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"bumbling" Definitions
  1. behaving in a confused way, often making careless mistakes

857 Sentences With "bumbling"

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Yes, the people atop the Democratic Party are bumbling bureaucrats; they're also bumbling bureaucrats who, as a mass, don't want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee.
For a bumbling fool, he's really good at manipulating people.
But it seems the company is bumbling through the process.
We should not dismiss the new regime as bumbling amateurs.
Magoo,' a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling.
He was an unlikely spy, a bit bumbling and nervous.
But his old team, the Rangers, are bumbling without him.
I, too, have endured many people's bumbling attempts at support.
The Giants' bumbling offensive fit well into this disorderly game.
As a result I went it mostly alone, bumbling along.
"I was bumbling all over the place," Mr. Huck said.
Into this bleak landscape come two bumbling, ridiculous teenage boys.
She could imitate Spicer's bumbling and short temper like a pro.
They fear, essentially, that Trump's bumbling will let Democrats win elections.
Since playing bumbling boss Michael Scott, Carell has pivoted to films.
Throughout the film, Tom is portrayed as bumbling but well-meaning.
His bumbling, estranged ex-roomate Todd Chavez (Aaron Paul) is... cool?
The bumbling, exasperating Democratic Party claws back one branch of government.
On Baseball HOUSTON — His bumbling team was 40 games under .4503.
For months, Biden only barely survived debates — pummeled here, bumbling there.
My best guess is that it will keep bumbling on like this.
That leaves Egypt's bumbling bureaucrats to play culture commissars, with predictable results.
I apologize as we go, bumbling about new menus and difficult circumstances.
Bumbling bureaucrats helped create that opacity, and so did politically-motivated actors.
What I am saying is that he's playing us for bumbling imbeciles.
Clark Kent won't be a stumbling, bumbling shell of a human being.
One reason for the bumbling is poor co-ordination between government agencies.
And Raven appears to be playing a well-meaning if bumbling mom.
I even performed a nervous toast in bumbling Mandarin at his wedding.
A visit from a bumbling salesman peddling home products changed her life.
Quite the opposite: the danger is instead shitty AI. Incompetent, bumbling machines.
Of course, Trump's bumbling attempts at leadership provide little solace to Dems.
" Parker says Sherman and Palmer depict the president as "bumbling, if genial.
We keep bumbling forward as a species, toward some continuance of ourselves.
He's an art historian, and he's a really smart but bumbling guy.
Archie, bumbling ginger retriever that he is, practically makes the case for Elio.
Magoo," a cartoon character described by the Post as "elderly, myopic and bumbling.
"A new internet" stutters Richard Hendricks, the show's bumbling, but lovable nerd protagonist.
Doing so often involves a bit of bumbling around and some serious repetition.
The defence secretary's combination of bumbling and bombast makes him an easy punchbag.
Because Spicer is such a bumbling joke, the press shrugged and moved on.
We think of them as these bumbling, comical figures, maybe a bit boozy.
Remember when Jon Hamm played a bumbling suitor to Tina Fey's Liz Lemon?
I wasn't completely incompetent, but my bumbling seemed to extend in all directions.
The blabbering, bumbling, often frumpy, perpetually single, and painfully self-conscious Ms. Jones?
McKinnon tells of a bumbling angel named Keith, who wasn't all that great.
Trump and Co. are far more chaotic and sometimes bumbling in their efforts.
"He's like Maxwell Smart," Davíd said—the bumbling spy in the sixties sitcom.
The actions that the F.B.I. linked to Mr. Zhang seem far more bumbling.
Jules in Villains is one half of a bumbling Bonnie-and-Clyde duo.
He of course has a bumbling sidekick (a high-five emoji) in tow.
Johnson ended up appearing six more times, honing his bumbling persona in the process.
" On ABC's "This Week," Graham said that Kavanaugh is "not a stumbling, bumbling drunk.
And that number is the average, including bumbling quarterbacks of the also-ran clubs.
"You lump of fucking turducken," Tom spits at the bumbling Greg during one argument.
Although he is given to bumbling chaos, he does have a talent for delegation.
Everyman hero and chill bro Matthew McConuaughey has an acting habit of word bumbling.
The character's a bumbling barbarian so accident prone he causes chaos wherever he goes.
In "Sleeping Beauty," the bumbling, well-meaning fairies are named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau is everything Officer Jones is not: vain, bumbling, officious and hysterical.
Might Mr. Trump grow in the job, making us forget his rookie-season bumbling?
The character invented for Steve is as bumbling and cute as his wobbly walk.
"You are admittedly charming, in a sort of bumbling way," Chava tells him. Indeed.
It is a callous, bumbling group that demands either personal loyalty or the ax.
The contrast between heroic doctors and bumbling political leaders could not be more stark.
But alas, another day, another mind-numbingly idiotic bumbling act by the White House.
Not just the bureaucratic bumbling, but the fact that these people are deeply hypocritical.Yes.
He had portrayed himself as a bumbling soccer dad, throwing out Australianisms at every turn.
The generous interpretation, until now, was that this was all bumbling and idiocy and coincidence.
His portrayal was of a bumbling fool, not an inspiring leader of the United States.
This week, our bumbling Bachelor met the parents of the four women he's still romancing.
In the Despicable Me movies, the bumbling, delightfully cute and childlike Minions are a highlight.
To the right, the delays reflected the bumbling of a public agency, the Port Authority.
It went through this before, in 2013, when a bumbling Giants team began 0-6.
They don't always understand American slang and norms, and so can come across as bumbling.
Unfortunately, notoriety comes only when the country wants to jeer him as a bumbling fool.
Doug Ford is a more serious and self-disciplined version of his bumbling younger brother.
But whatever the primary cause, Goff has suddenly developed from bumbling novice to effective passer.
Turin, Italy (CNN)Like many a bumbling tourist, this traveler was perplexed by the unexpected.
Thankfully, for now, the saving grace of American democracy seems to be Trump's bumbling incompetence.
But it sure was funny to watch him bumbling down the street without arm holes.
Devin Nunes as a bumbling media critic ramping up a legal assault on his local newspaper.
She had both a mastery of email and a complete bumbling lack of understanding of it.
Cue a lot of floppy-haired, Hugh Grant Benedict Cumberbatch-style bumbling around his new beau.
Mr Johnson is the favourite, but his bumbling style seems odd at a time of crisis.
De Carlo starred as the wife of Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne), a bumbling but lovable Frankenstein.
This was perhaps never more clearly seen than in her father's bumbling post-Charlottesville attack statements.
Audiences couldn't seem to get enough of the single-camera shots, awkward silences, and bumbling dialogue.
In fact, much of their all-purpose humor about being bumbling hopeless romantics is fairly timeless.
Magoo" — a nickname based on a cartoon character The Washington Post called "elderly, myopic and bumbling.
The show mixed Shakespeare and politics through the story of a bumbling campaign manager named Rich.
Did Mueller play a role in Trump's comments at the summit or his bumbling walk back?
George W Bush — who was then best known as the bumbling son of the former president.
"He comes off as a bumbling, lovable, sort of optimistic guy," one former MoviePass employee said.
Ed Hocken, wincing and grimacing at the wreckage wrought by Mr. Nielsen's bumbling Lt. Frank Drebin.
My campaign was referred to variously as 'graceless,' 'bumbling,' 'a debacle,' 'a disaster,' and a 'catastrophe.
The Times looked back at the season in which the bumbling franchise became the Amazin' Mets.
Filling posts with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty produces less pushback but more bumbling.
Pandas, we learn, are not bumbling fluff balls too busy being cute to breed in captivity.
For most of the Australian public, Mr. Joyce was a bumbling farm boy who meant well.
Amid a bumbling Brexit deal, Theresa May resigned as prime minister of Great Britain in June.
Their bumbling works particularly well when they're confronted by the alien bounty hunter Lobo (Emmett J. Scanlan).
It's created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and Hutcherson's character is less brooding and more...bumbling.
There are the bumbling detectives that harken back to the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video from Spike Jonze.
Scientists have long, rightly, bemoaned the media's bumbling coverage of their work even on a good day.
But so far, he looks like a bumbling fool at best and a fussy toddler at worst.
And irony of ironies: A bumbling Fed made the right decision to back off interest-rate hikes.
Whatever Mr Musk's bumbling misdeeds, crushing Tesla's valuation and future prospects by ousting him seems like overkill.
Phoenix, which dropped to 221.3-23, got off to a bumbling start and never threatened the Knicks.
I have to act like I'm bumbling around, but I've never felt more right in my life.
This isn't about Facebook's and Google's PR efforts, which range from well-executed to bumbling to worse.
There's the mysterious, introspective girl they're drawn to, who turns out to be the bumbling principal's daughter.
These supposedly self-assured women suddenly become hapless and bumbling, all in the name of being rescued.
By the 1960s, the often crude and bumbling Americans living in Turkish cities began to offend Turks.
Also, if you don't know about Australia's favourite bumbling bushman, Russell Coight, please get to know him.
It turns out Richard, who mostly seems like a bumbling idiot, has a doctorate in constitutional law.
But this kind of bumbling patronage, according to Lewis, is only one part of the Trump method.
ASHLEY HOLLISTER, HARTFORD, N.Y. To the Editor: The liberal media characterizes President Trump as bumbling and incompetent.
After bumbling through the streets, they were let loose into the sky, equipped with slow-release valves.
They share a bumbling public affect, a history of racist remarks, and an instantly recognizable hair color.
His ostentatious shoot-from-the-hip style has been emulated by his underlings, in a bumbling way.
In a panic, they elect Tommaso Viglietti, a bumbling monk too stupid to do anything for himself.
There is a whole spectrum between a bumbling, clueless lover and alleged predators like Weinstein and Trump.
The formal institutions of American democracy still stand strong, unbowed in the face of a bumbling demagogue.
It became sentient when Professor E. Gadd, a bumbling scientist in the game, spilled coffee on the energy.
Kumar plays Jolly, a bumbling lawyer and a lowly assistant to one of the city's top legal eagles.
In the end, the moderately successful yet craven Aguilla is (accidentally) taken down by his viciously bumbling son.
At the heart of Ms. McKenzie's novel is Veblen's bumbling struggle to make sense of her impending marriage.
Ford was bumbling and clumsy, Clinton was slick willy the horny salesman and Bush was a total moron.
He developed a popular personal brand among voters, thanks to his unkempt, bumbling, and sometimes buffoonish public image.
As usual, kids in sci-fi shows can always detect the supernatural before the bumbling adults around them.
Bennett plays the former KGB officer as a shirtless strongman opposite Alec Baldwin as a bumbling President Trump.
For Nasdaq, a Snapchat win would help redeem itself from famously bumbling Facebook's IPO with massive technology errors.
These scenarios -- Kushner as trusted White House troubleshooter and Kushner as bumbling, overwhelmed novice -- are in direct conflict.
"Between him on the campaign trail and him getting into office, he became a bumbling moron," Jones said.
Against this backdrop, the trope of a bumbling Peace Corps "savior" without "real" development chops begins to unravel.
Reacquaint yourself with Bridget, Renée Zellweger's bumbling London career girl torn between lovers (Hugh Grant and Colin Firth).
As with many issues, Giuliani has addressed the question with a farrago of bumbling confusion and sly misstatement.
He is not a bumbling celebrity; he is a politician deeply in touch with his own, polarized base.
And so Leo finds himself assisting a bumbling cop who's laid up on another floor in his hospital.
Just to the north, bumbling Washington Democrats have blown their Senate majority, so climate action is bottled up.
Wobbling over the uneven pavement at 25 mph, it looks more like a bumbling neighbor than a robocop.
I was not thinking through a plan of action, I was just sort of bumbling along on instinct.
Boris Johnson once was mockingly predicted to become Britain's "shortest-serving prime minister" — bumbling, buffoonish, erratic and unstable.
Has a president's foreign policy bumbling ever before been condemned by a 6-to-1 ratio in Congress?
This is why the public communications from the White House and Pentagon have been such a bumbling disaster.
"There's a lot of things that nature has come up with just by randomly bumbling around," he said.
I'm sitting in the back of a Jeep Wrangler, bumbling up and down the hills of Rocky Flats.
It's a crime game by way of the Coen Brothers, bumbling and endearing and still a little cool.
And so, [Neanderthals were seen as] bumbling troglodytes who were barely able to make it across glaciated Europe.
Also: Calamitous. Irresponsible. Inexperienced. Unprepared. Undisciplined. Uninformed. Unimproved. Unpopular. Bumbling. Embarrassing. Flimsy. Flailing. Failing. Harmful. Hurtful. Hateful. Shortsighted. Half-baked. Irrelevant. Puny. Piddling. Paltry. Petty. Immature. Infantile. Impulsive. Trite. Tiresome. Stale. Superficial. Small. Meager. Impotent. Limp. Obstructive. Destructive. Damaging. Distracted. Despised. Backwards. Reckless. Bumbling. Bungling. Blind. Arrogant. Rude. Mean. Tacky.
Kwouk rose to fame playing Cato Fong opposite Sellers, who regularly assaulted the bumbling detective to keep him vigilant.
Let's just say 4503 million people have spent five minutes bumbling with the checkout in a browser every year.
The New York Times recently profiled the bumbling 20-somethings behind Centra, a digital token that Floyd Mayweather endorsed.
As Davos and Gendry are packing up to sail, two bumbling guards come over and ask about their mission.
Men are often presented as bumbling babysitters instead of caretakers — that onerous task nearly always falls on the mother.
Mr Maduro has surprised people who wrote him off as a bumbling heir to the clever, charismatic Hugo Chávez.
The bumbling response to the stockmarket and currency wobbles of the past year calls into question the leadership's competence.
Which one would you rather have yourself compared to: the galaxy's greatest villain or a bumbling Jar Jar Binks?
This is obviously a major development in what has, until now, largely been a probe focused on bumbling Americans.
A bumbling private detective (Ryan Gosling) and a hit man (Russell Crowe) team up to investigate a missing woman.
Between shootouts, we see bumbling cops and cartoonishly evil mobsters try to figure out how to deal with Frank.
The series is an anthology, so it's about a cast of unconnected characters all bumbling around through their relationships.
Not for Denis some bumbling trip around the neighborhood, dropping in on Mars or a couple of Jovian moons.
We must now reckon with this fact: Human history is the bumbling-about of self-deluded and incompetent doinks.
I don't want to be seen bumbling about on the treadmill, out of sync with everyone else around me.
One podcast that attempts to rectify the trope of the bumbling small-town police force is Small Town Dicks.
Along the way he goes bumbling into an America that to him is so foreign as to require subtitles.
Tim Heidecker plays a bumbling candidate for district attorney in this satire with inspired moments but not much momentum.
Tim Heidecker plays a bumbling candidate for district attorney in this satire with inspired moments but not much momentum.
"Unmaking the Presidency," by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, isn't just another compendium of insider gossip and bumbling treachery.
In it, Sheldon starts choking on a piece of sausage, with his parents bumbling around trying to help him.
In 2012, for example, Huggies pulled an ad that portrayed fathers as bumbling and inattentive after it received complaints.
That was a hilarious British sitcom about a permanent government apparatus that contained and overruled a bumbling political master.
The Skelos case revealed a beleaguered father's desperate and bumbling attempts to prop up his ne'er-do-well son.
While well intentioned, Dave was generally misguided and bumbling — a gentle, anger-free version of John Cleese's Basil Fawlty.
A good picture book can capture this bumbling genius of children and animals, as these four new ones do.
In a buck-stops-at-the-top profession, Comey clearly shares blame for the FBI bumbling on his watch.
He mocked the bumbling Islamist president Mohammed Morsi relentlessly, and was both taken to court and lionized for it.
His only salvation is to marry rich, which leads him to Henrietta Lowell (May), a bumbling heiress and botanist.
" In 83, when Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut, it was as a bumbling lover in Payne's brainy-romantic "Constellations.
Most notorious of all, an inept first baseman, Marv Throneberry, was extolled as the symbol of the bumbling present.
There's no nuance or subtlety—you're just a happy little idiot bumbling along, taking the world at face value.
Halloween is the perfect opportunity to show the world that you're not just an average person, bumbling through the day.
