, and I’m glad to have learned the term in advance so I won’t wince or gag in front of management. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here we were, messing with some old man who Mong had all tied up and gagged, and Rondell wasn’t even paying attention. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He smelled the disinfectant then, the urine and the vomit, and he gagged. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were so bad we couldn’t stop laughing about it, fake gagging and pretending we were going to puke up his mom’s way-too-tomatoey spaghetti. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Worm gagged and began to cry, which was seen as a tacit admission of guilt; the criminal who couldn’t face his own crime. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Frank chewed his cracker of death and tried not to gag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Because bound to that chair, gagged, terrified, and tearful, was her brother, Ben. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I gag, grasp the disc in my fingertips, and pull one last time. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I keep up my act for another few minutes, gagging twice more as the soldiers continue to watch me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I gagged, trying not to puke with the underwear in my mouth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, both of them spit and gagged and wiped their mouths with the back of their hands. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I gagged up a big, hateful laugh for that lame biblical cliche. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He grew adept at manipulating the shapes of cooking hot dogs and, for fun, developed an entire line of gag frankfurters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And there remains the mother, bound and gagged and having to listen as her husband, her beloved children died one by one. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourteenth Augur follows her, managing, despite her seeming frailty, to pull a bound and gagged girl behind her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He gagged as he pushed the door open, and something gave way in his belly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Warm, humid air gagged the room, and soon Ifemelu was tossing in the wetness of her own sweat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Suffrised with the gagging, sickening smell of rotting bodies, people who died from the initial burst of heat and radiation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When peach juice began to flow from his nose and when Matthew had gagged twice, Lillian quietly excused herself from the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wailed so loudly it could be heard through her gag. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We have to eat it on deck with the wind to our backs to keep ourselves from gagging. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sarai woke up gagging on the feel of a hundred damp moths cramming themselves down her throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was horrible, and she gagged as she swallowed it, but she ate it all. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pinmei stayed silent, for above the gag, Amah’s eyes flashed frantic warnings at her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Used to be that Link, Jordie, and I could kill a whole afternoon lying around, planning our next big gag. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Supper was a fistful of acorns, crushed and pounded into paste, so bitter that Bran gagged as he tried to keep it down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He gagged and yelled for help, but R.C. held him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She gagged and gagged over the side of the boat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman: “Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In response, one of them shoves a gag in my mouth and takes my scims. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Wormtail raised his new silver hand, pulled out the wad of material gagging Harry, and then, with one swipe, cut through the bonds tying Harry to the gravestone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, Mr. Kasigi seemed to be kind of going along with the gag. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Bruce had said to bind and gag them, but the look Mark had seen on their faces told him that was only the beginning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When we come to the steps leading down, Pollux and I are scanning for a possible alternative on the Holo when I start gagging. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her mother gagged and hurried out for the bathroom. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I tried not to gag as I sat down near him like I was tired. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The first graders burst out laughing, and I hoped the gag would be as successful with all the classes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The dog gagged, his mouth chomping the air, and promptly fell down. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stared at it and the bird looked balefully back, making its gagging noise again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

My throat was so dry I gagged on it, but I forced the melting snow down, ignoring the shocking pain in my teeth from the cold. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I still have my seat belt on and am hunched over my knees, gagging. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Besides the fact he’s adorable—” I say, and Daddy makes a gagging sound, “he’s smart, funny, and he cares about me. A lot.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then she bolted awake and gagged again, and after a few dry heaves, she finally crawled forward, away from the mess, and curled into a ball. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Zigzag made a gagging sound, as he desperately tried to pry Zero's arm off of him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I gag thinking about where they’ll get the liquid to hydrate the meals. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I take a couple of bites of the pizza, but the oily cheese makes me want to gag, so I stop. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

While she stands with her arms folded across her middle, I gag in the street, trying to rid my lungs of the stench inside, and my brain from the memory of all those people. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a stench so awful it made me gag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He gagged on the last word, and I began to reach for him, only to stop short, afraid my touch would be excruciating. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bought them, gagged on them, flushed them, I remembered. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whittaker came to the cell and threatened to gag the women if they weren’t quiet. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I stuck out my tongue like I was gagging. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As I call to him not to move, I gag on the smell of the blackness, thick, tarlike. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He starts hacking and coughing and gagging, like he drank gasoline. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I gagged and Ultima held a cloth before me into which I vomited a poisonous green bile. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of rotting flesh fills the air and I gag. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My throat tightens and I swallow hard to suppress a gag. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A drip from the rag makes it to my mouth and I gag and spit and cough some more. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I stumble from thornbush to thornbush—my mother and father who hate each other, Rachel who hates me, a school that gags on me like I’m a hairball. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He swallowed with great difficulty and pretended to gag. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of him would have gagged a rat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He sticks a finger in his mouth like he’s gagging. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I suggested meat loaf, which made June gag. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Several of the kids had bed-wetting problems, but I had been dry for years until I woke one morning to Heather making gagging sounds. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He sounded as though he was gagging, choking. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She had her hands cuffed behind her back, a gag in her mouth, and Luke was holding the point of his sword to her throat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And something else with a magic theme, or jokes and gags, or . The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pickled frogs have a way of disappearing from the storage closet, so today Ms. Keen armed us with knives and told us not to gag. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ned took another swallow of milk, trying not to gag on the sweetness of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some kids put peanut butter in their hands as a gag, or have one of those shock buzzers, like in the cartoons. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He rolled his eyes furiously and went purple in the face, but neither he nor Basta could utter a sound because Farid had gagged them both, again very expertly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the job, let a girl be disobedient to the rules, and Mr. Edwards personally stripped her, gagged her, and horsewhipped her within an inch of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to untie his gag, but couldn’t, so she cut that as well. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been so funny—if Zach’s eyes hadn’t been almost turquoise—I would have confessed that the whole thing was a gag. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Following the stroke, she could not breathe, and gagged upon air. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hated the warmth of the tears that leaked from her eyes, but couldn’t wipe them away as she heaved again, gagging. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The stench of the camp was so appalling it was all that Dany could do not to gag. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She shoves a gag in my mouth, and then the knife is burning, searing, carving a path through my skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The taste of salt spray nearly gags me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“That chili was really bad. I tried to eat it, but Lydia kept gagging every time she walked by my office. I think she was kidding, but still.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In between gags and coughs, I sucked air in hard. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Men posing as German police bound and gagged the guards and managed to destroy some important documents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The gagging stench of molasses rushed up Carmen’s nose and down her throat, deep into her guts. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He started gagging; it took all his effort not to throw up on himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Connor made a sort of laughing gagging sound beside me, and I said, “Remind me to never eat the coleslaw here again.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘Well, it’s not a laurel wreath,’ Frank said, ‘but it’s a new kind of victory circle: the gag of duct tape.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I gagged and gagged again as I carried out overflowing chamber pots, and forced myself to take a blanket from a corpse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other ogres did likewise, and shrieked through their gags as well. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stuff pancakes into my mouth, almost gagging on the huge portion, the too-sweet syrup. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The gagging went on for what seemed like hours, her throat constricting and releasing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The lion’s eyes got wide and it gagged like a cat with a hairball. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘Will you get her out of here before I gag her with my bonnet ribbons and lash her to the bedpost?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He went to Mr. Sharpe and worked at tying the wet handkerchief around that reprehensible man’s head as a gag. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I gag, and throw myself against the bonds holding me to the table. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The menthol covered the stench slightly, but still he gagged, and he was relieved that he hadn’t eaten all morning. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They cut each other? Out here in the wild? To make themselves ...” Her throat closed on the word, as if she was going to gag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The salt I wound up with was greasy and tasted so much like chemicals that it actually made me gag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For the second time in a day, I’m gagged and bound. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I heard him gag, very loud, for a long moment and then he was silent. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ugwu wanted to gag her, to stuff sliced vegetables into her mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

God, even the word makes me want to gag. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to answer her, but his throat made a coughing, gagging sound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This wouldn’t be any goofy gag like I usually do; nothing that could be laughed off or ignored as “kids being kids.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She felt a stab of guilt as she made sure the Suli girl’s gag was secure. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she couldn’t stop gagging, over and over, like she wasn’t in control of her body. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cars careened off roads and into ditches, where their occupants clutched cloths to their faces, struggled to breathe, gagged, and coughed up dirt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I tried eating a little bit of bacon today because Edmond particularly asked me to but it tasted like pig and I gagged. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lined up in the hall by age, Sam Houston gagging as he inhaled the fumes coming off Harry. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Salted kitten and shrew’s liver!” another said, to which the younger children responded with gagging sounds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Those two lovesick teenagers can make a whole room gag. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I assured him it was not a gag, and if he looked and thought hard enough he would know me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I opened the door I gagged! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to speak, but nothing but muffled grunts came from behind the gag. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I gag and I yank out the knife and paddle my way back along the mud. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

At one point, maddened by his own crying, he gagged, choked and looked as though he was strangling to death. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A little girl two pods away coughs too and gags up her own gelatinous lung slug. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the thought of bringing the topic up with Abby makes me gag. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But at least he freed him from the stinking gag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wave broke over his head, and he came up gagging and spitting salt water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She tried to say his name without gagging and mostly succeeded. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I have no problem with that, either, except that it has a disinfectant smell that kind of gags you. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw my friends: Tyson, Grover, Annabeth, and Nico all tossed in a corner, tied up like rodeo animals, with their ankles and wrists roped together and their mouths gagged. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At last it covered her, filled her eyes, her nose, her throat, and she woke gagging and overwhelmed with the smell of smoke. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pima turned away, gagging at the smell of death in the closed room, then peered in again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cilla, who didn’t care that I stuck out my tongue and gagged when she told me about her first kiss with Alex. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I gagged and stumbled away from them into the dark, simultaneously grossed out and baffled. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The crowd gasped and, as the guards loosened their hold, Amah yanked off the gag. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wipe tears from my eyes, still gagging. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After fighting back the urge to gag, he told the confectioner, weakly, “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes,” and saw her eyes flare wide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Quit Man was upon me—his teeth more visible than anything else and his smell causing me to gag. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I want to say good-bye to him, but the words are stuffed inside my mouth like a gag keeping me from talking. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In the process, Gum Baby’s gag slipped off, which I was very sorry about. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I saw her gagging when parts of her throat stopped working. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he kept swallowing, trying to gag down a whack of big sloppy emotions. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His breath smelled of spoiled food, and Amari had to force herself not to gag. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell that engulfed him was so queer and cold he almost gagged. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he wears so much cologne I literally gag whenever I’m near him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I gagged when I smelled the greenish-black crust that lined the hull, with its odor of old vegetables and the special Alabama grease Nana always smothered on my cuts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was kneeling beside the coffee table, and he was gagging and sputtering on a foot-long, purple, slimy thing that was protruding from his mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As Peach gagged, Dismay banged into the rose of Sharon bushes and yelped, then bounced into the current and was swept away, tumbling under the water. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers brush my wrists and neck as he unbinds my hands and pulls off my gag. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She gagged and coughed, struggling to breathe through her molasses-clogged nose and mouth. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn gagged and fell back a step, and I saw Emma’s fists clench, as if she were thinking about charging it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Axel can feel his gag reflex jumping in the back of his throat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jason staggered to the helm and carefully pulled the gag out of her mouth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then they cuff him, blindfold and gag him, and drag him into one of the waiting jeeps. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I try not to look at the bullet wound in her head, but the dim light glows on what looks like bone, and I gag. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah could feel the fear threatening to scream out of her, so she dropped the shoes and put both hands over her mouth, effectively gagging herself. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked almost green with infection, and Seven tried hard not to gag from the smell that had overtaken the valley as they transformed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pong sat gagging in the basket, stinky juice dripping off his hair and down the bridge of his nose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

All of the words and all of the smiles, every tear and every gag just something to do. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I scream and try to tear free, one of the soldiers gags and blindfolds me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was gagging, then hacking violently, and he shook his hands in front of him—with his eyes closed, shaking his hands, he appeared almost possessed—and I felt my forehead break into a sweat. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fellow had to get it down his gullet quickly before it began to solidify, or he would gag on it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the curtains hid his vile habits, the smell of the perfume made her gag, and the clean sheets stank of his sweat by the time he was done with her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Kazilly could be more into Tiffany’s ideas, then gag me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake took it and filled his mouth then gagged horribly, disgorged that which was in his mouth and threw the glass upon the floor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He runs to the garbage can, picks it up, and pretends to gag and vomit. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He fished a roll from his tool belt, and in no time Frank had wrapped it around Nike’s head, securing the gag in her mouth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Clutter was taken into the furnace room, hit on the head, gagged, and trussed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or why he tied and gagged me every time he went out anywhere,” he continued, as if she hadn’t said anything. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I gagged down a sandwich and some pills at my locker, then headed for the library, the safe haven of freaks, geeks and small-town prophets. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I gagged from the smell but bent forward to inspect the place above his belly button where they’d surgically installed the tube. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I remembered a word Mami used for food that made her gag. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then a strange, gagging noise behind him made him wheel around. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“You feel sick?” one of the dropcops asked as he removed my ball gag. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He wiped Sciron’s big toe with his rag and turned aside to gag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the word police, Mr. Kendall thrashed harder and screamed wordlessly into the gag. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When I begin to gag at the stench, I back away and clear out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The idea gagged him but he couldn’t let it alone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a month passed and still she kept Obinze sealed in silence, gagged her own mind so that she would think of him as little as possible. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Scrubbing those out with my bare hands, I gag over the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I saw it all, too. The Sleeper was almost your home dad,” said Mini, pretending to gag. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The only other problem was that every now and again it made me gag so hard I almost threw up. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The taste threatened to gag her, but she made her-self chew and swallow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It almost gagged her, but Sansa emptied the cup, gulping down the thick sweet wine until her head was swimming. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A rush of moist, noxious air swept up and over Mark, and he gagged. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After weeks of this, he still gags, willing himself not to throw up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wait a few more seconds, then make a gagging sound and hunch over. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Point taken,” she conceded, then gagged as I opened the door a bit wider to let in fresh air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“At least, we did nothing to stop it. If you don’t go along with the gag, you’re next.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The sickly sweet stink of rotting corpses hangs heavy in the air, and every time the wind shifts, I gag. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He wiped it calmly away and said, “A gag would put an end to that kind of behavior, too.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fortunately it wasn’t lit; otherwise we would have gagged on the smoke in that closet-sized room. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We all went into the kitchen and found Arnold tied up but not gagged. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled his knees up to his belly and writhed in the bed, fighting back the gagging. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I might have to perform the Heimlich maneuver on him, but his son smacked him on the back and he stopped gagging. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Picture it. Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too cold to say no, but putting them on almost made me gag. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Someone who displays to his under-officers a captive tied to a chair is clearly a prince of politeness. Untie me, or I’ll force you to gag me.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before the lion could stop gagging, I shot in two more flavors of ice cream and a freeze-dried spaghetti dinner. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Jule gagged, a feeling that came from deep in her stomach and rippled through her throat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A spritz or two even got in his mouth, sending Gregory gagging and coughing. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I almost gagged, but couldn’t because I was holding my breath. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she’d visited Bellhaven for a mission, the reek of fish made her gag if she got too near the docks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He gagged and fought to clear his nostrils. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now they had a new agony—a gagging, unbearable thirst. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I bet a burglar broke in and left her tied up with a gag around her mouth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I gagged, and the glass fell out of my hand, spilled over my uniform, and crashed to the tile floor where it broke into large chunks that gleamed in the pebbly milk. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m rocking back and forth, unable to answer, making gagging noises, so Shirley tries, “Here we are! Your big night!” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Buttercup lay helpless beside the picnic, gagged and tied and blindfolded. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They stripped the Suli and Kaelish girls down to their underclothes, then bound all the girls’ wrists and ankles with cords from the curtains and gagged them with torn pieces of their prison clothes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Henry felt a gag rise in his throat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was gagging on the dirt, then he was gagging on his filthy finger. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Without a word, he walked over and jammed a ball gag in my mouth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They left the two guards gagged and tied with their own cloaks and ran into the wilderness at the foot of the Bonecruel Mountains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I started to gag and choke, and I had to get out of the lab for fresh air. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we laughed louder, we kissed longer, we tried to say smarter stuff, hesitating a second to think up the best gag. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time—fairly recently, in fact—Molly would’ve gagged over these words, both because they’re blatantly sycophantic and cringingly sentimental. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stuck my finger down my throat and pretended to gag. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Even the smell of it made me want to gag. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Two iron rings had been fastened to the wall; hanging nearby were a number of the whips, known as the cat-o’- nine-tails, and—according to one inmate account—a gag. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also went to Spencer’s, which sold gag gifts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It makes you gag. If we could throw something at the whale’s, then it would have to throw us up!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wait for her to say something else, but either she's been gagged or Cain has silenced her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She makes a gagging noise into the phone. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t seem to notice I could barely speak, didn’t seem to hear me gag when they asked if I’d found their little gift in the freezer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They looked like bookends, sitting right up against Pita, who was tied and gagged between them like a giant tamal rolled up in her own blanket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then, for a second, there were Ben and his father, eye to eye, as intimate as lovers, and the fingers tightened on the throat and Ben gagged. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tying the guy up and gagging him and smacking him in the face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She drank most of it and spilled the rest when she started gagging. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it made me want to gag him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dylan gags on a vomit-flavored bean as I watch the movie. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When I pulled their gags, they both shouted questions but I paid no attention, unrolling them from the wet sheets and unbinding their wrists and ankles. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

So I only really knew that he was taking steroids every day, for example, when I saw him gagging down the syringes of bitter liquid in the kitchen every morning and night. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food would not go down some days, and when it did, she would have to gag and fight it down. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no hour of daylight when she was not marching to and fro between the washtub and the line, alternately gagging herself with clothes pegs and breaking forth into lusty song. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The feel of bare flesh on his fingers made him want to gag. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At that moment, however, a horrible gagging sound erupted behind him, and Aunt Petunia started to scream. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He gagged at the taste of blood and squinted into the blackness. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dri gagged and hurried away to the bathroom and never came back. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was gagging, choking up water, and furious. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched one crawl to the graves and begin to eat the dirt, coughing and gagging all the while. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But I knew they were inside, bound and gagged, hurt maybe, and now I was the one to make haste until we were both almost running. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Cato lies on his side at the very top of the horn, twenty feet above the ground, gasping to catch his breath as he gags over the edge. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I gagged, swallowed, feeling the fluid course slowly to my vague middle. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Water makes me gag,” Monique said without taking her eyes from the TV screen. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the shoulders down she was wrapped in duct tape, her mouth gagged and her legs bound to the control console. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she tried to scream, they gagged her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each of the victims, though not bound or gagged, had been shot through the head with a .22 weapon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Uncle Edisto’s funeral, Peach had sobbed so much, Aunt Goldie had to take him out of the room as he gagged on his tears. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was all I could do not to gag. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I look at Boomer and stick out my tongue like I’m gagging. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It took me a couple tries to get going, but I finally gagged up my tale. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as she sat up, the gagging started. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’ll be a long time until I can scrub that toilet again without gagging. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Let them gag on what they refused to see. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong opened the lid and gagged at the rotting smell of old durian mixed with old bananas, old orange peels, and old eggshells. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Joe’s great-uncle gagged as if he had just swallowed a cat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed at that, but Dad stared at her in a way that said I am so in love with you, which made me want to gag and smile at the same time. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jason fought the urge to gag, but he didn’t keel over or explode. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“When we put the tubes down her nasal passages she was gagging on them,” the nurse said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

To be polite, he took a sip from his cup too, and almost gagged: The stuff was quite disgusting, as though someone had liquidized bogey-flavored Every Flavor Beans. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I pretend not to notice his approach, so busy am I with my gagging and coughing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If the First Arrivers are in the habitable zone, it might take years—and gagging down a lot of lake vines. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her hands were bound with rope, and they'd gagged her so she could not speak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I gag and push her off me, terrified. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He gagged on the water and tried to spit it into the bucket in one long stream, but it just gushed out of his mouth over Henry's shoes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a gagging noise, her whole body shuddering. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In one quick gulp, she downed the white larva, then fell to her hands and knees, gagging like a cat with a hairball. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t get the Tylenol down on the first try, and I’m embarrassed by the chalky gag that results. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If that’s all that we are—those shadow moments and a bag of gag gifts—then how foolish of me to think I deserved anything of him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the time me and Rondell got back up to the counter Mong had old dude gagged and tied up in telephone cord. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The woman had broken free of her bonds and was shouting louder than before: “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere ...” Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gag, my lips involuntarily forming a tunnel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We waited quietly while she read, and our intake of breath when she at last lifted her head made her gag with laughter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Were he and Flatnose still lying in the ruined cottage, bound and gagged? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Of him touching my back fat and my overflowing waistline, it makes me want to gag. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The legionnaires didn't gag her, probably because she had the sense not to be mouthy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The stench in the room made Jack gag. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thrust the waterskin into her hands and she gulped so quickly that she choked, then gagged a bit as she spat it out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The words were hard to get out, but Percy managed not to gag. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They forced her to stand on a wooden box, gagged her, tied her arms behind her back, and tightened a noose around her neck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His father stood in the soaking corridor with Nita slung over his shoulder, gagged and bound at her wrists and ankles. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of a collection of trunks, he grabs sight gags like a New England Patriots helmet that doubles as a Kleenex dispenser or goofy objects like Croc shoes pasted to toy crocodiles. How Carrot Top Wins in Vegas (Yes, He Can Be Funny) 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

“American Cornball” discusses off-color postcards, gag gifts, animated cartoons, newspaper comic strips, old comedies, comic books, humor magazines and sitcoms. ‘American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny,’ by Christopher Miller 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

She takes out her silence, which has festered into rage, on the man who has gagged her and locked her up. On being the madwoman in the attic: What "Jane Eyre" taught me about women's anger 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

It's tempting to suggest that Sandler makes such horrifyingly vacuous films, in which absurd gags float around in a killing void resembling outer space, because he is cynical or does not care. "Just Go With It": Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman and a sheep 2011-02-10T20:30:00Z

This invasion is testing the country’s famed neutrality and, undoubtedly, its gag reflex, because this week is Fantasy Suites. The Bachelor Watch: Ben Picks His Swiss Misses 2012-02-28T12:55:55Z

His everyman shtick and wonderful observational gags, rooted in his South Shields upbringing, show why he's tipped to become big in 2011. This week's new comedy 2010-12-18T00:08:32Z

Much of the film’s popularity derived from the use of Schwarzenegger as a monolithic sight gag. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

You can even build your gag around them. Cartoonists to thank frontline workers playfully this Sunday 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

“As usual, we will keep you posted on every detail as we are able. I’m under a strict gag order until then.” Sex and the City 3 rumours won’t die, but the New York it inhabited has 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Storylines of bereavement and thwarted hopes of belonging modulate Jacobson's gags. Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z

At first, late night TV hosts approached quarantine in the same spirit as any other gag. Live from their homes: Late night hosts are back to show we're all in this together 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

Still, there are probably about as many inspired gags as flimsy ones. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z

The scene of Ian’s tossing the documents doesn’t register; a visual gag involving flutes of champagne, which is predictable but promises to be amusing, is flubbed in the editing. Review: ‘Special Correspondents’ Stars a Fumbling Ricky Gervais 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

First and foremost: thanks for all the gags about casual Friday, but Scott Adams sounds like he's lost his freaking marbles. Scott Adams' defense of rape mentality 2011-06-20T15:30:00Z

But this show succeeds because it is about just one thing, and spends all its time being funny about that thing, packing as many jokes and gags as possible into nine-minute bursts. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Pros: It's home to a slew of entertaining content, from dance trends and mini skits to silly impersonations and laugh-out-loud gags. No, those TikTok-famous collagen gummies aren't a healthy meal replacement 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Thus, even when this boudoir pedant has Marie bound, gagged and twisted into a pretzel, the operative word is not abjection but ambivalence. ‘Romance’: But What Does She Really Want? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

What had millions of viewers laughing like drains in the 70s and 80s is often met with stoney-faced silence these days, the hairstyles and clothes generating more laughs than the actual gags. Just Good Friends – box set review 2013-05-09T15:00:01Z

It is a gloriously convincing romance, packed with superb gags. Annie Hall: No 1 2010-10-18T10:53:00Z

He can’t even kill himself properly — a suicide attempt on a train track turns into a Buster Keaton gag. Movie Review: ‘Beijing Flickers’ Directed by Zhang Yuan 2013-01-09T23:58:06Z

Epilogue segment, purportedly sharing clips of the next instalment, but in reality showing non-sequiturs and sight gags. Arrested Development's 10 best gags – video 2013-05-25T05:00:00Z

The standoff between the two men, then, is a rich vein that the filmmakers mine for no more than cheap, excruciatingly belabored gags. Review: ‘Why Him?’ Better Yet, Why This Movie? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

There’s a good gag a minute, maybe more, in this 90-minute show. Review: ‘An Act of God’ Is Back, With Sean Hayes 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

"The Simpsons" used to mix highbrow and lowbrow gags, and timeless and timely humor, but that rich mixture was simply too difficult to sustain. Will future generations understand "The Simpsons"? 2011-03-08T16:05:00Z

“Road Runner”-style gags recycled in computer-smooth 3-D animation still pack some punch, as it happens. Review: In ‘Ice Age: Collision Course,’ a Squirrel Reorders the Universe 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The greatest of those gags are then taken on tour - and the comedian drives himself to all his gigs. Profile: Jimmy Carr 2012-06-21T12:50:21Z

It’s the kale sight gag you didn’t know you wanted but will be grateful to see. The best comedy books of 2014, including ones by Poehler and Mandvi 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

The scales tip decidedly toward promoting racist stereotypes in one of the movie’s crassest “gags.” From Bluto Blutarsky to Donald Trump: The United States of "Animal House" at 40 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

"There's a terrible expression in English which is 'gagging for it'," she explains to the locals. Wild Shepherdess – TV review 2013-07-01T10:04:00Z

If you didn’t enjoy the gag about Keeley’s mascara ruining the shirts of everyone she’s ever hugged, well, that is where we part ways. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap: Can the Center Hold? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Is there not something in the sheer throwaway blackness of that gag which makes 1971 seem a very long time ago? Has film really outgrown racism? 2011-08-01T10:18:35Z

In 2002, the press started with a catalog that consisted of goofy novelty and gag collections, like a book of lyrics from cheesy 1970s and ’80s songs typeset as poetry and “Field Guide to Stains.” Master of Quirk 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

“The theater is the perfect place to do a show about theater. You can make all those gags that you can’t possibly make in the film.” London critics fall for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The play’s running “I Love Lucy” gag alternates between tired and clever. ‘Drop Dead Perfect,’ a Comedy With Everett Quinton 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

She stops gagging, removes the olive from her mouth and says, in droll, Greek-accented English, “I think we are a match.” These Movie Scenes Might Not Be Important, but They’re Pretty Great 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

But she was always vamping with a wink and taking pains to include her audience on the gag. Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

There was still a tendency to favour the easy gag. 10 O'Clock Live: did the Channel 4 hype backfire? 2011-01-21T10:43:58Z

You prefer comics not to laugh at their own gags. New Edinburgh act of the day: Benny Boot 2011-08-09T13:43:08Z

It’s a fine needle to thread — getting people to laugh at gags that are about all the uncomfortable truths they may still not see. Late-night TV sensation Amber Ruffin and her sister co-wrote a book about racism. And, yes, it’s hilarious. 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

References are made to great moments in Kardashian history, and digital devices are a running gag. Review: In ‘Katdashians! Break the Musical!,’ Cats Talk Like Kardashians 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

But it’s also become a ubiquitous TV and movie sight gag. Dead Tree Alert: Daddy Issues; Plus, What Shows Do Right By Dads? 2012-06-07T13:50:34Z

There is no paragraph where the star and the writer pretend to be pals — gag — while doing an everyday-person activity. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

It was a gag, apparently, but it was hard to tell fact from fakery. Perspective | What is Jim Carrey trying to tell us? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

He said that after he fell in "Aida" the gag was cut from the show and he never felt unsafe again. `Spider-Man' will resume with new safety measures 2010-12-23T16:14:48Z

In this early sequence from the bleak comedy “Beau Is Afraid,” the frame is packed with so many gags and references that’s it’s impossible to take them all in. Watch Joaquin Phoenix Make a Run for It in ‘Beau Is Afraid’ 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Many published accounts describe a long-standing family tradition of the adults exchanging gag gifts or homemade ones. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

As they did in that 2002 film, the filmmakers depend on an unlikely relationship to launch their gags and make their case for vulnerability over hostility. 'How to Train Your Dragon' breathes visual fire into 3-D tale of friendship 2010-03-24T23:35:00Z

The two gags top a poll at the fringe now in its fifth year. Edinburgh fringe's funniest jokes revealed 2012-08-20T23:01:01Z

Just like the Indians’ “bizarre” culture is used as a running gag, so too is Scott’s femininity set up as an ongoing burden the main character is expected to struggle with. How to make “Indiana Jones 5″ the best of the series: Kill off the racist, sexist tropes the series is steeped in 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

I’ll just say that adult audience for which Get Hard is designed should be able to get through it without gagging. Don't Tell Anyone, But I Kind of Liked Get Hard 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Instead of wishful thinking, it offered a nuanced view of families bound and gagged by a system that failed to understand the complexities of their lives. “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

But prior to that brilliant but overt gag, the distance between the two potential lovers is revealed far more subtly through Willis’ camera work. Gordon Willis was the quintessential New York cinematographer 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

It's a sight gag, and comes as a relief after Leo Villareal's Cylinder II, in which twinkly lights rise and fall like bubbles in a glass, making patterns and fields of stars. How the Hayward Gallery's Light Show monkeys with your eyeballs 2013-01-28T18:33:05Z

