Gags the Green Bay Clown Gags made headlines because people associated the clown with menace, not birthdays.
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A library of over 35 million goof, gags and ruses.
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Besides missing gags, the crop is generally annoying and bad.
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The gags are not as good as the choreography, though.
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Airlines were putting visual gags in their safety demonstration videos.
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Here are 11 of the best gags from Obama's speech.
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The film revels in deadpan acting beats and sight gags.
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But the show isn't merely a string of improvised gags.
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These memes are more than just gags; they're campaign opportunities.
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No one is safe from Huckabee's famous spoofs, goofs, and gags.
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Perhaps most of all, we'll miss ThinkGeek's April Fools' day gags.
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These gags work because the audience is in on the joke.
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Loaded's gags are somewhat unoriginal, but they work within this context.
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Sure, David discovers Tessa's nature when she binds and gags him.
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"I do a lot of gags on my dad," he said.
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Then you see this entire wall of latex gags and masks.
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No, despite eight years of hacky "Candidates as 'Thrones' Characters" gags.
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Hayes Brown: But don't worry even he didn't like the gags.
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They aim big — big props, big gags, big falls — and dangerous.
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There are sight gags, and much fun is had with the kooky ways a swords-and-sandals cartoon guy would respond to regular society, but the show's humor extends beyond its fish-out-of-water gags.
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The two pumped out a new cartoon or game every Monday, with the humor of them deeply entrenched in inside jokes, recurring gags, and hidden Easter eggs which led to even more inside jokes and recurring gags.
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The proposal came complete with one of the series' signature running gags.
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Your filmography's full of great visual humor, sight gags, things like that.
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But it's more than just cheap gags to entice a millennial audience.
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Baby gags on plain pasta, so he eats chickpeas and bananas instead.
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Two months later, Gags lookalikes seem to be everywhere, real and imagined.
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"Making weak and feeble gags wasn't going to cut it," he said.
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" Even with their barrage of insider musical theater gags in "Something Rotten!
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In the beginning, Wesselmann's greatest ambition was to write gags and cartoons.
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If you watch them closely, the even laugh at the same gags.
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How did you create Conner's tour, with all its ridiculous background gags?
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Equally bracing is the release he finds in gags, whips and paddles.
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You can flip through this novel for its gags, which zip past.
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Once again, the packaging steps in to sell many of the gags.
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At its worst, the movie's time-specific gags don't even make sense.
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There are so many cutaway gags that the show feels bored with itself.
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There's some genuinely funny writing in Mario + Rabbids, and plenty of visual gags.
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You can always hire writers who specialize in great gags in the future.
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The gags are situational, highlighting the natural humor occurs when people begin dating.
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Not cellophane across the toilet bowl type gags, but pranks all the same.
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Wikihow's bizarre illustrations are one of the oldest running gags on the internet.
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Anonymous tinkerers use them to create and disseminate political gags or nonconsensual porn.
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What came first, your character design or the visual gags associated with them?
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He imposed gags on federal employees in the earliest days of his administration.
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Duncan's gags target everyone, from his good friends to people he's never met.
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It's funny because of the absurdity of the situation rather than just gags.
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Every year on April Fools' Day, Google rolls out a slew of gags.
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These sketches rise and fall on the gags, which are hit and miss.
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One of the best gags involves Billy pretending to be riveted in a
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Its creators have hewed suffocatingly close to the film's story, gags and dialogue.
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More slapstick gags are assigned to an Aquaman knock-off called The Deep.
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A midseason entry that turns Family Guy–style cutaway gags into a literal evil.
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Can You Spot All the Apple Gags in This Poster of a 1984 Macintosh?
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The fan responsible for lining the episode with Rick and Morty gags is Jeopardy!
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He just has a bunch of gags, haphazardly aimed in a variety of directions.
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As fans have noticed, the crop can cut sight gags from the Disney+ release.
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It's one of the show's most sophisticated and most intricately filmed gags about selfishness.
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Cleverly animated by Nitrogen Studios, the movie abounds with quick visual and verbal gags.
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"The Ranch" is only a middling comedy, loaded up with corny and broad gags.
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I hesitate to unpack too much from his grab bag of gags and conceits.
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Perhaps Drake is our foremost generational voice; not through his music, but his gags.
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But the movie's gags and irreverence feel like Waititi specials (he did "Thor: Ragnarok").
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Watch: The Netflix comedy "BoJack Horseman" has had many animal gags during its run.
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But these gags never seem to connect to the internal struggles of the characters.
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Angie Tribeca's got jokes, gags, and charismatic actors tumbling out of every possible corner.
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As is the case with most Silicon Valley gags, there's an elaborate dick joke here.
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The slender plot recedes behind a welter of sight gags, word games and slapstick riffs.