Unfortunately, the bumbling-dad stereotype doesn't take into account the awesome advice many of us have gotten from our fathers.
The Guatemalan president, Jimmy Morales, used to perform in blackface, portraying a bumbling character called Black Pitaya, or Black Dragonfruit.
Photo: Getty Excerpts from an insider account of Trump's bumbling first year in office are making big news on Wednesday.
What was initially a straightforward, bumbling sitcom had the most existential twist during the last five minutes of its season.
Vir might have started out as a meek and bumbling character, but over the course of the show, that changed.
A menial robot participates in wacky and heartwarming hijinks aboard a spaceship alongside two bumbling extraterrestrials their pet alien dog.
Zeus has exiled Apollo, god of the sun, to Earth, and turned him into Lester Papadopoulos, a bumbling human teenager.
And the company's bumbling approach to machine learning and privacy inspires little confidence that AI will emerge as Evernote's savior.
So many men either choose combat or are forced into it, and here's this bumbling, educated fool in a way.
Andrew Sachs, the German-born British actor known for playing the bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel on Fawlty Towers, died Nov.
Donovan Scott is best known for playing the bumbling cadet turned tough guy Leslie Barbara -- opposite Leslie Easterbrook as Sgt.
And then, after bumbling for a few moments, Warren Beatty announced that La La Land had also won Best Picture.
The FX series follows vampires Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Laszlo (Matt Berry) and their bumbling "familiar" a.k.a.
I've spent the past few weeks tracing the evolving, bumbling, and bewildering defenses put forth by the president's staunchest supporters.
Explanations are often offered for Perry's rhetorical bumbling, but his flubs are too consistent for him to be constantly drunk.
But there are ways to reduce both your anxiety and the chance that you'll come across as a bumbling fool.
While the gang members had long criminal records, during their trial they often came across as bumbling and ill prepared.
He's rather gun-shy around women, and it's quite endearing, so Jacqueline actually winds up falling for the bumbling Russ.
Thus we see Healey bumbling through life taping everything that typically stays silent: A fisherman's hat, crumbs, a forgotten sock.
This 2011 British party drama shows how bumbling baffoons can make a pretty penny throwing parties for people on drugs.
John Reynolds's Duffy somewhat resembles the original's bumbling Hugh Grant character, but Nathalie Emmanuel's Maya is the heart the series.
Which is why Weinstein and his attorney's claims of "confusion" about the nature of consent feel bumbling and willfully ignorant.
As the death toll increases, the bumbling response in the early weeks of the crisis will look worse and worse.
Here we have a key difference between the Haggler and the bumbling nitwit whose name is affixed to this column.
Bryan Cranston is back as the voice of Titanium Rex, the superhero with a faulty prostate and some bumbling sidekicks.
Historians began revising, some time ago, the earlier judgments of Grant as an unimaginative, bloody-minded general and bumbling president.
All together, summer's trumpets sounded bright and loud Thursday along 290th Street in the Bronx, despite official indifference or bumbling.
Roh was bumbling at times and spoke off-the-cuff; the mainstream press scoffed that he was "the say-anything president".
Sudeikis' Biden is a bumbling career politician who remains clueless as to why anyone would take offense to his handsy approach.
I saw it last weekend, and I thought there was too much focus on the bumbling idiots and not enough skating.
The ultimate example of Trump's struggle to run a larger and more sophisticated campaign enterprise has been his bumbling over immigration.
Scotto remembered that guards would affectionately call him Nordberg, after the bumbling police officer he played in the "Naked Gun" movies.
Comey can't simultaneously be highly competent and a bungling, bumbling fool depending on what image suits Sessions' needs at the moment.
Then Gosling showed up, carrying a range of performances, from Drive's affectless protagonist to his bumbling scheming in The Nice Guys.
Where Carter's bumbling technocracy fizzled out in a somewhat orderly way, Trump's autocracy of dunces won't necessarily conform to historical prologue.
The difference is he's bumping up against the bumbling-dad stereotype that's foisted upon anyone who parents while male these days.
Or Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones's Diary," whose bumbling heroine's career is defined by her ability to seem desirable at the workplace.
Then there's the bumbling double-chinned middle-man, Borys Herman, who Ukrainian authorities claim paid $15,000 to a still-unidentified hitman.
The bumbling staff and political white knuckling are great, to be sure, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus elevates Selina into something otherworldly.
It's the first in a planned crime series, with Obama playing a cerebral, detached, analytical Holmes to Biden's bumbling, impulsive Watson.
It also has revealed remarkable bumbling by the Afghan military, including the wrong kind of ammunition sent to besieged police officers.
And here's the thing: By bumbling into a trade war, Trump undermines our ability to do anything about the real issues.
The Carpetbagger Bumbling, earnest, good-hearted and edged with sadness, the characters Richard Jenkins plays often become a film's emotional center.
Many said that they had hated being chosen late or last for sports teams, or felt embarrassed about bumbling sports performances.
The platform's newest buddy cop flick puts a unique spin on the formula, partnering a bumbling police officer with a child.
Steps to avoid the worst -- Julian Zelizer: Trump's speech won't erase his bumbling response -- Kevin J. Tracey: Want a coronavirus vaccine?
From the moment Sean Spicer appeared, it's just been sort of like, 'That's Mike McLintock [Selina's bumbling press secretary] from 'Veep'!
The entire rest of the game is about fixing that mistake, about stopping the people empowered by bumbling American self-righteousness.
What began in 2004 as a sun-kissed, sometimes-bumbling lark finished in 2010 as a neo-romantic, industrial-smooth juggernaut.
Mada Masr has a leftist bent, and many of its journalists sharply criticised the Brotherhood during its bumbling year in power.
"Seventy-Two Virgins" includes much talk of buxom women and has a bumbling, gaffe-prone member of Parliament as its hero.
"Seventy-Two Virgins" includes much talk of buxom women and has a bumbling, gaffe-prone member of Parliament as its hero.
Trump's bumbling incoherence, coupled with his declining political fortunes since the midterms, makes him seem less frightening than he once did.
This bumbling, charming moment plays out as it might in a classic animated comedy, not in a high-stakes action movie.
"We can leave in peace," she tells her uncle (Gery De Poorter), a bumbling lad who seems more like a brother.
In pop culture, fathers are too frequently portrayed as the bumbling parent who ruins things that moms then have to come fix.
The bumbling, assistant scoutmaster appeared in several sketches, like the one where he stops by a garage sale in the video above.
In it, Taron Egerton plays the bumbling plasterer who became the first British ski jumper to ever compete in the Winter Games.
After deplaning and bumbling my way through the cruise check-in, I crashed in my quarters for a two-hour hangover nap.
Watching him make bedroom eyes at Brienne of Tarth reminds us of our first high school crush — bumbling, awkward, but totally adorable.
His bumbling tenure was one example of the nepotism that plagues Iran, which ranks near the bottom of Transparency International's corruption index.
The American economy might just be bumbling along, but it is doing substantially better than the rest of the advanced industrial world.
Between voice controls and multi-device function, there won't be any more bumbling around five remotes in order for everything to work.
Mr. Jones fares less well with the ripe comic subplot in the original, concerning the bumbling constable Dogberry and his associate Verges.
Excited Tesla owners have taken to parking lots nationwide to record videos of their cars bumbling like a nervous driver's ed student.
We would gladly watch a full-length reenactment of The Shining with a maniacal, still bumbling Homer as Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson).
Will Ferrell hasn't left his Anchorman character Ron Burgundy too far behind since creating the bumbling broadcaster in the 2004 hit comedy.
A "culture war," all in the name of defending the misadventures of New York's premier bumbling paranormal exterminators to the literal death.
IN THE third act of "Three Sisters" Ivan Chebutykin, a bumbling old doctor, drunkenly knocks over a clock, smashing it to bits.
Donald Glover doesn't appear interested in positioning Earn as a down-on-his-luck everyman, bumbling his way from scenario to scenario.
The message from both was that a nefarious other, enabled by a bumbling government, was stealing work and wealth from upright Americans.
The bumbling Richard Curtis character mask slipped, and we saw the fluorescent doctor incandescent with rage that 'rude' Ellie didn't want him.
Even in the songs where his soft-spoken twang doesn't shine through, you can hear his stylistic ticks bumbling to the forefront.
There's still some solid bumper protection in the corners — enough to protect the phone from a standard bumbling drop on the side.
But, for many, McCarthy's wildly popular depiction of "Spicey" as a likable bumbling character has come to define the former press secretary.
In both instances, Kevin is beset by two bumbling burglars, Harry and Marv, who proceed to chase him around and all that.
It is unlikely, yes, but the gift he received from a surprisingly bumbling F.B.I. shows that campaigns aren't over until they're over.
It seems like some of this may have just been bumbling communications by people who weren't thinking things through rather than malice.
If that were the case, Matt Walsh—who plays bumbling press secretary Mike McLintock to President Selina Meyer—would be Sean Spicer.
The lab was shut down after it was found to be riddled with "systemic failures" including mismanagement, nonexistent security, and bumbling incompetence.
Whole rooms were vacuumed of Ritz crackers and crayon tips because of the possibility of a bumbling Snorlax, a skin-shredding Dratini.
My character was an awkward girl, bumbling, in fact, who wore sweatshirts and jeans, and had little sense of her sexual power.
Apparently, word had spread among staff that a certain bumbling tourist had been too cheap to shell out for the whole museum.
In the end, Trump and fellow bumbling neophyte Rex Tillerson opened the portal wider for Putin to sneak through in coming elections.
Her obstacles — sometimes co-opted as pawns — include the beautiful Poppea; the noble, lovelorn general Otho; and a couple of bumbling courtiers.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)With his unruly mop of white-blond hair and bumbling personality, Boris Johnson is not exactly a forgettable figure.
It was, instead, another in a series of bumbling missteps by China that have left it foundering diplomatically in the Czech Republic.
Scott took the bumbling TV boss' advice and performed compressions while singing the chorus — "Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive" — aloud.
The word "bumbling" was created to describe the QX60, with the mega monster feeling more unwieldy and less refined than some mainstream crossovers.
To alleviate this fear, black people, men especially, grow accustomed to approaching society with palms raised, bumbling effusive apology for arriving as themselves.
" The Feather Thief Kirk Wallace Johnson "Clever, informative, and sometimes endearingly bumbling, this mix of natural history and crime opens up new worlds.
He also faces new questions about China's efforts to curry favor with Mr. Kim, whom many Chinese regard as a bizarre, bumbling figure.
Overwhelmingly, the people tasked with protecting our corporate digital lives fear the potential for the bumbling mistakes of their charges above all else.
The three, plus a pickup truck full of bumbling cops, descend on a bar where sex workers are amiably flirting with potential clients.
Dinklage is, I think, playing the Ghost the same way that he plays other nerd characters who are both bumbling and hyper-competent.
But Carter was an intelligent, if politically bumbling (mis)manager, which is why comparisons between Trump and Carter, though compelling, don't quite compute.
I find it shocking that we essentially condone continued American bumbling in the Middle East and now Africa through our ho-hum reporting.
Whitehouse also appeared in deleted scenes of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" as Sir Cadogan, a bumbling knight inside a painting.
In the original animated classic, the Sultan is essentially a bumbling old man — he means well, but he's not exactly a commanding presence.
But through Landis' lens, they are bumbling fools who, in their quest to make a quick buck, fall into some very gory situations.
On the evidence, Rowan Atkinson's secret agent character, Johnny English, has grown slightly less bumbling over the years, and so has the series.
His motivations are as cloudy as a cheap gemstone, as he alternates between lethal skill and naïve bumbling in Matthew Ross's leaden thriller.
Before Canada was known for its handsome prime minister caught being woke, it was known for its bumbling Toronto mayor caught smoking crack.
After trailing by 17-7 at the half, the Giants began the third quarter with more bumbling play, especially by the offensive line.
There is the bumbling repetition of interview questions, because no one seems to be able to hear anything over the screaming audience members.
Following a bumbling manhunt by the FBI, six members of the SLA were cornered and then killed in a shootout in Los Angeles.
LeFou, for the uninitiated, is a bumbling manservant to Gaston, the egotistical hunter who is determined, muscles popping, to woo the bookish Belle.
The company's repeated tone deafness has fostered a reputation as a bumbling—if not malicious—telecom giant wandering well out of its depth.
Michael Mastro, complete with that goofy hat, is Ed Norton, Ralph's bumbling best friend, and Laura Bell Bundy is Trixie Norton, Ed's wife.
" Stallone went on to thank his earliest supporters, "Who actually mortgaged their house [to help] a bumbling actor get the chance of a lifetime.
The machine is a radical departure from the stiff, bumbling humanoids that have so far done a whole lot of falling on their faces.
Let us consider some of the potential public relations disasters the UFC will have to avoid bumbling its way through in the immediate future.
Throughout the years, he would return to the set in different roles, but would always maintain and embrace the bumbling persona the audience loved.
So it's unsurprising that pandas are seen as bumbling animals, but in actuality, they do have one very impressive skill: their bodies neutralize cyanide.
They enter a culture full of bumbling fools solely focused on money, sex, and watching TV from a couch with a built-in toilet.
I love Birbiglia, and he brings so much of his signature bumbling charm to this role, but it's not long before things get weird.
The woman, whose name we learn is Bilquis (Yetide Badaki) has only one request for her sweet, bumbling, older companion: He must worship her.
" Stallone went on to thank his earliest supporters, "Who actually mortgaged their house [to help] a bumbling actor get the chance of a lifetime.
One has to wonder how much the coddling Samsung gets at home is to blame for the company's bumbling response to this battery problem.
"Poor judgment" would appear to be a subject of special Cohen expertise, given his bumbling $130,000 payment of borrowed hush money to Stormy Daniels.
Elites are distrusted and disliked not because Americans are bumbling dupes prone to demagogic blame-shifting, but because elites are indeed genuinely blame-worthy.
Dev is always trying to be the good guy, then bumbling into situations where supporting women ends up unexpectedly deflating his own male privilege.
Instead, they collectively painted a picture of a passionate but slightly bumbling do-gooder who had become deeply invested in Cambodia and its people.
To read a single Wodehouse sentence is to enter an alternate universe: a zero-gravity caperscape of aristocratic bumbling that seems to transcend time.
Johnson has lied, pandered and guffawed his disheveled way to the highest office in the land, aping the bumbling buffoon and doing great damage.
His bumbling efforts to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden's activities in Ukraine are likely to result in the third impeachment in U.S. presidential history.
Yet in 274, with nothing but failure in their brief and bumbling history, they won 294 games and then stormed to an unlikely championship.
This is obviously not a cast of characters out of some John le Carré novel, and the meeting may have been a bumbling effort.
The son's follow-up act as acting boss of the Gambino crime family was bumbling, yet nearly as bloodthirsty as that of Gotti père.
Maybe Republican voters agree with Rubio that it's of paramount importance to establish that Obama is an evil genius rather than a bumbling fool.
But while Lyft wants to be seen as "woke" alternative to the bumbling Uber, its internal mechanics have become practically indistinguishable from its beleaguered rival.
Likewise, the story was simple but haphazard, with Deckard bumbling from one place to another and suddenly finding himself at the conclusion of the film.
The sooner we get men like Musburger -- bumbling at best, dangerously sexist at worst -- out of the broadcast booth, the better for sports all around.
Some reports paint the company as a bumbling snake-oil hawker, suggesting that Mercer forced candidates to hire it as a condition of his donations.
The original video was published on YouTube January 25th, 2015, and features the honey-loving, bumbling bear breaking it down to a "Gangnam Style" remix.
HBO put out a full trailer for season 2 of Succession, which shows the Roy family plotting, fighting, and bumbling their way to media dominance.
Glow season 1, a candy-colored feminist joyride, is all about getting to know the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling and the bumbling men around them.
Janina Gavankar is stellar as the cynical and dry witted Lola, while Khoi Dao's wavering lilt perfectly encapsulates a bumbling ne'er-do-well in Milo.
We can't forget about the other major roles up for grabs like Kim's lovable, bumbling sidekick/best friend Ron Stoppable and fiercely stylish nemesis Sheago.