But that also meant Fox viewers were bombarded by gags that they perceived to be at their expense, coming from an assortment of outlets. The late night rise of "Gutfeld!" is telling us something. It isn't funny, but that doesn't matter 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

Some of the gags will make you laugh, though it might just be a sign of nervous exhaustion. | 'OSS 117: Lost in Rio': French Spy Spoof Set in Swinging ?67 Rio 2010-05-07T04:04:00Z

Those are the highlights, along with an extended incontinence gag. Television Review: ?Allen Gregory,? Jonah Hill?s New Fox Cartoon - Review 2011-10-28T23:55:19Z

Its music-industry gags sit awkwardly next to war-zone jokes and cultural quips, landing all involved on a peace train to nowhere. Review: Bill Murray’s Rock the Kasbah 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Christian monks in silent orders summoned up pagan texts from library stores with a gagging hand gesture. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Bo-ra grunts, enraged at the immaturity on display, but her sister’s gag resonates: why read from a textbook when there are awesome songs to learn in every language? A Korean Television Show About the Power of Pop Culture 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

What is your favorite line, joke or sight gag? "When stupidity is elevated": "Airplane!" filmmakers reveal the secrets to their deadpan success 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z

"I did a history degree once," says Thomas, holding court at the back of the catering bus as the other two swap gags. Chickens: What The Inbetweeners did next 2011-08-29T21:00:00Z

I visited the Barrymore a week before the show’s first preview performance because I wanted to see the work that went into putting even one gag together. In This ‘Peter Pan,’ Something Always Goes Awry. That’s the Plan. 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Isa’s insistent whimpering as various horrors are visited upon her becomes so grating you may sigh in relief when a gag is finally stuffed into her mouth. | 'Kidnapped': Intruders at the Window, and Then a Nightmare 2011-06-16T23:26:26Z

Just about every Mel Brooks picture is chock full of gags like these. 12 surprising facts about Mel Brooks on his 95th birthday 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

And though it's an undeniably silly comedy, it also offers more than a few trenchant gags about the self-absorbed, superficial side of our contemporary culture. 'Zoolander 2' confirmed at Fashion Week; will strut its stuff in 2016 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

It’s an issue that Colbert himself hinted at in one gag, when he and Jimmy Fallon joked about seeing one another in the locker room. The Colbert Rapport 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

And: "I think you've mistaken our marriage contract for a gag order." The art of making (and not making) plans 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The first thing he did was put a gag on her. The Walking Dead: season three, episode 14 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z

Lowry lays out the basics of the case in a chillingly concise fashion: “Girls. Kids. Bound, gagged. Naked. Stacked. Burned to the bone.” New True-Crime Books for Fall 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s the old gag of describing historical events of great moment in contemporary slang. ‘Drunk History’ and ‘Nathan for You’ Begin Season 2 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

There is a “nasty woman” joke and a visual gag at the expense of President Trump’s hair. Review: ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Brings the Gang Back. Sigh. 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

We are not quite – but very nearly – at the point where being gagged, tied up and thrown in the bath by them is a privilege. Kim Kardashian, the Pink Panthers and the missing jewels 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Oddly enough, a similar burger was once joked about by Burger King for an April Fool’s Day gag. Burger King in Taiwan offers chocolate-topped Whopper, draws massive crowds: report 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Pain is the key here: the movie has more gags that involve hitting, hurting and humiliating than you'll find in an entire Super Bowl's worth of commercials. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

Such was the density of references, callbacks and gags that Arrested Development proved to be that rare thing – a show that became funnier on repeated viewings. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

But the biggest laughs are sight gags of the sort you might catch in a good nature film — simple behavior, simply observed. ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’: It’s cute and, shhh, educational 2013-12-18T23:03:25Z

The picture also offers a few sight gags that are pure, dumb genius: they just work. Review: Rough Night Exposes the Threadbare Downside of the Women-Cutting-Loose Genre 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Early last month, Burger King Taiwan released a chocolate Whopper, which is a traditional Whopper with chocolate sauce added as a condiment, after joking about it previously as an April Fool’s Day gag. Burger King Japan releasing ‘Fake Burger’ for limited time only 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Not far into the movie you wish that he would just shut up or that the thieves would stuff a gag in his mouth and get on with their work. | 'Trespass': ?Trespass,? With Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman - Review 2011-10-13T23:47:25Z

“I hired cartoonists. So we get them together in a room and we just draw pictures and gags.” Bugs Bunny Is Back, and So Is the ‘Looney Tunes’ Mayhem 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The neighbors didn’t know that it was Menser’s father who’d picked up the fake eye at a yard sale and taught his daughter the gag. Want to raise an empowered girl? Then let her be funny. 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

A sickly poultry improvisation gag involving a peacock falls flat, and the speed bump to the happy ending is right out of the Hallmark Movie Scriptwriter’s Handbook. ‘About My Father’ Review: De Niro in Dad Mode Again 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

At which point I fainted onto the floor … My "epileptic fit" was obviously a gag and they got the point. The cutthroat casting of "The Godfather": life imitates mob movie 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

At first glance, “Poog,” a podcast about the wellness industry, seems to be a gag. Laughing All the Way to the Wellness Industry 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

It's hard to discern the seriousness of the legal showdown due to a series of unintentional gags that have arisen from the trial. Your honor, she's serving: Gwyneth Paltrow's most buzzworthy trial outfits 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Sure, there are some outrageous lines and sight gags, mostly courtesy of Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong, who function as central figures this time when, previously, a little bit of them went a long way. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-05-22T20:03:14Z

After my second watch of "Fresh," I began to tie together a running gag in the way of foreshadowing that begins from the very first scene. “Fresh” risks its butt to innovate the horror kill 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

Bob Einstein, who died on Wednesday, of cancer, at the age of seventy-six, was the king of the dummy gag. Super Dave, in Memoriam: Bob Einstein’s Mass-Culture Parody 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

The lessons are so treacly, and their delivery method so single-minded, that the Valley Girl phrase “gag me with a spoon” springs to mind. ‘Spies in Disguise’ Review: Smug Agent Meets Gadget Geek 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

In the second half, some brilliant performances turn physical gags into telling character traits. A Season in the Congo; Too Clever By Half – review 2013-07-20T23:05:43Z

Benji also manages to open a door with a skeleton key and execute the time-honored gag of jumping on a garbage pail, then onto a Dumpster top, then to a fire-escape ladder, with great aplomb. A (Shaggy) Star Is Reborn: Netflix Brings Us a New ‘Benji’ 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“I get a gag order placed on me. They don’t want to see your liberation, they don’t want to see your mess – they don’t want to see you.” Viola Davis: 'I stifled who I was to be seen as pretty. I lost years' 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

As for the speed and the gags and the dance breaks, well, purists might want to keep some lavender drops handy. Review: In This ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Love Is a Zero-Sum Game 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

As well as a handful of decent gags, aspiring stand-ups need the fortitude to deal with a hostile crowd. TV highlights 25/07/2011: How Murdoch Ran Britain: Dispatches 2011-07-24T22:00:01Z

That was the animation, psychedelically colorful and chock-full of rapid-fire slapstick gags. ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ at 50: Those Are Magic Numbers 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

There's just no let-up in the cavalcade of daftness as he sets sundry running gags going, then returns to them, spinning-plates-style, throughout the show. Harry Hill – review 2013-02-10T12:43:00Z

The repeated gags involving a precocious toddler and his potty chair, in particular, are like chewing sandpaper after the first iteration. “This Is Where I Leave You”: Terrific cast almost rescues turgid middlebrow crap 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The bruises and broken bones that were once a prerequisite of stunt work are now more easily avoided, at least with regard to small-scale “gags”, as performers call them. 'It's a terribly fine line': the stunt performers risking their lives for Hollywood 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

As I leaned out the passenger door gagging, my mother held me up and brushed my hair and repeated that I would be OK. No Longer My Mother’s Daughter 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The gag kept doing the rounds, from Warhol's soup cans to Richard Prince's reworked Esquire cartoons and beyond. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z

This leads to the movie’s only genuinely funny moment: a sight gag in which Ted dresses up in yellow rain gear like Paddington the Bear while attempting to procure Tom Brady’s sperm. Review: In ‘Ted 2,’ the Foulmouthed Bear Tries to Prove He’s Human 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

But the most prominent element is a recurring gag involving Arthur’s inability to keep his bathrobe prudently tied. Review: In ‘Superior Donuts,’ Wisecracks Galore but Little Substance 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

They were gag, gag, gag, gag, where ‘Airplane!’ is really structured, driving the story along all the time. Film: Surely It?s 30 (Don?t Call Me Shirley!) 2010-06-26T12:47:00Z

‘TONI ERDMANN’ The filmmaker Maren Ade’s latest is a perfectly directed and performed movie about a father, his daughter and the ludicrous gag teeth that help close this pair’s generational, economic and social divide. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

There are no verbal gags to relieve tension. Refracting Race Through the Comic Lens of Richard Pryor 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s almost a running gag in this biography, watching Simon pop up at various points to take aim at Rich with his pea shooter. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

After the downbeat Lost and Found, an incantation of drowning and rebirth over a poignant piano riff, Mason references a Frankie Boyle gag about Margaret Thatcher. Steve Mason – review 2013-04-12T16:42:19Z

This warm and funny comedy has both sincere convictions about society and a hearty appetite for happy absurdity, physical gags and so-dumb-it’s-brilliant antics. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

We did consider nominating Jesse Eisenberg for -- no, not that movie -- his role as a Hasidic drug smuggler in "Holy Rollers," but that was basically a gag idea and we changed our minds. 10 Oscar nods that won't happen -- but should 2011-01-22T19:01:00Z

They all had car gags, which made it more complicated. Global Auto Racing and Spy Chasing 2011-06-17T23:13:01Z

She viewed it as a cuddly temptation for thieves to break into her car and recalls that she “gag gifted” it to a friend. The absurd allure of the Sharper Image, the uncle-gift emporium for uncles you barely know 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

For comedy obviously we had gags for comedic purposes, but I think every good bit has kind of a grain of truth in it somewhere. Ronny Chieng on Andrew Yang: “There aren’t enough Asian people in positions of power” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Then there would be short gag comics followed by serious fiction. Daniel Clowes?s Retrospective at the Oakland Museum 2012-03-30T13:43:38Z

Our location manager has to find a house with a backyard and the right rooms for all the different gags. Filmmaker Oren Peli on the End of ‘Paranormal Activity’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

But Noah is only the latest in a long line of comedians to face heat for stealing gags. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The gags are distinct from the insecurities they feed on. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Perhaps he has precisely that smart, non-macho sensibility that Poehler’s gag hinted was the key to appreciating the tongue-in-cheek tragicomic melodrama of awards season. Neil Patrick Harris: an Oscars host not a million miles from Seth MacFarlane 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But his gestures and gags have a sort of built-in futility, analogous, perhaps, to his painting with the built-in shredder: They are designed only to set tongues wagging. Perspective | How Banksy’s latest stunt plays into the history of destruction in avant-garde art 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Here was that flattering sense, well known to parent-chaperones at Pixar movies, of a gag aimed over the heads of the kids for the grownups. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

The biggest gag in all this barely coherent silliness is that despite an oft-reprised signature tune called “Christmas of Love,” the humor is pure Borscht Belt. | 'Dollface': Stop Me if You?ve Heard This One ...Oh, You Have? 2010-12-28T22:31:59Z

But Fox, which broadcast the show this year, apparently did not find the gag about its parent company amusing. Can't Rupert Murdoch take a joke? 2011-09-19T15:20:00Z

Yet, though the gags are retrograde groaners, Lapkus embarrasses herself with confidence. ‘The Wrong Missy’ Review: Bad Romance 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The first “Man Who Knew Too Much” climaxes with an extended gun battle of the kind generally played today for slapsticky sight gags. New DVDs: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much,’ Carole Lombard Films 2013-02-01T21:45:15Z

Up some stairs and down a corridor, Mr. Wegman was seated in his cinderblock-walled office, a slightly forbidding space crammed with posters and papers and gag gifts. At 100, the Abrons Arts Center Revels in the Risky 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Otto and Leo are nicely contrasted, even when both are seen wearing Ernest’s pajamas, in a cruelly comic visual gag in Act Three. Review: Coward, Coward Everywhere, From Cabaret to West End and On 2010-10-05T13:42:00Z

The cocktail is just a gag in “Caught in a Cabaret,” a silent Charlie Chaplin film with funny intertitles by his brother Sydney. Hollywood and Booze: An Enduring Marriage 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

One recurring cartoon gag portrayed a chinless platoon commander who asked himself: "Am I as offensive as I might be?" Watch out for The Wipers Times (aka Private Eye in the Ypres trenches) 2013-07-03T11:40:34Z

Even the blocking of certain scenes has subtle purpose to it, as when Jimmy, gagged and bound to a chair, ends up falling over right by Howard's body, his head to Howard's feet. "Better Call Saul" goes deeper into the grey as it accelerates toward the end 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

“It has no more class than Hostess Twinkie,” Pauline Kael wrote, adding “it, too, may make you gag.” ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Elizabeth Taylor’s marriages furnished what Mr. Jaffee called the “infantile gag.” New Sketch of a Madcap?s Mad Life 2010-10-01T15:53:00Z

The late Steinbrenner reportedly found the gag funny as well and even shot scenes for a cameo, though they were ultimately cut. Steve Ballmer-Donald Sterling saga has some on-screen analogues 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Regardless, Cornsilk refused to sign the gag order. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

Perry rejected a suggestion by Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose that a gag order might be warranted. Jurors in Smith case must reveal medical histories 2010-07-20T22:24:00Z

Several of the passing gags are more confident than the main plots, and several minor characters prove more memorable than Radcliffe’s noble mouse, who mostly quivers and cringes in elaborate spasms of worry. Starring Steve Buscemi as God, “Miracle Workers” Is Sappy, Juvenile, and Sharp All at Once 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves walked into Boston's elegant Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum disguised as police officers and bound and gagged two guards using handcuffs and duct tape. Boston art heist rattles investigators 20 years on 2010-03-16T04:46:00Z

But then they resurrected the gag in the 19th century — when there really weren’t any more lions there at all! April Fools’ Day is a garbage holiday. Here is its terrible history. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

With a hit rate of about one in 20 gags, the sitcom from these YouTube sensations is considerably less likely to grab the 40-odd million views it has had online. TV highlights 26/07/12 2012-07-25T19:00:01Z

It sounds serious, but it also has some of the show’s best gags, notably a Meat Council propaganda film the students watch to dispel wild rumors vegetarians might be spreading. The Simpsons Thanksgiving marathon: the 25 best episodes to gorge on 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Oddly, the movie does begin with a halfway-decent gag: bottles of milk have crude line drawings of missing children on them, like milk cartons in modern-day America. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – review 2013-02-28T15:29:01Z

Normally, the evening was a boisterous, overheated eatathon, my parents' house bursting at the seams with cousins, aunts, uncles, gag gifts, seafood upon seafood dish, pasta, cookies, and pie. On navigating the holiday season after loss 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

A one-off gag aimed at Tom Cruise's "Top Gun," a clever use of kids' action figures, and actress Rachel Jackson's mad and masterful manipulation of a hand puppet add up to delightfully self-conscious comedy. Part two of 'Team of Heroes' is doubly fun 2012-04-26T20:12:13Z

The song opens with a reference to Bobby Seale, who was gagged and chained in the courtroom. What pushed Graham Nash, the quiet one, to record his solo masterpiece 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Korins says the do-it-yourself approach “holds true with the gags we pull off, and with the tricks. Everything is sort of hand-done.” The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Even with a character who seems pathetic and unhinged, Vaughn can deliver a gag with the best of them, and he, James and Latifah rescue some of the overwrought comic setups here through sheer brio. "The Dilemma": Vince Vaughn's psycho-stalker breakdown 2011-01-14T20:30:00Z

They appear to be having a lot more fun in the gag reels that accompany the closing credits, fondly mocking some of their previous films. | 'Furry Vengeance': Brendan Fraser Battles a Forest of Animals 2010-04-29T23:56:00Z

The films are summoned not as a series of gag references but as an evocation — in a grainier, more urgent style — of the old Spielbergian nexus of childhood fear and wonder. Secret's Out 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z

But his respect for good lyrics, self-deprecating gags and shrewd use of his sidemen's improv skills make him an artist of genuine class and laconic charm, if not a trailblazer. Curtis Stigers – review 2012-07-01T16:03:01Z

It is not Family Guy and it just did a cancer gag on Jade Goody. Frankie Boyle gets satirical – and Two and A Half Men star says: stop watching 2012-11-27T15:18:44Z

Here, real, responsible life impinges – in a recurring gag, say, that sees Hill accuse audience members of antisocial behaviour – only to mock the seriousness of our usual attitudes towards it. Harry Hill – review 2013-02-10T12:43:00Z

For all the breeziness of a play that likes its gags, “The Southbury Child” comes steeped in a degree of pain that even the best sermon might find hard to assuage. On the London Stage, Families in Disarray 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

The gags and performances were just as funny as the skewering of the form, which differed from an HBO Sports report in content only. Mocking the mockumentary: Will Ferrell gets meta in HBO baseball special 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

At this point, it simply wouldn’t be an awards ceremony without a Meryl Streep gag. “She has the flu — and I hear she’s amazing in it”: The art of the Meryl Streep awards-ceremony “burn” 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Some of the one-liners and visual bits hit their targets, but for the most part, reheated gags and sequences that recall earlier, better animated films are the norm. Capsule reviews: 'Justin Bieber,' 'Cedar Rapids' 2011-02-11T12:37:23Z

Like "Snakes on a Plane," the title is the gag, and it tells you all you need to know. Capsule reviews: 'Justin Bieber,' 'Cedar Rapids' 2011-02-11T12:37:23Z

It is one of the artist’s early joke paintings, featuring a written gag alongside layers of images. In gift to MOCA, Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard give key works that explore gender and queer identity 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

The gags are stale and the sentimental ending feeble. Hall Pass ? review 2011-03-10T15:32:00Z

Its gooey sentiment and hare-brained gags are likely to appeal only to very young kids. Capsule reviews: `Hop,' `Source Code' 2011-03-30T15:37:20Z

The more ludicrous gags, as when little Helen stumbles and bellows in her pathetic act, score big laughs — and big winces. Dan Savage's campy 'Miracle!': a delight to some, drag for others 2012-07-19T03:56:53Z

If these viewers can get past their “enough already with the ’60s” gag reflex, they too will surely warm to this study of full-force fame. Review: ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ Taking the World by Storm 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“About five of us get up,” Regardie says, “and Tommy just starts cracking up like he’s pulled the funniest gag ever.” A final seating for the man who knew every D.C. power player’s favorite table 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

It’s what it’s supposed to be — it’s a gag.’” When Weird Al Yankovic Met Daniel Radcliffe, Things Got … Well, You Know 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

"The Dilemma's" gay gag hardly broke new ground. 'Gay' joke in 'The Dilemma' movie trailer: Humorous or harmful? 2010-10-13T23:23:00Z

And I almost gagged when another examiner remarked to colleagues, with contemptuous levity, that her group’s admissions ought to include “an Asian, a black and an Arab.” ‘The Competition’ Review: Vying for a Slot in an Elite Film School 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Related: The Hateful Eight review: Agatha Christie with gags, guns and Samuel L Jackson Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video. Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes record Christmas box-office haul of $153.5m in US 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

He has a pitch-perfect feel for gag lines, and with his scribbly draftsmanship has forged one of the most distinctive styles in cartooning. Art Review: Edward Koren at the Wallach and Luise Ross Galleries 2010-05-20T21:44:00Z

Her early years with the Frenchman were touched by unabashed adoration, at which a cynical reader might be forgiven for gagging. ‘I wanted to be Murphy Brown’ 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

The crowd was ready to hoot and holler with unbridled glee at the goofy visual and verbal gags, sometimes a few seconds before they arrived. 2010-01-22T01:28:00Z

But without the contestants and the tears and Mel'n'Sue doing silly gags, these Bake Off Masterclasses are as dry as old raisins. TV review: The Great British Bake Off Christmas Masterclass 2012-12-18T22:10:02Z

“I’m gagging to be in a ‘Fast and Furious’ movie. Nothing like a dame: The splendor of Helen Mirren 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Linkletter mingled with the audience, asking questions, setting up gags and handing out prizes like a yard of hot dogs or five feet of dollar bills. Art Linkletter, TV Host, Dies at 97 2010-05-26T21:10:00Z

"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" is a riot of splashy colors; silly 3-D gimmicks; big, broad kid-friendly gags — and those professionally pesky penguins. Penguins to the rescue in 'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted' 2012-06-06T22:23:04Z

An old man who exists almost entirely to make gags about being an old man could have come straight from a bad 1970s sitcom. Count Arthur Strong; Howzat! Kerry Packer's War – TV review 2013-07-09T06:00:08Z

If one has to sit in front of a jet spray of degradation gags, better it feel like the occasional seltzer spritz than a fire hose blast to the crotch. 'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' a peppy spray of hit-and-run humor 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

That’s far better than striving for gags, but even historic interpretations allow for comic timing and human interactions, to leaven the consistency. Review | The Washington Ballet awakens with a lavish, triumphant ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

He’s not, but the gag is that everyone around him can’t make sense of a man who doesn’t fit the role he’s supposed to play. ‘Down With Love’ 20 Years Later: Celebrating the Phoniness of Rom-Coms 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, my failures ran deeper than botched tricks and faulty gags. I flunked out of clown school 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z

An Australian court’s gag order and the forces of the Information Age collided on Thursday in a largely futile effort to keep news about the conviction of a high-ranking Vatican official from reaching readers. An Australian court’s gag order is no match for the Internet, as word gets out about prominent cardinal’s conviction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The charm of the column, which is impossible to read without gagging, can be elusive. Nesting, the Vice Media Way 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

And she said/hissed this in an interview with Vanity Fair, when asked about a gag Fey and Poehler made at her expense during the Golden Globes. Taylor Swift can send me down to 'special hell' with Tina Fey 2013-03-09T10:01:00Z

It cannot be a low-budget piece of trash or a film-school gag or a stupid action film made as part of some weird tax write-off in Germany. From The Room to Geostorm: how to make a movie so bad that people will love it 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

There is even a Magritte sight gag in the majestically beautiful Dining Recess, a bright light dangling in a darkened room; or rather, a disc of warm white colour that illuminates nothing around it. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

“He was fully committed to the insanity and all of the gags and things,” she said. In a New ‘Night Court,’ John Larroquette Plays Defense 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

Not to mention that these posts would be sandwiched between gags by Jimmy Fallon and clips of Honey Boo Boo. Social Q’s: Announcing a Death on Social Media 2012-10-18T16:47:08Z

There was also a lovely, pointed gag about the two things women can't do: open jars or "appear on light-hearted Radio 4 panel games". Radio review: Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting 2010-12-09T08:00:00Z

As usual, it's packed with thrills and gags, but as with Pixar's Up, there are moments when grown-ups will feel a lump in their throats. This week's new films 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

The play moves at a rapid pace but if you miss one gag three more come along. 'Great Britain' taps phone-hacking laughs, but not for all 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

A police spokesman confirmed that a 39-year-old Israeli had been detained, but citing a court-issued gag order declined to name him or his alleged victims. Israeli arrested in Madonna song leak probe: police source 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

She burst through the sex barrier, and could reel off gag lines with the best of the boys The braying laugh “was the real thing,” she said, “and I’ve had it all my life.” Remembering Phyllis Diller: Stand-Up Comedy Pioneer 2012-08-21T02:50:16Z

Their Double Down Hearts sketch show bagged them an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination in 2008, and it was fantastic entertainment, with bizarre playlets, hilariously awkward audience interaction and top-drawer gags. This week's new comedy: Edinburgh special 2011-08-12T23:09:07Z

This running gag no doubt felt deliciously racy in 1933 but now just feels kind of, well, icky. Theater Review: Cole Porter’s ‘Nymph Errant’ Is Revived 2012-07-13T22:47:11Z

But they’ve also added choice gags and jokes of their own. ‘Elf’ is one jolly musical | Theater review 2012-12-07T21:40:05Z

I say songs, but the gag is that Clement and McKenzie's lyrics seldom attain that status. Flight of the Conchords 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z

The gag began with Menzel stepping to the microphone to introduce her co-presenter for best original song: "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage my very dear friend, Glom Gazingo." Oscars 2015: John Travolta, a.k.a. Glom Gazingo, gets some face time 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Another involves seeing a character after half their head is literally blown off, which provides a fantastic sight gag. Brad Pitt hops aboard the ridiculous, rollicking "Bullet Train" packed with gleefully violent stars 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

But it also wants to ditch the authenticity whenever it wants to, if there’s a chance for a really good Pac-Man sight gag, in which case–hey, lighten up, it’s just an entertainment on TV! eightysomething: Why The Goldbergs Loves the ’80s a Little Too Much 2013-11-05T14:43:08Z

More is more and is, at times, just right in “22 Jump Street,” an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery. ’22 Jump Street’ Puts Cops on Campus 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The show also satirizes the leaders of both countries — although Trump receives more gibes than President Vladimir Putin, including a Season 2 gag about the American president’s legendary awkward handshake. Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Along with the baby love, the book also celebrates the healing power of art, overloaded diaper gags and all. Cartoonists Tackle the Big Stuff: O.C.D., Motherhood and Too Many Books 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

South Korean news media instead relayed American reports from Tulsa, treating the episode mainly as a gag by teenage fans of K-pop and TikTok users in the United States. Why Obsessive K-Pop Fans Are Turning Toward Political Activism 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

True, many of the gags will be lost on people for whom Brooklyn might as well be the planet Krypton. Review: ‘Brooklynite,’ a Superhero Musical with Matt Doyle and Nicolette Robinson 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

I am no Kimmel fan, but with the exception of one truly ugly gag about Johnnie Cochran “smiling up” from Hell, he did well. The Emmys Become an Actual Good Awards Show 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Unlike many of the hosts’ gags, it played big in the room. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

When her Skuggle licks a big old candy wrapper or gags on a gross cigarette butt, the laughs come easily. Imagination Stage’s ‘Night Fairy’ enchants at times, but it could use a bit more magic

In a message that she posted on Facebook on Monday, Ms. Palin interpreted the gag as a swipe at her son Trig. ?Family Guy? vs. Palin: Can Disability Be Funny? 2010-02-20T03:27:00Z

Any successful gag takes time and practice, a lot of practice. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: On Day Eight, Just One More Time 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Very good, a little nasal, but great for delivering a very high quality stream of gags. Streep, Depp, Fallon … who's the top Trump impersonator? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

The “pie in the face” gag began as a vaudeville go-to, as did “The Aristocrats,” the classic dirty joke comics still put their own spins on today. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

But when a trailer for “Irresistible,” a political satire written and directed by Jon Stewart, showed a Republican campaign operative licking the face of a Democratic rival, the gag was met with stony silence. The Last Picture Show? Moviegoers Cautiously Take a Seat 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

No more holding your nose or gagging as you refuel after a workout or run. 10 budget-friendly Costco products with cult followings 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, “Red Eye” was cheerfully repetitive, finding humor in a series of running gags. In Praise of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

But the parents laughed at all the sight gags — not polite laughs manufactured for needy writers, but genuine guffaws, particularly at the climactic scene in which Teddy’s stuffed-elephant pal wears underwear on his head. Perspective | Book readings can be a drag — unless you’re a children’s author 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Ntila-Oponyo is gagged by a confidentiality clause she signed with the singer, and refused to discuss the issue with the AP. Madonna's promises in Malawi turn sour 2012-03-28T14:56:11Z

It is a good gag reflex we have as a society, that we hear the word selfie and dislike it. John Cho: Why Skeptics Should Watch 'Selfie' 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

"All comedians know that every gag has an expiration date, like bottles of milk," said Sagal, who interviewed Colbert on stage at Second City's 50th anniversary celebration in 2009. Stephen Colbert departs, and his Nation mourns 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Stewart skipped the theatrics and delivered it fairly calmly, as if he wanted to make sure we knew it was not a gag. Jon Stewart Cements His Legacy in ‘Daily Show’ Finale 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Personally, I think Stephen Colbert’s biggest sin in the dubious “Sensitivity to Orientals” gag that sparked so much Internet navel-gazing on Friday is that it’s overworked and not very funny. Why we fight about Colbert and Lena Dunham: Twitter politics are all we have left 2014-03-29T16:00:00Z

The "High Five" gag — a giant hand on garage-door springs that whaps people to the floor as they're walking around a corner — is funny every time. 'Jackass 3D': Bad boys' pranks, stunts not so in-your-face 2010-10-14T20:42:00Z

He has no sense of comic timing; his gags drag and are given artificial snap by tight editing that sucks the air out of them. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Deserves Better Than “Snatched” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

A few of the gags are soundly built to yoke mirth and misery. Norm Macdonald’s Press Tour Was a Debacle. His New Show Is a Loose Hang. 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

A PG-rated romp that never romps, it lacks the jokes, sight gags, pacing and performances that are the stuff laughs are made of. ‘Moms’ Night Out’: not that fun 2014-05-08T19:51:33Z

And the running gag of Guerrero threatening and sometimes torturing helpless people caters to the action film audience's tendency to get off on bullying cruelty. "Human Target": How Fox's stellar action show went horribly wrong 2011-02-02T15:03:00Z

Only in a sight gag during the final credits is there a momentary flare-up of the old antic spirit. Movie Review: ‘The Hangover Part III,’ With Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms 2013-05-22T22:02:42Z

But you still get Corcoran's cracking voice – so sumptuous that you start to wish the gags would get out of the way – and Jones's deft musicianship. Frisky and Mannish – review 2012-10-28T18:30:12Z

For any network comedy to be exploring this is refreshing, let alone a comedy powered by phrasing, sight gags and general buffoonery. The good cops of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" are a scathing critique of destructive policing 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