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His gags and applause lines brought responses like refrains in church, obscure to non-members.
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It shows off plenty of interstellar gags, and comes with a release date: September 10th.
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As for the meat pic: Yeah, they pretty much just all made weak meat gags.
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But the same could be said for plenty of episodes and gags from Seinfeld predecessors.
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Yet the pair has also raised plenty of hackles in their pursuit of visual gags.
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Even obvious gags made me laugh out loud, toeing the line between childish and cerebral.
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It's broad and dubiously sentimental, and relies on gross-out slime gags and mega-pratfalls.
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It's impossible to resist the beauty of tried-and-true squirrel-in-a-mask gags.
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Yet hope we do, even as the vulgar sight gags and plot inanities pile up.
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And there are even a couple of amusing, albeit unmemorable, sight gags and one-liners.
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I loved the zaniness, the silly gags, the outrageous conceits and, later, Groucho's double entendres.
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Keep a close eye on the set's background; there are jokes and sight gags everywhere.
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It's like a greatest hits of political jabs and one-liners turned into TV gags.
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Wisely using Isaac Hayes' Oscar-winning original score, the clip packs in gags and action.
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Don't get me wrong, Mariah isn't some sort of flawless icon whose gags always land.
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They moved on from being visual gags; they were conscripted instead into the project of realism.
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"Don't forget about Harambe," is the subtext of each of these memes and absurd sight gags.
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A similar thing happens in the current Broadway show Tootsie, and it's played for major gags.
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That same year, for instance, breast implant rumors prompted late-night gags about teenage Britney's denials.
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While many of the gags are Hollywood-specific, more of them are designed to be universal.
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There's his Punks Git Cut zines, which are little visual gags like David Shrigley might make.
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Jarmusch litters each scene with visual gags that I think only he is supposed to get.
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Clarence has lots of Easter eggs and callbacks to earlier episodes, and lots of running gags.
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And the people who are now dressing up like Gags almost certainly understand this, Bushman said.
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A few Oregon delegates appeared at the convention on Tuesday with black gags over their mouths.
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The writing is alternately wry and outlandish, delivering jokes and sight gags at a rapid clip.
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Think "Archer" plus "Mad Men" plus jokes about colonialism, with a few sight gags thrown in.
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This, and other men-dressed-as-women gags, the article says, could be seen as transphobic.
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And the gentle gags are more likely to evoke faint smiles than full-on belly laughs.
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There are not one, not two, but three sight gags which assume vaping is inherently funny.
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When their own fathers arrive for Christmas, several barely disguised gags from the first movie repeat.
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People still laugh at its slapstick collisions and abusive gags, but the humor has gone stale.
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In the end, Mike kidnaps and gags Santa Claus and berates him for perving on children.
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Visitors might come expecting gags, pranks, and laugh-out-loud moments to share on social media.
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My understanding is that comedy comes in threes, and we had done two "Perfect Strangers" gags.
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There are three running gags that are so delightful, no one should spoil them for you.
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Like if my drink has a little floater in it, I'm like [gags], get it out.
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"Mom would draw most of them, and Dad would think of the gags," Ms. Fradon said.
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" The show is full of gags like these: Josh: "This whole trial is a witch hunt.
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It established long-running gags like "bazinga" or "Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty" or Howard's unseen overbearing mother.
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A meditation about the cost of superheroics doesn't pair easily with gags about Wonder Woman's invisible jet.
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There are silly side plots and puerile dick jokes, and earnest speeches immediately undercut by snarky gags.
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Nope. The two gags are just elaborate April Fools' Day pranks created by the search engine company.
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It's almost entirely silent, and therefore relies almost entirely on sight gags to make its jokes land.
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Visual gags, minor characters, and old references often recur throughout the show and take you by surprise.
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In the last few days, the White House ordered media gags on the EPA and the USDA.
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In most cases they like to welcome the world to their home with a string of gags.
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No gags would be funny enough, no casting perfect enough, to do what that first movie did.
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Rumors are surfacing that Gags is actually just part of a horror film shoot, which is great.
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The stuff that wasn't in the sound play, like visual gags—that's what we figured out together.
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I could loosen up sooner or later, and shake off some obsessions and even add some gags.
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Several wore cloth gags or tape over their mouths — a motif this week for Sanders die-hards.
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Guest-animated couch gags have become a welcome trend over the past few years on The Simpsons.
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When I searched Steam Groups for "Nazi" I found groups that didn't seem like gags at all.
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In pop culture, it's often depicted as comical (how many comedies are powered by male nudity gags?).
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To stand by and do nothing is, as Lena Dunham so wonderfully puts it, "gags the victims".
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In the booth, there was no time to follow the plot or laugh at the sight gags.
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The humor still blends low adolescent vulgarity with spy movie satire and sophisticated sci-fi sight gags.