In a landscape dominated by the impossibly sexy teens of Riverdale, Everything gives us the messy, bumbling, and honest coming out story the world needs.
But in the case of this bumbling bot named MARLO, it's just something as simple as trying—and failing—to walk across a hilly field.
In the world of movies and TV, meanwhile, the majority of cannabis-loving characters tend to slot in somewhere between bumbling idiots and dangerous outcasts.
These are the like the most important people in our intelligence that you say is such a competent professional but sounds like a bumbling idiot.
It makes you feel smart, like all great puzzlers should; but at times the game also makes you feel like a bumbling, mouth-breathing prick.
Elsewhere, we explained Marvel Studios' five-year plan, Facebook bumbling around trying to determine why white nationalism is bad, and interviewed the team behind Shazam.
It's easy to imagine Pied Piper ballooning into some quasi-Google or an even more ludicrous version of Facebook, with Richard bumbling at the helm.
He is despised as both a bumbling rube, trying too hard to prove he gets it, and a cunning villain, out to destroy digital freedom.
Since its 1989 premiere, "The Simpsons" - bumbling patriarch Homer, long-suffering wife Marge, prankster Bart, prodigy Lisa and baby Maggie - have become globally recognized figures.
Podrick Payne With a beautiful voice and a magical dick, our favorite bumbling squire seems to the candidate most likely to survive via pure luck.
With his unkempt blonde hair, bumbling humor and penchant for gaffes, he is a colorful but contentious choice for conducting sensitive diplomacy with world leaders.
It focused not only on the bumbling, but on her decision not to declare meldonium, or its brand name Mildronate, on her doping control forms.
Unable to sustain his independent life, Toby moves in with the sweet, bumbling Hugo and begins to assist him with his work as a genealogist.
As the bumbling Sebastian, she toes that elusive thin line between joyfully silly and flat-out ridiculous that so many iconic comedic actors masterfully blur.
This security camera footage of two bumbling fools attempting to rob a vape shop is, by far, the best comedy film of 2019 so far.
In a year in which the N.F.L.'s bumbling relationship to race has been at its most visible, this whitewashing has a particularly acrid smell.
Was the United States a stumbling, but well intentioned, colossus beset by overmatched presidents, bumbling military leaders, divisive protesters, an invasive press and bad allies?
He is used to being listened to, and to getting what he wants, but he also has a bumbling, earnest diffidence that can be charming.
Perhaps it arose from press coverage of Ms. Daniels's incendiary claims and from the bumbling and inconsistent public responses of Mr. Cohen and President Trump.
Whether it was the bumbling nature of the Watergate burglars or the strange anecdotes of Nixon's life, I found myself  tuned in the entire time.
Jonah Ryan, which often times makes it hard to see The Eagle as anything other than a bumbling government aide, but we're going to try.
People in the defense, diplomatic and intelligence communities will have to build systems to prevent him from intentionally or unintentionally bumbling into a global crisis.
In this staging, Kuno became the town's sheriff, with Max his earnest but bumbling deputy, routinely subjected to bullying by the community's young alpha men.
While his methods may be bumbling, self-serving and diplomatically incompetent, Trump is right to advance the process of serious U.S. military reductions from Afghanistan.
"Hemming and hawing" is now not quite a red, but certainly red ish, flag online; a bumbling, unconfident-seeming man isn't necessarily a good one.
Even after six months of bumbling, she now has a chance to take steps that could help keep the calm and reverse an economic slump.
Sounds like Mr. Trump took his game plan from Bialystock and Bloom, those bumbling Broadway producers dreamed up by that brilliant political strategist Mel Brooks.
So far, men have treated #MeToo like a bumbling dad in a detergent commercial: well-intentioned but floundering, as though they are not the experts.
We followed Maeve's journey to consciousness, and clapped as she subdued first the bumbling Felix and Sylvester, and later, her fellow hosts — many of them male.
Nabors became famous as the bumbling mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and then went on to do his own show, which ran for 5 years.
McNairy is better known, however, for playing Gordon Clark on the show Halt and Catch Fire and the well-intentioned but slightly bumbling mayor in Godless.
Gretzky goes into a glide, and only begins to skate again once he realizes Fedorov is about to get a clean look at the bumbling Casey.
" Foster, the show's most engaging character, is played by Josh Radnor, previously known as a bumbling good guy on the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother.
Satanic cult followers dedicated to bumbling alongside the antichrist, the duo appears to be situated at the rarely visited intersection between Dumb & Dumber and Rosemary's Baby.
The president of neighbouring Guatemala is a bumbling political neophyte who came into office after demonstrations against corruption and the arrest of his predecessor in 2015.
If that occurs, the culprit might be a lab-trained terrorist or a basement biohacker, a bumbling grad student or a Russian microbiologist on the lam.
Along the way, they encounter a bumbling (but oh-so-charming) bear, some pretty fly monkeys, and a pack of vultures who look suspiciously mop-topped.
In the skit, the bumbling Pánfilo phones the White House to check the weather for an upcoming baseball game and is shocked when the president answers.
When his sister decides she doesn't believe in Santa Claus anymore, Danny and his friends launch a bumbling investigation to prove that Santa Claus is real.
One of our first signs of the sheer bumbling prowess these two exude comes after the man goes behind the counter in his search of loot.
Van Dam, a bumbling, subservient second banana who had occasional moments of pathos, was a reliable source of laughs on the show, which ran until 1997.
Zmuda was basically Kaufman's partner in crime back in the day, and often portrayed a character created by Kaufman named Tony Clifton, a bumbling lounge singer.
"After he's fumbling and bumbling, he makes the statement, 'And I can rule undetermined if you want,'" said Dominick Pape, who ran the agency's Jacksonville office.
Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain cited that criticism Thursday, noting some consider Lampert a cross between a 19th-century robber baron and a bumbling sitcom character.
" For his part, President-elect Trump has maligned them as bumbling and myopic, architects of "a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war.
The purpose of sharing these accounts -- particularly during Women's History Month -- is to show that women, like men, can grow from bumbling neophytes to competent leaders.
The section is built around the narrative arc of the team from its inception in 1962, and chronicles its evolution from bumbling incompetence to unlikely success.
He's a bumbling guy, but he's also a genius, someone who's invented Pied Piper, a compression algorithm so strong that it could legitimately change the world.
But instead of strident political screeds, Big Ups assert that maybe we're all just bumbling idiots trying to make things work for as long as we can.
The thing that bumbling bureaucrats like United's security team never seem to realize is: you don't make your systems more secure by making them hard to use.
And Yahoo has been bumbling around for a while and not inventing the future at all, but it still could have been revived with the right leadership.
It does, however, blow up if you shoot it with a high-velocity rifle round, which makes it practically irresistible for bumbling owners of high-velocity rifles.
Jack makes a few clueless-but-well-meaning mistakes throughout the Station 19 opener that make him seem like either a bumbling hunk or a reckless hotshot.
It wasn't a bunch of bumbling idiots unknowingly helping a guy out; many people must have been fully aware of what they were walking these women into.
The town's mayor is a woman (score one for the popular vote), but like the rest of the adults around, she comes off as bumbling and inept.
Available July 1 The Pink Panther (2006)Steve Martin plays a bumbling inspector who must solve both a murder and the theft of the Pink Panther diamond.
The documents show that Facebook is not bumbling, inept, or unimaginative about how their product could be used or how the public would respond to its decisions.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui tries his best to be a convincing enough underdog who has his day, and is a good foil to Khan, who plays his bumbling friend.
Harriman drives himself to the brink of bankruptcy and madness chasing his lunar ambitions, which he feels can't be left to the bumbling government bureaucracy to handle.
The party is still led by a bumbling but strangely magnetic old man backed by a huge majority of the membership and hated by his own MPs.
While the 43rd president was viewed as a bumbling guy who struggled with everyday things like eating pretzels and speaking English, Trump is someone people genuinely fear.
He talked in a bumbling way for another ten minutes or so in the lobby; then he drily kissed her cheek, said goodnight, and went to bed.
But bumbling he was, and he made a rotten university student to boot; his failures drove him straight to his room, where he bred mice in secret.
Former GM Ryan Grigson rightly gets eviscerated for bumbling through Andrew Luck's first five seasons, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Grigson who called this play. 21.
While many Democrats were busy using their "indoor" voices against Donald Trump, Waters rose so far above her bumbling party, she lost all touch with the ground.
They are all, in their own ways, bumbling through lives that didn't quite turn out the way they wanted—but that doesn't mean they're any less wondrous.
Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse are perfect as bumbling teenage boys, and stars like Emma Stone and Bill Hader have small but unforgettable roles. 
In Ms. Yamane's piece, Mr. Kigawa played busy chords that evoked the bumbling steps of an infant, countered with nervous upward scales reminiscent of a Shepard Tone.
Balaskovitz plays the fool, a bumbling doofus who is at the whims of an animal that's not typically found in a home, let alone on social media.
Some young black activists have pointed to Biden's support for the 1994 crime bill and recent bumbling moments about forced busing as reasons for not supporting him.
Thomas Middleditch, who needs someone to explain to him the dangers of overexposure, plays his usual bumbling character, a gofer for Steve who also narrates the tale.
They would fly up to New York for court dates and never missed an opportunity to grandstand for the press and insult the authorities as bumbling squares.
The irony is that Trump watched him talk about bumbling the Hillary investigation, not the Russia investigation — and decided it was time to get rid of him.
A shaggy white guy in a bellboy uniform knocks on the door of a hotel room in Seoul, South Korea, a little bumbling and out of place.
Bernie Sanders, express a discomfort at seeing bumbling President Donald Trump return to America's backyard, where his predecessors so often showed a lack of judgment and morality.
He said he had also drawn inspiration from the 1968 Blake Edwards comedy, "The Party," in which Peter Sellers wore brownface to play a bumbling Indian actor.
In the early 20th century, Bavarian peasants were frequent subjects of German mockery, and "Nazi" became the archetypal name for a comic figure: a bumbling, dimwitted yokel.
Why sweat that stuff when you can just kick back and enjoy the bumbling hijinks of two Rudds in a love triangle with their wife or whatever?
"You're kind of dealing with a government that doesn't care about government, and then overlay your normal bumbling incompetence onto the possibility of a global pandemic," Sen.
" On ABC's "This Week" program, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned, "We do not need this President either bumbling or impulsively getting us into a major war.
When she wheeled it around, with its geometric-patterned diaper bag and its plastic frame as shiny as a fast-food playground, she felt bumbling and cartoonish.
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe buddy up as a bumbling private investigative duo scouring 1977 Los Angeles for the murderer of a porn star named Misty Mountains.
On "Hogan's Heroes," a comedy improbably set in a German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, Mr. Fox returned several times as the bumbling Col.
No longer do we laugh with Grant, the bumbling Englishman, as his self-deprecatingly vain and desperate turn in Paddington 2 encourages us to laugh at him.
The bumbling players who opened at the Polo Grounds in 1962 and their masochistic fans would be dizzied by the Mets' five-game proximity to first place.
But when asked directly at the height of the 2016 campaign whether Trump had any "financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs," Manafort gave an epically bumbling answer.
The mystery of who exactly his bumbling sidekick is, though, could ultimately be one of those unresolved questions that just slowly fade away into the dustbin of history.
Now try to come up with examples of when you've seen two people have an awkward, bumbling first sexual connection that requires patience, direct communication, and multiple tries.
Leslie Nielsen stars as Detective Frank Drebin, a bumbling cop who manages to solve huge cases — starting with a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II — despite his inadequacies.
The prolonged campaign carries political costs for Mr Abadi, who had sought to turn himself from a bumbling office-holder into a victorious commander by donning military fatigues.
" On Facebook, Dan Rather wrote a lengthier critique of the president's "bumbling" response that is a must-read, saying, "It fails even the most basic test of humanity.
"With [Alexa's older brother] Lucas, you see in one episode he wants a doctor because of his sister," Berelc said of Emery Kelly's bumbling dreamboat of a character.
Where John Lithgow leaned into his bumbling, lovable every-man schtick last year, Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth basks in the fact that no one is like Kristin Chenoweth.
His dad, like so many other hapless dads out there bumbling around this world, hit him up after he found himself in an unfamiliar situation, looking for guidance.
His incredible incompetence, along with his cast of bumbling characters, may finally kill off politics' most tired cliche—that we need to run the government like a business.
They stressed that Labour needed to appeal to "middle-class voters, not just down-and-outs", and that having an apparently "weak and bumbling leader" did not help.
She's backed up by her bumbling best friend, Ron Stoppable, and his naked mole rat Rufus (inspiring Ron Weasley vibes, certainly), along with their tech genius friend Wade.
Until now, the bumbling Mr Xiao stood as a buffer between the stockmarket and Mr Li. In the event of more market mayhem, blame will now filter upstairs.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the last serious Trump challenger, conceded this fact around 8:30 PM, an hour and a half after networks announced his bumbling Indiana loss.
Spiegel has struggled mightily to tell the Snap story to Wall Street, bumbling the stock's narrative and investor expectations, and leaving even his advisers frustrated with comms skills.
Somehow — with the familiar whimsical theme song floating in the air and the memory of Michael Scott's many bumbling moments coming to mind — it seems and feels right.
Barry will star Hader as a bumbling hitman who travels to Los Angeles with the intention of murdering someone, and instead befriends a group of friendly wannabe actors.
It didn't become relevant until he went full bumbling evil post-Brexit, and then we rolled out the clap reminder, and his house of cards collapsed beneath him.
But there's another important reason why Trump has been adept at judicial nominations while bumbling elsewhere: There's a large infrastructure on the right dedicated solely to confirming judges.
But he was best known for his role as Cato Fong, the manservant of Peter Sellers's bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau, in Blake Edwards's hugely successful "Pink Panther" comedies.
In the university office, all the women had petted him and were in awe of his mystique: he had seemed thoughtful, forgetful, bumbling, dryly humorous, and high-minded.
That's the difference between a disciplined, professionally-run campaign focused on the finish line, and a campaign made up of bumbling amateurs fixated on grabbing today's new cycle.
There is one famous best-selling thriller author — I won't name him — who tells good stories, but his bumbling language drives me crazy and I can't read him.
It trains its eye on a group of bumbling government types (played by Steve Buscemi and Simon Russell Beale, aong others) in a ham-handed struggle for power.
Even his female slasher victims have more substance than their bumbling boyfriends (if the male protagonists of House had listened to their girlfriends, they'd be alive right now).
The principal lesson of paranoia is the ease with which politically aroused people can mistake errors for deceptions, coincidences for patterns, bumbling for dereliction, and secrecy for treachery.
He wrote that Trump found the White House "vexing and scary" and painted the picture of a bumbling and lonely chief executive and an administration paralyzed by chaos.
She and the monster become friends, and thwart a plan by bumbling spies from a competing genetic laboratory to kidnap and turn the creature into a sideshow attraction.
One of the funnier stories in the book (there are many of them; Dolce is a witty writer) concerns Richard Nixon's bumbling efforts to crush the marijuana lifestyle.
Though Aubrey's character, April Ludgate, might have been in love with bumbling Andy Dwyer on the show, the real Aubrey falls in love with both men and women.
Top Democrats say they're desperate to avoid a Mueller repeat — a high-stakes hearing that ended up with a bumbling witness and a failure to convince the public.
Kevin awakes to an empty house, announces, "I made my family disappear!" and goes on to fend off two bumbling burglars, played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.
The decision has revived online discussion as censors have in the past targeted the film's main character due to memes that compare the bumbling bear to president Xi Jinping.
The Central Asian country once lampooned by Sacha Baron Cohen's bumbling TV journalist character, offers great potential for international retailers, according to research from management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
But in the decade or so that followed those first bumbling attempts, we've witnessed a subtler and more effective strategy for convincing people to cede control over everyday purchases.
Mario's bumbling brother is always slightly on edge, and that has never been more apparent than in Luigi's Mansion 3, which launches today, October 31st, on the Nintendo Switch.
Neto, the bumbling office-seeker, clad in a white suit, red bandanna and cowboy hat, decides that after telling "a boatload of lies" he will withdraw from the race.