"You can never be too sure where the gags are going to land when you go on tour," says Kellie Shirley, who plays Pauline. One Man, Two Guvnors: the tour de farce reaches Adelaide 2013-03-06T15:47:12Z

It went beyond a running gag on the show. Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t the First Host to Get Serious About Politics 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

“This play is so good it’s worth gagging four times!” Sorry, Sweetie, but I Need Daddy’s Estate Back 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mostly, though, it’s a string of the kind of crude, sometimes offensive gags that are probably a lot funnier during the filming process than they are on the screen. Movie Review: ‘A Haunted House,’ Starring Marlon Wayans 2013-01-12T00:51:46Z

They can establish character, set up a romantic scene, introduce a plot twist, ignite a gag. Hollywood and Booze: An Enduring Marriage 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The title, “Based on a True Story,” isn’t just a gag. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

It was enormously popular, in part because of Ms. Carne and the running gag that became a national meme. Judy Carne, ‘Sock It to Me Girl’ on ‘Laugh-In,’ Dies at 76 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Indeed, that initial tower of poo is a sophomoric gag compared with what eventually develops in “Death Fugue.” Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

But the gag rule has proved futile against the Internet. An Australian court’s gag order is no match for the Internet, as word gets out about prominent cardinal’s conviction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

On the plus side, "Singer always has a neat special effect, a well-timed gag or an action set piece around the corner, whipping up the action towards a symphonic climax." 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' compelling, if convoluted, early reviews say 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

A guillotine sequence from the French Revolution and the gag about Egyptian funerary disembowelments leave a bad taste in the mouth. ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’: 3D fun, pawsitive lessons for kids 2014-03-06T20:26:33Z

My understanding is that comedy comes in threes, and we had done two “Perfect Strangers” gags. Damon Lindelof on the ‘Leftovers’ Finale, Mark Linn-Baker and Preserving the Mystery 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

One of the best sight gags in "Horrible Bosses" presents one of the few certifiably clean jokes in the picture: Day's attempt to slide under a garage door before it hits the pavement. 'Horrible Bosses' offers a cast, script that kill 2011-07-07T14:54:00Z

At the same time, and without making a deconstructionist meal of it, the production suggests that very prospect encroaching upon the three surpassingly clever artistic temperaments whose best running gag is themselves. Review: Coward, Coward Everywhere, From Cabaret to West End and On 2010-10-05T13:42:00Z

A lot of vivacious production numbers, hokey gags and sly spoofing of the Cold War, and a spy plot that's, well, a mess. Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z

A few of the stranger details in the movie are based in truth although not recreated to the letter, which is part of the gag. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is stranger than nonfiction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

But most of the time those gags were a minor side dish, designed to provide parents a few knowing chuckles in between the outbursts of chaotic silliness and slapstick violence. "Rango" and the rise of kidult-oriented animation 2011-03-03T02:02:00Z

You know that gag in movies where a group talks through an elaborate strategy to get past a trap, only to have some fool accidentally trigger it? Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Graff may be onscreen for much of the movie, but because he’s often gagged, blindfolded and bound, he also presents a question mark, a cipher. | ?Rapt': The Humbling of a Powerful Frenchman 2011-07-05T21:25:47Z

The show “breathes life into the well-worn story, even if it does so with gags as old as vaudeville and Dust Bowl melodies,” a critic for The Boston Globe wrote in December. Reimagined 'Robin Hood' To Land on Broadway 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

One of my jobs was cooking beetroot – it used to make me gag. Martin Kemp: ‘George Michael came on our first date’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

In one video, a young woman fights back tears and gags as she watches through her fingers. News Analysis: Art That Turns Both Heads and Stomachs 2013-07-13T18:23:01Z

We said, “We’d like to see if you would do a couch gag.” 'The Simpsons' Explains Its Button-Pushing Banksy Opening 2010-10-11T18:07:00Z

One of the running gags on “Glee” involves Sue’s hatred of curly hair. The Nice Guy Who Puts the Mean Into ?Glee? 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

We’d already seen the gag in a fashion show, so it did not hold any shock or mystery. The Met Gala 2019: It May Not Have Been Camp, But It Was Fashion 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile Chuck gets to fondle Alex’s breasts because she thinks he’s gay; a running gag has him perceived to be the “woman” in the marriage. “Guys don’t iron other guys’ underwear”: When characters in movies pretend to be gay 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

There was the surreal comedy of the parking gag, with the just-ever-so-off street signs. Louie Watch: Dad of Anarchy 2012-06-29T11:22:17Z

There is also the gag book “Sex After 60,” which is blank inside. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable and gagging when his owners rushed him to an emergency animal hospital in Portland, Oregon, in February. X-rays reveal Great Dane’s love of socks

The gags, some of them even funny, are nonstop, and so are the disparaging remarks about Travelocity and airlines’ customer service call centers. Theater Review: ‘Craving for Travel,’ a Comedy About Travel Agents 2014-01-27T21:17:48Z

There's no shortage of gags, wisecracks and humor on the not so mean streets of Springfield. Springfield, home of 'The Simpsons,' to open at Universal Studios Hollywood 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

And yet she is constantly reducing the frisson of potential strangeness to weak camp, introducing spooky music and giggle-producing gags, as if she lacked confidence in her psychoanalytic ideas. Dance Review: Exploring Time in the American Realness Festival 2014-01-21T22:04:18Z

Being full of gags about the Irish, it's unlikely to be a stranger to offence. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z

Margaret Thatcher gags stopped having any edge the moment Ben Elton started making them in the 1980s. TV review: Turner's Thames; A Short History of Everything Else 2012-06-13T21:30:01Z

Having foolishly missed his opportunity to ignore it, perhaps in the mistaken belief that most of the electorate reads the Times, Miliband has been struggling to deal with the gag ever since. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z

"Main thought after reading Margaret Cho on the Golden Globes gag was just, you know, maybe these people are not your 'friends'," wrote one viewer. Margaret Cho's Golden Globes character stirs controversy 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

And fans of Desmond, the castaway stuck typing in the same numerical sequence every 108 minutes, will appreciate the gag of the hamster in the exercise wheel that powers a black hole. 'Phineas and Ferb' will commemorate 'Lost's' 10th anniversary 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

This is probably done on purpose, which actually helps the movie, but, unfortunately, so are the lazily vulgar gags, which don’t. Review: ‘Dirty Grandpa’ Features Robert De Niro on the Prowl 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

In typically confident style, 30 Rock launches into its fourth series with a great, knowing gag from a half-winking Alec Baldwin. The Beauty of Maps 2010-04-19T05:45:00Z

She never recovers from the gag, and Roman and Logan leave her out of meetings and important decisions from that point onward. "Succession" presents the "Chiantishire" dog show, starring the well-bred Roys 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

But don't worry, you won't be preached at; Maxwell's got too sensitive a funny bone to let the righteous rhetoric get in the way of the gags. This week's new live comedy 2012-05-25T23:05:21Z

He won the funniest joke award at the 2011 Edinburgh festival fringe for his gag: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves." BBC3 lines up new comedies 2013-04-29T10:27:06Z

The Lego figures are rendered with playful rigor; their limited movements and expressions generate some amusing sight gags. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The movie is built like an escalating farce, rich in visual gags and sustained by machine-gun dialogue worthy of the best screwball comedies — albeit a lot blunter. The Roles Are L.G.B.T.Q., but the Movies Are Not About Self-Discovery 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

But that 1982 comedy does contain one smart, pointed sight gag, in which a movie poster shows a doleful, decrepit prizefighter unable even to lift his own gloves. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

That the line is delivered from the stage of the Folger Theatre by no less accomplished a comic actress than Kristine Nielsen only adds to the gag’s giddiness. Review | Theresa Rebeck’s riff on Restoration comedy is not quite a smash 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a funny stretch, heavy on audacious sight gags. Review: The Last Man on Earth Is One of a Kind 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s the Crucifixion as a big finish, but it’s not meant to be a gag. Critic?s Notebook: ?Jesus Christ Superstar? and ?Camelot? at Stratford 2011-08-29T21:59:36Z

Samberg’s comedy shoots and misses through the evening were plentiful, but perhaps the dumbest was a pre-commercial break gag where, instead of food, nurse practitioners circulated with syringes of flu vaccine. Sandra Oh saved the Golden Globes: The good, bad and ugly of the 2019 awards 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Directed by Frank Coraci, the film feints at comedy with background gags and an occasional broad performance or two, but it’s primarily a dramatic story — and not a focused one at that. ‘Hot Air’ Review: A Right-Wing Radio Host Learns to Love Again 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

At one point he is suckered comprehensively by someone in the audience who has brought their own gag, and can only laugh and offer his surrender. Comedy gold: Jason Manford's Live at the Manchester Apollo 2013-02-14T14:03:04Z

A frequent gag on the show is that she's mistaken for a small boy. Susie’s struggle in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

And it is packed to the seams with drag gags and sequins. This season, Broadway flouts its grit (and some glitz) 2011-06-03T18:24:03Z

The art programme promises a mix of old-school talent, rock memorabilia, and cheap and cheerful gags. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

The characters knew each other, the storylines were there, the gags were there. Mrs Brown's Boys: how the 'worst comedy ever made' became a smash hit 2013-01-29T16:57:30Z

You may be able to help defuse this situation with a short talk — not to issue a gag order, but to let her vent and clarify what her beef is. Perspective | Work Advice: Should this manager step in to quell gossip? 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

For another gag, she had a real pizza delivery guy bring out 20 pizzas and hand them out to the likes of Harrison Ford and Julia Roberts. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's scorecard as Oscar producers 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

When a bunch of doofy white dudes decide to make fun of a little African American girl,  the gag doesn’t land in the same place, because it’s coming from an outsider’s point of privilege. The most racist commercial of all time? 2013-05-01T16:10:00Z

Not to fear -- there's still plenty of action, music and cheap gags. "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z

“If decisions aren’t being made behind closed doors,” she asked, why had the library “gagged everyone?” Ex-Employees Mum on New York Public Library Project 2012-05-23T18:56:17Z

A running gag — though the term seems frivolous in this context — finds the new arrival reading from a biography of Bill Clinton. Review: In ‘Eclipsed,’ Female Captives in Liberia’s Civil War Seek Sustenance 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

This is the first time Pesci has publicly spoken of being burned by the flaming hat gag. Joe Pesci was burned on "Home Alone 2," adding to a history of injured actors toughing it out on set 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

It was a great extended sight gag, built from purely audio source material. Critic's Notebook: Bill Cosby Appreciation and Screenings at Paley Center for Media 2012-01-10T15:41:59Z

Still, boasting a brisk pace, a jubilant tone and a generous endowment of gags and masks, this 90-minute “Miser” is an unusually accessible, enjoyably lively rendition of a classic. Faction of Fools’ ‘The Miser’ generates a windfall of wit 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Larwood's odd physicality and impressive clowning instincts form part of his appeal as a comedian, but he's also got a real talent for big boffo gags – the filthier the better. Edinburgh fringe festival comedy special 2012-08-03T23:05:22Z

Sporting an electrified wig out of “Young Frankenstein,” Carthew’s Angélique initially comes across as a sight gag. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Moments later, he’s gagging — and it isn’t from the smoke. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z

On Friday, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played musical numbers from specific episodes and opening sequence couch gags while a giant screen played clips from the show. Springfield comes alive as 'The Simpsons' take over Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z

The main gag is that all the performers use mannequin hands instead of their real arms. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels do the fake arm thing with Jimmy Fallon 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

There's mortar sticking the gags together, a reason to come back for more. TV review: Hunderby; Harry's Mountain Heroes 2012-08-28T06:49:03Z

Forget the imperfect subjunctive: I would much rather be able to understand these gags about horrible racists. 'Can Tony Soprano make me a better parent?': the lessons we've learned from lockdown TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

And he didn't achieve that by writing landfill gags. Can it, armchair comedians, the joke's wearing thin 2013-02-12T17:34:12Z

But the longest-running joke, about residual bathroom stink, is poorly executed, and a sight gag stolen from “Boogie Nights” and involving a sex toy, is as limp as a dangling prosthesis. Movie Review: ‘That Awkward Moment,’ About Men Evading Commitment 2014-01-31T00:15:53Z

The show also offers a profusion of verbal gags: when Wilberforce reveals that her late, naval husband produced "very detailed logs", one of the gang instinctively replies: "It's the food, isn't it?" The Ladykillers – review 2013-07-10T18:40:00Z

On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the host celebrated the occasion with a gag that called back to the panicked early days of the pandemic. Best of Late Night in 2021: Trump’s Never-Ending Swan Song 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Fans seized on the song immediately and started demanding that Robyn finish it: Variations on #ReleaseHoneyDammit became a running online plea and gag. How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Even his family are repelled by him; this and the sneery laddishness of Benjamin's work colleagues are catalysts for the dark implosion that occurs when he discovers the formula for the ultimate gag. First fiction roundup – reviews 2012-05-25T21:44:02Z

But judgments about your friend’s diet are not necessary, and needling her would be a lame gag. Thanksgiving Deer Hunt? Sounds Like a Great Time to Talk to the Kids About Guns 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

In one compelling moment, Xernona Clayton, an event organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, celebrates King’s birthday by giving him gag gifts that will help him when he’s arrested. Seeing Martin Luther King Jr. in a New Light 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

The recurring gag typically begins with Homer, the family patriarch, yelling, "Why you little. . ." and then violently choking Bart. On "The Simpsons," Homer will no longer strangle Bart 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

Written and directed by Brit McAdams, “Paint” is a comedically inert parody of male privilege that’s all sight gags and very little substance. ‘Paint’ Review: Watch It Dry 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Since Hulot rarely spoke, Tati the actor operated under a gag order of emotional reticence, and Tati the director imposed the same lack of affect on his films. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z

This is an anthology of dark, deadpan comic vignettes, punctuated by an amusing fake intermission and sealed with a grim sight gag. Review: ‘Wiener-Dog,’ the Tail That Wags Through a Few Bitter Lives 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The Savage-Falk dialogue was sweet and felt authentic, so inevitably the gags here involve making the Savage-Reynolds exchanges as dirty as possible, packing them with meta humor and liberally sprinkling them with vulgarity. “Once Upon a Deadpool”: A cynical cash grab that’s still too adult for kids 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

These days, Life of Brian exists less as a film than as a series of endlessly quoted gags floating around in the popular imagination. Life of Brian: No 10 2010-10-18T10:44:00Z

Mukunda does Mr. Blonde’s sinister little boogie to “Stuck in the Middle With You,” while one of his younger brothers sits before him in a chair, bound and gagged. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Some smelled so strongly of rancid body odor that I gagged. Smell dating: sniffing out potential lovers (and their sweaty T-shirts) 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

When a gag worked, it was excellent, but there were whole episodes where I didn't laugh once. Arrested Development season four review: one for the fans 2013-05-30T10:47:00Z

Also useful for any laboured "Put your xx in the Tory box" gags. Who politicians should be talking about 2010-04-20T20:45:00Z

The gag is that it needs to be “deployed on purpose.” May I Have My Attention, Please? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

In “Amélie,” a running gag about a globe-trotting garden gnome loses its touch when the statue comes to life and sings a song called “There’s No Place Like Gnome.” “Amélie” Arrives on Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Frankie Boyle is a really good comedian, he can fire a gag like a gunshot, but I'm very uncomfortable about jokes about kids with Down's syndrome. Alan Davies interview: 'I'm like a fine wine. I'm maturing' 2013-01-20T18:57:01Z

And there were improbable story lines, like running gags about snake problems in the reptile-free far north. Boosters hope Alaska will be "Hollywood Far North" 2010-10-02T19:01:00Z

They're not holding up cumbersome signposts, directing you to their punchlines so that every single person will be in on the gag, whether it's funny or not. From Hunderby to It's Kevin: how TV comedy learned to be silly again 2013-03-19T12:52:00Z

He was a gag cartoonist, primarily, but he dabbled in almost every field of comics, from the nineteen-twenties to the nineteen-sixties. Bill Griffith on His Mother’s Love Affair 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

When something doesn’t work, Coogan defers to them as if they’re Stanley Kubrick, not two young comedy writers he hired to turn in some Paul Calf gags for a TV pilot that never got made. ‘We've had a love-hate relationship’: Steve Coogan on bringing Alan Partridge back to the BBC 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Still, plots were never Family Guy's strong point, and the gags are plentiful enough. Tonight's TV highlights: The Sinking Of The?Laconia 2011-01-06T00:05:01Z

Although he has been a committed Labour party member and campaigner for state education for more than 30 years, he is still best known for his gags. Why the satirist John O'Farrell would make a great MP for Eastleigh 2013-02-13T12:55:01Z

Mr. Étaix spoke of the preparation that goes into making what he calls “le gag.” Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z

Or, you could say it’s as funny as child molestation, a subject which, incidentally, inspires one of its least tasteful gags. Review: 'Dirty Grandpa' Is 'Utterly Unfunny' 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Brunetti, who’s known for his dark, delightful gag cartoons, fills every inch of his images with details, each of them small, finely wrought, and glinting with humor. Ivan Brunetti’s “First Date” 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

And in part it’s that the interlaced story structure starts paying off, as earlier scenes get context and the season develops its own running gags, rather than riffing on fan-pleasing oldies. The New Arrested Development Is Dark, Uneven, and Frustrating. Can We Have Another? 2013-05-29T17:59:42Z

“Tati looked at my drawings and thought they had a lot of the humor and observational skills, and I was really good at writing gags,” Mr. Étaix told The Los Angeles Times. Pierre Étaix, Director and Slapstick Actor, Dies at 87 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

So, too, does a steady stream of interpolated gags referring to, most prominently, the recent election, which many in the audience would probably like to forget. Review: ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ and His Misfortunes 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Or you can choose quantity over quality, opening up a spigot of gags and riffs and hoping that the good ones will wash away the bad. Review: ‘Get Hard,’ With Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

When those interactions suddenly become consequential and serious, though, it’s too late to start caring and the violence too closely resembles just another gag. Review: Six Dancing Eccentrics in Search of Some Seriousness 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The show is full of gags like these: Review: ‘Trial & Error’ Features a Confederacy of Dunces 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Now, nearly two decades later, that gag and more than 3,500 hours of Carson’s “Tonight Show” have been preserved digitally and will begin making their way onto the Web. Johnny Carson?s Online Presence Gets a Boost 2010-08-11T04:12:00Z

One charming gag finds Stalker pausing her criminal analysis to praise the virtues of performers who are tangentially mentioned in the course of the investigation. ‘See How They Run’ Review: An Agatha Christie Mystery Spoof 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Shaun is a resourceful “little fellow” in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, and his adventures are similarly well-constructed machines of gags, foils, everyday foibles, and comic exaggerations. ‘Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon’ Review: Sci-Fi With a Dash of Chaplin 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

These are, admittedly, soft, stale targets for a salvo of precision-guided gags. Book review: ‘The Global War on Morris,’ a political satire by Congressman Steve Israel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

With her cigarette holder, her spiky shock of hair and her colorful costumes, Ms. Diller looked like a sight gag to some people. ArtsBeat: Phyllis Diller and Her Comic Craft 2012-08-22T16:23:43Z

It’s not as timeless a gag as the literature she pays homage to, but, for this particular moment, it offers plenty of LOLs. The best comedy books of 2014, including ones by Poehler and Mandvi 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

There’s gagging, and a gag that requires them to head back to the doctor for another tablet, but otherwise they’re set. What TV still needs to show us about abortion 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

Abrams employs a delightful running gag in which male characters prepare to save Daisy Ridley’s Rey only to find that they are in fact the ones that need her help. The Top 11 Moments for Women in Pop Culture in 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

But where Castle’s gags were delightfully cheap, 4DX goes high tech, retrofitting an entire movie theater with special seats that can lurch forwards, backwards, and side to side. Batman in 4DX with fake rain and added smells? Bring it on 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

There's a running gag about cultural differences that gets old fast, but at least the investigation into Miracle Day moves forward when we discover that certain people were clearly prepared for it. TV highlights 28/07/11 2011-07-27T20:59:01Z

Damon has a funny running gag involving his bad French; and Murray and Balaban make a dream sidekick team. ‘The Monuments Men’: It may not be art, but it’s entertaining 2014-02-05T23:01:22Z

Riff Raff's gag goes deeper than just his character's name: the real Franco is notorious for a recurring guest role on another US soap, General Hospital. Rapper Riff Raff takes TV soap role to mock James Franco 2013-04-12T12:27:08Z

Khadijah Wilson displays two handmade headpieces, connected by a strap and including mouth gags, as well as her photos of female models wearing them. In the galleries: Shiny fantasy worlds, undercut by body parts and company logos 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

However much attention to cake-like patina and squidgy form his proposed use of glazed and unglazed, new and old bricks might achieve, it remains a half-baked gag. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z

A borscht belt “Blackadder,” the series trafficked in the zaniest of sight gags. Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest 2013-07-19T18:43:48Z

Right from the start, the talk was fast, the script fresh and the sight gags played to perfection. Police banality: why Brooklyn Nine-Nine is no longer arresting 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

No one seems sure if the point is chat or gags. Mark Lawson on That Sunday Night Show 2011-01-20T08:00:02Z

It's a fine sight gag that doesn't translate into words, and is in this sense irreducible. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z

Anything for a gag, anything for the laughs.’” The Re-Re-Rebirth of Jean Smart 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Channel 4 describes the cartoon show as "unashamedly rude and silly", which pretty much sums up the type of gag cracked in the Di and Goody sequence. Frankie Boyle gets satirical – and Two and A Half Men star says: stop watching 2012-11-27T15:18:44Z

Shot through with looping rhetorical jokes and sight gags that play on the absurdities of the urban environment, the film seeks answers for thorny moral questions in the startling clarity only afforded by dreams. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Her parties — this was a running gag — were always dull. ‘Making It on My Own,’ With Mary Tyler Moore as a Guide 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

If the first half of "The Simpsons'" endless run has held up, it's because of the characters and stories, the timing of certain lines and sight gags, and the phenomenal voice work. Will future generations understand "The Simpsons"? 2011-03-08T16:05:00Z

Judging from the trailer, viewable above, "Pitch Perfect 2" will replicate the original film's mix of wacky but undeniably catchy musical numbers, spirited competition, sisterly bonding, slapstick gags and raunchy jokes. 'Pitch Perfect 2' trailer showcases high notes, low comedy 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It's hard to imagine the gag about Leven, 20 miles up the road, going down as well anywhere else on this UK tour. Gagarin Way ? review 2011-02-23T19:30:00Z

The derring-do is so entertaining, the moldier gags and soppy ending are forgivable. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z

I called Ricky for ideas for a gag or effect one could do outside. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

The gags were funny too, and mostly self-deprecating. Radio review: All Around Bob Monkhouse 2010-07-28T06:59:00Z

He repeated the gag today, but spoiled it, saying instead that he had thought of naming it after Cable - not the same thing at all. Boris Johnson: the best jokes from his conference speech 2012-10-09T11:33:03Z

Those are among mine as well, since they contain some of Brooks' most cheerfully vulgar gags. "History of the World, Part 1" turns 40, and it's still good to be Mel Brooks 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

They wanted a "history joke book" and – when he protested that he knew nothing about history – offered to provide the facts to go with the gags. Terry Deary: The man behind the Horrible Histories 2012-07-13T23:10:02Z

The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized. Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

On the latter comparison, “Z Nation” will mostly skate, except for one zombie gag near the end of the pilot episode. ‘Z Nation’ aims to be TV’s next big zombie thing 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Vacation-rental contracts are not standardized, making it easy to slip a gag clause into the fine print. Write a negative online review and get sued? It can happen, but maybe not for long. 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

That quickly came to an end when the government decided to enforce Law 88 – the gag law, as it's known in Cuba – and started arresting journalists. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z

I’ll chuckle every time I think of one of the movie’s best sight gags, the grey-haired pregnant lady walking through Sadie and Charlotte’s school, looking at least 55. Apatow’s This Is 40: Way Too Many Scenes From a Marriage 2012-12-19T15:00:17Z

And there the show might have lain, a perpetual gag line for the theater in-crowd. Carrie Is Back: The Resurrection and the Life 2012-03-05T14:35:27Z

I wanted to write some gags because I don't usually do many gags. Ricky Gervais: 'I've left behind the veil of irony' 2013-02-02T20:00:01Z

From there, the movie becomes a cavalcade of tired gags — less com than rom. ‘Falling Inn Love’ Review: A Prize That Needs Some Work 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Critic's view: "Everyman shtick and wonderful observational gags, rooted in his South Shields upbringing." Edinburgh comedy award 2011 shortlist: who's who? 2011-08-24T16:28:03Z

Crystelle is gagging on her own chutney after saying she was “OK with spice”! The Great British Bake Off 2021: episode eight – live 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

“I still gag West African cabdrivers by speaking the remnants of Fante. I can only say a few things, but it tickles them like crazy.” Lady Bunny Is Still the Shadiest Queen Around 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

Conversely, if a lousy time was had by all, a gag reel might not be for you. ‘Hot Pursuit’ and Other Films Elevate the Art of the Blooper Reel 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The crowning glory of Steamboat Bill Jr, possibly Keaton’s greatest gag of all time, was a stunt as beautiful as it was potentially lethal but it required him simply to stand still. The silent-era film stars who risked life and limb doing their own film stunts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

The New York Times' Manohla Dargis writes that "More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding pinata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery." '22 Jump Street': Tatum and Hill redo is a riot, reviews say 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Unlike some of the other comics seeking the same audience, Flanagan's a proper punchline man who believes in delivering great gags rather than coasting by on his own charisma. This week's new live comedy 2013-03-16T06:00:12Z

My favorite album cover of theirs — “Propaganda,” from 1974 — has them ripping across the English Channel while bound and gagged on a speedboat. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

He started repeating the joke regularly at the end of episodes, and Damon eventually came on the show for a “fight”—establishing a crowd-pleasing gag that won’t be going away anytime soon. Watch Matt Damon Taunt Jimmy Kimmel for Not Winning an Emmy 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

I don't believe in putting a gag on creative expression. Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke' 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z

This development process was obviously effective, as the gag rate on the film is astonishing. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

There was a skit re-creating Breaking Bad in the form of the Andy Griffith credits—funny, but the Breaking-Bad-as-sitcom gag is already an old one. The Emmys’ Balancing Act: Predictable, Except When Not 2012-09-24T12:00:40Z

Despite the occasional laboured gag, it's an affable enough debut, deserving a wider audience than this post-watershed slot is likely to attract. TV highlights 27/08/2012 2012-08-26T18:59:01Z

Instead of redrafting old gags that don't fit modern sensibilities or worse, straining to recapture past glory, "Coming 2 America" confidently moves to the comedy rhythms of where we are now. "Coming 2 America" takes the crown, delivering a sequel worthy of & less patriarchal than the first 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

I had a slight chip in my front tooth from a ball gag accident gone awry. My “50 Shades” sex party 2012-06-17T01:00:00Z

Hart is five feet four and regularly made a gag of his petite frame. “Irresponsible,” Reviewed: Kevin Hart’s Family Values 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Here are some other jokes, gags, sketches, and self-owns that stood out. The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The gag, of course, is that both Bond and Costanzo — whose pristine and ethereal voice has been heard at venues like the Metropolitan Opera and the Palace of Versailles — are utterly singular artists. Review: Sounds and Styles Playfully Collide in ‘Only an Octave Apart’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

I love the sight gags and slapstick from silent films. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

That plot, described baldly, is still hard to swallow without gagging, as are some of Mr. Herman’s saccharine-crusted numbers. | 'La Cage aux Folles': Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge on Broadway 2010-04-19T04:59:00Z

That gag in the films came solely from me. Edgar Wright: ‘With Baby Driver, my oldest idea became my biggest hit’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

I hesitate to unpack too much from his grab bag of gags and conceits. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

While this runs the risk of comedy clubs turning into Take A Break magazine with gags, the best of these shows use their traumatic subject matter to steer comedy into rewarding and entertaining new places. This week's new comedy 2011-01-01T00:05:55Z

But be warned: At The Style Invitational, all of us gag. Style Invitational Week 1140: Give us a bad name 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

There was a gag going round the terraces of White Hart Lane last season when it seemed inevitable Redknapp would become England manager. The real Harry Redknapp 2013-04-30T14:49:41Z

Mr. Lloyd created with David Croft — was a World War II farce, filled with sexual innuendo, slapstick gags and overwrought accents, in which factions of British, French and Germans clashed in a small French cafe. Jeremy Lloyd, Creator of British TV Comedies, Dies at 84 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

When Barr trots out a stale gag about gender, riffing on the question “What is a woman?” she gets a predictable roar. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

She began to struggle with a psychosomatic ailment that caused her to gag while singing — even sometimes while speaking. ‘This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For’: A Diva on the Precipice 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The humor worked on multiple levels, with silly sight gags that appeal to grade-schoolers and more subtle punch lines to keep grown-ups engaged. A Groundbreaking Cartoon Family Returns, ‘Louder and Prouder’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

She’s gagged and bound and slapped and tossed in the back of an old truck. Movie Review: In ‘Highway,’ a Bride Falls for Her Kidnapper 2014-02-20T23:40:13Z

Rated PG for the usual vaguely icky gags; maybe for vampirism too but likely not. Review: Raising the Stakes With ‘Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Some gags wore thin by evening’s end, especially the coy questions posed to nominees about the best note they ever received from a network. The TV Watch: Fast-Moving and Manic, and All the Better for It 2010-08-30T04:33:00Z

Do that, and you may enjoy a few legitimately hysterical gags within this feature. Bro, say can you see? "America: The Motion Picture" shows we're not just dumb, we're drawn that way 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