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It's just funny, sweet, and imaginative, with visual gags and gentle jokes that never really get old.
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"I made a mistake," he says in a plaintive voice that has launched countless big-screen gags.
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The characterizations and gags in this film set the template for the coming generations of cartoon comedy.
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He's brought back a few original bandmates at recent shows, testing new material and reviving cherished gags.
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Before he was suspended from Twitter, Mr. Stone used the site to play out long-running gags.
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It's a field guide to 30 years' worth of sight gags, pun titles, and pop culture references.
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A woman at the bathroom sink gags when she spies a bar of soap riddled with strange hairs.
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There are a few really funny extended gags, and the side characters do kind of grow on you.
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The Onion (1996)Comedy, especially the kind of throwaway gags the internet traffics in, doesn't always age well.
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But then once Aku resurfaces, you go back to the wry visual gags that have always surrounded him.
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There's an innocence to their gags — the flower that squirts water, the never-ending scarf, the honking nose.
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As a number of Reddit commenters have pointed out, clever museum gags like this one are quite common.
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It's a giddy film, lighter than the first, and crammed with visual gags and riffs on Disney history.
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The show's dynamite writers, illustrators, and animators squeeze in visual gags that happen faster than you can blink.
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It is both "low"—farcical, vulgar, reliant on physical gags—and "high", dealing in sophistication and witty repartee.
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And the memes in question weren't merely off-color in the eye-winking way of many Internet gags.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, for all its running gags and off-the-wall jokes, is a show about abuse.
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Naomi faces an uphill battle for recognition, and given the lack of gimmicks and gags, so does Equity.
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On screen, he wolfs down meals in a manner that becomes one of the film's better running gags.
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If he yawns, gags or puts a pen in his mouth, he can fool his brain a bit.
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It can be unnerving if your baby gags, especially if the world of introducing solids is fairly new.
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"Road Runner"-style gags recycled in computer-smooth 3-D animation still pack some punch, as it happens.
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Like daydreams, like sweet pastries consumed in secret, what the animals and their gags offer is pure delight.
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And like so many recurring awards show gags, it didn't get any funnier as the night wore on.
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The Lego figures are rendered with playful rigor; their limited movements and expressions generate some amusing sight gags.
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I'd hazard a guess that plenty of gags actually have a woman in the writing room behind them.
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Yes, much of the laughs come from a puerile place, but there's some genuine heart amid the gags.
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"Sometimes I'll switch gloves with Gags, and he'll be left-handed and I'll be right-handed," Zamora said.
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"Sometimes I'll switch gloves with Gags, and he'll be left-handed and I'll be right-handed," Zamora said.
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Anybody who goes to "Max Rose" hoping for gags and goofery will walk out frustrated at the end.
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It's also why visual gags on sites like Tumblr can perform better on Twitter or Instagram as screenshots.
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" She added later, "As much as I like observational gags, I also like things that are more surreal.
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"They were the best audience — they got all of the gags, and they landed heavy," Mr. Fraser said.
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But there's nary a laugh in the trailer, which sinks to sex-trafficking, constipation and blind-people gags.
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So we made this 20-minute thing, all improvised, with five songs and a couple of big gags.
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He's a schmuck, and the gags at his expense highlight how low-class he acts for a ruler.
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But back then, the gags were mostly for younger viewers who read comics or watched cartoons full of superheroes.
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Creepy, surreal and bracketed with song, it has the feel of a period radio drama, sound gags and all.
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The imagery is grossly disturbing, stiffly formal, and also funny — gags in more than one sense of the word.
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That desperation has turned what were once innocent gags into lowbrow exploitation for thirsty YouTubers itching to go viral.
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We discuss how Big Mouth combines increasingly dirty jokes and random gags with genuine thoughtfulness about sex and adolescence.
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In an episode that abounds with explicit video game references, the most hilarious gaming gags require a little digging.
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There are also plenty of sight gags, like a fish going fishing, or a coin who doesn't trust banks.
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Most people are just trying to build up a BDSM 101 collection: some rope, hoods, gags, blindfolds, maybe handcuffs.
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The 'Tonight Show' host has Hillary Clinton on this week, and it sounds like more gags are in store.
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These horrifying stories, along with gags like Berry's, have only helped to give real, professional clowns a bad rap.
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Yet the film isn't above simplistic cultural gags, like the use of poison wasabi as a method of assassination.
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There is no through line to this collection of domestic gags and, for the audience, no real lesson learned.
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But look beneath its stop-motion surface and you'll find a big-hearted film that's full of tremendous gags.
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"The movie seems a weird nightmare of rampaging femininity and gross gags," mused Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune.
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Similar gags recur in other works, with women of varying age and race inviting the gaze of lascivious men.
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In the novel's final scene a hard-won, qualified optimism is achieved through one of the book's running gags.