The clip features Richard (Thomas Middleditch), the (mostly) lovable and bumbling founder of Pied Piper, giving his best rousing company speech: a series of stutters followed by nervous barfing.
Uruguayan striker Cristhian Stuani found himself with space amidst a bumbling Sunderland defense, and lifted the ball gracefully but with pace into the far upper corner of the net.
BILLS 33, BROWNS 13 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - The bumbling Browns are two losses short of becoming the NFL&aposs second team to go 0-16 in one season.
Unfortunately, we'll never know Jar Jar Binks as anything other than the bumbling moron who pretty much laid out the red carpet for Palpatine to take over the Senate.
After the violence in Charlottesville and Trump's bumbling mess of a response to the anti-Semitism and white supremacy on display, Dingell took to Twitter in the days following.
Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers say bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster.
It could have been a satire of American provincialism and culture clash in a tech-dependent world, with Alan portrayed as a bumbling, overconfident fool living in the past.
Likewise, we in the media wrongly portrayed President Jimmy Carter as a bumbling lightweight, even as he tackled the toughest challenges, from recognizing China to returning the Panama Canal.
N.L." partnership, "He's the alpha dog, and I'm the second-fiddle bumbling buddy — he's doing all the hard work, and I just have a goofy smile on my face.
But as it turns out, according to the poll, all Clinton had to do to get young voters' attentions was outperform a bumbling Donald Trump with calm, coherent answers.
The clip follows a bumbling Grim Reaper tasked with bringing the band to the afterlife, only to mess up through repeated cases of mistaken identity with bloody, hilarious results.
Even though I knew what I was looking for, I took her up on her offer of help, hoping that playing the bumbling husband role wouldn't arouse any suspicion.
I know that I struggled, early on, with my inability to play this master assassin as anything more than a bumbling chancer, a gun for hire that got lucky.
Known for his often bumbling persona, which some find refreshing and others call clownish or a calculated political tactic, Johnson's career has been marked by a series of gaffes.
We've watched as our bumbling governor Pat McCrory has feebly tried to defend the bill in unfocused (literally) and embarrassing interviews, tanking North Carolina's reputation along with its economy.
"His charming, bumbling buffoon image was neatly done and went down very well with audiences," said Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye magazine and a panelist on the show.
But the epidemic's relentless math, and the bumbling start to the recovery effort in the United States, suggest that we won't be close to that moment for many weeks.
Wilton Parmenter, his character, was a bumbling accidental hero who was involved in more pratfalls than you might expect from the dignified leader of a strategically important Western fort.
But the style — deliberately bumbling and disheveled; fond of jokes; disregarding facts and details in favor of bluster — does not lend itself to a crisis as grave as this.
And the Jets, after bumbling to a 5-11 record last season and purging their roster of high-priced talent like Brandon Marshall and Nick Mangold, need productive players.
Trump has been comparing his top law enforcement official to the bumbling cartoon character, an elderly man who lands in comic situations largely due to his severe near-sightedness.
When someone in the future writes the book called "Laughter in the Ancient 21st Century," they will hopefully remember this bumbling and chaotic era as at least somewhat funny.
But often, in a Mark Morris piece, a sort of bumbling badness will be placed alongside goodness, and in the end goodness wins, even if in a humble way.
There is nothing that will bother Trump more than seeing an ad like this that is clearly intended to make Trump look out of shape and sort of bumbling.
Adding four high-spend streaming platforms in a short time frame could rattle the cages of consumers that have been bumbling along with only a couple streaming service subscriptions.
It's a humbling reminder, watching the super controlled camera-readiness of a newscaster suddenly slip to reveal the bumbling buffoons we all are when we forget people are watching.
The cast, which also includes Anne L. Nathan and Michael Pemberton as Tom's vigilant best friends, is expert at conveying the self-consciousness that comes with such bumbling attempts.
The bumbling, slapstick antics of Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the Wet Bandits, who manage to strike just the right balance of deeply goofy and seriously threatening: stupendous.
Surprisingly, Chris Hemsworth (yes, Thor) has a bigger part than expected as the Ghostbusters' earnestly bumbling secretary, Kevin, and he clearly relishes the chance to do something overtly silly.
Humphrey Bogart finally realized he loved Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe kissed Tony Curtis, Harry and Sally got together, and movie star Julia Roberts wound up with bumbling Hugh Grant.
It wasn't until 1960 that Lewis reached the second stage of his career: he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in The Bellboy, a Paramount Pictures comedy about a bumbling bellboy.
Moira, once a daytime soap opera star, becomes a spokesperson for a local fruit winery; Johnny, a former home video mogul, is forced to fraternize with the bumbling local mayor.
But Practical Magic's biggest weakness, by a long shot, is that it thinks "happily ever after" means Aidan Quinn bumbling around a crime scene when Nicole Kidman is right there.
Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers describe as bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster.
Rowan Atkinson returns as Britain's most bumbling superspy, called out of retirement to help save the motherland when a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all Britain's active undercover agents.
These portrayals range from a bumbling Santa with voyeuristic tendencies, as in Sneaky Santa, to a taskmaster Santa who runs his elves ragged, as in a 2014 scene from xxxtrasmall.
Honestly it seems like Kevin just has a deep-seeded thirst for blood, and it can only be sated by the murder of a bumbling and loveable working-class stooge.
The movie spinoff, "In the Loop," (directed by the "Veep" creator Armando Iannucci) follows Tucker to America as he tries to contain the fallout from the bumbling prime minister's comments.
When God does appear, he is more often than not portrayed as a bumbling entity that has forgotten why exactly he did the whole creation business in the first place.
They have also changed the narrative of Mr. Ye and CEFC, as court documents and other new information portray a bumbling company with much less political heft than it appeared.
Privy to it are the senior members of the large, somewhat bumbling bidimensional bureaucracy that manages the portal, who are allowed to pass between worlds using visas measured in hours.
It stars the ever-wonderful Lesley Manville as Cathy, a sweet-natured widow and mother to a bumbling son (Sam Swainsbury) with the most hysterically dim girlfriend (Lisa McGrillis) ever.
Given the context and the initial bumbling of the process, it is understandable why some thought that Mr. Musk's interest in SolarCity was a way to bail out his investment.
Recent historical scholarship suggests that Arendt did, indeed, underestimate Eichmann's ideological passion for National Socialism: Much of his clownish bumbling in Jerusalem may have been a conscious, self-exculpating performance.
For several months, Mr. Abe, who has been in office since 2012, has been dogged by influence-peddling scandals, as well as repeated bumbling by some members of his cabinet.
SNL's Bush cold open kicked off with a few jokes that reminded us of the way the iconic comedy show portrayed the 43rd President as a bumbling but likable guy.
But the standout is Timothy Omundson's King Richard, the initial antagonist who steals the show as a blustering, bumbling dictator with a heart of gold (and a truly magnificent beard).
What follows is best likened to a disturbing Home Alone sequence, as the bumbling Cam piles consequence atop consequence in his efforts to get away with this ill-conceived plot.
"I really believe Kavanaugh is not a gang rapist, a sexual predator, or a stumbling bumbling drunk," he said, adding, "I believe it because I've known him for 20 years."
Page himself later said he was working with the CIA, yet the media not only dismissed his claim but was very openly dismissive while portraying him as a bumbling fool.
Any hopes the bumbling and beleaguered New York State Athletic Commission had that this weekend's numerous regulatory fiascoes would just vanish with the end of UFC 210 are fading quickly away.
While Honnold's climbing shines, Honnold the human is presented as almost some kind of idiot savant, a "bumbling, dorky, awkward kind of goofball," according to North Face professional climber Cedar Wright.
The men on the show are neither antagonists nor bumbling idiots, they're simply secondary to the women's goals, be that getting to the bottom of a case or literally committing murder.
Overseeing the circus is a bumbling store manager named Glenn (Mark McKinney of "The Kids in the Hall"), a Christian who sometimes can't keep his religious views out of the workplace.
On the contrary, the series's commitment to its past sources, including Death Race 2000 and general grindhouse dreck, make its contemporary commentary on climate change feel like and eerily bumbling afterthought.
The last big Mountie-themed movie was Dudley Do-Right, released in 1999, which was based on a bumbling cartoon character of the 1960s who rode his horse (called "Horse") backwards.
Mr Barton uncannily replicates BoJo's behavioural tics—the hair-ruffling, the bumbling gait, the posh speaking-voice and the ums and ahs—but he is given little else to work with.
Sam Richardson (the relentlessly cheery Richard Splett) and Matt Walsh (Selina Meyer's bumbling former press secretary) scan the Internet for inspirational quotes to send their pal before she heads into chemo.
But more often than not, porn likes to lean into the juxtaposition of a bumbling and kindly old man indulging in the carnal pleasures most humans crave without breaking his character.
"In the public arena he exploits at least the following masks: the rousing orator, the affable conversationalist, and the bumbling amateur," said Paul Chilton, professor emeritus of Linguistics at Lancaster University.
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon depicted former President George W. Bush as bumbling and inept, faulting him for presiding over a "destructive" presidency during his time in the White House.
Following Tuesday's elections, it's clear many have convinced themselves that Trump is somehow simultaneously the bumbling man behind the curtain in Washington and the great and powerful Oz in congressional districts.
"I am speeding ahead and I'm just bumbling around, making mistakes right and left—at work, with my family, being imperfect everywhere because I'm a human being," Zimmern says, almost confessionally.
The déjà vu is in a bumbling idiot of a president who is totally unprepared to do what's necessary to deal with the health and wellbeing of the people he serves.
The new division of family labor is hard on Bob — their daughter, Violet (Sarah Vowell), has boy problems, for starters — but his Mr. Mom bumbling predictably gives way to heroic fatherhood.
That's why actors often get type-cast; it's hard to spend years as the villain on a drama and then show up as the bumbling dad on a new family sitcom.
It's a scourge that the aforementioned bumbling nitwit has written about, and while state legislators have tried to constrain these sites, there really is only one entity that can help: Google.
If Apu has to go for political correctness's sake, then other "Simpsons" characters have to go as well, since they all are representations of bumbling people of one kind of another.
President Trump, who has otherwise been incompetent, unprincipled and bumbling in his foreign policy debut, was right to order the cruise missile attacks after Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons.
Bill Dana, a comedian and comedy writer whose most famous character, the bumbling, English-mangling José Jiménez, provoked anger as well as laughter, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville.
But the Republicans' silence says more than their bumbling words ever could: There is no coherent case to be made in Trump's defense, so the best response is none at all.
They confirmed widely held suspicions about how the primaries unfolded but were less shocking than humiliating evidence of Democratic bumbling — as memorable for their mere occurrence as for what they contained.
Balty is a recognizable type: the bumbling, shiftless young man with neither talent nor accomplishments who ingenuously blurts out things he shouldn't say yet manages via wile and luck to survive.
So if a Pentium II could turn Homer from a bumbling schlub to a college professor in two weeks, a modern Intel chip would have to make him some kind of god.
Yet north of the border, Mr Johnson is kryptonite: a bumbling Bertie Wooster who takes his privileges for granted and expects other people to clean up his messes and darn his socks.
He can't (or makes no effort to) distinguish between bumbling and purposefulness; ethics and corruption; normal and abnormal behavior—because these distinctions have never been a lasting source of value to him.
Garlock played the bumbling layman to Redmond's charismatic expert; as the games went on, I found myself entertained by the deadpan sass Redmond lent to his patient explanations of absurdly complex matters.
Israelis initially celebrated the 2010 operation, but then the Dubai police released images showing some of the 17 people suspected of being in the hit squad bumbling about in almost comical disguises.
He pulled me in to be the little spoon but when he put his arms around me I was enormous, bumbling, an ethnic giant in the grip of a tiny Nordic princeling.
Against all odds, hellas and all, the bumbling teenagers came across as deeply authentic, and by the end of the game, storms swirling, you were deeply invested in the two of them.
Starring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, each of the films climaxes with an epic showdown pitting Kevin against The Wet Bandits: two bumbling oafs named Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern).
Sure, there were occasional moments of idiocy, like when I made a mistake at work and a colleague responded by putting on a comic Irish accent and doing a bumbling-peasant impression.
It's been nearly 60 years since a shrewd flying squirrel and a bumbling moose first appeared on television to foil the sinister plots of the stereotypical Cold War villains Boris and Natasha.
On Sunday, 513 days after a bumbling season opener, Brady threw for three touchdowns and completed 251 of 40 passes for 210 yards in New England's 36-20 rout of the Saints.
As a longtime fan of P.G. Wodehouse and Chaucer, and a student of history, Mr. Johnson surely understands the way bumbling plays in both the public mind and the British character narrative.
His bumbling, unprofessional behavior often got him into trouble on "The Office"; it should come as little surprise that he won't be popular among his band and crew members on tour either.
Luigi's Mansion 3 tasks Mario's bumbling brother with rescuing his friends from a haunted hotel, but — in typical Luigi fashion — he's a reluctant hero who is scared every step of the way.
A friend in São Paulo had suggested that puta babaca might be a good way to describe a bumbling, Brazilian Clark Griswold, but he'd neglected to mention the phrase's more vulgar connotation.
Sweet, bumbling Andrew Scott as the priest isn't really a Daddy in the traditional sexual role-play sense; he's around Fleabag's age, and seems, in many ways, just as lost as she is.
Having already broken all the rules of the Night's Watch, including sleeping with women, and some of the rules of physics, like coming back from the dead, Jon Snow is bumbling no longer.
Indeed, the exchange recalls "Four Lions" (2010), Chris Morris's send-up of bumbling jihad, in which a would-be terrorist records a comically inept message of hate while brandishing a child's toy rifle.
I don't begrudge them this reality gap, though — that's half the fun of TV. The Bold Type isn't trying for the bumbling, angsty realism of, say, Girls' depiction of twentysomethings in the city.
The original series, which ran for two seasons between 2001 and 2002, starred Zim, a bumbling alien who is constantly concocting schemes to take over the world so he can impress his leaders.
In all of these instances, these women are able to take the offensive roles thrust open them by the likes of a well-meaning but bumbling Sam and recreate the parts for themselves.
We see Kyle settling into his life with Van; bumbling a bit with his own kids even while he's a baby whisperer at work; sneaking away to watch recordings of Alison's TV show.
When it comes to its response to this tragedy, Jacksonville continues to be average — in its lack of credible gun violence solutions, in its bumbling administration, and in a plethora of other ways.
After watching the Succession premiere weeks after it aired, I felt the acute physical need to speak to someone about Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun), the bumbling odd one out of the Logan family.
But as someone who grew up in Los Angeles, I've always found it interesting to hear what visitors think about this stretched-out collective of neighborhoods bumbling around pretending to be a city.
The health benefits of drinking alcohol seem to be locked in a perpetual tug of war, with science swaying back and forth on the issue, not unlike a bumbling drunk on a sidewalk.
Founded in 1994 to offset a weak, bumbling response to the AIDS pandemic at the World Health Organization, UNAIDS is today one of several international agencies dedicated to fighting the spread of HIV.
More recently, she has starred as Selina Meyer in "Veep," a celebrated HBO show satirizing a bumbling vice president and the Washington strivers around her, for which she earned six consecutive Emmy Awards.
Like a mathematician, she puzzles her way through her mother's death, her sister's dangerous sleepwalking, her father's profound grief and subsequent depression, and her guidance counselor's bumbling attempts at providing her healing therapy.
The actual governor wants to bring the area under the rule of law, and dispatches a bumbling, decent sheriff (Frank Wolff) to bring Tigrero and the rest of the bounty killers into line.
There are no TSA agents to delay him, but he is waylaid by the bumbling Inspector Fix (Dennis Herdman), a Scotland Yard officer who believes, wrongly, that Fogg has knocked over a bank.
My rookie mistake, I realized, was not trusting the machine and trying to compensate for what I thought were its shortcomings with my own bumbling efforts to support myself and move my legs.
Consider "Johnny English Strikes Again" — starring this rubbery-faced, Gumby-limbed comedian as a bumbling would-be James Bond — which arrives seven years after the franchise's second installment and 15 after the first.
We'd have to believe that the nation's history includes wild partisan divisions, irrational conspiracy fantasies, bursts of political violence, absurd manipulations of truth, willful subversion of constitutional principles and loads of bumbling ineptitude.