In classic Hollywood, reflexivity was deployed, as in some nineteen-fifties comedies, largely as a gag. “Glass,” Reviewed: M. Night Shyamalan’s Unsatisfying Obsession with Superheroes 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Although it didn't compulsively smash-cut from one gag to the next, like The Simpsons or 30 Rock, it did manage to capture the hearts of its audience. Does everybody really love Raymond? 2013-05-09T13:29:00Z

My flesh didn’t crawl, nor did my gag reflex kick in. I shook hands with a Klansman 2013-03-10T13:00:00Z

Laurel co-directed the pictures and devised the bulk of the gags. Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Gyllenhaal’s performance as Lee, the gagged and manacled office assistant/S&M sex slave in the now-notorious Secretary, set the tone for a career that has rarely lacked for daring. Maggie Gyllenhaal: 'There have to be consequences for disrespecting women sexually' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The editing is frequently awkward, clunkily overemphasizing physical gags, and lingering too long on the actors as they try to light up dusty material. ‘Playing With Fire’ Review: A Firefighter Comedy Running on Embers 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

If Perkins can keep the gags coming then this sitcom definitely has legs. My New Hand; Heading Out; The Railway – TV review 2013-02-27T07:00:00Z

The visual and verbal gags still come fast, but now they’re in the context of a more earnest and straightforward style of storytelling. Review: Matt Groening Enters the Netflix Age With ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Predictable Covid-era gags about delivered groceries, germaphobia and computer glitches pepper the script, but the real problem here is the expository dialogue. ‘Distancing Socially’ Review: Scenes from a Quarantine 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s going to be a full gag,” Porter said, adding that he considers himself a hopeful entertainer. Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

The characters are all cardboard cutouts, and some of the gags are over the top, but it totally worked for me. ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

There are glorious running gags and a Greek joke that still makes me smile six months after reading it. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

The Oscars are infamous for bloat, so why add to that with onerous gags? The Best and Worst of Oscars 2018 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Still, how they pull off on their compact stage this 10-actor piece, with a live combo led by Edd Key and many sight gags, is a bit of a mystery. Murder with a sense of humor in Taproot's 'Something's Afoot' 2011-07-27T23:47:03Z

Critics Tuesday morning were equally displeased: The Times' Mary McNamara said the gag was "pretty horrifying." Emmys 2014: A night of highs and lows for women 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

It's pure survival from that point on, which is why it was very intentional that there were no gags, there were no bits. "Barry" star Anthony Carrigan on the finale: "Something lights up inside of Hank" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

In a clever running gag, Randall hijacks samples of Prozac from doctors' offices and dumps them in a parking lot wheelie bin from which they're lifted by a hobo, whose life is thereby transformed. Love & Other Drugs ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z

He's got the creative powers to keep an audience constantly on the back foot, while he bombards them with finely crafted, almost haiku-like gags. This week's new live comedy 2013-04-06T05:00:17Z

The ensuing complications and winking misunderstandings are executed with welcome comic precision, but “The Final Girls” isn’t just a gag machine. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

In its parade of ribald gags and infantile preoccupation with body parts, not to mention a climactic decapitation, water-balloon-style, The Interview displays all the mindless excesses that repressive regimes condemn in Hollywood movies. You Can't See The Interview, But I Did 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

This year the most uproarious — not to mention best-selling — comedy was “Girls Trip,” an outrageous romp full of sight gags and repeatable one-liners with a star-making turn from Tiffany Haddish. In a truly just world, the Oscars would include these 10 categories 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

In a gag about walking down an aisle, he shuffles his feet like James Brown in slow motion. Critic’s Notebook: Jerry Seinfeld Is Still at Home Doing Stand-Up 2012-10-14T21:56:07Z

People who grew up in the Evert-Connors era may gag, but exotic hair color on the courts is merely a step from the streets, and, in fact, it’s a lot more compelling. On the Runway Blog: From McQueen to Venus: Brave Women 2013-08-30T19:40:45Z

Favoring sight gags over scares, this comedy of errors charges from the Morgan barn, where the rattle and hum of a whole-body mulcher awaits our three prisoners, to a variety of scrubby outdoor locations. Movie Review: ‘100 Bloody Acres’ Offers Campy Horror and a Secret Recipe 2013-06-28T03:09:57Z

For 44 years, Ernie Bushmiller’s “Nancy” was the most meat-and-potatoes strip on the funnies page, a streamlined and glistening machine for delivering one dopey gag every day, no more and no less. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In an especially iconoclastic touch for the era, Delaney made the homosexual character not a running gag but the moral compass, the only admirable person onstage. L.A. revival of 'A Taste of Honey,' the 1958 play that dared to make a gay character its moral center 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

I visited him there, walked down the long corridor nearly gagging from the smell of jail food. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z

These movies were not just devoid of gags; they were explicitly, even purposefully, postjoke. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z

Supporters wondered whether she and her fellow dancers were under a gag order. A Trump Inauguration Casualty: The Silent, Smiling Rockettes 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

During a rendition of Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade,” he invited a fan onstage for a few twirls, then dampened her vivid excitement with a canned gag about “Dancing With the Stars.” Barry Manilow bids farewell (for now) at Staples Center 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

There’s as much richly catty humor here as in a full season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” along with some clever pop-culture gags — “The Sound of Music” joke alone is worth the price of admission. Review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride,’ From Elvis Impersonator to Drag Queen 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Morecambe And Wise At the heart of the double act lies the tried and tested formula of a straight man who serves up the gags for the clown to bat away. Six to Watch: Comedy double acts 2010-11-23T12:33:00Z

Make them laugh first, and you’re more likely to make them cry”  Crystal’s video points out a gag that is lost in modern English. Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z

The gags created in his makeshift workshop are silly, ingenuous and humorous. Theater review: Irony, whimsy, isolation, tedium in French troupe's 'L'Effet de Serge' 2011-04-15T20:21:04Z

Look closely at the clothes in mystery films: the costume designers are in on the gag. The Curious Case of Chris Evans’s Sweater 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

“The Bite” also taps into the Kings’ fondness for the comedy of city life, which generates some of the show’s best gags. Review: From ‘The Good Wife’ to the Covid Zombie Apocalypse 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Anonymous, Vermont You mean, other than a small gag reflex? Social Q?s: To Share and to Sip - Social Q?s 2011-12-22T23:10:23Z

One of the movie’s best gags is the snoring, red-nosed hulk hidden away in the subconscious. Review: 'Inside Out' Is the Craziest Movie Pixar Has Ever Come Up With 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

How were we going to pull this gag off? Television: MTV?s ?RJ Berger?: Young, Gifted and Getting Even 2010-05-22T07:15:00Z

His sketch of the black militant Bobby Seale gagged and strapped to his chair became the image that epitomized the trial of the Chicago Seven, the leaders of protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Howard Brodie, 94, Combat and Courtroom Artist, Dies 2010-09-24T05:19:00Z

Jon Jenkins, the new CEO for the casino, said he knew the resolution was a gag "as soon as I saw it." Resolution about legalizing pot was a gag, tribe says 2011-07-12T00:29:05Z

Major Fenton’s arrival does occasion one of the show’s funnier gags, when he whips off his sporty flying-ace duds to reveal full black-tie attire underneath. | 'Death Takes a Holiday': Set Aside That Scythe, and Let?s Put on a Show 2011-07-22T02:01:27Z

The timing of the episode—which had literally dozens of other fantastic lines, gags and veiled references that I didn’t mention above—couldn’t have been a coincidence. The Always Sunny Depravity Rankings: “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award” 2013-09-20T17:17:00Z

“I basically gagged,” he said, meaning that in a good way. Front Row: Zebra Katz: You Have to Know the Context 2012-03-14T18:15:25Z

A costume company is facing intense backlash for selling a Halloween getup that shows Kim Kardashian West being gagged and bound as a “robbery victim.” There's Now a Kim Kardashian ‘Robbery Victim’ Halloween Costume 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

The actors never lose faith even when the gags grow ludicrous. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ritchie's film is a loving Tarantino tribute, but with even more gags. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Groves produces a gag tape measure that says the fish is 25 inches. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s really cool to see them pull off a lot of the gags with cool animatronics, great lighting, fog, and other old-school film tricks, which is the stuff I like about old-school horror films. James Wan Prefers Peter Jackson’s Gory Horror Comedies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

Other gags, like one involving Ben Carson, are as fresh as the latest news cycle. Review: ‘Shear Madness,’ Where Getting a Haircut Is Murder 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

"We even recreated classic sight gags, like the front of a house collapsing on Keaton, where he's saved because the open window falls right over him," Garden said. Comics stand up to save a festival celebrating the stars of silent movies 2012-06-16T23:06:35Z

A running gag finds Kind’s multitasking agent competing in a decathlon of the gig economy. The Startling Sweetness of “The Other Two” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

The union flag parachute stunt at the start – even if it's so beloved of the Loaded generation – is still a knockout gag, audacious and funny. My favourite Bond film: The Spy Who Loved Me 2012-09-28T10:21:34Z

In the recent “Ozymandias” episode, there’s a visual gag so quick and subtle that you could easily miss it if you blinked at the wrong moment. Hidden Breaking Bad: The Stuff You May Have Missed 2013-09-24T17:53:26Z

When the fiasco happened, Mr. Kimmel said, he was sitting in the audience next to Matt Damon, apparently planning to finish the show with another gag in his long-running “feud” with the actor. Jimmy Kimmel Gives His Side of the Oscars Story 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

It is hard to talk when you are gagged. Terrified of public speaking? Start with what you really want to say 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

You can envision the recurring gag: When cast members Key and Benanti knock on the door, a studio audience breaks out into knowing giggles. Review | What’s Steve Martin up to with ‘Meteor Shower’? Your guess is as good as mine. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

But usually he keeps things light, with running gags about his mum's smoking, and a routine about the extraordinary potency of cheap music – it's not Dad dying that makes Hughes cry, it's Snow Patrol. Sean Hughes: Life Becomes Noises – Edinburgh review 2012-08-13T17:00:01Z

A couple of decent set pieces — one inflicting severe vehicular pain on the boyfriend, other using hot irons as defibrillators on a cop’s chest — are the most distant approximations of gags from early Stooge shorts. The Three Stooges: When Slapstick Meets Sentiment 2012-04-12T17:00:17Z

Initially the audience laughed heartily at jokes stemming from that star-worthy kitten, and various gags involving the actors as none-too-streetwise characters pretending to be gangsters. Key & Peele Film Gets a Sneak Peek at SXSW 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

And on any scorn-rating it scores pretty highly: the book basically consists of a series of prods, pokes, gags, winks, in-jokes, rages and philosophical wind-ups. Exodus by Lars Iyer – review 2013-02-27T11:00:01Z

The restaurant gig — an extended sight gag, more or less — isn’t very convincing, and not only because Oh is awfully slow at folding mandu. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

The alternate versions often include different gags and interpolated variety numbers to bring them up to feature length for foreign release. DVD: New DVDs: ?Laurel and Hardy: The Essential Collection? 2011-11-04T22:09:41Z

But his vision was deemed unfilmable; how, for example, would a director pull off such “gags” as a locomotive gently entering a room and lying down? The movie Salvador Dali wanted to make with the Marx Brothers didn’t happen – until now (sort of) 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The steps, the characterizations, the comic gags: Whether or not you approve of each one of Mr. Ratmansky’s choices, all of them arise from and are justified by the music. Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Nutcracker’ by American Ballet Theater 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Although this pairing will likely elicit the most groans and gags, it may also be the most recognizable. From "House of the Dragon" to "Yellowjackets," here are 7 last-minute couples costume ideas 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

Defending his old boss, former aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. later dismissed JFK’s fondness for Fleming’s spy thrillers as nothing more than “a publicity gag”. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

I reverted to the “pretend it’s a phone” gesture, a gag that will die with my generation. At Gabriela Hearst, Cashmere and the Carlyle Are Close at Hand 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Yet hope we do, even as the vulgar sight gags and plot inanities pile up. Review: In ‘Central Intelligence,’ a Weaponized Kevin Hart 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Life was about gags, and doing whatever you felt like doing—or at least that was the performance. Reviving the Pop-Punk Innocence of Blink-182 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

We really don't need the piss-on-boots sight gag to understand the hysterically overstated message: these are not dancers, they are workmen, regular blokes, real guys. Tap Dogs 2010-06-30T21:15:00Z

And at least they supply a certain illicit frisson, which can't be said for his gags at the 2011 Conservative conference. Boris Johnson, the comedian of politics, has the last laugh 2012-07-30T12:00:01Z

The dialogue on “The Heart, She Holler” buries bathroom humor in mock-Southern prolixity, and the show’s best gags achieve a sort of poetic absurdity that is equal parts Dada and Looney Tunes. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z

The movie revels “in its dumb gags and retrograde attitudes,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in March. DVD: Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Gold Rush,’ Remastered 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z

Villegas, the saxophonist, used the classic gag of casting an invisible fishing line and reeling himself offstage. Review: In ‘Alma,’ the Flamenco Star Sara Baras Warms Up 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The beer, which continues to be boycotted by several prominent conservatives, was more so a gag rather than a gift. Senator John Fetterman trolls House GOP with Bud Light “gift” amid Biden impeachment inquiry 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z

But the emphasis on sight gags and physical humor makes the Minions films very different from what you’d expect of family-friendly modern animation. The Real Reason the Minions Have Taken Over the World 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

Here, it's The Empire Strikes Back that is lovingly mocked, although it seems far more work has gone into the often stunningly detailed animated recreations than into the gags. Formula 1 2010-07-10T05:45:00Z

Frank rarely breaks the fourth wall, and there are fewer visual gags; the characters still do despicable things, but they try to look respectable doing them. “House of Cards” Season 4 Is Less Vulgar Than Real Politics 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Woody telegraphs this information wittily using a Playskool microphone toy – through a minor gag in which he reminds the toys to pick a moving buddy. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Molina: "I went for the cheap gag. I am going to get something like that on my phone." John Lithgow and Alfred Molina find that 'Love Is Strange' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

When the employee refused, she was tied up and gagged. Robbery at Ancient Olympia museum 2012-02-17T16:38:39Z

That would be Joseph Kahn, who apparently never met a Lady Gaga gag he didn't like. This unfunny teen slasher comedy should be put in 'Detention' 2012-04-12T20:08:11Z

I wonder if Trudy went—if she and Vogel pulled off the gag, and laughed about it on the train back to Queens. The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Her prose rambles from animal gags to dirty talk to infinitely beautiful meditations on the nature of perception that deflate and turn absurd before they can turn philosophical. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

But along with his humorously malevolent cackles, he deserves more good gags. World premiere 'Aladdin' lands at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre 2011-07-22T21:39:45Z

She told me what’s happening amounts to a “gag order” on the very experts that the public needs to hear from directly. Perspective | The Trump administration is muzzling government scientists. It’s essential to let them speak candidly to the press again. 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Anderson landed, for the sake of the gag, on Bryan Cranston. The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Is this real, I wondered, or is her name a reference to some old “30 Rock” gag I’ve long forgotten? Review | ‘30 Rock’ reunion special failed to mask the stink of NBCUniversal’s hour-long ad for itself 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

But their stories are told with tenderness and a surprising compassion, rather than being just a launch pad for gags. The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte – review 2013-07-07T10:00:00Z

The reduction in theatres means that they are often back at the same theatre within three months - and, they proudly claim, never needing to change a gag or a pose. Music hall variety shows threatened by dwindling audiences: From the archive, 21 November 1957 2012-11-21T07:30:00Z

Another gag was singing "They've Leaked Online" about the recent celebrity nude photo hacking riffing on Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves win early at CMA Awards 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

There's probably a satirical gag to be made here involving "nest eggs" and "a large bill". The new First Direct advert: featuring a platypus 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z

Ali Catterall More internet–based ridicule from Daniel Tosh, with filthy, gag–inducing and painful clips drawn from the web and punctuated with casual racism and thinly veiled misogyny. TV highlights 15/03/2013 2013-03-15T07:00:01Z

The reason why the gags work, though, is because Cohen’s characters embody a range of stereotypical characteristics that play perfectly well into the preconceived ideas of his interlocutors. The genius of Sacha Baron Cohen: 5 comedy strategies that make his insane interviews work 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

It takes some skill to craft a running #MeToo gag predicated on the fact that women have misunderstood the situation, but here we are. #MeToo to MAGA: why Curb Your Enthusiasm is still TV's most daring comedy 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

But then there are those gags that are just grating. Louis CK and Zach Galifianakis’s Baskets: tears and rages of a clown 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Library staff gagged by council confidentiality agreements are unable to speak publicly. Hidden cuts are undermining libraries from within, claim experts 2011-03-25T17:09:50Z

Holmes' lawyers say the leak violated a gag order. Hearing still on for reporter in Colo. shootings 2013-03-29T16:37:08Z

With six episodes left, “UnREAL” won’t likely clear any of this up, but it seems to understand not only the impulse, but the gag reflex too. ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Another Period’: From female creators, sharp jabs at reality 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

The special effect that indicates when he is doing so is pretty cheesy, and so is the stereotypical foreign shopkeeper who turns up as a running gag in the story. Television Review: ‘Mr. Stink’ Stars Hugh Bonneville in a Holiday Fable 2013-12-20T21:33:16Z

Blockbusters like Baby Driver, for example, or even the Fast and Furious films have brought in more gags. The keg party's over: why gross-out comedies are going down the pan 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Readers of the next day’s Los Angeles Times were introduced to the gag via the reassuring headline, “Santa Barbara Is Still OK; A-Blast Report Just Hoax.” From “phreaks” to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s “eureka!” moment 2013-02-16T14:00:00Z

"They get used to seeing the top-liners," one comic said dolefully, "and you've got to be on your toes to keep up with the gags." Music hall variety shows threatened by dwindling audiences: From the archive, 21 November 1957 2012-11-21T07:30:00Z

All garish colors, small-scale sight gags and kid-friendly one-liners, it lacks the same comic spark that a recent "Wimpy Kid's" second diary also failed to deliver. 'Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer' earns average thrill points 2011-06-09T20:12:13Z

While it’s cute to see Poehler, Cera and Rock do their gags, the main reason to watch is the songs, which are all quite excellent. A Very Murray Christmas: Bill and friends' happy hipster holiday 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

But let’s not lie to one another: when RuPaul called Katya back to the stage just as she was announcing the queen, you were sort of hoping that it wasn’t just a gag. RuPaul's Drag Race ends season 7 with one of the best finales in show's history 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

And kudos to the show's creators for not just doing the episode live twice – once for the east coast and again for the west – but for tweaking the gags for both audiences. "30 Rock's" ambitious, uneven live episode 2010-10-15T13:16:00Z

It’s a stoner detective film so overstuffed with visual gags and gimmicks that the filmmaker said he was inspired by slapstick spoofs like “Top Secret!” and “Airplane!” Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Then, there are the seamless gags, which provide some comic relief in between each incident of brutality. "She goes chic very fast": "Poker Face" costume designer on creating Natasha Lyonne's iconic outfits 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

Because I enjoy a well-played, friendly gag, I asked readers where they draw the line on office pranks. Work Advice: Prank calls at work aren’t just a joke 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The nimble banjo-picking interplay between Macon and Sam McGee sets a rollicking backdrop to lyrics about whipping and gagging his wife and then boasts about “farming the n----- trade.” The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

What I didn't expect was to find a good running gag about art in it. Why modern art is not a class issue 2013-01-15T15:11:01Z

Both stars are appealing, of course, and they win laughter with some of Simon's gags. Jeff Goldblum miscast in London "Prisoner" revival 2010-07-15T00:00:00Z

Who could’ve guessed that in an American courtroom, a defendant’s mouth would be gagged and his body shackled to a chair? Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

He claimed that these were either his own work, or traditional gags minted by long-dead comics. Has Keith Chegwin been stealing comedians' jokes on Twitter? 2010-07-22T11:49:00Z

But there’s a gag as one envisions it, and the reality of the thing. The perils of "dangerous" comedy, or what makes a notorious warlord laugh? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

This is a profoundly unpleasant association, however; a reason to walk past such a product briskly, possibly gagging, if I see it on a shelf at Homebase. The new Polycell advert 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the prizes were a “zonk” - a gag gift such as a live donkey or a wrecked car. 'Let's Make a Deal' host Monty Hall dead at 96 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

There are so many cutaway gags that the show feels bored with itself. Review: ‘Bordertown’ and ‘Cooper Barrett’ Debut 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

And there are some fun sight gags when the family stays with friends in the countryside. Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” is a masterpiece — see it in the theater if you can 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Davidson plays Eddie Pierce, a purveyor of racist, sexist gags booked to play an Aids benefit alongside a clutch of younger, alternative comics. Stand Up and Be Counted ? review 2011-03-07T22:00:00Z

There will be some slapstick, but it won't just be full of physical gags. UK comedy in crisis and Ant and Dec to go silent 2013-01-15T17:55:17Z

In a moment of disability farce, it dumps noisome gags about bathroom stalls; the menstrual cycle is also a key concern. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Each set sees him producing a stream of high-quality gags, most of them based in simple but piercing observation or delightful leaps of logic, and delivered in a slow-paced, distinctive drawl. Comedy picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:11:00Z

This one's focused on the Twilight saga but crams in barely amusing gags about Twitter, Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan and others. This week's new films 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Glitz and gags aside, Hall’s show is memorable because it’s personal. What happens when your whimsical ‘Wizard of Oz’ obsession actually pays off? 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

There are some  sight gags to complement Shakespeare's text. ArtsBeat: In Toronto, Joss Whedon Discusses 'Much Ado About Nothing' 2012-09-12T20:05:49Z

The movie probably overindulges in 1990s sight gags — early computers, archaic-looking dances and so on. Movie Review: Aubrey Plaza Stars in ‘The To Do List’ 2013-07-25T21:34:31Z

“The Catch” knows just how far to push its novel sight gag before it wears thin. Movie Review: ‘Movie 43,’ Crude Vignettes With Big Stars and Directors 2013-01-26T00:08:39Z

Mr. Whitty’s adaptation gleefully marries archaic language with self-conscious jokes and contemporary gags, to generally scintillating effect. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Stewart Lee has a withering routine about American comics who rely on cheap gags about their parents' ethnicity. Rob Schneider 2010-07-07T21:15:00Z

In that case, a woman might prefer the Ms. Taken ring, which at $30 is more of a gag gift. Sending a Message With Rings 2010-05-26T20:54:00Z

And the gags enhance, rather than detract from, the darker dimensions of "Suffering, Inc": the drudgery and fear eating away at underlings' souls in many a dysfunctional modern office. 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z

Although the plot wears thin at times and some gags don't work, you don't dwell on it. Jack and the Beanstalk ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:40Z

Some of the funnier skits were reprises of his favorite talk-show gags, including absurd clips of old episodes of “Walker, Texas Ranger.” Comedy Review: Conan O?Brien?s ?Legally Prohibited? Tour Hits New York 2010-06-02T22:16:00Z

“They may occasionally gag a bit or cough and splutter, but that’s actually a baby’s way of triggering the anti-choking reflex, and it happens with purées too,” she explains. Motherlode Blog: Trusting a Baby to Know How to Eat 2014-01-27T20:18:32Z

Or perhaps this is simply proof that shock humor and gross-out gags, no matter how trite, still have their eager fans. “The Happytime Murders”: A sad excuse for grown-up comedy 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

As well as great voices, spectacular eye-rolling and a high density of gags, he offers some pointed attacks on the vapidities and hypocrisies of modern life. This week's new live comedy 2013-02-23T06:00:10Z

And this one seemed to, but the visual gag lasted only 15 seconds; then we were given the incongruous sight of Abbie and Ichabod just going about their business as if nothing had happened. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Horseman With No Head; Ben Franklin With No Breeches 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

She recalls feeling extremely sick and very dizzy and attempting to roll over as she was gagging and nauseous. Derrick Rose rape case: alleged victim's lawyers call for NBA to investigate 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The word ‘No’ became like a Polish village . . . unpronounceable,” she says, in one of the script’s characteristic gags. Keegan gives bright rendering to Steve Martin’s ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

My favorite visual gag is that of Charlie Brown standing alone on a baseball field in a downpour, beseeching his teammates not to desert him . . . as his baseball glove floats away. ArtsBeat: Charlie Brown and the Gang Take Shape 2014-01-27T20:23:17Z

A lot of the first episode plays like a sketch-show bit that drags on too long, tees up giant stereotypes and goes for easy “Wouldn’t it be funny if Jesus did ____” gags. REVIEW: Black Jesus Laughs With, More Than At, Its Son of God 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

USA Today's Brian Truitt says the movie is "a whirlwind of horrible British accents, too much gagging and not enough good gags, and weak dialogue that, while not exactly terrible, is terribly boring." 'Mortdecai': Johnny Depp's high jinks get low marks from critics 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

An excellent premise, but one which gets lost among the rather low-rent gags. TV highlights 20/08/2012 2012-08-19T18:59:02Z

And they shoved in a few outtakes at the end that are slightly more amusing than the gags they actually included in “Scary Movie 5.” ‘Scary Movie 5’: Plenty of pop-culture references, nary a laugh 2013-04-12T17:33:46Z

Its creators have hewed suffocatingly close to the film’s story, gags and dialogue. Review: Chasing Shopworn Dreams in ‘Pretty Woman: The Musical’ 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Another of Braben's favourite running gags was Eric's spectacular rudeness to the special guests, whose names he would often get wrong. How Eddie Braben saved Morecambe and Wise's careers 2013-05-21T14:52:31Z

The dust settles on their nostrils, they gag and look apprehensively towards the heights, hostile and distant. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

It's been 25 years, and David Letterman is still living down his surreal "Oprah-Uma" moment, a gag that assured his stint as an Oscar emcee was a one-time thing. Let's never have an Oscars host again 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the first two episodes the writers take a stab at using extraterrestrial naïveté for something other than cheap gags. Television Review: ‘Animal Practice’ and ‘The Neighbors,’ TV Comedies 2012-09-25T18:09:57Z

Henson brings strength, radiance, precision, and presence to the gags and playful situations and to the drama, however mild it is; she lends the movie’s artifices a surprising illusion of substance. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

These are incredible sight gags, small rewards for eagle-eyed viewers. We’re all focusing on the wrong things on "Succession" 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

But of course mere plot summary hardly does justice to Fitzgerald’s gift for milking a fanciful gag, charmingly, unto a length of 5,000 words or so. A Late — and Maybe Last — Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost’ Stories 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Certainly his signature gag, the pie in the face, made a lasting impression on a particular age group at a particular moment in time. | ?Soupy Sales: The Whole Gang Is Here?: On WLIW, Channel 21, a Comic?s Children?s Shows 2010-04-23T22:09:00Z

In keeping with a running gag that Snicket - the pen name for series author Daniel Handler - discourages people from reading his books, Little Brown also shared with reporters an email purporting to be from him. New Lemony Snicket series begins this fall 2012-02-08T20:36:16Z

Also as expected are the resulting gags built around technologically challenged Artie. Review: Parental Guidance tolerable if uninspired 2012-12-24T13:34:10Z

FreakyChucker1 went for Michael Keaton in The Other Guys, with a masterful TLC running gag. Clip joint: the five best unexpected singing moments in film 2013-05-15T13:04:23Z

It would all be a little unbearable, were each routine not studded with beautifully crafted gags. This week's new live comedy 2012-06-01T23:06:09Z

It’s a sniggering genre that can usually be relied upon to activate my gag reflex. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z

While the humor is often crass and seemingly random, there’s an odd logic that makes even the dumbest gags seem like they’re part of a greater, cohesive intelligence. The God of Funny: Stephen Chow Comes to Brooklyn 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

In an animated episode, there’s a quick sight gag about Easter eggs. ‘The Afterparty’ Is a Genre Romp Wrapped in a Comic Mystery 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

They don't laugh at cheap gags – they laugh deepest and loudest at their own foibles. Jason Isaacs: this much I know 2013-05-11T17:59:01Z

Rivers, who wrote gags at all hours, paid close attention to setups and punchlines, typing them up and cross-referencing them by categories like “Parents hated me” or “Las Vegas” or “No sex appeal.” A ‘Crown Jewel of Comedy’: The Joan Rivers Card Catalog of Jokes Finds a Home 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

The incident led the judge to impose a gag order on all parties for the remainder of the six-week trial. Jackson doctor lawyer misses contempt hearing 2011-11-15T20:55:14Z

The name Kanga Rouge wasn't a gag from a Python sketch – there really was such a thing. TV review: Chateau Chunder; Heston's Fantastical Food; Dara Ó Briain's Science Club 2012-11-13T22:00:01Z

At the Emmys on Monday night, Sofia Vergara participated in what many critics called a sexist gag. Sofia Vergara Blasts Critics Who Called Her Emmys Skit 'Sexist' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

A series of unfunny running gags — like our heroes being repeatedly mistaken for brother and sister — do little but pad a plot that features both mass death and murder by elf. ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ Review: Over the Top and Around the Bend 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

As the synopsis suggests, plot is nothing more than an excuse to create a string of humorous set pieces featuring visual gags, snappy one-liners and lively song-and-dance numbers. My streaming gem: why you should watch Road to Bali 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Its reputation trails adjectives that trigger gag reflexes: madcap, warm, life-affirming and “crazy,” spoken with that special fondness reserved for tales of wholesome eccentricity. ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Handled Properly, Ages Well 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Its gags were fleet and fluffy, rolling by like Rolls Royce-shaped clouds in the sky. The Beautiful One: Prince On-Screen 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

His props are deliberately ramshackle, and his exchanges with the crowd sometimes less deliberately so – it's just not possible to keep the gags flowing when you're going at such a lick. Comedy gold: Harry Hill's Hooves 2012-07-05T15:39:32Z

The sight gag is, simply, the beleaguered sight of each character after making the schlep up the stairs. Perspective | Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