If you're like me and keep fumbling and bumbling drinks while trying to handle your phone in one hand like a ridiculously inept infomercial actor, boy does PopSockets have the product for you.
Turns out all that texting, emailing, Instagramming, Netflixing, Bumbling, and engaging in other extremely necessary parts of our days may be more damaging beyond distracting us from what we're supposed to be doing.
The bumbling Chip is reluctant to help, but Liza is persuasive — she punches hard — and before you can say "They shouldn't be bringing weapons to this supposedly nonviolent robbery," everything hits the fan.
You don't have to wait until the early hours of Christmas morning to see Santa bumbling about your room — now you can just invite the jolly old chap straight in via your smartphone.
Graham said on the "Today" show on Tuesday that Nunes was bumbling his way through something of an "Inspector Clouseau investigation," a reference to the fantastically inept protagonist of the "Pink Panther" comedies.
Kumar's deadpan humour and Shukla's wonderful turn as the droll judge whose bumbling demeanour hides a tough interior provide some bright sparks, but the rest of the film doesn't live up to these standards.
Even though de Blasio is often portrayed as bumbling in the city's tabloid press (see: the Great Groundhog Incident or his gym routine), he is not especially unpopular in the city on the whole.
Reynolds, master of raunchy comedy and bad parenting advice, is set to produce Stoned Alone, a reimagining of the 1990 classic holiday film about a boy who must protect his home from bumbling thieves.
" Each poster features the bumbling crew of Search Party — Alia Shawkat, John Early, Brandon Michael Hall, Meredith Hagner, and John Reynolds — along with this season's tagline, "I miss when my problems were about nothing.
For much of this week, as Cespedes seemed bound to join the Washington Nationals — where he would have reunited with Daniel Murphy — the Mets were cast in their familiar role as stingy and bumbling.
In Kabir Khan's drama, this one-time all-conquering hero has morphed into a bumbling dimwit who bursts into tears at the slightest provocation and can barely land a blow on the bad guys.
The simple truth exposed by the stumbling and bumbling collapse of the repeal effort is this: There is a big difference between making promises as the minority party and governing as the majority party.
Punk is a genre of harsh edges, but this Vancouver band is so committed to hardness they're all snarl all the time — Sleater-Kinney are sweet pop balladeers by comparison, Perfect Pussy bumbling amateurs.
A string of controversies The airline's under intense scrutiny now thanks to the dragging incident involving Dr. David Dao—as well as the airline's bumbling response to it—which means more attention to incidents.
It's a COMPLETELY different story from the one De La Hoya told this week -- in which he painted Trump as a bumbling cheater who repeatedly tried to pull fast ones on his fellow players.
While it's possible to watch the scariest parts of our political landscape play out on TV, Veep reminds us our leaders may be far more bumbling than shows like Quantico lead us to believe.
Jack & Dean Of All Trades, which launches Tuesday on Fullscreen, follows the duo at a temp agency, bumbling their way through a variety of odd jobs in the hopes of finding their true calling.
Jason Schwartzman voices a bumbling postman, who hatches a scheme to get the community to loosen up, and in the process inadvertently inspires the annual Christmas traditions that so many people know and love.
Media reports in Britain and New Zealand said he picked up the nickname "bumbling jihadi" after he failed to turn off the geotagging function on his Twitter account, broadcasting his location to the world.
There's the family drama, in which the endearingly bumbling George (for starters, he buys the wrong house in New Zealand) learns to be an adult under the withering but loving gaze of his children.
And we'd fight them off all the same—years of working together in DayZ and Gears of War have given my crew an edge over a pair of bumbling teens driven only by revenge.
Now while the man, yes, did steal the scene early in the film with his bumbling glory, here the woman steals the fucking show—beginning, yes, with this weird, insanely awkward backhanded sledgehammer swing.
He emerges from these pages less as a formidable colonel than as a bumbling philanderer and entitled hypocrite who promised marriage to two women at once without thinking either one would call his bluff.
One of the first Hollywood productions to be hailed as a cult film, this parodic thriller about a bumbling scheme to loot Africa's uranium mines was an outlier in the successful Huston-Bogart collaborations.
The actor who played the bumbling high schooler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, was praised for his role and went on to secure a nomination for the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance in 2008.
JL also had regular appearances as an actor on "Arrested Development," playing Warden Stefan Gentles ... the bumbling lawman who aspired to be a big shot screenwriter and was kinda obsessed with the Bluth family.
"The first story we read, it's a romance story about a bumbling guy reaching for a woman well out of his league," Mr. Booker said of the short story "EPICAC" in the Vonnegut book.
Sure, the Baron and his oil-rich army were in control of this place, but they were bumbling at best; powerful not because of expertise, but because of their numbers and their control of resources.
Sometimes, this initial phase is cut short by bad luck and sudden violence, which tends to erupt in the most unseemly ways; ill-prepared teams bumbling into one another and having nasty, brutish, short firefights.
After weeks of building concerns about the Trump administration's bumbling efforts at security, someone in the federal government is finally expressing concern about reports that President Donald Trump is still using an unsecured Android smartphone.
And while both the book and film portray the Klan as mostly feckless, along the lines of the bumbling Stalag 13 crew in Hogan Heroes, the group is extremely dangerous and murderous in real life.
A group of women on a bachelor party head to a remote cabin, booked on an Airbnb-like service, only to discover that they've walked into a sadistic murder trap hatched by some bumbling idiots.
Three bumbling blokes talking about cars on the BBC doesn't sound like a recipe for ratings, but something about the combined personalities of Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond made their exploits compulsive viewing.
In less positive news: Donald Trump is still surrounded by sleazy, bumbling ideologues who often seem to differ from Pruitt only in that they are slightly better at avoiding horrific headlines about absurdly shady shit.
There were comeuppances: Richard Horne's painful death, Chantal and Hutch's execution not for being hired killers (the bumbling Las Vegas FBI didn't even seem to notice their stakeout) but for being a couple of assholes.
In addition to giving horror the imagery of the shuffling, bumbling zombie that's nevertheless fiendishly difficult to kill, Romero's latter zombie films were explicitly anti-capitalist explorations of modern consumerism and nihilism in American society.
Ace Attorney offers an alternative—it's a game series where the bumbling police always arrest the patsy, and you have to prove that the obviously guilty mustache-twirling witness, is, in fact, the true culprit.
As revealed in the Podesta emails, at the same time Clinton was bumbling around the issue of encryption, her two lead tech policy advisors, Sara Solow and Teddy Goff, were watching the debate and cringing.
"This is going to be a big industry globally, but we're stumbling and bumbling to get there," said Erik Gordon, a clinical assistant professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
This line of thinking ignores the fact that Jon fails like it's a sport, bumbling his way from one scenario to the next, until some woman—Arya, Daenerys, Sansa, Ygritte, or Melisandre—saves his ass.
By bumbling into face-to-face talks with Kim, Trump has certainly helped reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, but the Trump administration has so far done very little to counter North Korea's nuclear threat.
"One of the best ways to avoid bumbling into war, a war that nobody wants, is to have a robust open debate and for Congress to have a real say," Schumer told The Washington Post.
Alone among the bumbling politicians and other officials who try to assess whether the disturbance is significant, a midlevel bureaucrat named Rando Yaguchi (Hiroki Hasegawa) realizes that a giant creature beneath the waves was responsible.
Equating the show's clumsy portrayal of geeks and geek culture to a decades-long history of systemically portraying black people as bumbling fools is, I hope I don't have to tell you, pretty dang offensive.
For all of his bumbling verbosity and avuncular artlessness, Democratic front-runner Joe Biden serves as a remarkably elegant illustration of all that ails the Democratic Party's bid to retake the White House in 2020.
A surge of resistance to a bumbling and unstable president has sent millions of people into the streets, into the faces of politicians, and into bookstores to make best sellers again of authoritarian nightmare stories.
The puzzlingly fearsome, bumbling, schlub-shooters whose blaster fire is so inaccurate that it's inspired a whole sub-genre of YouTube video compilations mocking the incompetent foot soldiers for consistently and historically missing their targets.
Dream Daddy is a comedic visual novel where a bumbling but well-intentioned single father moves into a cul-de-sac full of attractive, interesting men, all of whom (naturally) take a quick interest in him.
It is wildly delightful to me that Lara Jean and Peter are bumbling around my hometown, that I can even now conjure a sense memory of running laps at a Portland prep school in the fall.
He's one of two leads on the new Comedy Central sitcom Detroiters, a show about a pair of bumbling commercial writers who see the world through rose-colored glasses and rarely, if ever, get work done.
"Our proposal ensures that the air traffic organization can operate as a high-tech service provider, not as a huge bumbling bureaucracy," Shuster said at a hearing to mark up the legislation for full House consideration.
The awkward, bumbling side character became a stand-out on this summer show, which slowly won over audiences thanks to its smart and often darkly comic writing against the backdrop of wealth and power in America.
Then, in the laboratory where the hosts are refurbished for yet another loop, Maeve woke, and proceeded to force a pair of bumbling technicians (Leonardo Nam and Ptolemy Slocum) to alter her intellectual makeup and abilities.
C.) on Tuesday mocked House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes's (R-Calif.) investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, likening him to the bumbling fictional character played by Peter Sellers in the "Pink Panther" movies.
There were brief moments when I felt like an omniscient general, sure, but more often I was an overworked sheepdog, running in circles to try and keep my flock of tanks form bumbling into an ambush.
In "Walk of Punishment," the bumbling squire Podrick is revealed as a great lover with a possibly enormous penis, even though we're already endeared to him for saving Tyrion's life at the Battle of the Blackwater.
Unless you're a magical elf who can blend seamlessly into the trees and sneak up on whatever's stalking you, getting lost and bumbling your way through the forest is probably going to result in your death.
Roper illuminates Andrew's interior life to reveal not what an odd duck he is, but what odd ducks we all are — lonely, confused, misguided, bumbling and, as we learn in the book's powerhouse ending, profoundly bereft.
Rather, Donald Trump is an egomaniac afraid he will be blamed (rightly so) for his bumbling response to the global pandemic, and for the deathly delays in ramping up testing and production of life-saving equipment.
Plot points include a pignapping, Mija's desperate pursuit, a bumbling Animal Liberation Front troop, an insecure corporate villainess (played with pitch-perfect iciness by Ms. Swinton) and a foray into the grisly mechanics of factory farming.
It is here, in the midst of this complication and the only slightly far-fetched antics fueled by it, where Zellweger's Bridget shines: Her insecurities are made charming and familiar, the bumbling nature is warm and winning.
"It feels like we are in an early '90s Rodney Dangerfield movie that is very poorly written, where the president is played by a bumbling idiot who is both stupid and sensitive to the extremes," said Selvig.
On September 5th Congress will return from a month-long break to face a devilish cavalcade of necessary legislation and a White House pushing for the big policy victory that has eluded it for eight bumbling months.
Despite being equipped with a $6 million bounty including motorcycles, horse trailers, flexible handcuffs and 2,000 new sets of protective gear, Loomis is worried that his colleagues will hit the streets handicapped by a bumbling city government.
A bumbling Long Island liquor-store thief who got caught stuffing bottles of hooch in his pants, only to be shot by the store's owner as he tried to get away, wants $2.7 million for his injuries.
As of now, it's as believable as her flirtation with Art Bae, I mean, Luca Hall (Luka Sabbat), and far more sensible than her bumbling relationship with the really, really, ridiculously good looking Aaron Jackson (Trevor Jackson).
The Death of Stalin is Iannucci's most complex and almost nihilistic rendering of what politics is: A team of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position.
Observers of the hearing wondered if Kavanaugh's bumbling response was simply a ploy to avoid offering a damning response, while others suggested that the gambit was an effective way for Harris to generate buzz ahead of 2020.
The BBC show, which debuted this spring, features our lord and savior Sandra Oh as a relatably bumbling and neurotic British Intelligence agent name Eve Polastri who is trying to track down a serial killer named Villanelle.
However, the decision has revived online discussion as censors have in the past targeted the film's main character, originally conceptualised by English author A.A. Milne, due to memes that compare the bumbling bear to President Xi Jinping.
His lifelong project, in many ways, is an attempt to reconcile those two people: the penniless, bumbling foreigner who speaks atrocious English, and the cocksure Sarajevan who was once intelligent and cool and desirable—who was somebody.
As we know, the bumbling Gungan created by George Lucas first appears in The Phantom Menace as comic relief, then has a hand in creating the Empire as an advocate of emergency powers for the duplicitous Palpatine.
Great Wall reminded me more of Big Trouble in Little China—John Carpenter's fantasy-action-comedy starring Kurt Russell as a bumbling, arrogant truck driver who gets caught up in the mystical underground of San Francisco's Chinatown.
But a new video released this week by China Global Television Network, an English-language affiliate of the state broadcaster, took direct aim at the American leader, portraying him as a bumbling man indirectly advancing China's interests.
The whole mess started because the president's bumbling son-in-law, well-rested after bringing peace to the Middle East (finally), took on the task of getting the private sector fired up to help fight the pandemic.
The role requires both expert comic timing and the skill to convey real pathos, plus the ability to seem less like a self-assured child star and more like a bumbling preteen on the brink of adolescence.
Don Jr. and the campaign have largely dismissed the meeting as a one-off that came about on the false promises made by a bumbling music manager and a lawyer who oversold her connections to the Kremlin.
It's a lighthearted late '60s action comedy, full of bumbling pratfalls and failed seductions all scored to the kind of vaguely Chinese-sounding music common in that era's spy films, meant to evoke the exoticism of international espionage.
One neat feature is the ability to use the Slate as a telescope, yet its fixed optical zoom means you're often bumbling around at the edges of skyscraper-sized tower structures trying to see where to go next.
As he sets to work, Kelly for his part will undoubtedly seek to end the deception and bumbling that have characterized the White House under a President whose impulse is to deny and distort whatever facts displease him.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads After leaving a recent screening of The Disaster Artist, my mind wandered to another, much better film about a clueless auteur bumbling his way to silver-screen infamy: Tim Burton's Ed Wood.
"Once again, we received evidence that the U.S. economy is just bumbling along and will most likely remain so until after the U.S. presidential election," said Tom di Galoma, a managing director of fixed income at Seaport Global.
With his unkempt blonde hair, bumbling humor and penchant for Latin quotations, the man known to Britons simply as 'Boris' will be the government's most colorful figure, but a controversial choice for conducting sensitive diplomacy with world leaders.
Trump's tweet about the 2016 meeting reads like nothing so much as an exasperated father having to clean up the mess left by a bumbling offspring who -- it turns out -- is pretty bad at plying the family trade.
I also think Robin is somewhere lookin' down and laughing, remembering the first time we met backstage and I (for the first time ever) was a star struck bumbling idiot that couldn't even get my words out. Idiot.
Trump's words won't erase the bumbling response to the disease's spread, and this has been a major problem for those Americans citizens who don't have confidence in the president -- who himself is the face of our federal government.
But Angela does turn out to be amoral, manipulative and dishonest, traits that make her both a caricature of feminine guile and a promising fiction writer — perhaps more fully committed to the art than her vain, bumbling teacher.
Further, after Shell's bumbling and ultimately fruitless $7 billion attempt to find oil, companies have been abandoning old leases right and left, and, whatever their ambitions elsewhere, do not seem to be seeking new ones in the Arctic.
Mr. Noble was primarily known as a stage actor when he took the role of Eugene Gatling, the well-meaning but somewhat bumbling governor of an unnamed state on "Benson," which appeared on ABC from 1979 to 1986.
History raises serious doubts about how helpful this tyrannophobic focus on catastrophe, fake news and totalitarianism really is in dealing with the rise of the populist right, of which this bumbling hothead of a president is a symptom.
President Donald Trump gleefully mocked the Democratic presidential contender Mike Bloomberg as "stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent" after the former New York City mayor endured a tough night Wednesday in Las Vegas for his first Democratic presidential debate.
Mr. Trump's response has been to dismiss the reports by citing another famous intelligence assessment — the botched 2002 conclusion that the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction — and portraying American spies as bumbling and biased.
The idea of Jack as the progenitor of "Penny Lane" is as playful, as implausible, and every bit as encouraging as the notion that the bumbling bookseller in "Notting Hill" could capture the heart of a movie queen .
Both parties call on an array of witnesses, including the entertainingly bumbling Eugene Roberts (Joshua David Robinson), who was Malcolm's bodyguard for a while, but also an informant for the F.B.I. and the New York City Police Department.
Bryan Cranston is back as Titanium Rex, a superhero with a faulty prostate and some bumbling sidekicks out to save the holiday — if only they can stop quarreling — after Santa Claus experiences an existential crisis and runs amok.
The case of the bumbling spy is the latest episode involving undercover agents, working for private intelligence firms or other clients, who adopt false identities to dig up compromising information about or elicit embarrassing statements from their targets.
The notion of affirmative consent did not fall from space in October 2017 to confound well-meaning but bumbling men; it was built, loudly and painstakingly and in public, at great personal cost to its proponents, over decades.
At the beginning of the episode, Fran and Annie finally have their long simmering blow-up over Annie's relationship with Ryan (Luka Jones), a bumbling man-child who is slowly becoming less terrible than when we first met him.
The world remembers Rambo and Marty far better than they do Chase and Aykroyd's two bumbling spies, but the spies were just as important because they made America laugh at something most can't find the humor in—nuclear Armageddon.
Neverwhere's Richard is a charmingly bumbling Martin Freeman type who finds his inner hero over the course of the novel; his domineering girlfriend, Jessica, steps over the prone body of a girl lying bleeding in the street without blinking.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution's Adam Jensen is supposed to be the world's greatest super spy, but in my hands, he's a bumbling clown—he can barely sneak past a single guard without accidentally jumping when he meant to crouch.
The social network's bumbling initial-public offering in 2012, in which its share price sank in its first day of trading, caused some to speculate that Facebook was the embodiment of a new tech bubble that would inevitably burst.
For a tennis champion long viewed as detail-oriented, from the cut of her tennis outfits to the breadth of her business portfolio, there was a whole lot of bumbling going on behind the scenes in one crucial area.
"Frydman also wrote in a New York Times op-ed that "America's Mayor" — as Giuliani was called after the 9/11 attacks — had become President Donald Trump's "bumbling personal lawyer and henchman, his apologist and defender of the indefensible.
Certainly the Republican Party's audacity is worthy of indignation, but its strategic expenditures and long-term focus are impressive, enviable even — especially in comparison with the bumbling Democrats, who seem to have been blindsided by the G.O.P.'s takeover.
Be it Tina Fey's bumbling Sarah Palin or Darrell Hammond's robotic Al Gore or even Larry David's kvetching Bernie Sanders, SNL's purified and boiled-down sendups help define who these figures are in a way that holds tremendous power.
Elle Fanning looking scheming and regal as the future Catherine the great, Nicholas Hoult as her bumbling husband Peter III of Russia, and most of all — the exact same energy of creator Tony McNamara's Oscar-nominated film The Favourite.
Fifty years later, we remember Spiro Agnew, if at all, as a bumbling vice president who later pleaded no contest to tax evasion, resigned in disgrace and ended his career funneling military surplus to Saddam Hussein and Nicolae Ceausescu.
The main character's war was with the Army itself, and though he was never promoted beyond private, he bested the likes of the tough but ultimately endearing Sarge (officially Orville P. Snorkel) and the bumbling Camp Swampy commander, Gen.
It is the system as a whole that is at issue, and every time we pick out bumbling morons to lament or fresh-faced geniuses to praise is a missed opportunity to see plainly the necessity of structural change.
Iger has a cautionary tale much closer to home: his predecessor Michael Eisner's 21 years in command came to an end after a series of bumbling decisions and his rancorous spat with deputy Michael Ovitz sparked an investor revolt.
LONDON (Reuters) - Bridget Jones, the fictional bumbling Londoner obsessed with her love life, is back, this time pregnant as well as with more men woes, in a new trailer for the latest film based on the hugely popular novels.
Andrew Sachs, who starred in the British television comedy series "Fawlty Towers" as Manuel, the earnest but bumbling waiter who was regularly recruited into the schemes of the hotel owner Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, died on Nov.
But he didn't make the connection, and so when he would come to my apartment to drink and smoke and have bumbling conversations about politics, what passed for a relationship between us, he would bring the bag of hamburgers.
It has always seemed to me a way of noting a deficit without being vicious about it — a description of the bumbling sitcom dad who tries to fiddle with a circuit breaker and plunges the entire house into darkness.
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For the lightly bumbling heroines of bubblegum romances I grew up with, tripping into disaster was just a speed bump on the way to true happiness — not a way of life, as it was increasingly feeling like for me.
She and her staff initially come across as bumbling, but eventually you realize they have to have done something right to be working for the vice president, or running a presidential campaign that comes within a Constitutional hair's breadth of success.
Played by: Tim CurryHenchmenName: MicrobeCharacter: Okay, it may seem too ambitious to include some bumbling supporting characters that emerge from Petri Dish to handle small jobs on this cast list, but these guys are going to be the next Minions.
James Noble, an actor best known to TV viewers of the '80s — and those who caught the reruns on Nick at Nite and TV Land — as bumbling governor Eugene X. Gatling, died Monday in Connecticut, according to the New York Times.
" So it may seem especially mysterious how long it's taken the networks to offer fewer shows with, as Crupi said, "Kevin James and six other bumbling white people" and more shows with "storylines that have something to do with their experience.
Determined to partake in some casual sex, Issa, the winsome, bumbling protagonist of HBO's half-hour comedy Insecure, heads to her neighbor Eddie's apartment under the pretext of returning his phone charger in "Hella Open," the third episode of Season 290210.
Pierre Trudeau might have technically been a liberal, but he was the kind of liberal who declared martial law in 1970 when a bumbling handful of Quebec separatists were deemed enough of a threat to justify suspending civil liberties en masse.
For three years, brilliant programmer and Pied Piper company founder Richard Hendricks (played by Thomas Middleditch) has been the show's bumbling hero: a gawky genius with great ideas, a good heart, and a nagging tendency to shoot himself in the foot.
Lucas Hedges stars opposite Ronan as a charming but bumbling suitor, and Timothée Chalamet (who you'll recognize from the upcoming film Call Me By Your Name) also appears as a brooding musician that Lady Bird can't help but fall for.
Yingluck, ousted in the 2014 coup and derided by her many critics in Thailand as a bumbling proxy for her exiled brother, was accused of negligence in instituting a money-losing rice subsidy program and sentenced to five years in prison.
If you're reading this, you most likely are familiar with the Twitter account known as Dril, but if not, imagine the protagonist from all of SNL's 'Deep Thoughts By Jack Handey,' a bumbling, maladapted fool, but with arguably better intentions.
In an effort to provide more seating for the masses of bumbling singletons embarking on awkward first dates, restaurants have been ditching the dining tables, and are adding more tables for two and room at the bar, the Washington Post reports.
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair: I say retrograde because, well, it is—this trope of the bumbling dad overwhelmed by the complexities of keeping house and raising children, while seeing his true place as out there in the world doing big things.
Given all of that, it takes a lot to make such a character likable and funny, yet K. Todd Freeman pulls it off: We somehow wind up happy to see Mr. Poe show up for every incompetent, bumbling non-rescue.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar winner Renee Zellweger puts on her British accent again to play bumbling Londoner Bridget Jones in the third instalment of the film franchise, with the much-loved character, now in her 40s, single again but unexpectedly pregnant.
Gabe has been the show's token white ally since Season 1, and while there are a few other white faces (Troy's friend Kirk, Reggie's bumbling new roommate Colton), he's the only one that gets a little depth and back story.
The individual novels in the series offer wildly different settings within this world, from the street-level investigations of the Watch books, to the international disc-spanning adventures of the bumbling Wizzard Rincewind, to the cosmic scale of the Death novels.
Trey Gowdy said that Carter Page, the former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, was more bumbling detective than secret agent after the Justice Department on Saturday released a set of documents, once deemed top secret, relating to the wiretapping of Page.
Next year, two faces familiar to Western audiences will appear on the large screens in China as former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and bumbling British TV character Mr. Bean join the cast of two productions from world's second largest economy.
The whole spectacle was not only embarrassing for spotlighting the lack of organization among the men running Trump's bumbling White House, but for its naked attempt to deflect that by making it all Haley's fault for getting, like, confused and stuff.
Grant, best known for playing a bumbling English man in romantic comedies like "Notting Hill" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral," switches gears in his current project, "A Very English Scandal," which premieres in the United States on Amazon on Friday.
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Biden will be under intense pressure in the days ahead to avoid the kind of gaffes and verbal miscues that have marked his career and enable Trump's media cheerleaders on the right to portray him as bumbling and past his prime.
"Uncooperative political committee leaders, bureaucratic bumbling and flaccid fine enforcement efforts all contribute to election law breakers outrunning penalties during a time when campaign shenanigans — from Russian advertisements to government contractors bankrolling super PACs — are increasingly brazen and sophisticated," Levinthal wrote.
Mr. O'Connell, meanwhile, has a flair for spineless bumbling shaded with poignant vulnerability, and when he doubles as an unwillingly obsequious friar (a role played in 1959 by Charles Nelson Reilly, for goodness sake), his comic talents are in full blossom.
This same team, following a bumbling defeat at Washington three weeks ago, dealt a first-round pick for a receiver, Amari Cooper, and dismissed its offensive line coach — a move akin to firing a line cook at a foundering restaurant.
Every problem became seen through a military lens and everything became militarized: our foreign policy, the bumbling and destructive way we entered the quicksands of Vietnam, and then Iraq, and then Afghanistan, and then Syria, and so many other places.
It was publishers in New York City and other northern cities, the show notes, who took the lead in creating and disseminating racist images, songs and stories depicting African-Americans as bumbling fools, which hardened over time into more vicious stereotypes.
When you have the most popular cable news channel in the country raising questions about the scientific legitimacy of the crisis, and praising the bumbling leader as if he's doing everything right, you're sending a very confusing message to the public.
Mr. Iger has a cautionary tale much closer to home: His predecessor Michael Eisner's 21 years in command ended after a series of bumbling decisions and his rancorous spat with Michael Ovitz, Disney's former president, led to an investor revolt.
Carvey often portrayed Bush in an unflattering light -- as a bumbling leader with wild hand gestures who was out of touch with the average American (a caricature that arguably hurt Bush when he lost his race for re-election in 1992).
They must cover the legislative branch through the prism of the Constitution, to see Congress not as a bumbling backwater of policy making but as a coequal branch of government, designed as a check on the power of the executive.
While the 1933 film has its spooky moments (in one scene, the Invisible Man derails a train, sending hundreds of passengers off a cliff), there is also a constantly shrieking landlady, a bumbling police inspector, a lovelorn fiancée, and comical sots.
Opinion by: Krystal Ball Well, we are now officially on Day 22019 of the impeachment inquiry and it is going just as well as you would expect for a process led by the bumbling Democratic establishment and hyped by the media.
Trump and other conservative figures leapt to attackTrump on Thursday morning mocked Bloomberg on Twitter as "stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent," calling his performance "perhaps the worst in the history of debates," and launched more personal attacks on his height.
Lawmakers said they're concerned that by not singling out the Ukraine controversy — and aggressively pursuing an impeachment investigation based on that alone — they risk dragging out the process further, bumbling their message and losing the public's attention at a critical point.
When I write, I stage the drama of an encounter between my consciousness and the world — often bumbling, more farce than epic — rather than trying to tiptoe across the stage, trying to pretend as if I'm not there at all.
The family of billionaires flashes the occasional glimmer of likability, but it's far more the exception than the rule amidst Machiavellian overtones and bumbling decision making, all of which might otherwise be completely insufferable were it not so consistently funny.
The book quotes Bannon as insulting Trump and his children, calling Ivanka "dumb as a brick," saying Don Jr. was "treasonous" for meeting with Russians about opposition research on Hillary Clinton, and generally suggesting that Trump himself is a bumbling idiot.
Mr. Pullman sits tall, and then taller, in the saddle as Lefty, a loyal if bumbling cowboy sidekick on what becomes a surprisingly heroic quest to avenge the death of his longtime partner, a newly elected Montana senator (Peter Fonda).
He had first read "War and Peace" years earlier, while working as a pianist on a Celebrity Cruise to Bermuda, and felt an unlikely kinship with Pierre, whose bumbling adventures reminded him of his own meandering life as a twenty-something.
The satire of a bumbling Homer Simpson as a nuclear plant worker plays out the endgame of nuclear annihilation to an audience terrified of a nuclear accident in a way that tickles us but does not dissolve our very real fear.
Chase is a very likeable leading man, Frank Honey a bumbling comedy sidekick of sorts, and Forrest Blackwell makes for a suitably wickedly smiling main antagonist—though his British accent gives away his evil intentions long before its properly revealed.
On one side of this unbalanced equation is the optimism MacFarlane referenced at the TCA tour, which sees the Orville's bumbling crew leading heroic missions in which they learn valuable lessons about love and life and all that emotional jazz.
Unveiling the first trailer during the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Saturday, Colbert made it clear that Our Cartoon President isn't trying to paint Trump as a bumbling but harmless Homer Simpson type; there's a serious statement underpinning the satire.
"The Nice Guys," starring Ryan Gosling as a bumbling detective and Russell Crowe as an enforcer in 245 Los Angeles, generated a B- Cinemascore with its strongest traction among those under 24.24 and over 4.246.5 as the $11.3 million launch matched muted expectations.
As the season begins, Mike and Lucas are bumbling their way through awkward romances with Eleven and Max, respectively, and Dustin has supposedly picked up a Mormon girlfriend at camp, although he has trouble supplying proof that she does, in fact, exist.
Whether it's Steam's parent company, Valve, and its bumbling and inconsistent approach to community management, the hundreds of hate groups that fill the site, or the rampant abuse of free assets by content farmers pumping out garbage games to make some money.
A startling sequence in a later episode comes out of Rachel encouraging bumbling producer Chet (Craig Bierko) to ask the men about their views on feminism, leading to some of the supposed "good guys" revealing the angry misogyny lurking just beneath the surface.
Johnson, a divisive politician known for his often bumbling persona and disheveled mop of blond hair, looks poised for a landslide victory when votes are announced in the Conservative Party leadership contest next week, which by default will decide the next prime minister.
Rubio's line was meant to imply that Obama is not actually a bumbling fool who can't speak without a teleprompter—as conservatives have often portrayed him—but rather a Lex Luthor–level supervillain quickly destroying the country with his 20th-dimensional chess skills.
In the primary for France's centre-right Republicans, held in November 2016, Mr Sarkozy had focused relentlessly on the country's année de cauchemars ("year of nightmares"), blaming weak leaders and bumbling Eurocrats for failing to prevent a bloody series of terrorist attacks.
Her son Kabir is our reluctant superhero - a bumbling young man terrified of heights who metamorphoses into a cross between Superman, Krrish and MSG after a near-death encounter with Raka (Nathan Jones), a thug hired by Malhotra to cut down the tree.
In the 150-page report on the escape by the inspector general's office released on Monday, Mr. Sweat comes off as unrepentant and smug, describing prison guards as lazy and incompetent and his sidekick, Richard W. Matt, as a bumbling, overweight tag-along.
In 238, the character was spun off into his own series, "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," in which Gomer, still bumbling but well meaning, joined the Marines and, on a weekly basis, tried the patience of his loudmouthed drill sergeant, Vince Carter (Frank Sutton).
So there is teenage Eva (Jacqueline Guillén), bursting into tears on a prom night gone wrong, wanting so badly the solace of her mother (Maria Elena Ramirez), but having only her sweetly bumbling father (a terrifically winning Triney Sandoval) to drive her home.
The day after President Trump sent the markets into a panic with a bumbling and xenophobic Oval Office speech on the novel coronavirus, former Vice President Joe Biden sought to show America what it might be like to have a competent president.
I was bumbling around, lost in numbers, when another colleague, Brad Plumer on the climate desk, told me about a 2016 article by two climatologists that suggested a direct, linear relationship between carbon emissions and the melting of Arctic's summer ice cover.