This is George Bernard Shaw in full flow – quoted as the book's opening gag. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-01-24T11:00:01Z

In the 1970s, the Watergate scandal gave Mr. Russell a windfall of gags for a series of comedy albums and stand-up one-liners. Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist, Dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

The gags that work in this thing are mostly visual. ‘Escape from Planet Earth’: A mediocre blue-alien adventure has landed 2013-02-19T17:58:54Z

In the 1984 “Gremlins,” which counted Spielberg among its executive producers, the director Joe Dante slyly included a throwaway gag of an E.T. doll being dislodged from a department store shelf. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Stallone and Schwarzenegger trade insults that are supposed to be funny, Li's slight height becomes a running gag, and several of the opening scenes are clearly, intentionally comic. 'The Expendables': Heavy on action, testosterone, brutality 2010-08-10T22:56:00Z

Standing next to each other, we formed the punch-line of a visual gag. When the Internet was for strangers 2013-02-17T17:00:00Z

The joy begins with Danny Elfman’s retro theme tune and all the tiny variations in the opening sequences – from Bart’s chalkboard gags to Lisa’s sax solos – that never grow old or tired. When good TV goes bad: how The Simpsons ended up gorging on itself 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

In an early visual gag, Martin staggers through the school staff room drunk, as his fellow teachers watch in puzzlement. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

At one point, as Jarecki pressed him, Durst gagged and covered his face with his hands, but otherwise, he remained calm and steadfastly denied writing what was referred to as "the cadaver note." In 'The Jinx,' Durst reminds us of the narrative power of crime dramas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Most of it does for most of the time, although some of the one-liners and gross-out gags do show signs of strain. Review: 'Ted': So cuddly, so wrong, so hilarious 2012-06-25T21:29:09Z

There was also the fear that if somebody gagged or vomited, they could inhale the feces. Frozen poop pills could be a potentially life-saving treatment 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

“He hit some really heavy subjects but then brought you out of that emotional moment with a cutting gag,” he said. Nostalgic 'Only Fools and Horses' stage show soothes divided Britain 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

This particular gag, too, is a delight because it captures the sense of play and abandon that made the first season of “Atlanta” special. The Joys of ‘Atlanta,’ Where Real Life, for Some, Insists on Being Surreal 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

That's only one of several ambiguous gags surrounding Ronald, a buttoned-down, soft-spoken agent from St. Cloud, Minn., who is unmarried and mentions antiquing and community theater among his favorite leisure activities. "Cedar Rapids": "The Office" meets "The Hangover" in Iowa's sin city! 2011-02-09T20:30:00Z

The movie may make some gag, but I dug its tenderness and Wain’s work, which grew trippier the older and more mentally unstable he became. An Eerie, Thrilling Trip to the Toronto International Film Festival 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

When his rescue attempt fails, Jason is bound and gagged with the others. 'True Blood' recap: Hep V cure exists, but will Bill take it? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Its first gag is someone getting hit in the balls, and things decline from there. Our Drugs War 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z

There is definitely something spoofy about 21 Jump Street, in its derisory attachment to the original property and gags – like the climactic explosions that never come – about the action-movie form. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Many of the skits are punchlined by pop songs; elsewhere, prosaic visual gags are made poetic by the addition of a well-loved tune. The Boy With Tape on His Face – review 2012-12-21T18:07:35Z

They arrive on stage with a sackful of silly short gags, which they then more or less recite. Comedy Gold: Milton Jones's Lion Whisperer 2013-01-24T15:10:33Z

It’s only 79 minutes long, but this critic spent the entire time sitting through gross-out gags hoping to laugh just once. ‘Donny’s Bar Mitzvah’ Review: A Rude and Raunchy Coming-of-Age 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

The film’s smartest sight gag: when something is thrown at the camera, the lens appears to crack. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: This Santa's Got a Brand New Stash 2011-11-03T21:21:13Z

Instead of knob gags and beery whooping, it conjures up images of white wine, polite chat and a dapper chap in a white tuxedo noodling in the background. This week's new comedy 2011-02-19T00:06:04Z

But the gag is incomprehensible, none of the onlookers laugh, and Albert sneaks back a few seconds later to explain himself, which only heightens the awkwardness. “A Million Ways to Die in the West”: How Seth MacFarlane became the new Adam Sandler 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

A gag that some find funny may mystify others. Why Roz Chast Makes Fun of White Middle-Class New Yorkers 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Tashlin drew deeply on his decade of experience directing cartoons for Warner Brothers to put together a fast-paced series of surreal sight gags and self-referential asides. Video: Hard Work of Comedy and Straight-Shooting 2011-04-16T02:23:01Z

"The Simpsons" is retiring its 34-year-long gag of Homer choking his son Bart. On "The Simpsons," Homer will no longer strangle Bart 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

They may be doing the same for Justice League, whose trailer involved a few gag lines, especially from Miller. What's Next for DC Movies After Suicide Squad 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Could it be that someone you flirted with was just “really feeling” that gag you did about “Macron-nomics”? No. It could not. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a playful site gag that’s also a genuinely exciting car chase—an essential preview of the unique Arnold-Schwarzenegger-meets-Buster-Keaton mixture of muscle-car wild action and geometric precision that Lin brought to his films. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

I had one gag where a Muppet was reminiscing, 'I remember when I was a piece of felt' and that got taken out, because the Muppets are real. Making movie music for the Muppets 2012-02-10T01:23:07Z

A running gag with Russell Brand and Jonah Hill was, well, a gag. 'American Idol' does charity, finally says goodbye to 'Teflon Tim' 2010-04-22T14:07:00Z

Their gags have the anachronistic simplicity of pre-CGI stunts, when daredevils risked their lives to make an audience go "Wow!" Jackass 3D: Now You Get Sprayed 2010-10-15T17:10:00Z

It has had generally positive reviews: The Vancouver Sun declared that the play “has absolutely no redeeming social value. But at its height it offers a gag about every 10 seconds, many of them hilarious.” British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

There are also some great gags thanks to JJ’s new school, which is breaking its arm patting itself on the back for their inclusivity, which isn’t always as benevolent as they would like to believe. Speechless: Minnie Driver's fast-paced sitcom has a lot to say 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

I made a quick visit to a thrift shop and, as a gag, walked into the sitting room in satin high heels and a floor-length wedding veil. I Was Misinformed: Where Did You Go for Your Bra, Mrs. Robinson? 2013-06-19T13:00:01Z

In the proximate past, the gag makes sense. Democracy in the 2010s, aka the decline of Kanye West-ern civilization 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

So Al and I wrote an extra-long couch gag—it ended with the back wall of the Simpsons’ living room opening up into an elaborate Vegas stage show. The “Simpsons” Jokes That Never Quite Made It (and a Few that Barely Did) 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

They bound and gagged two guards using handcuffs and duct tape in the early hours of March 18. Feds: Conn. man knows something about stolen art 2012-03-31T18:31:05Z

A recurrent visual gag in Morning Glory, as in all dramas featuring early-show hosts, is the cutaway to the bleeping clock-radio displaying, in blood-red liquid numerals, an improbably time such as 02:30. Mourning television: Mark Lawson 2011-01-19T22:00:02Z

Rogen and Goldberg pack frames full of visual gags that function the way isolated panels do in comics, like the wording on the church sign. Preacher recap: season one, episode one – Pilot 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

The APA is doing a great disservice by trying to gag people. Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a "sociopath" and "a very sick individual" 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

It succeeds in being funny-ish—in building and diffusing tension with cathartic barbs, self-deprecating jests, and dumb sight gags. Jordan Klepper, Wyatt Cenac, and the Citizen Journalism of Class Clowns Made Good 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Among the film’s chief delights are its running gags, like the one about Juan Carlos the racing driver, who does not speak English. More than 30m people have watched Netflix's Murder Mystery – why? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Fischer is out on the balcony, bound and gagged. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z

Look at the way Rob Brydon's recent amiable stab at the genre was more about gags and singalongs than anything deeper. Alan Carr's Chatty Man is the right talkshow for now 2010-12-13T14:47:00Z

Fans of the film will inevitably be looking for certain gags and references in the musical, but Hound says it's a "fool's errand" to expect an exact replica of the movie on stage. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels heads for London's stage 2014-03-31T23:55:11Z

But this isn't just a gag to begin the relaunched show. Are we having fun yet? “Party Down” addresses the pandemic the way few shows have 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Initially conceived last year as a three-minute online short, the gag grew in scope at the behest of Nick Weidenfeld, Viceland’s president of programming, who raised the possibility of a full series. James Van Der Beek Is the New Diplo 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The most successful of these running gags finds Luigi pretending to be the club’s absent bartender to avoid arrest by the authorities. Theater Review: ‘The Explorers Club’ Pokes Fun at a 19th-Century Sanctum 2013-06-21T02:00:01Z

And when these and other movies based on his properties hit theaters, Lee left his imprimatur through small cameo appearances, a sly gag that eventually became a staple of the films themselves. Comics pioneer Stan Lee has died. His legacy is already immortal 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

But that particular gag, believe it or not, was the idea of another comedy genius: Anna Wintour. Front Row: The C.F.D.A. Awards Morph Into a Comedy Fest 2012-06-05T20:38:23Z

One of the first inductees into the Television Hall of Fame, he transformed the situation comedy from a vehicle for cheap, screwball gags into a medium for profound reflection. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

And he is also the man who wrote gags for Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Why the satirist John O'Farrell would make a great MP for Eastleigh 2013-02-13T12:55:01Z

Watch if you like “Naked Gun”–type humor, Rashida Jones and especially sight gags. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘UnREAL,’ ‘Angie Tribeca’ and ‘Wentworth’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

The final straw is the Forget You radio edit, which lobotimises the song's only gag. This week's new singles 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

It’s a cartoon, but it’s not juvenile; “Bob’s Burgers” is one of the most sincere, funny and knowing comedies on television right now, complete with thoughtful family dynamics, pop-culture references and extremely funny one-off gags. The family that binge-watches together stays entertained together: 10 shows you can devour with the whole family this holiday weekend 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

When it wants to crack jokes, the movie reaches for quick, profane sight gags or elaborate feats of Newtonian improbability. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

“The Ranch” is only a middling comedy, loaded up with corny and broad gags. Review: In ‘The Ranch,’ Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson Reunite as Cowboy Siblings 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

And the running gag in which Tino calls a mental-health help line is funny and sad, precisely because it’s so hokey. Theater Review: ‘Silent,’ by Pat Kinevane, at Irish Arts Center 2012-09-10T02:07:31Z

"I was literally gagging and threw up a bit in my mouth." Whataburger customer claims employees put clump of mud in her sandwich 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

And no matter what, consider yourself forewarned that the movie’s gags, and its language, reach a sailors-on-leave level of crudeness. Review: Girls Trip Is the Funniest, Raunchiest Movie of the Summer 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

This once urgent topical gag can’t avoid looking a bit self-indulgent eight years later. Oscars 2017: Jimmy Kimmel the safe choice for host but sparks unlikely to fly 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

No previews were available, but expect lots of town/country gags from the always likable Jensen. TV highlights 21 December 2010-12-20T00:35:01Z

One of the running gags in “Crashing” was Pete’s passive-aggressive campaign to be allowed to sit at the hallowed “comedian’s table” at the Comedy Cellar. For ‘Crashing,’ the Third Season Was the Charm. Also the End. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Rogen and Goldberg never get a sustained comic rhythm going, and they bungle even some of their better gags. Variety's take on 'The Interview' 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Visual and textual gags spice up the story, including a newspaper headline that states “Fiddler on Roof Falls Off Roof.” Simms Taback, Writer and Illustrator of Children?s Books Dies at 79 2012-01-01T06:47:20Z

Still, I’m not so far gone that I can’t tell when a gag isn’t the right response. Barry Blitt‘s “Yearning to Breathe Free” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Or better yet, watch the montage about montages in "Team America: World Police" -- a gag reel that doubles as a lesson in film grammar. How to make the perfect movie montage 2011-06-03T23:28:00Z

But Kimmy Schmidt managed to avoid that curse by taking the gags and structure of 30 Rock and just infinitely upping the stakes, replacing dumb celebrities with troubled real people. PTSD and pervy Muppets: Kimmy Schmidt’s finale pushes the reset button on satire 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

With patience, you can still have a pretty good time at "Gypsy King" — thanks to the better gags, the action-packed Act 2 and the hearty performances of just about everyone involved. Review: 'Gypsy King' has some princely moments, but some poor ones, too 2010-03-22T21:03:00Z

For a time Mr. Mankiewicz was a staff reporter for The New Yorker while taking other jobs to supplement his income, including writing gags for the radio comedian Robert Q. Lewis. Don Mankiewicz, Screenwriter in a Family Film Tradition, Dies at 93 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

But get past the less successful gags and assertive crowd reaction shots, and Moore’s central thesis is one that has been strangely absent from the conversation: everyone should be thrilled to vote for Hillary Clinton. Michael Moore gets behind Hillary Clinton at surprise TrumpLand film screening 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

She has kept Merlin tied up and gagged in the great hall all this time so he can see her moment of triumph. Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z

It's gag after gag after gag, usually told by a muscular middle-aged man in a T-shirt. Montreal: king of the comedy festivals 2013-06-07T20:00:00Z

I did one or two gags early on about that, because making jokes about your heritage was the thing to do. Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord 2010-08-10T20:29:00Z

Mr. Doran, for instance, is barely recognizable when he slaps on a red pageboy to play Emilia, whose badgering of Iago for some sexual attention is a running gag. Review: ‘Othello’ Goes Hip-Hop. There’s Humor, Too. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Spruance almost gags when he hears his music described as "otherworldly." Secret Chiefs 3's crazy-quilt of cultures is, at bottom, just hard rock 2012-02-02T21:16:11Z

Yeah, I know: I dragged out that gag a bit too long, and Shyamalan had nothing to do with “Interstellar.” “Interstellar”: Christopher Nolan’s grand space opera tries to outdo “2001″ 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it seems as if show writers were borrowing their gags directly from existent Internet memes. Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z

After more than two decades some of the gags in “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” are still disturbingly topical. Video: New DVDs: ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch,’ ‘The Space Children’ 2012-06-17T02:43:01Z

It was the culmination of a season-long gag that good-naturedly reminds us of how strange we've gotten in the absence of normality or public places to visit, see others and be seen, save via Zoom. "Last Week Tonight" is a 2020 mood – bizarre, fatalistic, and inexplicably thirsty 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Many of the same slapstick jokes and gags from Brooks’s film are referenced, too, though they have been retooled to remove any outdated references or obscenity. ‘Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank’ Review: A Tail of Two Samurai 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

“We all know life’s just a joke,” he squawks, “but those patsies think it has meaning! They’ll never get the gag, not even when they’re hit by the punch line. Lay it on! Bigly!” “Citizen Punch” 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

There was some rapid-fire dialogue about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which is kind of a running gag because Einstein and Niels Bohr were constantly bickering — Einstein anti the theory, and Bohr very pro the theory. Geoffrey Rush Loves to Play Rogues and Fools. A Genius, Too. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

"I have absolutely no problem recycling old gags," he tells me. Mrs Brown's Boys: how the 'worst comedy ever made' became a smash hit 2013-01-29T16:57:30Z

The New York Times described Javerbaum's popular book as "a recklessly funny set of gags about all things religious and quite a few things secular, too." Jim Parsons set for celestial role in Broadway comedy 'Act of God' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

But the post and its purview, as reflected by its gag title, are obviously limited. Larry Wilmore should get his own fake news show–not his own fake black news show 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Black Dynamite” is gratuitous in its satire, attempting the most off-color gags it can muster. From ‘Proud Family’ to ‘The Boondocks’: 11 Black Animated Series 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

But all the traditional comedic moments are in evidence: the silly banter, rapid fire gags and slapstick violence. Six to Watch: Comedy double acts 2010-11-23T12:33:00Z

How does a show get cynical enough to drum up attention with gags like that? "Family Guy's" latest "shock" target: Veterans 2010-05-17T15:03:00Z

Bracing though it may be, the money-burning gag is also something that the British pranksters the K Foundation did in real life decades ago. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Premiere: The Hack is Back 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

There was a good running gag, too: a breaking story about Jeremy Paxman going on the rampage, with Jon Holmes reporting from the scene and talking excited twaddle to fill the rolling news vacuum. Radio review: Listen Against 2010-09-08T07:01:00Z

Firth left us hanging for a "colonoscopy" or a "proctology" gag . . . but in the end left it vague. Baftas 2011: Peter Bradshaw on the winners and losers 2011-02-14T14:57:24Z

At the time, I actually worried that a focus on a character’s desperate need for health insurance would be like my ’90s cordless-phone gag — something that would, almost immediately, seem quaint and a little confusing. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

This at least triggered the PM's single gag, in which he compared the cabinet to the vermin at No 10. TV matters: The prime minister on The One Show 2011-03-10T08:00:06Z

Like other Adult Swim offerings, the show is stupid-smart, using gross-out gags and ridiculous, self-consciously broad stereotypes to create a gonzo, acid take on folksy Americana. Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Harry's attraction to blue aliens isn't a one-time gag; it's a multi-episode quirk, and it's not a gag at all but part of his development as a character. The surprisingly sex positive "Resident Alien" 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

"I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister," runs Will Marsh's gag, which succeeds because it both punctures an expectation and implies a whole bizarre reality in only 12 words. Dave's Edinburgh fringe one-liner award misses the point of comedy 2012-08-22T12:45:00Z

Along the way, Mark Bell, their physical theater professor at Lamda, joined them as the play’s director; they added a second act, and all the gags got bigger. In ‘The Play That Goes Wrong,’ It’s Murder, Strictly for Laughs 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Unlike his rival Mack Sennett, who focused solely on rapid-fire slapstick and sight gags, Roach's comedies "have this unmistakable charm and style," said Bann. Hal Roach's film legacy explored in Hollywood Museum exhibition 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

The fact that books like The Lorax are still selling in huge numbers today suggests that kids aren't gagging on the morals at all. Why don't Dr Seuss's books make good movies 2012-07-27T11:55:52Z

In that one, Ryan Reynolds played a nonmilitary truck driver in Iraq who awakens bound and gagged in a pine box under the desert sand. Movie Review: Stephen Dorff in ?Brake? 2012-03-20T22:15:31Z

I tried to imagine the determination this would require, to dig that tiny razor deep enough across his neck, again and again, to puncture his throat till he gagged and suffocated on his own blood. What it’s like to watch him die 2014-02-27T00:00:00Z

Like all the best gags it’s funny because he says it in an adorable Irish accent. Switch it off and give yourself a digital break 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Inspired by the news that a casting couch gag had been removed from Toy Story 2 in the wake of #MeToo, it quizzed parents about which Disney films they now deem inappropriate. Come-hither lions and sleazy old owls: when Disney classics are difficult 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

There are laughs here, but the actors, under director Anita Montgomery, who staged an early reading of Dillman’s play at ACT Theatre, tend to overcook gags that require gentler handling. ‘American Wee-Pie’ cooks up a sugary-sweet second chance 2014-01-29T20:56:29Z

The opening scene is a conversation about wristwatches that turns into a running gag of sorts, with divergent opinions over the utility and style of metal versus leather bands. Yorgos Lanthimos totally gets that you might hate his movies. He's fine with that. 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

No, but Dinklage, with his impeccable timing, can play with almost any lame material, use his physique as a sight gag and still maintain his dignity. Death at a Funeral Review: Comedy on Life Support 2010-04-16T05:45:00Z

Versions of these knockoffs are still stocked in drugstores although snootier noses can tell the real deal from an Imposter and may gag at its very mention. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

A gag that has a plate of canapés continually being flung skyward exhausts its appeal quickly, and some of Mr. Ives’s language is too exuberantly coarse for my taste. | 'The School for Lies': Glittering Opprobrium in Iambic Pentameter 2011-05-02T04:27:03Z

In that world, it’s hard to tell where spoof stops and spiritual starts, where gags shut down and grief kicks in. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

And she's fully in her zone here, infusing the film with clever gags, quiet dread, scream-in-your-seats shocks and unexpected moments of creepiness. "Fright Night:" Farrell's mesmerizing in campy remake 2011-08-18T20:45:00Z

Now he has been cast in yet another unlikely role – as an unapologetic gag thief. Has Keith Chegwin been stealing comedians' jokes on Twitter? 2010-07-22T11:49:00Z

Imagine a sharp episode of "The Office" — if that sly sitcom were a live-theater piece blending loony sight gags and spasms of inspired physical comedy with poetic reveries of existential angst. 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z

The best jokes often fly by as one-off lines or gags that seem to have been wedged into whatever spare cracks were letting the light through. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Instead of basing the musical on the jokey-thin film and sitcom scripts for previous Addams attractions, he pondered how to erect a strong plot out of a great cartoonist's pithy punch lines and visual gags. From cartoon frame to 5th Avenue Stage: 'The Addams Family' (snap, snap!) 2012-10-17T21:51:13Z

Rushdie’s style once unfurled with hypnotic elegance, but here it’s become a fire hose of brainy gags and literary allusions — tremendously clever but frequently tedious. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Her most famous subjects know what they're walking into and agree to join her anyway, either to prove they're in on the gag or that they can take whatever she's serving and lob it back. Tell Will Smith: "Ziwe" will recoup your reputation in her Barbie dream house interrogation chamber 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

He’d sooner make fun of a gag than give it the hard sell. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z

If you have to do enough embarrassing things around strangers enough times, eventually, your gag reflex gets suppressed, and you can be ridiculous without feeling so compromised. "Life feels like an uncomfortable comedy": Zach Woods embraces the awkward and new movie "Downhill" 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

This may be why the film is so quotable, but there are sight gags, and jokes in the background that require repeat viewings to catch. "When stupidity is elevated": "Airplane!" filmmakers reveal the secrets to their deadpan success 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z

The gag is milked to death here, yet, in keeping with the film's retro, juvenile sheen, it never "goes there." 'Eternity: The Movie' is fleeting fun 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

An ongoing gag about the Soapbox’s self-serving, politically correct “multicultural initiative” isn’t so fresh either. Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z

Throwing money at comedies doesn’t make them funnier; if anything, it amplifies the pressure so much that even throwaway gags are high-stakes, market-tested affairs. Too many sequels, too much money: why did so many comedies flop in 2016? 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

“The Trip to Spain” features many now-signature “Trip” gags, including impersonations of Michael Caine and various James Bonds, which may feel tired to some but still hilarious to the actors’ loyal followers. “The Trip to Spain” director Michael Winterbottom on where Coogan and Brydon may go next 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine how one more gag could possibly be squeezed out of the basic situation — hauling a piano up a long flight of stairs — of their Oscar-winning 1932 short, “The Music Box.” DVD: New DVDs: ?Laurel and Hardy: The Essential Collection? 2011-11-04T22:09:41Z

When I was giving birth he was doing his act and making the nurses laugh while I was screaming out with pain and shouting, 'Finish the gag, Les! Looking after Les Dawson's legacy 2012-09-28T23:04:02Z

There are sight gags, and much fun is had with the kooky ways a swords-and-sandals cartoon guy would respond to regular society, but the show’s humor extends beyond its fish-out-of-water gags. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘One Mississippi’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mock volumes have been produced since at least 1411, when a French duke received a gag gift of a carved wooden blook wrapped in white velvet. Collecting Books That Are Just Covers 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Yet the company has somehow managed to induce our dormant gag reflex yet again. Urban Outfitters loves Mitt 2012-06-01T16:30:00Z

After a gag that left Jimmy Kimmel pierced by an arrow: “I do want to apologize to Jimmy Kimmel, my lower back tattoo is usually the target.” Amy Schumer's Craziest Jokes From the 2015 MTV Movie Awards 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

They've recycled not only the characters and their mannerisms but also snippets of dialogues and - on occasion - the odd gag. Critics pan new Yes, Prime Minister 2013-01-16T12:02:29Z

Much of the premiere involves a date set up for her by Will, an encounter that builds to a tired old “reveal” gag that goes back at least to “Get Smart” and Mr. Big. Television Review: ‘Friends With Better Lives,’ a New Sitcom on CBS 2014-03-30T20:41:12Z

It invites you to laugh at the absurdity of some terrible situations more than its gags. "Barry" star Anthony Carrigan on the finale: "Something lights up inside of Hank" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Then again, Korins says, “a lot of the set function is less illusion than gags. Almost anything that happens magically is for a laugh.” The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Prefabricated referentiality is the substance of the series, you realize, while moaning at a shopworn visual gag about a cell phone the size of a bread box. “Black Monday,” Reviewed: In Praise of Regina Hall and Little Else 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The gag is that she doesn’t seem to know anything about the products’ names or prices. Skin Deep: Haul Video Brings a Bag of Finds, and Words Only for a Camera 2010-05-05T20:15:00Z

But on Monday night, delivered in Berliner's twinkling style, it was a killer gag. Cracking up: can mental health make good comedy? 2010-04-22T14:14:00Z

Which gives rise to another story flaw that the script turns into a running gag: How does Roy get out of this predicament? Cruise crashes in nonsensical "Knight and Day" 2010-06-20T19:34:00Z

Typically, the “couch gag” in the opening credits of “The Simpsons” is a spot for its writers to slip in one more punchline before the cartoon family assembles to watch its own show. Sweatshop Sequence on ?The Simpsons? 2010-10-11T12:51:00Z

That screwball energy resurfaces here and there later in the series, particularly in a running gag featuring David Chang as Molly’s personal chef, constantly apologizing that his restaurants take his attention away from her. ‘Loot’ Review: Maya Rudolph Among the .001 Percent 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

While I wish the company would push into less safe terrain, it's clear that most of the audience are there for the gags, and Spymonkey deliver exactly what they want. Oedipussy ? review 2012-02-09T17:55:01Z

The dialogue is awful and all the best gags have been lifted straight from me. Digested read: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin 2010-10-11T20:00:00Z

Its final cutaway gag will be a mercy. Is it time to retire the Family Guy? 2012-05-17T11:20:10Z

It might get laughs, or it might just cause you to think, “A bunch of smart, funny people in a writers’ room and the best they could come up with was an extended scrotum gag?” Television Review: ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ on Comedy Central 2013-04-29T20:05:31Z

He's as angry about the Etonian renaissance as he once was about Thatcher, and has a great gag about toffs co-opting the culture of the working class. Alexei Sayle – review 2013-01-24T17:46:05Z

That it did so while maintaining a pinging cacophony of silly gags was remarkable. The 50 best TV shows of 2018: 50-31 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

It is almost inevitable that a gag like this will run out of steam or get bogged down in the part of the plot that involves something beyond dissing each other. This Is the End: Apocalypse, Like, Wow 2013-06-11T22:44:54Z

About one of Winceworth’s colleagues, we read: “Whenever Bielefeld encountered an error or disruption on a page, a kind of whinnying, sniffing gag tore from his throat.” In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

The title refers to the histories of all three characters; Harold, who is initially bound and gagged on stage, emerges as a kind of father figure to the brothers until tragedy ensues. ArtsBeat: Alec Baldwin Returning to Broadway in Spring 2013 2012-06-27T19:06:48Z

Sample gag: "Since I got this new neck brace, I've never looked back." The Guide's 1,000th issue - 1994-1999 2013-01-05T00:02:00Z

That wasn’t an element Farrelly set out to incorporate; in fact, he and his co-writers went out of their way not to add gags, and instead focused on the odd-couple chemistry. Peter Farrelly made some pretty ‘dumb’ movies. So how did he end up directing a smart drama about racism? 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

News with jokes The chance to hear three of the circuit's best comedians batting gags about in the comfort of their own homes. The Podfathers (and mothers): top 10 comedy podcasts 2010-06-23T13:06:00Z

I was pretty good at looking like a guy who liked kids According to Deadpool director Tim Miller, Reynolds wrote the gag himself. Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

The reality star was gagged, bound and held at gun point while she was robbed of all her jewelry during a visit to Paris over the weekend. NRA ridicules Kim Kardashian after she’s robbed at gunpoint 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

“The money,” they kept saying, ripping a bit of Afghan embroidery off the wall and stuffing it in his mouth to gag him. Why I never tried to find out who murdered my father 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

Bay is using it to inject a few sight gags. In 'Transformers: Age of Extinction,' things get Bayed — big time

And what you found inside you would not forget: room on room of bottled milk, gagging the stairwell, the hallway, bookshelves, like a stumbled-on ice world, a sweep of winter. Saturday poem: The Sour House 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

But “The Forest” was much more than a one-off visual gag. After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Christopher Baines Aside from trump gags, which they are very good at, there's also an acute perceptiveness to their humour that's often overlooked as mere silliness. Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer return to TV with Lucky Sexy Winners 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z

By the end of the night I was so hungry for punchlines I was satisfied by a gag as venerable as that. Stephen Fry Live 2010-09-22T00:33:00Z

Apart from a few reliably hilarious sight gags — Mr. Black falls off a rock, rides a bicycle, paddles a canoe, etc. — the comedy of “The Big Year” is gentle and low key. | 'The Big Year': ?The Big Year,? With Owen Wilson and Steve Martin - Review 2011-10-13T21:45:11Z

So far, I’ve been able to suppress the gag reflex as they launch into another speech about how being a parent has changed their lives. Civilities: When friends ‘hijack’ adults-only social events with kids 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

It might be the first line of a riddle or a bad, bleak joke without a punchline: a reflex gag. Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010-07-04T11:43:00Z

Fans of “30 Rock” will enjoy his disquisition on one episode’s running gag, about a hard-to-pronounce movie called “The Rural Juror.” Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z

In this faux recruitment commercial for joining the police, the running gag is that all of the cops featured in it are shown firing their guns without any good cause. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

But Sawyer makes the case compellingly: "Murder, She Wrote" never used the "suspects-gathered-in-the-ballroom gag," as Sawyer puts it, nor did most episodes feature Mrs. Fletcher interviewing suspect after suspect. The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