Should the world continue to pause in silence to honor the sacrifice and bravery of those who fought it on the ground — "lions led by donkeys," according to a phrase used to scorn the bumbling British officer class drawn from the upper crust?
In Season 1's "Thanksgiving," Jess (Zooey Deschanel) scrambles to impress a colleague (played by a delightfully bumbling Justin Long) by cooking a turkey in the dryer, while glimmers of the zany, enduring chemistry between Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Cece (Hannah Simone) emerge.
Justin AmashJustin AmashAmash: Trump incorrect in claiming Congress didn't subpoena Obama officials Amash pledges to join Democrats to impeach Trump Ocasio-Cortez blasts McCarthy as a 'bumbling, sloppy, dishonest mess' over Trump defense MORE (Mich.), who quit the Republican Party on July 4.
Instead, they felt to me as inevitable and bumbling mistakes made by naive and greedy business people; mining all of our data for profit, and underestimating what bad actors could do with that information, was more or less what I expected from them.
Those five minutes, like the Senate committee hearings where Harris stared down bumbling Trump officials, captured the promise of the let-it-rip ex-prosecutor who'd launched her run five months before in front of 22,000 supporters with moving rhetoric and great expectations.
Graves, who's found depth as many side characters on British television (see: Sherlock, where he plays the perpetually bumbling Detective Lestrade), is in essentially the same boat with his portrayal of John, but the character's grief plays second fiddle to his wife's.
But on the other hand: Bumbling into the presidency after replacing first VP Spiro Agnew and then Nixon, Ford isn't traditionally regarded as "cool"; Chevy Chase's Saturday Night Live impression of him as a klutz remains basically the only thing we remember him for.
Frankly, I LOVE the idea of Kevin bumbling through awkward encounters with potential new buddies, and I have a great way to make it happen: Kevin's longtime group of best friends will all be murdered by the masked killer Gemini, a Long Island serial killer.
Then—because David Cameron is the kind of bumbling clown who leaves his glasses on his head, and then asks where they are—he walked away with a microphone still attached to his body, humming the apocalyptic melody of "Doo doo, doo doo" to himself.
A few increases in price, stricter limits on what movies users can see, a few other nips and tucks here and there—including a few tweaks to the system to fix its bumbling customer service issues—and it could remain viable thanks to name recognition.
Among the case studies highlighted by the EFF are the Syrian Archives—a cache of human war crimes documentation which YouTube has repeatedly flagged, and Tumblr's bumbling adult content filter which indiscriminately removed scads of content, much of which wasn't sexually explicit at all.
No one is suggesting that James Dolan is a necessary cog in the Draft Night Experience, but as with all things Knicks, his likely absence is the chef-kisses-fingertips moment of a bumbling organization careening further into a ditch than previously believed possible.
It's been less than a month since ride-share company Uber faced a heavy wave of backlash that led to the "#DeleteUber" hashtag and now, after the publication of an employee's allegations of sexual harassment and HR bumbling, the hashtag is burbling back up.
Even their oblivious landlord Schneider (Todd Grinnell) and Penelope's bumbling boss (Stephen Tobolowsky) get great material this time around, making real cases for themselves as important parts of the Alvarez family's lives (which wasn't always the case in season one, fun though they were).
The stereotypes are true, in other words: Compared to Europe, we are naïve, bumbling hicks who are socially conservative to a fault, willing to believe pretty much every life lesson handed down by Michael Bay movies, and not really that much fun to be around.
Vicious killers, bumbling lawmen, saddle tramps, bank robbers, scowling bullies — anybody you'd be foolish to mess with or trust in an emergency — Mr. Kennedy portrayed them all in more than 200 films and television productions in an acting career that spanned nearly five decades.
Shandling had frequently substituted for Johnny Carson as the "Tonight Show" host.) But the show was mostly concerned with what happened when the cameras were off, especially the interplay among Larry, his bumbling announcer and sidekick (Jeffrey Tambor) and his mercurial producer (Rip Torn).
It wasn't the best written show, and it wasn't, by many people's standards, an exceptionally brilliant program altogether, but the only thing that's come close to achieving what it did in the past decade is The Inbetweeners and its bumbling troupe of middle-class virgins.
I absolutely fell into this solve like a bumbling fool after figuring out the letters that correctly filled out the across half of these entries, which happened at 87A, "2002 Olympics locale," which is factually __ LAKE CITY, and that single __ has to represent SALT.
A combination of disgust with Chargers ownership—the bumbling Spanos family, too incompetent to reach actual villainy—and a growing dislike of the NFL's gradual transformation into the hokiest film's evil villain has pretty much sapped away my interest in and enjoyment of football.
Barkley ignited Buffalo's bumbling offense with two touchdown passes, including one to offensive tackle Dion Dawkins, LeSean McCoy broke out of a season-long slump with 113 yards rushing and a pair of touchdown runs, and the Bills embarrassed the Jets, 41-10, on Sunday.
Around the time of the Friday raid he posted angry comments by the daughter of Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the storied Soviet World War II commander who is depicted in the film as a member of Stalin's bumbling entourage jockeying for power after his death.
Trump's governing approach—characterized by a chaotic mix of small-government fetishism, big-government xenophobia, distrust of scientific authority, fondness for authoritarians, aversion to international coordination, and bumbling administrative incompetence, all topped off by a penchant for spreading disinformation—makes an effective response harder still.
After he is discovered by the authorities, Blas is banished to a labor camp, and a group that includes Macarena, her assistant (Loles Léon), married crew hands (Santiago Segura and Neus Asensi) and a bumbling actor (Jorge Sanz) must smuggle him back to France.
I'd hoped that when we saw Annie again she'd have already kicked his mediocre ass to the curb, but he's still bumbling around the second season in far too many going-nowhere scenes — a reminder of who Annie was, not the amazing woman she's becoming.
Justin AmashJustin AmashAmash: Trump incorrect in claiming Congress didn't subpoena Obama officials Amash pledges to join Democrats to impeach Trump Ocasio-Cortez blasts McCarthy as a 'bumbling, sloppy, dishonest mess' over Trump defense MORE (I-Mich.) left the GOP because of Trump and backs impeachment.
Whether rushing to salvage the cases of Scotch newly liberated from a foundering cargo ship, or scrambling to hide their spoils from a bumbling Home Guard captain (Eddie Izzard, creamy English vowels at the ready), the islanders are as uninteresting as Macroon's woolly cardigans.
Mr. Blatty collaborated with the director Blake Edwards on the screenplays for four films, beginning in 1964 with "A Shot in the Dark," the second movie (after "The Pink Panther") starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau and, in some critics' view, the best.
LONDON (Reuters) - Hugh Grant is best known for playing the bumbling Englishman in romantic comedies so when the role of a cockney-accented private investigator in Guy Ritchie's new crime caper came up, the actor was a little hesitant to portray someone so different.
Wood was possessed of a certain oleaginous charm and generally bumbling manner, which belied the work he'd done on behalf of clients like Herman Cain, JonBenet Ramsey's parents, and Richard Jewell, who was named as a suspect in the 1996 Olympic bombing before being cleared.
Then, after bumbling through two attempts to get it right, the president did the unthinkable last Tuesday, when he essentially rescinded his previous denunciation of the perpetrators and started a brawl with the press over the "many sides" he deemed responsible for the deadly violence.
He is now, at 13, the youngest coach in the N.F.L., hired by the Rams two years ago, after they finished their first season back in Los Angeles as a bumbling mess, and tasked with shaping a winning team and energizing a fan base.
At the end of a year when it became a campaign tactic to deride "The Media" as a bumbling, faceless mass, it's impossible to overlook the significance of Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit against Gawker Media for publishing a sex tape featuring Hogan in 1803.
With the exception of Grace as Duke (a role the former That 70s Show star takes on with glee — the Topher Gracessance is real), they are all shown to be bumbling idiots wielding dangerous rhetoric (and often weapons), and made all the more terrifying as a result.
Although I'd never used a cock ring until five days ago, I believed I had an overall understanding of what to expect when two versions of it—the We-Vibe Pivot and Verge—were delivered to my desk by a bumbling, soft-handed messenger last Tuesday.
Obviously, he failed, compounding his failure by presenting the bumbling Boris Johnson — a claimant for Cameron's Prime Ministerial position — as some kind of slick political genius, rather than what he is: a man who looks like a haunted brush and who once got stuck on a zipline.
He also provides techniques to break the hand holding a blade, a disarming method that makes the holder stab himself, as well as a maneuver that seems straight out of Hollywood where one kicks the knife out of the hand of the bumbling, would-be assassin.
And now everyone's favorite bumbling blonde Brit forever in search of her true soul mate/dropping another ten kilos or so is back on the big screen as the film's star Renée Zellweger stepped out in Australia for the first press event for the film's latest installment.
There are explosions and deaths that never took place, a fabricated black power love interest, lots of laughs at the expense of bumbling racists, and some brilliant connections made between the Klan of the past and Donald Trump and the so-called alt-right of today.
You put the beer in it and it looks like the kind of thing a kooky Victorian inventor would have in his workshop when a violently proficient lady detective and her bumbling sidekick burst in to misidentify him as the murderer in a quirky Australian mystery series.
Jake Gyllenhaal takes a turn as a deliberately annoying Steve Irwin-type TV animal handler, and Paul Dano shows up as the leader of a group of bumbling activists from the Animal Liberation Front (a real animal rights' organization) who struggle to maintain their commitment to nonviolence.
In the new iteration, however, Queen Isabella is both single and pointedly not looking to settle down—"Whatever has that to do with the tournament?" she demands indignantly when a bumbling male advisor notes (accurately!) that some of the assembled knights are both handsome and eligible.
Then he risked it all, going hard after George W. Bush, accusing the last Republican president of failing to keep the country safe on 9/11 and bumbling his way into the war in Iraq, in a state whose electorate is known for being very pro-military.
For just one example: We know thanks to the bumbling of Representative Devin Nunes of California that Carter Page was targeted with a FISA warrant that was renewed three times, each for an additional 90 days, by two successive deputy attorneys general: Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein.
Add to this mayhem a climax full of ridiculously bumbling adults, a surprise cliffhanger ending and a villain who appears to have forgotten to bring his motivation for destroying the world, and it seems readers will have plenty of cause to complain — except they probably won't.
His light tenor is not large, but it's nimble and it suits the squeaky-clean nature of the good-hearted Frederic nicely, as does his throbbing earnestness as he switches his allegiance from his pirate crew to the bumbling bobbies trying to capture them, and back again.
But publicly the president and some of his backers on the campaign trail and in Congress have already started deploying attacks on Biden's son, Hunter, while painting the 77-year old former vice president as a bumbling candidate who lacks the mental fitness to run the country.
At the annual New Jersey Legislative Correspondents' Club dinner in 2013, she performed in a sketch with Mr. Christie in which her character was loosely based on "Veep," the H.B.O. comedy series about a bumbling vice president who constantly craves the spotlight and the president's approval.
I'll lay my cards on the table: To me, Sanders is looking increasingly electable, the virus looks like it could reshape much of daily life at least in the short term, and the Trump administration's response to it is bound to be bumbling and perhaps extremely scary.
When the bumbling minions of the envious Hades (Roger Bart) fail to kill the god-baby as instructed, he is raised on earth as a clumsy lunk who wants nothing more than to be a hero so he can return to his rightful place on Olympus.
As author of "The Wind in the Willows," Grahame was the creator of the fictional Mole, a mild-mannered character beloved by children everywhere for messing about in boats, bumbling dimly into the Wild Wood and otherwise misadventuring with Ratty, Badger and Mr. Toad of Toad Hall.
Editorial It was fitting that President Trump closed out his first 100 days in another bumbling attack on Obamacare, trying and failing to jam a bill through the House this week that had no chance of passing the Senate, just to create the illusion of action.
Chandler is best as the paternal figure in dramas (most notably, Coach Eric Taylor in the TV series Friday Night Lights) rather than as a bumbling officer who seems to be constantly perspiring and is ineffectual in his comedic riffs on being a failed leader of men.
I set aside the dopey, bumbling manner of his technique, the kitschy stencil borders, the garish dissonant color of the Reaper backgrounds, the clumsy drawing outlining his devils, and explored the possibility that Smith's art is not in his painting but in the act of making the paintings.
And it's true: little Kevin McCallister dishes out some lethal tactics to beat up the bad guys like a miniature action hero, taking out his frustration on two bumbling, house-invading burglars (portrayed by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) after enduring relentless abuse from his siblings and cousins.
Their bumbling brand of comedy feels like it's meant to mirror the police plots in Barry, but it's underdeveloped and just gives way to a dumb scene where a thirsty Miles, locked in a breast-pumping room, resorts to drinking stored milk rather than using a presumably working sink.
He had a long acting resume, appearing in films such as Animal House, and shows like St. Elsewhere, but he will be fondly remembered as as Vir Cotto in J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5, where he played the diminutive and bumbling assistant to the station's Centauri ambassador, Londo Mollari.
GOP front-runner Donald Trump has stumbled in the Badger State, bumbling through a radio interview with one of the state's biggest conservative pundits (who backs Ted Cruz); criticizing the home state conservative hero; and finding his usual outspoken schtick unwelcome in a state known for its politeness.
My tales often start promising enough: I'll wake up from Stasis, my buff and crew-cutted astronaut (I nicknamed him Slab Squatthrust) makes a few bumbling journal entries about how lonely he is and how he's losing his mind just a little bit, and I'll start exploring planets.
He also briefly headlined his own variety series and co-starred in several Disney live-action comedies during the '70s, such as "The Apple Dumpling Gang" and "The Shaggy D.A." Before then, he starred as bumbling Ensign Charles Parker in the comedy "McHale's Navy," from 1962 to 1966.
The Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov, in his Met debut, was especially impressive as the young poet Rodolfo, bluff in horseplay with his bohemian fellows; tender in his unsettling, bumbling encounter with the seamstress Mimi; powerful in his impassioned outbursts of love and despair, showing real metal in the voice.
The report refers to two potential futures: a "baseline projection," or what can be expected if we somehow manage to majorly correct the course of things; and a far-scarier "adverse projection," or what happens if things just continue bumbling along the current path of doom and destruction.
The internal competition between Russian spy agencies is fierce, and S.V.R., a potent and storied foreign intelligence agency, is widely recognized as more competent, and stealthier, than Russia's bumbling military spy agency, G.R.U. It was G.R.U. that was caught red-handed in 2016 meddling in the presidential election.
When Mr. Slater looked at the pages of the script — the characters were named Bubble Bert and Bumbling Bub — he realized that the lines were from an early "SpongeBob" episode in which the title character eats a pie that Squidward, his grumpy octopus neighbor, thinks is a bomb.
Mr. Lewis and Mr. Martin cobbled together a routine based on their after-hours high jinks at the Havana-Madrid, with Mr. Lewis as a bumbling busboy who kept breaking in on Mr. Martin — dropping trays, hurling food, cavorting like a monkey — without ever ruffling the singer's sang-froid.
In fact, the debate raised more questions than answers -- namely how he'd perform in primetime debates against President Donald Trump and what contrasts he could meaningfully draw with Trump, given his own record and bumbling comments on women, policing and even his own taxes (what's wrong with TurboTax?).
The North has managed to surprise the world before with its digital savvy: In November 2014, its devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in an effort to kill "The Interview," a comedy about two bumbling journalists sent by the C.I.A. to kill Mr. Kim, exposed American digital vulnerabilities.
Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE, the bumbling former HHS secretary grounded by a private jet scandal, Azar is a career lobbyist and bureaucrat who despite having no healthcare experience or interactions with patients knows how to get things done politically.
LONDON — Londoners responding to a knock on their front doors in recent days may have been surprised to see a familiar face grinning back at them: Hugh Grant, one of the country's most recognizable actors, who made his mark as the floppy-haired, bumbling leading man in romantic comedies.
Mr. Gautier's next high-profile role came in 1966, when he was cast as Hymie, a robot who is programmed to do evil but switches sides and befriends the bumbling spy Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), on "Get Smart," the hit sitcom created by Mr. Brooks and Buck Henry.