Ever the jokers, the troupe still found a way to poke fun at this grief in several gags too shocking to spoil here. Review | Eric Idle recalls adventures as a Python in ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Soon enough, a condemned man was gagged and strapped into the first electric chair. ‘The Last Days of Night’: The flaws of Thomas Edison, both real and imagined 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

He sought to invent gags and routines for his character, but he also became keenly aware that performance in movies doesn’t exist in isolation from framings, rhythms—the entire compositional aspect of cinema. Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

But art on the small screen isn’t always a plot point or a gag. From I Love Dick to Louie: can TV shows help people understand art? 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Each page unleashes a fusillade of gags and comic sequences, careening from slapstick to blood bath and back again. Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Hammond picks it up later when the judges and hosts are behind closed doors and, importantly, knows when to let the gag go. Turns out Alison Hammond is the zesty ingredient "The Great British Baking Show" has been missing 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

Then there’s that great gag where he thinks he drove back seamlessly and you discover he totalled his Lamborghini. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

And some of them are still churning out gags for MAD, in defiance of the ever-expanding generation gap with the magazine's young audience. Magazine's 1st MAD men get a rare reunion 2011-11-12T15:31:12Z

An accurately scaled sheep fashioned from tin foil and left on a dolly — a good sight gag — roams around the main floor. Divine Excess on Avenue C 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

She gives a nice payoff to a sight gag involving Alice falling sleep against a car window. Cheers to Maya Erskine, flawless life of the "Plus One" party 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

But this is the best example of his ability to blend laughs and gunfire, sight gags and explosions. 5 best Arnold Schwarzenegger movies 2011-05-26T21:38:08Z

While the script doesn't maintain the effortless intricacy that distinguishes fare from Disney's sister studio Pixar, there's a distinctive cleverness in several running gags and themes woven across characters. 'Tangled': Disney's twist on Rapunzel is tressed for success 2010-11-23T21:57:00Z

Yet the movie manages to avoid gagging us with a spoon largely because Pattinson and de Ravin are so lovely together. Remember Me Review: Young Love, Hold the Vampires 2010-03-12T19:35:00Z

About two-thirds of the way in, Kathryn Hahn shows up out of nowhere, with no introduction, for the film's most graphic sight gag. Review: Baron Cohen's `Dictator' least-focused yet 2012-05-11T19:27:13Z

Asianness is indicated by gags — deftly delivered — about saving soy sauce packets and not loading up on rice; Teresa Teng pops up on the soundtrack when sentiment is called for. ‘American Born Chinese’ Review: We’re All Walt’s Children 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

Other than that, it's the same movie: a comedy that invents nothing and is content to be a well-oiled machine, setting up and knocking down gag after well-worn gag. "Death at a Funeral": Crude, dumb -- and hilarious 2010-04-16T13:01:00Z

Meanwhile, both political figures have been involved with Saturday Night Live – though Trump was in on the gag and Meyer demanded apologies. What would a Trump presidency look like? Just ask Veep's Selina Meyer 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Martha Davies, 10, would gag if she tried anything other than her bland diet of toast and the occasional handful of barbecue Pringles. Girl who ate only toast, Pringles claims hypnotherapy cured her food fears 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

Here, between Port-wine stains and Potato, gagging on, was the problem: Posture. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z

But the gag points to something more than this. Lourdes: realistic about religion 2010-04-07T11:00:00Z

Earlier in the year the president signed an executive order reinstating the policy known as the global gag rule. HIV/Aids adviser says panel's sudden firing by Trump 'feels like retribution' 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

One is a laid-back, affecting comedy about second chances; the other is a clunky mishmash of broad gags. Review: ‘The Last O.G.’ Searches for Brooklyn, and Itself 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

In one of the movie's better gags, a plump little boy keeps insisting, in a helium-inflected growl, that Shrek "do the roar." Shrek Forever After Review: An Ogre in Midlife Crisis 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z

A running gag between Amory and her uncle is that everyone can be summed up in four adjectives. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

They need to let this Octavia Spencer, box watching gag a rest because it is not working. Twitter Is Not Happy With Neil Patrick Harris' Octavia Spencer Bit at the Oscars 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Sometimes you gag in your mouth, the critic sighed. Making Way for the Tried and True at Cut by Wolfgang Puck 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

It starts with a massacre and soon turns into a zany cross-dressing caper complete with Marilyn Monroe, millionaires real and fake, musical numbers and nonstop gags. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The gag here isn't just the use of vulgarity; it is the fact that one of the great moments of human technological progress involved something that can easily be reduced to a potty joke. "History of the World, Part 1" turns 40, and it's still good to be Mel Brooks 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

My eyes watered and my gag reflex twitched as I pulled out chunks of chocolate cake, nibbled pieces of cheese, slimy lettuce and gristly meat all coated in a slippery muck. At a Namibian sanctuary, you don’t just see the wildlife — you care for them

Some touches, including the latter, seem like a gag too far, but while it comes close to self-indulgence at times, the show is so tightly controlled that it's like watching a clockwork mechanism unwind. The Comedy of Errors/Richard III ? review 2011-01-30T17:50:01Z

Early Man is a family film that doesn’t just provide gags for adults and gags for children: it locates the adult’s inner child and the child’s inner adult. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

While gag lines are still his forte, his new rallying cry is a palm smacking the forehead: "Why didn't somebody tell me that!" Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

The resulting collection of drawings belongs to the brand of humor whose main gag is that mothers are human, rather than perfect. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

For the unleashed version of ball gags, chastity cages and inventive ironmongery, see the Edgeplay Gear website. Something for the weekend, sir? The latest in sex tech 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Instead, she plays along with his gag, allowing him to become an even more deeply embedded presence in her work and in her life. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

It’s 2:19, I can hear him gagging and coughing. What it’s like to watch him die 2014-02-27T00:00:00Z

Wills's sophomore offering is irresistibly good fun, a happy amalgam of old-school mime routines, audience participation and the exasperated facial expressions of a speechless man whose mouth, yes, is gagged with sticky tape. The Boy With Tape on His Face – review 2012-12-21T18:07:35Z

But the film very quickly, and tediously, becomes more of the same old and Craven thing -- self-referential film buff gags accompanied by a clockwork killing spree that seriously reduces the population of a small town. "Scream 4" more of the same, but fans won't mind 2011-04-13T20:42:22Z

She emits odors that cause everyone around her to gag, and you do need to watch where you step after she’s been in the room. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: A Pig That Would Make a Playwright Proud 2011-07-29T05:00:35Z

He tries to swallow it while it’s still solid, which is why he gags. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

First, she got in trouble for a gag about the fashion model Heidi Klum: "The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens." Ricky Gervais back as David Brent, while Derek passes the taste test 2013-03-05T15:19:48Z

“Getting something that’s authentically funny and not the latest gag of the day, but something that has an innately funny voice and real wit — that’s really rare,” he said. How Emily Nunn Turned Salad Into a Soapbox 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Your future self will thank you — not just because your future self is more likely to be around, but because you’ll be able to sip a martini without having to stifle your gag reflex. You swore off tequila for good. Here’s how to enjoy the alcohol that once betrayed you. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Expect to see notes anxiously consulted, stories that don't quite pay off, and gags that flop spectacularly – as well as nuggets of gold. This week's new live comedy 2013-06-15T05:00:27Z

Nor are we left disappointed as every other heavily telegraphed gag arrives honking and squawking like a freight train huffing and puffing its way into a station. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-12-30T00:05:28Z

Sure enough, when Elliot tries on a copy provided to him by his sister as a gag, the monster is unleashed. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 4: The Man in the Mask 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

There's a lot more to this film than just cheap gags; it reminds us what a bear can really mean to people. A teddy bear manufacturer's view on Ted 2012-08-19T17:00:01Z

An Amazon delivery driver’s close attention to detail has created a viral moment, and it all started with a gag doormat. Amazon delivery driver hilariously honors request to 'hide packages from husband' 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harris tossed in Tyson jokes as he went along, in addition to bringing him onstage during that opening number for a gag referencing the time that Mr. Tyson bit an opponent’s ear. Critic’s Notebook: Neil Patrick Harris Hosted the Tonys for Fourth Time 2013-06-10T04:10:55Z

Another objection from the New York Times’ chief television critic James Poniewozik says Trump thwarts comedy because the gag is too obvious. Help us, Jon Stewart: You’re our only hope to defeat Donald Trump 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Most pop in for a limp gag or two. | 'The Man Who Came to Dinner': ?The Man Who Came to Dinner? at the Theater at St. Clement?s 2011-12-13T23:38:44Z

In the two episodes I screened, there’s an alien gag that overstays its welcome and a still-too-soon Philip Seymour Hoffman joke. Fox’s ‘Bordertown’ is a ripped-from-the-headlines satire 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

If it weren’t for all the gags about horse sex, you’d be thinking of Silicon Valley in the same way you thought about Breaking Bad. Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Concept albums make us gag for other reasons, too. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

He grips two photo-film canisters in his clenched eye sockets and, as a finishing touch, his mouth is gagged by holding a stapler like some kind of robotic beak. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z

A recurring visual gag has schmaltzy ballads playing over slo-mo footage of their very small love interests. The stars of Pen15 on playing their teenage selves: ‘It seems like torture’ 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

When the young mermaid hesitates because becoming human will separate her from her family, Ursula dismisses the concerns, and her eels gag Ariel's friends when they caution her against signing the contract. Poor unfortunate souls: False feminism and criticism of Disney’s "Little Mermaid" 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

There's certainly a gag about being arrested for it on Take It to the Hole. LMFAO: Sorry for Party Rocking ? review 2011-07-14T14:30:01Z

Jenny Edgar, 32, would gag if she tried anything other than her bland diet of dry cereal, cheese and cookies, or her everyday dinner of pasta or french fries. Woman who ate only pasta, cheese and fries says hypnotherapy cured her fear of fruits and vegetables 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

I'm pretty sure I got all the nob gags. Not the Booker prize 2011: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:21:28Z

It is predictably heavy on the puerile, gross-out gags and teen holiday set-pieces, light on the clever one-liners and unfolding pathos that gave the series such an edge. The Inbetweeners maps male sexuality 2011-08-19T13:30:02Z

His mammoth installations were a Babel of tangled neon, building materials and bawdy gags. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

I saw the film Banksy directed, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” and I thought, oh, we should see if he would do a main title for the show, a couch gag. 'The Simpsons' Explains Its Button-Pushing Banksy Opening 2010-10-11T18:07:00Z

On Radio 1, he might have made those asides to a studio full of chortling chums, but the imaginary producer gag only highlights the sense of solitude that engulfs some of these videos. Once Chris Moyles spoke to millions on the radio. Now he’s struggling for an audience on his own YouTube channel 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The sharp gags and character sketches alone make “Abbott” a delight. ‘Abbott Elementary’ Is Gifted and Talented 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

It's easier not to go for the gag to keep your pages turning. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z

This is what happens when emotion and character are sacrificed for jokes, when set pieces are preferred over narrative, when a movie is just a collection of so-so gags. Review: Half-baked 'Babymakers' comes up negative 2012-08-01T13:38:09Z

The cartoons, produced for movie audiences by a wildly imaginative, possibly hallucinating team of animators, directors and gag writers at Warner Brothers, were recycled for television with outdated pop-culture references intact. DVD: On DVD, ?Essential Bugs Bunny Collection? 2010-10-08T22:10:00Z

He seems more at home portraying the red-bearded Englishman of Nestor’s invention, although even here a running gag about a creaking briefcase is a dud. Theater Review: ‘Irma La Douce,’ Back on the Streets 2014-05-08T19:50:34Z

Then there were the “gags” we’d pull at night that they had to react to – like hearing the children’s voices, or feeling the tent being shaken. How we made The Blair Witch Project 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

But in this season, “Broad City” slyly nestles callbacks to its greatest gags, even fleeting ones, in each episode — an ode to the classic clips-driven series retrospectives classically employed by producers before the last hurrah. "Broad City": Breaking out, not breaking up 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

There's something for everyone: Nudge-wink gags go right over kids' heads, but the stories are based on fairy tales. 'Pinocchio,' British panto-style, in Federal Way 2011-12-01T22:01:04Z

As the field winnows, and the general election promises weekly sketches with Mr. Obama, the prospect of more tepid gags about the president’s inability to get angry does not bode well. Critic?s Notebook: Comparing Fred Armisen?s ?SNL? Obama to Dana Carvey?s Bush 2011-12-05T06:52:36Z

If you could enjoy a gag this highbrow, it was also shamelessly funny. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z

The sequel might have been a bit of a letdown, but there's that great "mobile phone" gag in the opening sequence. Murdoch's movies: the good, the bad and that Hugh Grant romcom 2011-07-19T10:35:49Z

City officials said they want the judge to clarify whether her informal agreement of should be interpreted as a gag order. City seeks gag order in police lawsuit 2012-04-30T02:36:00Z

Everyone is still absorbing the implications of that when a human heart is discovered among the animal remains those young jokers used in their monster-carcass gag. Review: ‘Loch Ness’ Has a Monster, and an Alluring Mystery 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Indeed, in many ways the elaborate airport story line functions primarily as a frame for such sketch-comedy-style gags. Theater Review: ?The Lapsburgh Layover,? by Berserker Residents - Review 2011-09-17T00:51:31Z

The gag was as intricate as an infinitesimal set of Russian nesting dolls. Review: In 'Keanu,' Key and Peele Let a Cat Steal the Show 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, one of the show’s running gags involves the unlimited mounds of Bolivian marching powder that fuels a group of rogue Wall Street traders, so slowing down is just not part of the plan. Review | Showtime’s ‘Black Monday’ is all snorts and not enough laughs 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

With little, tonally, to distinguish West Is West from the first film, it's all perfectly watchable: the odd chuckle, one or two nicely moving scenes, a good number of culture clash gags. West Is West ? review 2010-10-19T14:36:00Z

Individually, these techniques are little more than mean gags, but as relentlessly practiced by “the most comprehensive surveillance state in the history of the world,” they effectively destroy people’s lives. Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

He then went on to say that on any page of a Wolfe novel he could ‘read a sentence that would make me gag’. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

But along with the gags, there are some beautiful moments. Parlez vous Dire Straits? Seattle's 'The French Project' does, in a silly, sublime new show 2010-09-17T16:58:00Z

As in certain late-period "Seinfeld" episodes, you got the feeling that the gags were driving the story rather than the other way around. A pretty, pretty, pret-tayyyy, not-so-good "Curb Your Enthusiasm" 2011-07-11T13:12:00Z

If viewers do cross the line, it triggers the flower to squirt them in the face with water like a clown with a gag lapel flower. John Waters, the Artful Dodger 2011-06-23T23:10:08Z

The now anachronistic title has been a running gag on the series ever since. A Last Call For ‘Cougar Town’ 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Memorable moment: After a script read-through, it became clear the episode was too short, so executive producer Al Jean stretched out one throwaway sight gag for nearly thirty seconds. 2010-01-14T11:04:00Z

However politically sharp, the gag is an unpleasant reminder of all the profoundly unfunny ways in which this world, with its visible and invisible hands, tries to control women, putting them into little boxes. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Another terrific sidebar, later in the film, has Hae-joon distracted and chasing after stolen soft-shell turtles, which generates an amusing sight gag. Park Chan-wook's mesmerizing "Decision to Leave" is a dreamy seduction that plays with our trust 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

I have to believe it is meant to be more than just a brief gag in "Hawkeye." Marvel really should consider a real version of "Rogers: The Musical" 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

I have no doubt some viewers will experience "Asteroid City" as a maddening Russian doll nested with clever but pointless gags, or as arbitrary and formless. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Two years on, in my mind, there is still a man bound to a chair, gagged with gaffer tape, sat in a conference room opposite a cuddly panda. A question of sexuality reveals theatre's fatal flaw 2010-05-20T14:35:00Z

Another gag was singing "They've Leaked Online" about the recent celebrity nude photo hacking riffing on Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves win early at CMA Awards 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

JD Cullum’s Touchstone, the fool traveling with the women, would be funnier were his gibes and gags targeted to a character rather than pitched to audience members for their approbation. In Antaeus Theatre Company's 'As You Like It,' missed connections foil romantic comedy 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

But there are baggier gags, too – including a great dialogue between Philips and a beggar – and, more so than previously, a conversational ease that belies the social-misfit demeanour. Emo Philips 2010-08-12T15:48:00Z

Walker rewrites them to try to improve the gags, he said. Beetle Bailey nears retirement age but stays put 2010-08-29T21:46:00Z

“Neon Icon” is Riff Raff’s debut album, though that’s more a liability than an achievement at this point in the gag. New Albums by Riff Raff, Black Bananas and Phox 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

It was unclear whether the Manhattan district attorney’s office would, or could, seek a gag order limiting public statements by the Weinstein team. Harvey Weinstein Makes an Email Plea: ‘I’ve Had One Hell of a Year’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Even if modern viewers have to make some allowances for racial gags that may not have aged well, Lewis could take any tired stereotype and make it sing. Comedic Legend Jerry Lewis Dead at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Whereas Borat blended its offensive gags with satire, challenging cultural assumptions and balancing its stupidity with a kind of behind-the-scenes, barely detectable intelligence, Grimsby lacks a deeper purpose beneath its outrageous exterior. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

But this resistance is being curtailed by a concerted attempt to silence women – just look at the inexorable rise of non-disclosure agreements to gag women speaking out about discrimination or harassment. Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

The plot is almost beside the point, since a 4-year-old most likely will not pick apart any holes with the story, staying instead for the sight gags, silly comedic moments and sword fight scenes. Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

In one repeated gag he appeared to press a bent knee into the chest of Ms. Baldwin, who lay on her back, gasping, “Get off,” with irritation as he rose and descended with dramatic flair. Dance Review: Recalling a Collector of Bold Art and Life 2010-10-21T22:12:00Z

While plenty of the gags will land fine for new viewers, the show is a lot more fun if you start at the beginning. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

As a sight gag, it works, and the flaming man's relative optimism that such a dilemma can be sat out sticks with you. 2010-01-30T04:10:00Z

As a running gag, it was sheer perfection, and the obvious accidental nature just made it more endearing. Rosie O’Donnell Returns, With Guests in the Basement and the Bathtub 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

This is art for all -- some sophisticated references, but with sight gags and flashy gymnastic physicality. Ezralow Dance tumbles into the Wallis with crowd-pleasing stage gymnastics 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Still, laughs are relatively thin on the ground, mostly coming when Eric cracks a knowingly hackneyed gag – “tea, Ern?” From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Well excuse me while I retroactively gag for every single cup of coffee I’ve made in my past 20 years traveling,” another seconded. Photo of hotel coffee maker allegedly shows fungus, mold: 'This is why you check' 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Probably any harrumphing relatives you have who like a proper story, gags signposted with visual and verbal clues that clearly say "Gags this way", and a tunes-you-can-hum-in-the-bath 1960s soundtrack. No Hats, No Trainers 2010-07-17T05:45:00Z

Think “Archer” plus “Mad Men” plus jokes about colonialism, with a few sight gags thrown in. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Star Trek’ Films 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

The funniest visual gag in the episode: The sign on the multiplex box office reading “Back in 5 min.” ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 7: Secret Origins 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

A frequent and only gag in the show is how she manages not to spill all the time, though really this is more scary than funny, like a wine car crash. What it means to be a red wine mom in Netflix's "The Woman in the House" 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

“Gasoline Alley” débuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1918, as a gag strip about the growing popularity of automobiles among middle-class Americans. An Old Comic Strip About Modern Fatherhood 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The old gag says it takes 100 actors to change a lightbulb – one to change it and 99 to say: "I could have done that." Paul Bhattacharjee and Cory Monteith deaths: is acting today just too tough? 2013-07-23T17:45:00Z

Even vicious attacks on him feel like good-natured roast gags. Will John Oliver, Louis CK and SNL's attacks on Trump make a difference? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

This can be effective in getting attention — the Miss Landmine piece drew a lot of heat in Norway — but can also produce mere sight gags for art world delectation. Art In Review: MORTEN TRAAVIK AND PETER FEND: ‘Power Games’ 2012-07-05T20:34:36Z

In the first episode, there’s a sight gag directly from Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Hirai wants to tone down the gory climax, in a movie full of outlandishly gory sight gags. Spending Christmas Eve with 'The Interview,' and all its trappings 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Hillary Clinton appears, as a character who interviews to be Murphy’s secretary, in a resumption of a running gag about how hard it is for the heroine to find good help. Reviving “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” on the Post-Moonves CBS 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

What’s very diverting about this rendition are the stylish atmospherics and animated gags Kretzu and his team insert, and a handful of nifty performances. A witty Berowne, a stylish set for ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ 2013-03-21T20:31:57Z

His texting bit includes a gag about going for a drive without his cellphone and not knowing where to look or what to do with his hands. Critic’s Notebook: David Spade and Lewis Black, Onstage, On TV 2014-05-01T23:35:07Z

In fairness, the movie is a faithful and loving adaptation, with numerous throwaway gags and lovely grace notes. Home alone: A New Year unlike any other, tinged with grief and loneliness — and hope 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

That running gag on "The Simpsons" where they won't tell you where Springfield is. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z

Fellowes, taking a no-nonsense approach to the job, preserves the gags and efficiently replicates the plot. Broadway's 'School of Rock' is saved by the students 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

In that era of faith-based decision making and gag orders on scientists, my personal biases weren’t very deeply hidden. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z

But after that sight gag, the comedy becomes rawer and more straggling; this is improv, after all. Shared camaraderie in ‘We Know How You Die!’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The gag pays off twice: once in the reaction of the unsuspecting passer-by, once in the discomfort of the fellow doing the asking. Television Review: ?(Impractical) Jokers? on TruTV - Review 2011-12-14T22:13:50Z

Mr. Mackie is also responsible for what may be the greatest sight gag ever on television. The Marvelous Mr. Mackie 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

The raunchy riffs and lowbrow gags of “Hot Tub” are vastly preferable to the navel-gazing sanctimony of “The Big Chill,” at least for my taste. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z

He has even given “The Reunion” a sequel-begging conclusion and a gag reel with the closing credits. | 'The Reunion': John Cena and Amy Smart in ?The Reunion? ? Review 2011-10-21T01:31:45Z

And, at 51, he still justifies Fry's gag about the TV audience being "as welcome as George Clooney at a hen night". Baftas 2013: 10 key talking points 2013-02-11T00:06:44Z

The gag spanned seven films and numerous beatings to Mr. Kwouk’s head and body, and the bouts always ended promptly when a knock came at Clouseau’s door or his telephone began to ring. Burt Kwouk, the karate-chopping manservant Cato in the ‘Pink Panther’ comedies, dies at 85 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

He spins out his lines at a breakneck clip, the riffs come thick and fast, and the gags are sprayed on with a machine gun. The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte – review 2013-07-24T10:21:39Z

His mother was sympathetic and helpful, but in a gag that runs throughout the show, Mr. Gethard surreally found himself thinking, “She sounds so much like Carmela Soprano, it’s uncanny.” Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, we have a comedian where the mayor of London should be – and the gags are coming thick and fast as his city enjoys its moment in the global spotlight. Boris Johnson, the comedian of politics, has the last laugh 2012-07-30T12:00:01Z

Bee wears those blazers like her armor while diving into narratives that consider race, class, gender and other systems of oppression — and punctuated by endlessly inventive Cruz gags. How did Sam Bee’s “Full Frontal” find its brilliant voice? By amplifying the unheard 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

There is no through line to this collection of domestic gags and, for the audience, no real lesson learned. Review: ‘One Funny Mother’ Delivers One-Liners Without Depth 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The original book has been stuffed fruitcake-full of gags about contemporary figures and current trends. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z

The vivid characters turn out to have funny yet heart-wrenching back stories — Trish’s involves an ill-judged gag with a chicken — and their current plight is also ridiculous and aching. Reviews: ‘Trish Tinkler Gets Saved’ and ‘The Long Way Around’ 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Earlier this season, Family Guy aired a crossover episode with The Simpsons–or really, a Family Guy episode with Simpsons characters in it, but with Family Guy-style beats and gags. The Simpsons-Futurama Crossover: Not a Classic, But Beats Family Guy 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Long scenes are built on one-barrel gags, like an extended “Entourage” takeoff in Episode 7 or the closeted Tobias’s vanity plate — an alternate spelling of “a new start” — in Episode 5. Watch List: ‘Arrested Development’ on Netflix.com 2013-05-26T21:43:38Z

The smithy setting offers the hook for a succession of inventive, hilarious, but only loosely connected horse, car and train gags. Film historian discovers unseen footage of Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith 2013-07-17T13:54:32Z

This kernel of an idea -- a small man suddenly talking big -- never develops beyond a few gags involving contemporary movies, however. "Gulliver's Travels" relies too much on effects 2010-12-23T00:26:57Z

This was the secret of Trigger Happy TV, with its giant-phone running gag. Dom Joly and the Black Island | TV review 2010-03-19T22:15:00Z

But better was the gag that back in art school Mercury considered his greatest talent to be “flipping straights.” ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: Home 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

His sculpture titled “Trophy Wife” delivers a great sight gag, as does the piece “L.O.V.E.,” which he boldly exhibited outside the Milan stock exchange. “In the perfect world, my self-portrait would be a picture of my ass”: The artist Maurizio Cattelan speaks with Salon 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

When that gag enlisted an army of critics, she would not back down or apologize. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

In the movie, it becomes a sight gag: a repairman fixes the sign outside, the name flashes up, and Nick exclaims, “It’s a sign!” Anthony Lane: “Jersey Boys” and “Venus in Fur” Reviews 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Every moment is surprising, a series of sight gags sustained over more than an hour in a masterpiece of comic timing. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

The footage previewed showcased a broad comedy that harks back to Police Squad! with a loopy tone, awkward silences and countless sight gags. Can Angie Tribeca be a Police Squad! for the 21st century? 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

He should benefit from the added instrumental power: with Minchin, the music's as exquisitely crafted as the comedy, with great tunes and moments of powerful emotion to match the snappy, idiosyncratic gags. This week's new comedy 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z

But the gag said everything without a caption. Democracy in the 2010s, aka the decline of Kanye West-ern civilization 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

The gag works by delaying the payoff, a manipulation of tension that relies on structure to achieve its effect. Riddle me not: why I'm sick of TV shows that revel in WTF storytelling | Charles Bramesco 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

There are recurring gags — some of which work and some of which don’t — and one very nice surprise. Gags, hilarity ensue in satisfying ‘Sex Tape’

At one point, a brief but delectable sight gag has the street urchins deadpanning through a window, wearing sunglasses, while Seymour sings about a solar eclipse. Despite exotic botany, Constellation’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is an old chestnut 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Spotting the potential of the men-with-nagging-female-partners market high-street chain River Island started selling “nag gags” earlier this year – essentially, football-shaped gimp gags. Feisty, flounce and bossy: the words used to put women down 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

One would use the mother-in-law gags on the northern circuit, another would use them on the southern circuit. Should standup comedians write all their own jokes? 2013-07-19T15:25:57Z

Nauman's punning title circles back to the conceptual play with words and sight gags that began with Duchamp and Magritte. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z

Some of the coding books for kids probably work better as gag gifts than as a training manual for mini Mark Zuckerbergs. Teaching Kids Coding, by the Book 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Here's the comedy website Laughspin on what it describes as the "disingenuous outrage" sweeping America after Cook's gag. Stewart Lee causes Fringe rumpus, while US standup causes outrage 2012-08-01T14:59:00Z

The show is tailored to D.C. — one of the best running gags involves “Shear Madness” — and it seems like the cast might be responsive as July inevitably delivers fractious new headlines. Second City puts sting in ‘Almost Accurate Guide to America’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

Defense attorneys opposed any gag orders, saying lawyers were well aware of their professional responsibility in making public comments. Jurors in Smith case must reveal medical histories 2010-07-20T22:24:00Z

The anonymous dieter wrote about his alleged act on Reddit’s popular “Am I the A--H---“ forum, seeking feedback on if he went too far with his gag. Man's 'appletarian' prank fools friends, results in intervention 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Bristol -rockers Get the Blessing deliver daft between-tunes gags with a winningly apologetic resignation, but there's nothing resigned, apologetic, or frivolous about their music. Get the Blessing – review 2013-03-20T18:35:29Z

And “Assimilation” features an excellent gag in which two Jews pass a Roman Catholic church advertising to pay converts $50. Theater Review: ?Old Jews Telling Jokes? at the Westside Theater 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z

The name that won out — a reference to the joke writers who pitched gags to Jack Benny — worked on several levels. The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

George Carlin and Robert Klein, both at the height of their popularity, had done away with stale Borscht Belt mother-in-law gags in favor of smart, edgy comedy, and Belzer was inspired. "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

Each episode goes through several rounds of telling as many quick gags as possible in accordance with specific categories. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Camera angles tend to show either too much or too little visual information, making it difficult to tell what exactly is happening and, at times, blunting the effect of a sight gag. Review: Film ‘A Walk in the Woods’ is a slightly more serious diversion 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Ironically, perhaps, Holland's effort to gag Grant – which is the only thing any of us really know about her – casts her in a worse light than any of his jokes. Long live those mother-in-law (and ex-wife) jokes 2010-10-04T13:24:00Z

“The dialogue is altered, inevitably, and maybe some of the gags don’t quite work in another language,” conceded Mr. Fellowes, who writes every episode, but “I’m terribly pleased if people are enjoying it.” Television: ‘Downton Abbey’ Reaches Around the World 2013-01-03T12:56:00Z

And there are several clever, bordering on clever-clever, gags from a comic who's never afraid to look cocksure in the name of humour. Tom Rosenthal ? review 2011-08-17T17:44:23Z

It takes a while to warm to the broadly anachronistic gags, and there’s some blunt violence and overwrought, shrieky clowning. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z