It's called "Weak and Incompetent Leaders act like Strong Leaders," and it makes a simple point: The very same actions Zunger interprets as a devious, coordinated plan can also be interpreted as the bumbling, defensive moves of a weak leader who doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
While it seems almost impossible to upstage last week's exciting announcement that McCarthy will be officially reviving her role as the bubbly, bumbling chef Sookie St. James on the reboot of Gilmore Girls, the actress may have gone ahead and done just that with this latest neon-hued sartorial offering.
The show's terrific cast includes an incredibly game Daniel Radcliffe, who finds laughs even in lines that aren't explicitly written as jokes; Steve Buscemi as a bumbling, kinda bored God, who maybe can't read when you come right down to it; and an excellent breakout performance from young actress Geraldine Viswanathan.
McDonald's is nice enough to post lengthy release placards at the entrance, reminding everyone that anything they do in the loft can be photographed or filmed and used later for promotional purposes, including our bumbling about in VR. Of course, this isn't the first VR "game" used as a marketing tool.
Wood tracked down some of ISIS's most vocal propagandists and pamphleteers in the West, and far from being bumbling clowns—though there was certainly an element of cartoonishness in all of them—they offered cogent arguments for why the Islamic State was the only legitimate ruler of the Muslim world.
Borat also shares a new trailer for the film, which tells the story of two orphan brothers who were separated at a young age and are finally reunited many years later, when Cohen's character is the bumbling village idiot and his brother, played by Mark Strong, is a trained assassin.
For those not familiar with the dark Disney musical with tunes from Danny Elfman, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" follows Jack Skellington, the leader of Halloween Town, who accidentally crosses dimensions to Christmas Town and decides he wants to bring Christmas to his world — with some serious bumbling along the way.
Last night's episode, "Part 9," officially brought Twin Peaks: The Return to its halfway mark, and the beloved Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) is completely MIA, our hero Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle McLachlan) is a bumbling man-baby named Dougie Jones, and very few scenes have anything to do with each other.
The film premiered two years into the run of "Hogan's Heroes" on CBS, a madcap, Emmy-nominated comedy about a German P.O.W. camp in World War II. One of the prisoners would sometimes dress up as the Führer to bamboozle the hapless commandant, Colonel Klink, and his bumbling minion, Sergeant Schultz.
Reasonable, cautious and wholesome to the point of blandness, Mr. Hunt is the opposite of Mr. Johnson, whose charisma and bumbling, confected persona have made him the clear favorite in the contest, despite an early setback when the police were summoned to the home of his girlfriend after a loud argument.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Struggling to shake his image as a bumbling dolt before local elections on Sunday, the acting governor of St. Petersburg made a rare public appearance this past week to open three new subway stations that had taken six years and cost more than $500 million to build.
As fish-out-of-water lawyer Josh (Nicholas D'Agosto) struggles to prove that his bumbling client Larry (the dependably great John Lithgow) didn't kill his wife, the town of East Peck comes alive with oddballs played to perfection by the likes of Sherri Shepherd (20173 Rock) and Jayma Mays (Glee).
But increasingly, it seems that many of the Golden State's extraordinary advantages are being recklessly undermined by a governor who likes to think of himself as a beacon of rectitude – but who has a record of bumbling incompetence, special interest corruption and ideological extremism that places him firmly on the Loony Left.
Friends and former colleagues who spoke to BuzzFeed News described Erickson as a longtime bachelor, a "wild character," a "bumbling bullshitter," a "mystery wrapped in an enigma," and "a sharp political guy" with a colorful past, known for hyping his connections and driving a bright red 1990s Mustang with the license plate RTWING.
The internet's fervor was warranted: The essay, about bringing his son, the sartorial wunderkind, to Paris Fashion Week, is a loving testament to parenting — the pride of seeing one's child in his element, the aching realization that with such autonomy comes greater distance, and the often bumbling attempts at bridging that gap anyway.
Toward the end of the show, there's a match between Lance Storm, a young wrestler who was new to the company, and William Regal, a veteran whose most recent on-screen role had been less about wrestling and more about his exploits as the bumbling, put-upon "commissioner" of the World Wrestling Federation.
The Death of Stalin, from Veep creator Armando Iannucci, tamps down the unrelenting joke delivery of Iannucci's earlier work in favor of a more complex, almost nihilistic rendering of what politics is: a team of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position.
About a third of this 90-minute film is about bumbling artsy types trying to figure out what to do when they get stuck babysitting a corpse, and another third has Wilkes and Maggie carrying on a long conversation about how a daily awareness of human mortality can strengthen a person's will.
INGRAHAM: They&aposve got to have more than this poor bumbling Carter Page, God bless them, or this Papadopoulos minor figure in London who it looks like they are trying to set up by having the contact go and meet with him and plant stories with him as Joe D. just said.
Longtime fans of the series will spot several nods to previous games — Falco plays an approximation of the original SNES Star Fox during his downtime, Peppy yells advice at inopportune moments, just like in Star Fox 64, and Slippy Toad remains a bumbling moron who shouldn't really be allowed in the air.
For those in Northern California who are severely lacking in their very own Monk's Café, a place where they can convene with their friends and kvetch about the little indignities of the world, Sacramento is now home to Costanza's, a Seinfeld-themed bar named for Jason Alexander's bumbling, balding character George Costanza.
Let's let Los Angeles Times columnist Dylan Hernandez tell you what happened: Days after unveiling and promptly retiring the most reviled logo in Los Angeles sports history, the new head coach of the perpetually bumbling franchise opened his introductory news conference Tuesday at the StubHub Center with an unfortunate slip of the tongue.
Adapted by Megan Doyle and Jeffrey Sanzel, with a book by Sanzel and a score by Kevin F. Story, this Theater for Young Audiences half-hour production moves closer to the original story when Snow White falls asleep in the school library and dreams of seven dwarfs, bumbling characters who mine words.
He's bolstered by a terrific cast that includes an incredibly game Daniel Radcliffe, who finds laughs even in lines that aren't explicitly jokes; Steve Buscemi as a bumbling, kinda bored God, who maybe can't read when you come right down to it; and a terrific breakout performance from young actress Geraldine Viswanathan.
And good on them, honestly, unless you want to take the cynic's route (love that route, btw) and note that, for the league, outrage over anthem protests provides a handy distraction from other news that is more central to the NFL's troubles, such as its bumbling/unconscionable handling of domestic violence and head injuries.
From virtually the moment that Donald Trump was inaugurated and signed his bumbling Muslim ban, politics has felt like a long series of emergencies, with progressives constantly having to scramble to get the fighters in the air before a bombing raid that, all too often, they knew they had no real chance of stopping.
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: During lulls in the action, there are bumbling attempts at what seems to be Besson's notion of romantic banter between the two leads, with Valerian awkwardly gurgling sentiments about settling down somewhere (and where would that be?), while Laureline looks disdainfully skyward as the man-child eats her dust.
It's most definitely not the Weinstein who painted himself as bumbling and clueless when he responded to the The New York Times article with a statement that he "came of age" during an era when workplace culture was "different" and therefore his actions were the result of ignorance, not predation and abuse of power.
That bumbling was on display last Tuesday as well, when he tweeted out an encouragement to Virginia voters: The problem being, of course, that the election for Virginia governor, a hotly contested race between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie, was happening the day of his tweet—"today" rather than "tomorrow," in other words.
For me I realized how out of step I was when I looked at Trump's various bumbling intuitions: his desire to improve relations with Russia, to denuclearize North Korea, to get out of the Middle East, to question why we are fighting in Africa, even in his attacks on the intelligence community and the FBI.
Most of it was petty, bumbling, and shabby: favoritism and graft, wheeling and dealing, mainly done not by the President but by the men around him, not least the notorious Grant staffer and Whiskey Ring swindler Orville Babcock, whom Grant could never bring himself to fire but instead rusticated by appointing him Inspector of Lighthouses.
During that week of the Clyburn endorsement and the South Carolina primary, unsettled Democrats were also watching a split screen as the current commander-in-chief begin bumbling his way through the coronavirus response, claiming it was "a problem that's going to go away" and tweeting that the stock market was looking good to him.
Set on a luxury space cruise to Saturn, things don't go according to plan for Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) and his crew as they navigate the final frontier and a whole host of peculiar passengers, including bumbling billionaire Herman Judd (Josh Gad) whose ideas are almost as bad as his feathered, blond hairdo.
From bitter Merrick Garland ("Could've been me," he grumbles, watching Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's Senate hearing from a local dive bar) to bumbling Jared Kushner ("The senior advisor to the president quietly moved the task 'solve Middle East crisis' to his to-do list for next week …"), the site takes gleeful swipes at both sides of the aisle.
So we seize on tech mishaps and old-fogey tendencies because it feels good to paint the picture of Trump's people as bumbling, out of touch goons — when in reality it's seasoned, morally compromised guys like Stone and opportunists like Nunberg who very intentionally got us into this mess, when none of us saw it coming.
What it's about: There's a reason people keep adapting The Jungle Book — it's fun to see a little kid run around with big animals, and Kipling's characterization of paternal Bagheera the panther (Christian Bale), bumbling Baloo the bear (Serkis), and whispering python Kaa (Cate Blanchett), along with many other animals, has stood the test of time.
But she can't escape all aspects of corporate life: the team must sit through a bumbling presentation about psychopaths that Eve considers a waste of time, especially because she's able to contradict some of the statements, especially about how to control a psychopath, which is something she's about to attempt by introducing Villanelle and the Ghost.
" She added that Nielsen was "lying to the American people," and that her "Standing up and lying for a racist is a horrid thing to watch," referring to the secretary on Instagram as "yet another Trump stooge" who is a "complete fumbling bumbling mess" engaging in "A HORROR SHOW" and ended the press briefing "full of lies.
After all of this subtle plotting, we end up at the natural conclusion: a deep dive into drug culture at Cal U. When a rumor runs through campus claiming a drug dealer has been "popped" — "a classic two to the back of the head" — our BFFs assume it has to be bumbling low-level businessman Vivek.
The Death of Stalin, from Veep creator Armando Iannucci, tamps down the unrelenting joke delivery of Iannucci's earlier work (like 2009's In The Loop) in favor of a more complex, almost nihilistic rendering of politics as the work of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position.
In "Our Man Down in Havana" Mr Hull argues that, as well as drawing on his secret-service experience to describe the bumbling nature of much intelligence work, Greene was eerily prophetic about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, which arose when reconnaissance flights proved that the Soviet Union was constructing missile sites on the island.
Britain's foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, was criticised for repeating the bogus figure of £350m ($475m) that the Leave campaign in last year's referendum had claimed Britain could save by departing the EU. Defending his position after a cabinet colleague said he was "back-seat driving" on Brexit, Mr Johnson gave a bumbling interview amid speculation he could resign.
"Part of me is concerned that The Incredibles 2 will fall into the standard stereotype of the bumbling father that struggles with childcare, messes stuff up at home, and has to call his wife at work and say, 'I can't do this,'" said Billy Kilgore, a Nashville-based at-home dad who writes professionally about his experiences.
Concerns by foreign policy experts are that the call indicates Trump is a bumbling, rank amateur when it comes to foreign policy, who hasn't consulted with the State Department prior to calls with foreign leaders, and will hurt American prestige at best, or, at worst, is a loose cannon that is leading America to war with China.
We talked about it a bit during our E3 podcast, but the demo for The Last of Us Part II starts off with a scene where Ellie—the protagonist of the new game, after her turn in the first—shares a sweet, sexy, realistically bumbling dance and kiss with Dina, another major character in the story.
A spike in search traffic occurred two hours after the polls closed Obviously, he failed, compounding his failure by presenting the bumbling Boris Johnson — a claimant for Cameron's Prime Ministerial position — as some kind of slick political genius, rather than what he is: a man who looks like a haunted brush and who once got stuck on a zipline.
During last year's election campaign, the Goggleboxers had their political leaders sussed: accurately identifying Nigel Farage's anxiously frenetic attention-seeking ("He thinks with his mouth"), Ed Miliband's lurking self-doubt ("He doesn't quite know what he is doing") and Boris Johnson's faux-bumbling opportunism ("Beware the fool, because in all Shakespeare plays, the fool is actually the clever one").
Like "Dog Day Afternoon," the humorous overtones of bumbling bank robbers can be amusing at points along the way, like the scene when Sonny allows the female hostages to practice twirling his rifle as if it posed no threat to the hostage-takers themselves and meanwhile federal agents are putting together an elaborate plan to take the robbers down.
And though Dawson is preaching from among the internet's largest platforms — his channel surpassed 20 million subscribers this year — he acts as if he is bumbling through the dark corners of the web and reacting with wonder at whatever freaky idea pops up, as if he is watching a scary movie with millions of his closest friends.
But there's another possibility, one that could have much broader implications for the way the administration conducts its foreign policy going forward: that some individuals in the military purposely want to paint Trump as at best a bumbling idiot, or at worst a careless and impulsive leader whose rash decisions will get American service members killed.
The bumbling, exasperating, sometimes corrupt, often oblivious Democratic Party — always the party of immigrants and (however belatedly) the party of people of color — is the party of inclusion, and its win this year, in the face of relentless demagoguery and racism, makes it truer than ever to say it was a good night for our democracy.
Co-produced with BBC One (it debuts a few days earlier in Britain), the six-part drama stars Ms. Jensen as a registrar in Leeds, where she invariably summons precisely the right words for life's big moments — births, deaths and marriages — while bumbling through her own relationships, hampered by an office indiscretion and a blackmailing colleague.
Yeah, it's too bad we won't live, but out here in the real world we actually made it to November of 2019, and it's our job to make sure the children of Los Angeles and every other misbegotten bumbling city get to the next milestone, frames dragged at the speed of light toward something better, if we build it.
"I have no confidence in the Trump ground game," said Fergus Cullen, a former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, noting the swarms of volunteers for groups like Planned Parenthood and other Clinton supporters he has seen in the state, and the bumbling efforts of Trump volunteers, a complaint that has been echoed in many other states.
Each episode of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle zips through 22 minutes of an action-packed serialized story, explained by a breathless narrator (Daran Norris), who tells the audience how Bullwinkle (Brad Norman) and Rocky (Tara Strong) keep innocently bumbling into international crises, bringing them into conflict with Pottsylvania secret agents Boris Badenov (Ben Diskin) and Natasha Fatale (Rachel Butera).
For last night's episode, hosted by Adam Driver, better known to us now as Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Vader-esque baddie Kylo Ren, Stapleton dusted off "Tennessee Whiskey" follow up single "Nobody to Blame" and the searing deep cut "Parachute," the former a song about the bumbling, indelicate loss of love and the latter, about holding onto it at all costs.
Among the lovable, very funny actors in prominent roles are Steve Brady as Elisha Whitney, a hard-drinking stockbroker and excessively proud "Yale man" who secretly carries a torch for Evangeline; Ray DeMattis as Moonface Martin, a bumbling gangster who wants more respect; and Mychal Phillips as Erma, another gangster's girlfriend, who has just the right raucous voice and strut for her role.
Jonathan Elliott had zero experience and credentials obtained in three minutes online when he performed his first wedding in 2011 in Princeton, N.J. But he didn't make rookie mistakes, like asking guests to be seated halfway through the ceremony, or as was the case with one bumbling officiant, fumbling the pass off of the rings and dropping them into a lake.
The series and subsequent films were adapted from manga by the mangaka known as Monkey Punch, and The Castle of Cagliostro hems pretty close to that series' template: the gentleman thief Lupin III is accompanied on a daring robbery by his best friend and right-hand man Jigen and the quiet ronin Goemon, and all are chased by the bumbling policeman Zenigata.
At least seven lawsuits have been filed against it; dozens of states have rejected some or all of its bumbling, and possibly illegal, request for voter data; and thousands of voters have dropped their names from state rolls, with most telling officials that they didn't trust the commission or were upset to find out how much of their personal information was public.
By contrast, McCabe offers a scathing depiction of Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a hapless, bumbling leader, with regressive and uninformed beliefs about national security, who harkened back for the "old days" when the FBI "only hired Irishmen," not those with "nose rings and tattoos," and appeared fixated on "immigration, even when there was no immigration angle" on any given topic.

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