The result was a sort of “Rube Goldberg Variations,” disguising virtuoso exertions with arcane mechanical gags. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z

Quite the opposite, in fact: the gags have been sharper, the characterisation stronger and the few missteps of the first series - Howard's shift from singular oddball to cliched geek, for example - have been corrected. Catch-up TV guide: from American Horror Story: Asylum to Limmy's Show 2012-11-24T00:05:27Z

It's very hard to imagine a Hollywood studio countenancing the scene in Kind Hearts and Coronets in which Dennis Price assassinates a ballooning old lady with a bow, an arrow and a deft little gag. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z

People like Donald Trump – when they aren’t strangling the poor thing while pantomiming a hug – roll Old Glory up and use it as a whip and a gag. I'm told to 'go back home'. But I'm an American – and dissent is patriotic 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

This 1928 comedy is best remembered for the sight gag in which Keaton narrowly avoids being crushed by the falling front of a house. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The sight gags have a marvelous thunderclap suddenness to them. ‘The Nut Job’: Animated comedy is a crackup 2014-01-16T21:59:42Z

Some audio enhancements started to creep in: gagging; squishy, splashy sounds. Critic’s Notebook: Realism Splashing a Screen Near You 2014-03-07T23:01:13Z

Ferrante is currently holding forth at ACT Theatre in his touring show, "An Evening with Groucho," a 90-minute seance that dips into the great trove of Groucho gags, one-liners, patter songs and anecdotes. 'An Evening with Groucho': Marx impersonator brings show to ACT 2012-05-03T20:21:13Z

To 1920s Hollywood, working as a gag writer or with Buster Keaton. Q&A: Paul Merton 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

Andre puts his gag down to what he calls “pure good lucky timing”, but has also revealed that Netflix wanted him to remove the joke. Comedian Eric Andre: 'We don't tell guests a thing ...' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

The Boss gives her too little to work with: a hackneyed backstory and a string of slapstick gags that lead to an all too predictable climax and denouement. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Instead, the more absurd the gag, the better it works. ‘80 for Brady’ Review: Remember These Titans 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

When their own fathers arrive for Christmas, several barely disguised gags from the first movie repeat. Review: In ‘Daddy’s Home 2,’ Father Doesn’t Know Best 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The story readily gives way to gag numbers. 'Spamilton': Musical spoof lands its punches softly, and with a smile 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

A man lies on the floor in his boxer shorts with a gag in his mouth and his hands are hogtied. Sex and the TV: how television evolved from pregnancy scandals to 'pegging' 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

As a comedy, it’s less successful, stronger on sight gags than on the detective’s sarcasm. ‘Jackpot,’ a Comic Thriller From Magnus Martens 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, the new bits lean on the aging gags too obviously, like a painful sketch about 60-year-old male strippers. The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

After all, Mr. Pynchon’s novels have a reputation for difficulty, but they are jam-packed with lowbrow references and gags, dirty jokes, goofy song lyrics, shameless puns, ludicrous anagrams and absurd acronyms. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Her first Christmas at Sandringham, Diana reportedly didn’t know the gifts were supposed to be gags and gave everyone cashmere. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

You Suffer is a gag done with panache, and there's a nice twist of humour in Soulwax's I Love Techno too. Readers recommend songs with 10 words or fewer: The results 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z

That same night, she also made headlines thanks to a pedestal gag that put her in social media's crosshairs. 3-peat! Sofia Vergara again TV's highest-paid actress, Forbes says 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In one scene he hid behind a wall to help with a gag set in a glitchy ultramodern kitchen. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z

This could easily be played as a sight gag, but instead the choice resonates deeply. The Lustful Middle School Girl Rises 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

But perhaps you feel ambivalent about condemning such gags, because you don’t want to sound like a prude, and because it’s nice to see the Muppets back on prime-time TV. Dirty Sexy Muppets 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Those transformations were all the subject of eight- or 10-page stories decades ago — but I think they still work as eight- or 10-second sight gags today. Comics: 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold' offers more than nostalgia 2011-04-12T18:56:05Z

It’s a simple gag on its face, but there’s a deeper layer. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

And gags that appeal to viewers across the age and class spectrum. Have You Been Watching? Not Going Out? 2011-02-03T12:46:13Z

Mom blogs and cooking Web sites are filled with recipes from dozens of desperate parents who have been confronted with how to feed their offspring the popular gag. The Spaghetti Taco, ? la ?iCarly? 2010-10-05T22:55:00Z

The show garnered a rabid fan base for its running gags, rapid-fire quips and easy rapport between its two stars. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Psych: The Movie’ and ‘Gotham’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s funny but also wasted because the gag is deployed too early, and there’s nothing yet at stake when Snow falls. Movie Review: Guy Pearce in ?Lockout? 2012-04-12T21:56:11Z

While goofy plots like this provide the gags, they also help the characters grow in unexpected ways. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z

For one thing, it’s hilarious, full of brilliant physical gags that bridge the gap between CGI and the silent era. Why “Paddington 2″ deserves Oscar nominations in at least five categories 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Among the gags retold by the one-time player of pop were identifiable jokes written by a number of contemporary standup stars, including Milton Jones, Lee Mack and Jimmy Carr. Has Keith Chegwin been stealing comedians' jokes on Twitter? 2010-07-22T11:49:00Z

"There are some good gags, but having lit upon something that tickles them, screenwriters Adam McKay and Chris Henchy don't so much milk their jokes as desperately wring them dry," she writes. The Other Guys: star stand-ins or subs-standard? 2010-09-20T15:01:00Z

Then the one-liners and physical gags gush forth, along with the liquid scarlet. "The Adam Project" digs into the essential sadness of Ryan Reynolds' heroes 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

Far from flaws, they are her surest running gag. Review: In ‘ROBOT,’ Machines Perform With Humans at BAM 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

To see one of the blackest actors in the game adopt such a voice – actually delivered by the very white and very funny David Cross – is a gag that never stops giving. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

"I'm not the one gagging for it that much her fanny's frothing like a beck in a storm." Playhouse Presents: Psychobitches; Up The Women – TV review 2013-05-31T06:00:09Z

New hair in general, particularly toupées, have long served as gag material in movies and television shows. What Happened to That Comb-Over? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s almost a gag out of “I Love Lucy.” A Short Novel of Love, War and Comrades in Arms Contains the World in a Foxhole 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

As a wandering Brit, I grew up on Top Gear – the celebrity dashes in reasonably-priced cars, the transcontinental races between presenters, the stunts and gags which often verged into off-color comedy. Why The BBC Is Right To Fire Jeremy Clarkson From 'Top Gear' 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Season's greetings from Auntie's Reckless Nostalgia department, where Ronnie Corbett is sitting in a corner, tweaking his glasses as he panic-knits gags for this 80th birthday bun-fight. Christmas TV highlights 2010-12-24T08:00:02Z

Yet there was never any move towards legislated gagging of the media under the Mbeki administration. ANC's alarmist curbs signal waning support for ruling South African party 2012-06-06T16:06:07Z

Jacobson writes with all his usual winks and asides, but we know this gag. A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Known to wrap in-jokes around other in-jokes then baked into a third in-joke, Deadpool has made a stock and trade out of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it gags such as these. Unseen on screen: the secret movie cameos you might not know about 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

This leads to some amusingly realized visual gags, including a race with a lawn mower. Movie Review: ‘Turbo,’ From DreamWorks, Shows One Way to the Finish Line 2013-07-16T22:28:39Z

He showed that television was amenable to sophisticated analysis, but handled it with a light touch, making insights and gags work together: he knew his job was to entertain and not bore. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z

With a detour into a smart gag about people who use “4” in place of the word “for”. Standup comedy - your videos 2013-06-04T13:27:00Z

There are all-too-familiar gags about  business attire stained with pancake batter, and tired dialogue about the different ways we judge men and women for doing the same things. "I Don't Know How She Does It" -- Sarah Jessica Parker's ego trip 2011-09-15T21:16:00Z

Perhaps these limited-release gag products are a way introduce a new product, but play it off as a joke if the public finds it gross or offensive. Hands-free Whopper holder debuts in Puerto Rico 2013-05-31T23:00:00Z

Yes, much of the laughs come from a puerile place, but there’s some genuine heart amid the gags. What to Stream on Valentine’s Day 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

A few years ago, as a one-off concert gag, Ms. Palmer strummed a uke as she sang Radiohead’s “Creep,” accompanying herself on a $19 model she had bought the day before. Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z

Yet somewhere along the line, those behind Intiman Theatre Festival’s enthusiastically raunchy update of the play forgot a cardinal rule of comedy: Don’t repeat the same gags over and over. In this ‘Lysistrata,’ sex and war don’t mix 2013-07-25T22:40:24Z

Chandor: Yeah, the sort of gag of the movie is essentially it’s structured like a classical gangster movie, and so the beginning of the movie she’s the femme fatale gangster’s wife. Five top film directors on tipsy chats, mysterious packages and more 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

There are gags that may offend even the most blasé patron. 'Book of Mormon': an outrageous, but good-natured, trip from Utah to Africa | Theater review 2013-01-11T07:31:05Z

D’Angelo opens the closet door, where the accountant is bound and gagged, bugs crawling all over him. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Surprise, Surprise 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Both use the same stacking of joke upon joke, the same physical comedy, the same irreverence, the same ability to take a gag way beyond its usual limits. The God of Funny: Stephen Chow Comes to Brooklyn 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But mainly Mr. Parker’s choreography kept settling for the same tired gags. Review: ‘Tap Lab,’ From the Bang Group, Conveys Musical Scores Through Footwork 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The quality isn't always high: the first half is scrappy, and there's much generic mockery of local towns, as well as duff gags like the one about his brother's reaction to Manford's hypochondria. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z

They career from one gag to the next, distracting from and even sometimes eclipsing the plot. Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z

He asks for the cheapest item, which the Balenciaga team interprets as “just one of those American gags nobody gets” and sends him a dress that costs 19,000 euros. Homer Simpson Was Made for Fashion 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The cast are under strict instructions not to throw in any local gags. One Man, Two Guvnors: the tour de farce reaches Adelaide 2013-03-06T15:47:12Z

One of the series’ longest running gags is about Miss Zarves, the supposedly imaginary teacher whose classroom secretly exists in a sort of wormhole dimension outside time itself and whose students never age. ‘Wayside School’ Is Back, With Payoffs to Jokes That Began 40 Years Ago 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

For another client, who is not shown, she dons a blindfold and crams a ball gag into her mouth while awaiting his arrival. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z

He grew up in Portland, Oregon, where the town next door was Springfield, though the mystery of which state hosts the Simpson family’s home town is a running gag on the show. Happy birthd'oh!: The Simpsons celebrates 30 years of cultural milestones 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

On Friday, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra played musical numbers from specific episodes and opening sequence couch gags while a giant screen played clips from the show. Springfield comes alive as 'The Simpsons' take over Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

But it was not until 1966 that they were broadcast in colour, prompting host Bob Hope to gag: "Now we can see the losers turn green." Academy Awards A to Z 2011-01-24T16:19:17Z

Kardashian was gagged and bound at her hands and feet, then handcuffed and held at gunpoint, according to E! Kim Kardashian West Leaves Paris After Being Robbed of $10 Million in Jewelry 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

He became a running gag with Backderf and his gang, not so much a friend as a kind of freak-show mascot. My Friend Dahmer: The Unspeakable Horror of Life in the 1970s 2012-03-28T10:45:09Z

She added later, “As much as I like observational gags, I also like things that are more surreal.” At The New Yorker, the Cartoonists Draw, but the Vision Is Hers 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

According to Garry Marshall, the moment was entirely improvised, a prank intended for the gag reel. Is “Pretty Woman” on Broadway a Big Mistake? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Ian and Barley’s journey plays as disappointingly routine, a checklist of mechanically foreshadowed heart-to-hearts and lessons learned, leavened by the occasional offbeat sight gag,” Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Parasite’ and ‘Modern Family’ 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

This it does by breaking out the gags, the stunts and the cheekily self-aware riffs like there's absolutely no tomorrow. 22 Jump Street review – supremely watchable silliness 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

I was so busy processing the twisted plot that I didn’t realize how funny it was—that the plot was itself part of the gag. Second (and third) time’s a charm 2012-12-11T16:04:00Z

He embraced and embodied that old gag about the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z

It has just as much to do with the overall effect of that film as the great performances and the great set pieces and gags. The Stars Have Holiday-Movie Favorites, Too 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Taped in front of a live studio audience, its jokes sound like rejected Will & Grace gags and there are no quirks. TV highlights 05/06/2013 2013-06-05T06:00:05Z

Freshening the cocktail, Morton frequently gooses things with topical and local gags. Review | Morton sings the hot pants off ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ songs 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But his routine about the Red Hen motorway restaurant just tells us how horrible the place is, loudly, and his gag about the unquiet quiet coach on the train doesn't ring true. Rhod Gilbert – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-24T17:00:01Z

Gasoline Alley” débuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1918, as a gag strip about the growing popularity of automobiles among middle-class Americans. An Old Comic Strip About Modern Fatherhood 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The sets looked just like those at the Met, and the gags were the same too. 2010-02-03T04:38:00Z

They have a running gag where the extremely food-motivated dog conveys his indignation that humans get three meals a day, while he only gets two. The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk

It’s funny, for sure, with a brazen mix of styles and musical gags that lend it the manic energy of an improv comedy show. Review: Wilde’s Wacky ‘Earnest,’ Now With Arias 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

All of which brings to mind the important question: How do you say ‘gag me with a spoon’ in Croatian? The Bachelorette Watch: How Do You Say Love in Croatian? 2012-06-19T12:30:17Z

That refusal to go soft also helps to make the pervasive little-people gags seem less like mockery and more like comedy. Television Review: ?Life?s Too Short? on HBO Has Warwick Davis and Ricky Gervais 2012-02-16T22:44:56Z

The gag here is that he’s a bit crazy, so he has a hard time relating to other people. The worst TV pilots ever: a Waterworld prequel, drag-racing PIs and furry fetish 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“If the sex you’re seeing is gagging, choking and violence, that’s not real. And if no one is there to say this, it’s a tricky conundrum.” Kathryn Hahn's X-rated awakening: 'I responded to her sense of hunger' 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

And if that's too earnest, I trust you can make your own gags. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z

Kimmel, known for his genial but deadpan delivery, got high marks as last year’s Academy Awards host when then-newly elected Trump and his policies became a running gag. Jimmy Kimmel's mission impossible - Oscar host in midst of #MeToo 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

“You might not want to do a gag reel if it was a nightmare shooting the movie.” ‘Hot Pursuit’ and Other Films Elevate the Art of the Blooper Reel 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The Nova Scotia shoot was arduous, and Pattinson’s unusual approach — to psych himself up before takes, he would sometimes gag and hit himself in the face — often surprised Eggers and Dafoe. What Can Robert Pattinson Do to Keep You Guessing? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

I thought she would see the yellow bag and gag. In ‘Blue Jasmine,’ Suzy Benzinger Turns Clothes Into Characters 2013-08-21T20:25:28Z

Or indeed the gags about Kevin Hart not doing the gags? Why a no-host Oscars could be a gang show of grisliness 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Of course, that same episode also includes a veteran who founded a comedy network that features, among other things, gags about trauma-related abuse. The perils of "dangerous" comedy, or what makes a notorious warlord laugh? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marx, who declined to be interviewed for this article, said in answer to Ms. Gottfried that the agreements are “not meant to gag former employees from talking about issues of public concern.” Ex-Employees Mum on New York Public Library Project 2012-05-23T18:56:17Z

Instead, the film speaks to us in pencil lines and sight gags. Edinburgh film festival review: The Illusionist 2010-06-17T08:41:00Z

“It was a gag at first,” Mr. Freire said, noting that he bought the cards after seeing a therapist use them in a Vice Media show. Now Therapists Have to Figure Out Astrology, Tarot and Psychedelics 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

"The running North Korea gag needs to be quietly retired before it ruins the evening," former CNN host Piers Morgan tweeted. Golden Globes: Spoofing North Korea and finding humor in Sony cyber attack 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Each of the four men proposes 30 gags, which are winnowed down until there are just enough strips to be used in a month. Beetle Bailey nears retirement age but stays put 2010-08-29T21:46:00Z

The scene stopped when a sight gag involving a small snuff can stuffed, like a magician’s handkerchief trick, with severed fingers and yards of entrails kept going awry. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z

Except to note that it works purely at the level of plot, rather than involving any jokes or physical gags. Review: In ‘Life of the Party,’ Melissa McCarthy Goes to College 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Even with their barrage of insider musical theater gags in “Something Rotten!,” the creative team stresses that their goals are not to mock but to praise. Broadway Shows Get the Point! Again! 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

“I practically gag in passages where he’s talking about Negroes,” she said. Thandiwe Newton Feeds Her Soul With Critical Race Theory and Cleo Sol 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Beyond some sharp jabs at pageant culture and the flagrant hypocrisy of people utterly obsessed with image, the vast majority of gags are actually pretty tame and repetitive. Insatiable: has Netflix's controversial 'fat-shaming' show fixed itself? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

That's a pretty high-minded summation of a movie whose best ingredients are strings of gags, non sequiturs and clever wisecracks that offer much simpler lowbrow pleasures. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z

The squishy strips of Korean-style pork clash with the garnishes, particularly the squirts of sour cream, a flavor mashup that inspires a conceptual gag reflex. Here come the BonChon imitators 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Then he points again at Acosta and puts an index finger to his mouth and makes gagging noises. ‘I wouldn’t go to your work and flip you off’: CNN’s Jim Acosta engages Trump Nation 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Also a little bit of a gag reflex. Can Peaches Still Fit in Those Pink Hot Pants? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Cryer says to himself in a brief break from tired, sexist gags about his wife. Radio review: Afternoon Play ? Two Pipe Problem 2010-06-23T07:00:00Z

Leading the tributes online, director Edgar Wright said: The flight path gag wiping out the lines of Reggie Perrin’s brother in law is one of my favourite in comedy. As Time Goes By actor Geoffrey Palmer dies aged 93 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

This film is the root of the brand – catchy songs, running gags and lots of pre-CGI trickery: Kermit riding a bicycle is particularly impressive. Muppet movie marathon: Treasure Island takes the pot of gold 2012-08-24T14:49:02Z

Celebrating not only Welsh writing talent, but wordsmiths worldwide, and from the worlds of comedy and song too, the lineup here is as sharp as a gag one-liner. This week's new events 2012-06-22T23:06:44Z

The list goes on … The buzz: "Smart gags … winning delivery … very intriguing prospect," says leading comedy website Chortle. New Edinburgh Act of the Day: Sheeps 2011-08-16T13:26:54Z

Following a gag involving bootstrap paradoxes and causal loops, Ted admits that he is tired and thinking of selling his Les Paul. The latest "Bill & Ted" adventure is more bogus than excellent, despite some chuckles 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

At this point, I suspect that half of you are salivating subconsciously while the other half are quite consciously suppressing a gag reflex. The Secret Ingredient That Improves Meat Every Time 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Do all or even most of these gags connect with a viewer under 25 who isn't a 20th century pop culture junkie? Will future generations understand "The Simpsons"? 2011-03-08T16:05:00Z

Riding into the movie on a horse after another of his victories, a severed enemy head stashed in a sack, Fabious enters and remains triumphant through battles, flat gags and throwaway buffoonery. | 'Your Highness': They Huffed and Puffed and Waited to Exhale 2011-04-07T22:55:33Z

The key is that, rather than use the casting for grotesquerie or sight gags, Erskine and Konkle just play it straight, drawing on memory and personal experience. Review: ‘PEN15’ Goes Crudely, Sweetly Back to School 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

It wouldn't: there are some fine gags here, like his description of Question Time as representing "the full range of millionaire opinion". Robert Newman – review 2013-05-23T17:21:02Z

Then again, many of the gags Wilder and Pryor pulled in their movies wouldn't fly today. "Vacation Friends" is a happy buddy comedy in a world where race doesn't matter. That's a problem 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Not that “Leave It to Beaver” was above using sight gags. Television: ?Leave It to Beaver? and Sitcom Craftsmanship 2010-06-25T21:35:00Z

“Word Crimes,” meanwhile, is likely to be shared a lot on Facebook by the kinds of people who worry about the Oxford comma or gag at the sight of dangling participles. Weird Al Yankovic Endures 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

But as the production went on, Spielberg kept adding big sight gags at "the expense of the character stuff," said Gale. A second look at Steven Spielberg's '1941' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Perhaps you are anxious to know more; maybe you are already gagging and not on a hairball. ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Review: The Cat’s Meow 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

That was gag material for Kimmel, who said her trophy would be in the "lost and found." Surprises, sure things and Trump joke at Emmys 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

A running gag, for example, has Snow White comically misspelling the simplest words, even though she is part of Scroll Club so one assumes that she can at least read. ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Review: Cinderella, Liberated (Again) 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Louis-Dreyfus told reporters backstage that careful planning went into the gag. Emmys 2014: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston kiss and tell 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Crowned, blinded and gagged by highly polished discs, and born of traditions both European and African, these graceful, commanding figures will change the face of the museum, literally and figuratively. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Along the way, there was the usual array of leaden gags, shameless commercialism and genuinely poignant moments that transcended all the award-show contrivance. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Emmys 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

He continued: "The gears grind sluggishly, with the same series of gags and red herrings unfolding until the ridiculous conclusion." 'Annabelle': Horror prequel scares up lackluster reviews 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

In a running gag, Roy drugs June whenever the situation gets too hairy. Knight and Day: Tom Cruise's Charm Offensive 2010-06-24T08:15:00Z

Without it, gags in which a dancer or musician supposedly got carried away and went on too long were just gags. Dance Review: Roclan Gonz?lez Chavez in ?Kings of Salsa? - Review 2011-10-18T20:50:41Z

How many rhetorical poses and stylistic gags can one endure through this misanthropic critique of American culture? Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

The gag with the horse is repeated, and escalated, in trademark Keaton style later in the film, when he inadvertently defaces that pristine Roller with oil, a lump hammer and a blowtorch. Film historian discovers unseen footage of Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith 2013-07-17T13:54:32Z

In his meetings, he’s looking not just for a single brilliant gag but offerings that pile up over months despite serial rejections. Nobody knows cartoons like the New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff. Were mine good enough for him? 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Kerr goes on to dissect the opening gag in “The Kid,” in which the Little Tramp, finding an abandoned baby in an alley, immediately looks upward to see where it came from. Theater Review: ‘Chaplin: The Musical’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theater 2012-09-11T02:00:17Z

This set up a running gag — “You’re sending money to Hamas?” — that led to the big payoff: Eli told her she was being set up for embarrassment by her frenemies Louis and David. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Bad-Boy Issues 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Animal rights activists are often prevented from releasing footage of abuse on factory farms by "ag gag" laws that make this kind of activity illegal, for example. How Hormel exploited confusion over the natural label 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

These gags seem imported from another show like 30 Rock, with a more frenetic pace and more visual style of comedy than this. The Real O’Neals: gay Catholic sitcom has more than a prayer 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

That steady release shows a dramatist working with great control – but The Big Fellah is also crammed with gags. Max Stafford-Clark: by hook or by crook 2010-09-05T20:30:00Z

Unfortunately, he capped off the gag with a Flint joke that didn’t sit right with the audience. What the f*ck, Trevor Noah?: “Don’t worry, Flint. We’re not wasting the water” his biggest embarrassment yet 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

For bored or outraged critics, jukebox musicals are Broadway’s most cynical money-grabbers, mainly good for offering reviewers the chance to see who can gag the loudest. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The episode is spent tranquilizing and hypnotizing him, building to a classic Gilligan sight gag. Television: ?New Girls,? ?2 Broke Girls,? ?Last Man Standing?: New Season for Old Jokes 2011-11-23T14:30:42Z

What gets your vote for the best sight gag in cinema? What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film? 2010-09-20T15:35:00Z

In another context, it might read like a sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan or any number of young artists given to sight gags. Review: At Salon Art + Design, What to Check Out 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the R.I.P.D. trailer, we are offered, as a sight gag, a scene of this woman being violently thrown into the windshield of an oncoming bus. Summer of Spanx: What Hollywood Thinks You Still Think Is Funny Is A Little Sad 2013-07-11T09:45:36Z

I’m not exactly the Odd Future demographic, but even to my eyes, it sure looks like a big gag about their own big bad image. The most racist commercial of all time? 2013-05-01T16:10:00Z

"Four Samosas" features plenty of witty sight gags, wordplay, and a few Bollywood numbers, all of which are diverting. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Devoted To Choir, In Life And Death To gag or to weep, that is the question. Movie Review : In ‘Unfinished Song,’ Vanessa Redgrave Lives for Music 2013-06-20T21:51:31Z

But invention comes easier to him than completion, and one of the novel’s running gags is Joshua’s accreting list of script ideas, e.g. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

In its report on the SCANDAL, the Daily Mail performed the now-classic have-cake-eat-cake manoeuvre, by printing each of Boyle's offending gags, alongside a handy chart featuring his most notorious quips from yesteryear. Where are all the right-wing comedians when you need them? 2013-03-12T15:03:25Z

It also doesn't help that the characters don't seem to be going anywhere so we just get the same gags over and over again. TV review: Mad Dogs, 30 Rock and The Culture Show 2011-02-11T07:59:00Z

The story mostly amounted to occasional gags and C-plots and never truly got the spotlight it deserved – especially given that the killer was probably under our noses in the Dunder Mifflin annex the entire time. Game of Thrones to Gossip Girl: fan theories better than series' real plots 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

There wasn’t really singing in a Nichols and May show; there were no visual gags to speak of. Learning How to Talk Like Nichols and May 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

The gag was widely quoted at last year's festival, and was shortlisted for the Joke of the Fringe by TV station Dave. Is the Edinburgh comedy bubble about to burst? And X Factor, the musical 2012-08-14T14:40:09Z

“On bigger gags where she’s going to get hurt, we have to kind of reel her back a little because she just goes for it.” Meet the Secret Weapon of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

A young South Side father faces felony charges for posting a photo of his 22-month-old daughter bound and gagged on the popular social networking site, Facebook. Dad charged after Facebook photo of bound child 2011-12-21T06:25:00Z

With every viewing I seem to find a new sight gag, a pun or a clever line reading that I hadn’t picked up on before. ‘Yellow Submarine’ & Me 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

But with gags that touch on sexism, racism and even child abuse in the film, the writer believes the problem is not with his jokes, it's everyone else's sense of humour. Seth MacFarlane: From Family Guy to leading man 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

We also got another of her "jokes", this one about keeping the pregnant women locked up was similar to her "gag" about the torture chambers in episode two. Outcasts: series one, episode six 2011-02-27T23:25:00Z

It will require more editing on the back end, they said, but they don't want to lose that gag. How late night adjusted – and became weirder and more creative – after a pandemic year 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

On stage, the narrative is too often submerged by the sight gags. Imeneo – review 2013-03-12T18:56:27Z

Mr. O’Connor, The Times’s critic, clocked the show’s gags at about one every 15 seconds. Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest 2013-07-19T18:43:48Z

Its gag set pieces run the gamut from uninspired to incoherent; Rob Schneider, voicing the title role, is energetic but bland. Review: In ‘Norm of the North,’ a Polar Bear Takes a Stand 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

In the movie, he drops a few terrorist-themed jokes so lightly that you’re caught off guard as much by his casual delivery as by the actual gags. Review: In ‘The Big Sick,’ Comedy Is Hard, Love Harder 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it's those three little brothers, who quickly become an adorably redheaded sight gag. 'Brave': Pixar's latest is lovable and endearing 2012-06-20T22:25:06Z

He wanted to write gags, direct and perform them himself. Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha: 'I wanted it to feel like a first film' 2013-07-18T18:00:00Z

It certainly has the dirtiest gag reel we've seen in a while: Batman and Cyborg were originally in the "Peacemaker" finale, but got cut 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The high gag rate, animated performance and general broad-spectrum offensiveness help him get away with murder, and worse. This week's new films 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

But who needs more fashion and is gagging for yet another show? | The New Speed of Fashion 2013-08-23T13:00:55Z

If I suggested we call it Absolutely Dreadfulous I would still, if lazily, have come up with a better gag than was allowed to enter the programme. Rewind TV: Bert and Dickie; Amy Winehouse – The Day She Came to Dingle; Absolutely Fabulous; Line of Duty; Twenty Twelve 2012-07-28T23:06:01Z

The occasional gags of showing politicians contradicting themselves by juxtaposing video clips together became the show’s bread and butter. This guy changed the world: We won’t see the likes of Jon Stewart again 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

What they're not, particularly, are Jewish jokes – ie gags specifically rooted in the culture. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z

Comedy sequels, especially those based on high-concept gags, often lose steam compared with the original. Should comedy hits start refraining from sequels? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Every week, on cable and the networks, YouTube and Twitter, boundaries are breached, categories scrambled and stereotypes shattered as hot-button topics are transformed into grist for fresh riffs, gags and flights of goofiness. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

A is for Alcohol, drunk off the wagon; B’s for the Bowl of the toilet you gag in. Style Invitational Week 1233: Alphabet noir 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

In some sense, the gag as just that, a gag. With The End Of Its Sixth Season, 'Community' Teases Viewers About That Movie 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the same edition, on the reverse side of the page, the paper printed a gag story that imagined a future Hillary — “a prosecuting attorney” with “a famous career” — being interviewed by Time magazine. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Assaulted by Grandpa, he regains consciousness to find himself shackled and gagged. Movie Review: ‘Love Sick Love,’ Directed by Christian Charles 2013-04-18T22:57:11Z

It's unquestionably sweet, but the gags seemed to desert it this series. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z

Originally set in a time when Hollywood fashion was moving from fictional narratives to reality television, the show made the blurring of the categories into a running gag. Watch the Evolution of Cringe Comedy in 9 Clips 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

There are some great musical gags in the show, most of them best left as a surprise. Parlez vous Dire Straits? Seattle's 'The French Project' does, in a silly, sublime new show 2010-09-17T16:58:00Z

“Fifty Shades Darker” is about a man seeking substitute mothers to gag and penetrate, and yet it’s the movie’s shiny veneer that feels deviant. The Sad, Shiny Surfaces of the “Fifty Shades” Movies 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

The couch gag changes with each episode, sometimes parodying a moment from pop culture or placing obstacles in the way of the family as they try to reach the couch. Director Del Toro brings iconic monsters, ghouls to 'The Simpsons' 2013-10-03T21:49:24Z

The Cheese Shop sketch should be a short gag about a cheese shop having no cheese but instead sees Cleese waffling on for hours. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

A dearth of substance eventually depleted my willingness to invest in the broader mystery beyond wondering what adorable sight gags would be inspired by the next clue or divine/hellish development. After four years, "Good Omens" returns for a jolly if rather hollow romp that falls short of sublime 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

His gag was almost always the same: The anchors teed him up. It’s been six months. Our sense of time is still broken. 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

What kind of First Amendment would permit the government to protect children by restricting sales of that extremely violent video game only when the woman — bound, gagged, tortured, and killed — is also topless? Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z

The annual celebrity-politico meet-up at the Washington Hilton drew the powerful, the famous and the just plain well-connected to a corner of town Saturday night for an evening of gags and glamour. At correspondents’ dinner, Obama jabs at media, candidates and himself 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Amid vomit gags and scrotum jokes, director Nicholas Stoller delivers feminist heroines whose fight to smoke pot in peace is about more than just that. How 'Neighbors 2' Became a Gross-Out Comedy With a Feminist Conscience 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Excuse me while I gag on my Cornetto,” tweeted Olly Alexander, the lead singer of the British electronic pop trio Years & Years. Richard Hammond under fire for 'ice cream is gay' line on the Grand Tour 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

The train sequence in The Wrong Trousers, – an ingeniously constructed escalation of sight gags, with Grommit desperately laying train track before the runaway train. What's the best sight gag in a comedy? 2010-10-18T11:00:00Z

Another moment that cuts a little close to the bone is a gag between Brucie and his musical director of 30 years, Don Hunt. Bruce Forsyth at Glastonbury 2013 – review 2013-06-30T16:30:40Z

Heroin was his undoing and even the gags – "I'm a drag addict, not a drug addict" – couldn't mask the fall. Acceptable in 80s 2010-05-14T15:14:00Z

During a 10-minute spell in The Train Journey, Hancock manages to recite Shakespeare, lampoon the British class system, partake in a bit of slapstick, and even make a gag about Britain’s involvement in Nato. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

A careless tweet by a senior MP, a BBC suit, Sally "I will not be gagged" Bercow, and the error of taste or judgment can be halfway round the world in minutes. When politicians go pop – the perils of trying to appear 'in touch' 2012-12-18T14:30:01Z

FX’s comedy “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,” with Denis Leary, returns Thursday still suffering from dated gags about rock dinosaurs measuring their microphones. Review: ‘Roadies,’ Building Each Night’s Stairway to Heaven 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The bits about Long Island — Exit 60 of the expressway becomes a running gag in the show — echo parts of “Joy Shtick,” a book she wrote in 1999. ‘Me, My Mouth & I,’ Joy Behar’s One-Woman Show 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Many of the gags fall flat, and there are long spells where you forget you're watching a comedy at all. The Hangover Part III – review 2013-05-23T20:30:04Z

No matter how you disapprove of such a mean-spirited gag — food addiction is not funny! — you may not be able to resist laughing. 'Bullets Over Broadway' makes up for its lack of new music with strong choreography and acting 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The visual gags are wacky, existential and of a type not often seen on network comedies. Phil Lord and Chris Miller on Maintaining Mystery in 'The Last Man on Earth' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Prosecutors asked the judge to dismiss the defense complaint and cancel Winter's appearance, alleging defense lawyers themselves violated the gag order. Hearing still on for reporter in Colo. shootings 2013-03-29T16:37:08Z

“It allows people to mentally categorize cannabis as something that can be beautiful and tasteful,” she added — “different from a novelty gag gift.” What’s the Point of a Fake Pot Plant? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The law has many supporters and a few detractors, but if you’re planning a trip, you can take a few steps to avoid a gag clause, which is most common in vacation-rental contracts. Write a negative online review and get sued? It can happen, but maybe not for long. 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Yet can you recall a single famous gag from any of these movies? Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z

The upshot is that the director's brutally economical style whisks the plot ahead before the gags outstay their welcome. The Genius of Alfred Hitchcock at the BFI: 10 of his lesser-known gems 2012-07-04T09:38:11Z

Since the Iranians were not likely to fall for the same Hollywood gag twice in 33 years, Istanbul had to stunt-double for Tehran. Ben Affleck's Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives? 2012-10-11T12:00:13Z

Ferrell couldn't look less Mexican if he tried, a decent if well-worn gag, and the dialogue is all in Spanish, subtitled but hardly needed. Casa de Mi Padre – review 2012-06-07T21:30:01Z

When I say all the cheap gags have been cut out, that’s not quite true. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z

When I smelled something for the first time again, it was so unpleasant, it made me gag: the stomach-churning reek of spoiled milk. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

These gags aren't cynical, but their blithe spirit is part of the problem. Aziz Ansari – review 2013-06-17T14:00:46Z

What unfolds is the ultimate Edwards gag — and it isn’t funny at all. Video: Classic Cowboys, Back on the Range 2011-03-26T00:16:44Z

We're shooting gags that are on par with everything we did on "Fantastic Four." Michael Chiklis' superhero series targets families 2010-09-22T12:28:00Z

He transformed the situation comedy from a vehicle for cheap, screwball gags into a medium for profound reflection. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

He was born in Brooklyn and had middling success as an actor and comic before turning to gag writing. Paul Mazursky, director of ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ and ‘Harry and Tonto’ dies at 84

He also credited him with myriad impactful touches on the show, including a celebrated sight gag in the first episode. David Davis, a Force Behind Memorable 1970s Sitcoms, Dies at 86 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Its country setting also allows me to rehearse a favourite old gag: In Dorset? Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

Once in a while the show earns a laugh with an original thought, but far more often it traffics in lazy, predictable, exhausted gags. | 'Viagara Falls': Bernie Kopell and Lou Cutell at Little Shubert Theater 2010-07-26T20:10:00Z

Though the gag will appear on the DVD, Mr. McKay snipped it from the theatrical release. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z

"We were meticulous," said Paz, who fancies the stunt as more of a performance art piece than an April Fool's gag. Artist plants fake Bieber CDs in LA stores 2014-04-02T14:08:41Z

Every day brings a new heartache, a new tremor, more helplessness, and yet another reduction of freedom and free thought in a censored society already bound and gagged, the usual rites of degradation. Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award 2013-05-01T04:54:14Z

Later, when Baldwin débuted his version, in October, some viewers pointed out that his repeated pronunciation of China, as “Gyna,” was similar to a running gag that Atamanuik had used in his impression. A Trump Impersonator Worthy of Being Called “A Disgrace to the World” 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

In truth that was one of her better lines, as many of her scripted gags were met with groans or, worse, polite chuckles. Baftas 2019: The Favourite reigns – almost – supreme as Roma takes best picture 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The venture also has offered binding and gagging, claustrophobia, stress and physical tests, water, electric, coffin burials, sound and sight deprivation, for around $170 per pop. Business Is Boo-ing! The World of Extreme Haunts 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Besides, in one of the film's many witty sight gags, Blanc is depressed and won't leave his bathtub, because he is so bored. Cozy up to "Glass Onion," the droll "Knives Out" sequel that delivers all the murder mystery goods 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

And a penetrating segment on charity, which digs into the cultural fallout when our most celebrated benefactors are also purveyors of snide gags on panel shows; whether that's hilarious or tragic is up to you. Stewart Lee ? review 2010-10-22T21:17:00Z

She has also newly restored a gag or two from the movie: Recall, if you will, that frisky terrier in the arms of Regina’s mother, Mrs. George. Review | ‘Mean Girls’ on Broadway: Omg, you’ll lol. 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

A certain natural order held firm: reviewed books, favorite books, children’s books, religious books, books saved for gifts, books saved for gag gifts. Perspective | Keep your tidy, spark-joy hands off my book piles, Marie Kondo 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The gags that surprised us, initially, now seem to slot into place, and most of the major laughs, when I saw the movie, were sprung by Jack-Jack. “Incredibles 2,” Reviewed: A Sequel in the Shadow of a Masterwork 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

The problem with the advert is not so much sexism; it's the hackneyed gags. The new Samsung TV advert 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z

Ushiro said that as a gag a member of the TV crew checked off a box on a visa waiver application stating that he had been involved in terrorist activities. As Trump talks building a wall, a Japanese art collective's Tijuana treehouse peeks across the border 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Producers send glossy souvenir books, and often compendiums of positive reviews, to remind voters of what they’ve seen, and some send gag gifts as well. 2017 Tony Nominations: What to Watch For 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

When I tried to eat salmon, I gagged. Hadley Freeman on the horror of eating fish: ‘Weird – get this out of my mouth now’ 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The result is a visual gag that has her in a cast — set in a permanent high-five position — and a neck brace. | 'Awkward': Teenager?s High-Five Is Plastered in Place 2011-07-18T22:00:24Z

Many of the gags will scandalise even the most open-minded audience but for those who can cope with the onslaught it's a cathartic and hilarious experience. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-15T00:04:02Z

The Treehouse books are a perfect balance of minimal text, maximum black-and-white drawings packed with jokes, and unbelievable amounts of nonstop action, gags and exuberant, anarchic storytelling. Getting 21st-Century Kids to Read More Books 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Rusty’s hapless salesmanship is a gag of a different kind. Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball Video Game Tests Haggling Skills 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Israeli court is expected to rule on Hoffe's petition calling for a gag order on the contents of the box. Lawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts 2010-07-19T10:53:00Z

Taken individually, many of them could be the script for a gag cartoon or a bit in a standup routine, but in aggregate, they build up to a worldview: quirky, jaded, and yet strangely tender. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z

Trying to Do the Right Thing: I can’t think of anything that would alienate you from your new mother-in-law faster than putting a gag order on her son. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fiance’s mom has a dim view of her. How to get her to see the light? 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Dumas, a veteran cartoonist who draws the strip Sam and Silo and drew for The New Yorker, said the "gag conference" has always been enjoyable. Beetle Bailey nears retirement age but stays put 2010-08-29T21:46:00Z

Still, in an effort to fight back, some doctors have taken to making their patients sign gag orders that prevent them from writing reviews online. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z

Mention might also be made of Justin J. Bell’s amiably imposing Friar Francis: In yet another testament to this production’s ample wit, this cleric delivers a surprising sight gag in the story’s final moments. A good bet: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at Synetic Theater 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Mixing dark, gothic oddness and daft, surreal gags, the duo staged a series of assured Edinburgh shows and appeared to be on the up. This week's new comedy 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

Mr. Cullum, a TWA pilot for more than 30 years, was a classic gag cartoonist whose visual absurdities were underlined, in most cases, by a caption reeled in from deep left field. Leo Cullum, Longtime New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 68 2010-10-26T01:10:00Z

There are some decent sight gags and some pleasing inside jokes for game lovers, like a red phone to the Kremlin that plays part of the Tetris soundtrack for its hold music. Video Game Review: Jazzpunk Video Game Commits to Comedy 2014-02-10T22:47:55Z

Government officials told CNN’s top attorney, David Vigilante, about the seizure last July, but a federal judge placed him under a gag order, preventing him from saying anything to Starr. The Barbara Starr question: Why did Trump’s Justice Department want CNN Pentagon reporter’s emails? 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Trump’s association with the Joker is something of a running gag. ‘Joker 2’ steals the show as Trump court drama plays out just steps away 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

That was Chevy Chase’s running gag in the mock news segment of a show that was called “NBC Saturday Night,” before it turned into “Saturday Night Live.” The Carpetbagger: NBC News and ABC's Awards Show 2012-02-22T01:19:56Z

But these gags are neither funny nor fresh. Review: ‘Blue Iguana’ Takes Two Goofballs, Adds a Caper and Comes Up Empty 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The gag that kept on running throughout the night, oddly enough, and seldom paused for breath, was the hallowed enmity between Kimmel and Matt Damon. A Shambolic, Kind of Fabulous Oscars Ceremony 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

The problem is self-indulgence and a distinct shortage of real gags. Paul ? review 2011-02-10T22:46:01Z

Some of the gags are pretty funny and well executed, especially one in which a hair-salon treatment turns catastrophic. ‘Freak Out’ ‘Deal With It’ Use Hidden Cameras 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

It's got just enough readily accessible gags and emotions for the younger set and a high enough "aww" factor for the most movie-averse grandparents. "Toy Story 3": Loads of calculated summer delight! 2010-06-18T00:20:00Z

So no more of those stereotypical gags about scousers like the one about – no, let's not go there. TV review: Show Me The Funny and British Masters 2011-07-18T21:00:01Z

The best gags are traditional ones involving Yogi's ingenious schemes to steal picnic -- a word in which he magnificently contrives to find three syllables -- baskets. "Yogi Bear" may send viewers into hibernation 2010-12-13T08:40:00Z

I laughed out loud at this, though I do see – how to put this? – that one must be of a certain age and sensibility to get this gag. Drama on 3: The Unfortunates; An Audience With Ed Reardon; William Quilliam 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

But she’s human enough to take the occasional jab at men who make the rules of society, “smothering female talent, gagging and belittling their wives and daughters.” Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Every gag prop and costume used on nine years of his Comedy Central program was for sale at dirt-cheap prices. Stephen Colbert sells off his props, including Michael Stipe 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Yet the drawing’s waves of sketchy minions are laughable, executed like a throwaway gag. Facing Violence With Brushes and Ballots 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Props to Matt Thompson for showing the world that some gags aren't worth the marathon treatment when a 100-yard dash will do. Bro, say can you see? "America: The Motion Picture" shows we're not just dumb, we're drawn that way 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Paprika” has affinities to the montage gags in Buster Keaton’s “Sherlock, Jr.,” when a projectionist dreams his way into the world onscreen, but what Kon’s film truly celebrates is the triumph of animation. Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The sign of a great comedy is that you have to keep rewinding to catch the gag you missed while you were still reacting to the first one. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

It's hard not to feel sorry for the folkies: first, years of gags about beards, sandals and real ale in tankards; now, the noisome attentions of the far right. Alexis Petridis on folk and the BNP 2010-03-31T20:45:00Z

Evans, along with his character's "Dyn-o-mite" catchphrase, stole the show a bit and captured the public imagination, "Good Times" was more than a series of gags. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

The broadsheet sight gag seems prompted not by anti-journalistic animus, but by the fact that newsprint fits the pointed color scheme of “Volta,” which is written and directed by Bastien Alexandre. Review | In ‘Volta,’ Cirque du Soleil riffs on street sports 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

This doesn't render the more puerile gags funny, but it keeps us from growing testy. Imagination at play in a simple but joyful 'Into the Woods' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

A tape of Kerry reading the news becomes the main gag of the episode. In "Succession," Kerry reveals weakness by having a dream 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Opening “Ramy” with an uncomfortable if hilarious gag taking place in a setting few non-Muslim viewers would associate with comedy enables these scenes to double as a clever mission statement for the show itself. Smart Watch: "Ramy" blesses us with a thoughtful, funny comedy about goodness 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

In the novel’s final scene a hard-won, qualified optimism is achieved through one of the book’s running gags. How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Filled with gags and characters recycled from the first “Hangover,” the sequel is grindingly repetitive and features scene after similar scene of characters staring at one another stupidly, flailing about wildly and asking what happened. Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z

Attorney bound and gagged on a bed, cigarette put out on his chest and then doused with urine. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

But as the sketch ended — with Beverly consoling a sobbing Hank, who declared, “He was irreplaceable” — reality eclipsed the gag. Garry Shandling Memorial Mixes Laughs, Tears and a Few Characters 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

“And it should! It is a good gag reflex we have as a society, that we hear the word selfie and dislike it. Maybe we should loathe the concept a little bit.” ABC Cancels TV Comedy Selfie 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

He’s not a comedian in the sense that he has punch lines and gags. The Carpetbagger: For an Israeli Director, the Oscar Ceremony Gets Interesting After It's Over 2012-01-23T15:14:26Z

A young woman awakens in the woods, gagged, confused and afraid. When Humans Are the Prey: A Plot Made for Every Era 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The gag finally appeared in the final season’s 13th episode, which premiered on Friday. ‘BoJack Horseman’: Here Are the Best Animal Gags 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

After being appointed last month by a judicial panel overseen by the Texas Supreme Court to handle all pretrial matters in the lawsuits, state District Judge Kristen Hawkins issued a gag order in the case. Gag order, diversity discussed at Astroworld court hearing 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

There's even a full bedpan gag and a mouth full of sprayed Ebola. Adam Sandler and Bob Barker restage their 'Happy Gilmore' fight 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Its farcical physical humor could make children giggle, while absurdist gags — a day-care center called “The Ayn Rand School for Tots” — could bring a smile to the dourest PhD candidate. Sam Simon, co-creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

And when a few choruses of “That’s What Friends Are For” suddenly cropped up, I had to restrain my gag reflex. Theater Review: ‘What’s It All About?’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-12-06T03:00:11Z

He orchestrated his first flash mob in the summer, pulling 25 participants in on a rehearsed dancing gag amid a meeting of 150 executives. In Transit Blog: Beyond Room Service: Flash Mobs Available Upon Request 2011-10-06T16:58:04Z

Rock’s accountant gag was all the more surprising because Oscars producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin promised prior to the ceremony that it would represent “true diversity” and “what the world looks like”. Oscars organisers to meet Ang Lee and George Takei over racial stereotyping 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Étaix is both director and star, like his first moviemaking mentor, Jacques Tati, known for comedies filled with sight gags. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z

Cleverly animated by Nitrogen Studios, the movie abounds with quick visual and verbal gags. ‘Sausage Party’ Is an Animated Sex Comedy About Food ... and God 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

The gag in Killers is that the hit man assigned to Spencer could be any one, or every one, of his new best friends. Killers: My Husband Is an Assassin (in a Very Bad Movie) 2010-06-05T02:35:00Z

To be sure, steroid-using athletes seem tailor-made for Mr. Browne’s kind of runway gags. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Hunt for Modern Masculinity 2012-01-24T15:29:54Z

The 1990s were dominated by the braying of Jim Carrey, the “Austin Powers” franchise and the eww-gross extremism of “There’s Something About Mary” — all films stuffed to the point of asphyxiation with blatant gags. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z

Of course, the gag turns out to be on them; audiences had just started to warm up to the idea of weaponized bad taste and they’d stumbled into a hit. From Charlie Chaplin to Jojo Rabbit: an unlikely history of Nazi comedies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

That was the finishing touch, inspired by a gag gift called "Yard of Eyelash" that McDowell had bought for Kubrick. McDowell's cricket gear inspired `Clockwork' thug 2011-05-19T16:21:11Z

A palindrome emerges and repeats itself continually, like the tides, transforming boats and buckets into running gags forever. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

Complete with a ludicrous premise, Boston-centric sports gags, random washed-up celebrity cameos, spoofs of several different kinds of more serious movies, an irrelevant third-act action sequence and a sentimental resolution? Pick of the week: Mark Wahlberg and his foulmouthed teddy bear 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z

Each shot is a kind of sight gag, a visual and philosophical joke with absurdity in the setup and sorrow in the punchline. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

I'm under a strict gag order until then. Why America Wants a Third 'Sex and the City' Movie 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

In Aladdin, the gags come thick and fast — and that's even before Anderson wiggles and writhes across the stage in black stockings and pink platform shoes, "singing" Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle." 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

When the gag is repeated at the end of the film? Cemetery Junction's gay-baiting is not funny 2010-04-21T14:49:00Z

Early on, she threatens suicide and is bound, gagged and brought to the hospital. Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist 2013-03-08T13:00:06Z

Fans of the IFC sketch comedy show will recognize familiar territory in gags about locavores, foraged foods and dumpster diving. 15 New Cookbooks for Fall 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Police said the 21-year-old Appleby's waiter used painter's tape to bind and gag his daughter, though it wasn't immediately clear exactly when the picture was taken.  Dad charged after Facebook photo of bound child 2011-12-21T06:25:00Z

Even the dumping of a bucket of pink paint during the opening robbery — a sight gag in any other treatment — registers as bleak. Review: In ‘The Last Panthers,’ Old-School Crime Is Breaking Out Across Europe 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

What are kids supposed to make of the references to “The Great British Bake Off” in a running gag? ‘DC League of Super-Pets’ Review: #ReleaseTheLassieCut 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The twist here was that the gags were all executed by old folks. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Betty White's Off Their Rockers' 2012-01-17T04:36:38Z

I last for 45 minutes, then bolt, just as they are getting stuck into gags about Jewish hair. Edinburgh festival from dusk till dawn 2010-08-11T20:31:00Z

A typical gag concerns the squad of priests who act as the king’s bodyguards and spies and who, when danger seems nigh, produce a variety of mechanical weapons concealed in their hymnals. Portraits of Aristocracy in ‘Queen Margot’ and ‘Blanche’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Sometimes he waffles, and when he does get to the gags, they can be weak – such as an ill-thought-through quip about being the last item on the television news. Doc Brown – review 2013-04-18T16:36:59Z

Charlotte, as selfish and mean as her mother, is given to ridicule, but she has reason to be nasty because she's treated like a sight gag by the production for her corpulent size. Enchanting 'Cinderella' brings happily-ever-after to Ahmanson 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

In this film there are gags all over the place.” Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Fortunately, his compelling fusion of gags and beats looks set to win him a much bigger audience. This week's new live comedy 2012-06-01T23:06:09Z

To Ricky, the gag, the joke, the magical effect and the plot of the play were all, correctly, understood as mechanical representations of the same idea: Get their attention, reward it with surprise. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

The absurd bloodbath involved in getting it is, but is endurable for the ensuing gag about the $140 million painting continually being mistaken for a dirty old tarp. Mark Wahlberg and Mark Wahlberg's Muscles Are On a Boat in Contraband 2012-01-12T16:35:43Z

The Tuesday bag would lighten it up with a cute gag featuring a little lunch bag character. How one student’s midday meal became a lunchroom cartoon phenom 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The two never appeared in the same film but they did spend time together and discussed gag ideas. Fame at last – was this the world's first film star? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Seeing this gruff, grizzled legend wield two colorful pipes was its own sight gag. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

An old prostate-exam gag in the premiere tells you the level of sophistication the show is striving for. ‘Mulaney,’ a Comedy That Riffs on ‘Seinfeld’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

It's all a gag, but it's also entirely serious. With Showtime's sunshiny and sharp "Ziwe," we have an iconic talk show host in the making 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z

Before that, it sounded as though Bruce were on the verge of an on-air meltdown; once you got the joke it was laugh-out-loud hilarious and the best 1 April radio gag for years. Ken Bruce show 2011-04-04T07:00:03Z

This includes a running gag based on a black and gay London police commissioner Sully Kassam, played with deadpan dumbness by Aaron Neill, whose officers seem to have a penchant for killing unarmed black men. 'Great Britain' taps phone-hacking laughs, but not for all 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

And there were 50 gray wigs with pink rollers that he liked to send as gag gifts. Design royalty is all atwitter about the Prince of Chintz auction 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

A few of the gags, appropriately enough, revolve around clothes. Looking for the lighter side to a nasty election? Playwright Jon Robin Baitz delivers it in 'Vicuña' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Broad City rarely surprises with its quick ability to hit gag after gag, and to deftly knot all the strands of chaos together to create a perfectly bananas ending. Bye bye Broad City: thank you kweens – you're the best in the wizness 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The racial stereotype gags about Asians being super-overachievers are frankly tiresome and misjudged, though probably no more tiresome and misjudged than anything else in the movie. 21 & Over – review 2013-05-02T21:30:01Z

Baron Cohen’s costume in this scene is ludicrous, and it is difficult to imagine anyone thinking this is anything other than a gag. Rudy Giuliani, Maria Bakalova and an antisemitic cake: discuss Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with spoilers 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

This all contributes to amusing enough stories, but there are insurmountable problems: a habit of digressing at ridiculous length; gags that don't work too well in bald print; and quite unbearable smugness. Why celebrity memoirs rule publishing 2010-12-13T07:59:00Z

And I was gagging to stop shaving and I did at that point. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

One favourite Mair gag says everything about how good, and how unusual, he is. Eddie Mair: a rising BBC star 2013-03-25T19:07:00Z

Where they may differ is which gags they find especially funny and, more to the point, why. Fifteen years later "Tropic Thunder" is a flawed comedy that we're still trying to agree on 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z

Someone needs to reach out to him and let him know it’s OK, there’s a spectrum of naughty: drug addiction and violence is bad bad bad, pregnancy Instagram gags are OK. This year's prize April fool? You'll never Belieber it! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

By providing a historical and literary perspective on the single woman, she reclaims the word “spinster” and brings dignity and gravitas to a subject that is often reduced to gags about drunk-dialing and shoe-shopping. I choose to be single 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Sweeney Todd” is invoked in a running gag in which a beggar woman cacophonously pleads not for alms but for “Hamilton” tickets. 'Spamilton': Musical spoof lands its punches softly, and with a smile 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

The drink itself is a gag that people can say they've tried at least once. From Jones Soda to stuffing-seasoned popcorn, why are there so many Thanksgiving-themed snack foods? 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

It is less edgy than Baron Cohen's previous two films, featuring big, conventionally contrived gags and a colossal central turn from the man himself. The Dictator ? review 2012-05-17T20:00:01Z

While the gags often work, the issue is glossed over and made redundant. Sundance film festival 2013: ACOD – first look review 2013-01-25T18:13:00Z

It’s a feat turned running gag throughout the films as he flaunts it at virtually every opportunity. Steve Coogan Reaches the End of ‘The Trip’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

When viewed in a vacuum, though — if that's possible, and I realize it might not be — it's easily one of TV's best running gags. Why has Timothy Olyphant become TV's go-to lawman? 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z

Everything leaks laughs; the body language, the gags, even the dog. Tonight's TV highlights: Unreported World 2011-03-25T00:04:01Z

For the most part, though, the gags are drawn out and not particularly original. Theater Review: ‘Gorilla’ at the Lion Theater 2013-05-31T18:04:10Z

There’s an ongoing gag in the TV show “Arrested Development” about the home of the Bluths, the family around which the screwball comedy revolves. Why we love to hate McMansions, but still buy them 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

I'm not suggesting comedy can only spring from conflict, but it's hard to see how you can wrest many gags from such collective mousiness. Who Do You Think You Are?; The Cafe – TV review 2013-07-25T06:00:05Z

There are too many gags I need to immediately rewatch, too many ingenious expressions that demand closer inspection. The Emmys 2016: The Season’s Most Memorable TV Moments 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

I kept a tally of gags that I thought might be offensive to someone, somewhere, even though I couldn’t be sure they were offensive to me. Review: Crudeness Reaches New Heights in 'The Brothers Grimsby' 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

The circumstances of the child's death are eventually established as being bizarre and farcical, and along with a recurring gag involving the epitaph on her little headstone, it's all supposed to be hilarious. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

In The World's End, before they raise their game for the finale, the gag hit-rate and the intimate observational humour are more stuttering than in the two earlier Cornetto films. The World's End is the latest standard-bearer for British bathos 2013-07-17T16:27:53Z

Along the way there’s a meet-cute and a lot of campy gags about the peculiarities of life in modern China, including karaoke parties, social misunderstandings relating to stinky tofu and copious amounts of public expectoration. Theater Review: ‘Rent a White Guy,’ a Musical at the Secret Theater 2012-09-25T22:45:32Z

They were pleasantly gobsmacked by the transcendental naughtiness of the Carry On series, which loosed a species of gag that would have made Doris Day jump on a chair and scream. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z

But when he spoofed Valentino, he telegraphed the gag by enhancing the diameter of his eyes so that he looked more lunatic than lusty. Gene Wilder’s Understated Nuttiness 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Evans keeps the gag rate high, and what Bleak Expectations lacks in subtlety it makes up for in frequent hilarity. Bleak Expectations by Mark Evans – review 2013-01-13T00:05:12Z

On paper, the mix of coarse humour and yuckity gore seems a slapstick treat, but the resultant movie is as heavy on its feet and as well-timed in its gags as its goofy-footed anti-hero. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-03T00:05:21Z

With historical comedy it has to be very heightened, like Horrible Histories, because you’re trying to get two messages across – what it was like at a specific period in time, and the gags. Kayode Ewumi: 'I would love to be in the Atlanta writers' room' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The central gag here is that all eight members of the D’Ysquith clan whom he targets — men and women, twits and bullies — are portrayed, nimbly, by Tony winner Jefferson Mays. On and Off Broadway, doing more with less 2013-12-04T22:00:07Z

Add that to her instinctive grasp of how to deliver a gag and you've got a performer who should find herself increasingly in demand. This week's new comedy 2011-03-19T00:06:49Z

Unfortunately that app is meant as a gag so it doesn’t actually work, so kiss that 99 cents goodbye. Apps for the Lovelorn 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

The “we” was the 11-strong editorial team, all but two of whom quit on the same day, accusing the church elders of attempting to gag them. The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

The way lyrics inspire gags and plot devices might strike knowledgeable Buffett fans as clever. Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

“He’s going to find out who hates his guts and who loved him, and I kept wanting to hear back, ‘O.K., the gag’s up.’ ” The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart 2012-04-13T23:02:42Z