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The script's writers include Mr. Brooks and the comedian Richard Pryor; its primary comedic devices are gags and flatulence.
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Each page unleashes a fusillade of gags and comic sequences, careening from slapstick to blood bath and back again.
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Nurit Karlin's simply drawn cartoons, mainly for The New Yorker magazine, were subtle sight gags, rendered largely without captions.
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There are some fine sight gags (the police pass the time watching chess on TV as Americans might football).
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Therefore, most of the gags on TikTok are reliant on labels, music, or even lip syncing to be understandable.
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Setting up lame gags by telling the viewer how lame they are does not make them any less lame.
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The Trainwreck star denied allegations of joke theft after a video was released comparing her material to other comedians' gags.
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Like the show's previous seasons, the second half of season 5 contains too many subplots and running gags to cite.
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"BuzzFeed has been caught repeatedly stealing ideas, jokes, bits, gags, and therefore money from prominent YouTube creators," the petition reads.
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However, its spare, empty pilot, filled with sight gags, is one of the most inventive comedy premieres I've ever seen.
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But the gags improved, polished hard when a far-sighted officer assigned him to army entertainment during his military service.
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He also cracked gags about the recent controversy over his career-long habit of sniffing, kissing and pawing at women.
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And instead of enlivening suffocating dread with occasional banter, it fully invests in its silly sight gags and endearing humor.
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Social media and, especially, YouTube is rife with pranks—DIY ones, hidden camera stunts, pranks gone wrong and scare gags.
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When the eely hagfish senses danger, it spews out a cloud of milky slime that blinds and gags potential predators.
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The gags about not understanding Europeans, converting euros into dollars, and bad women drivers are al incredibly stale in 2019.
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Among other gags, one of Waggle's quirky e-mail newsletters is written humorously from the point of view of animals.
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I've done every shtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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While whips, chains, and gags have been around for a while, they've enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years.
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This also means the chief laughs in the Hotel Transylvania films typically come from physical gags and moments of slapstick.
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Within two minutes, the "Two Chainz" cold open fires off a year's worth of callbacks, inside jokes, and sight gags.
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Last year, the former Alaska governor appeared on Saturday Night Live to make some gags about a Trump/Palin ticket.
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Notably, the village inspector inspects the town's model village, which is the centerpiece for one of Hot Fuzz's best gags.
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Challenged to eat some nutraloaf, he sniffs, pulls a face, takes a little between thumb and forefinger, swallows and gags.
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I.V.-infection gags and an elephant ejaculating all over two men who've climbed into the vagina of a different elephant.
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From apps to gadgets and even clothes, read on for our favorite tech-y gags in honor of April 1.
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I'll tell you gags, I'll sing you songs (Just happy little snappy songs that roll along) Out of my mind.
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And Stanley Elkin's "The Dick Gibson Show," about a talk-radio host, is a landslide of gags, wordplay and imagination.
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At a Saturday show, patter was straight-up terrible, with gags about controlling wives, doctors' handwriting and van Gogh's ear.
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They take nature and art and knowledge seeking, flatten them into sight gags and stick them to every stray surface.
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Except to note that it works purely at the level of plot, rather than involving any jokes or physical gags.
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It's just a slipshod contraption of gags (not jokes, you understand) held together by the audience's will to be entertained.
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Rather, given its blizzard of sniggering gags about boners and butt slaps, it is aimed at adolescents of all ages.
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The man binds her, gags her and violently rapes her at knifepoint for hours, snapping graphic photographs all the while.
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Characters flit in and out, scorning development, and, when in doubt, he tosses generous handfuls of gags at the screen.
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In the moment, Homecoming and Far From Home's callbacks to the other films often play as Easter eggs or throwaway gags.
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So long as you keep it friendly and no one gets hurt, gags are pretty much fair game on April 1.
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But one stood out from the crowd as the dumbest and unfunniest of all the dumb and un-funny branded gags.
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The homeroom teacher went through a several-year transition arc, treating her surgeries and sex life as dehumanizing, gross-out gags.
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The film moves at its own pace, shifting tone from violent gags to dry office workplace banter to unapologetically sentimental beats.
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This is probably done on purpose, which actually helps the movie, but, unfortunately, so are the lazily vulgar gags, which don't.
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Of course, being a comedy about a cooking competition, the trailer lets us in on same major food-filled sight gags.
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Like most Rick and Morty gags, it is futuristic, seemingly totally infeasible, and at least sort of based on real science.
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There are running gags built on the simple premise that longtime sports broadcaster Brent Musburger's name is inherently funny to say.
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The trailer offers little beside the dynamics of their relationship and multiple mid-con gags, but honestly, that's all we need!
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In a world of sloths and "dolphins" and balloon gags, simple kind words are as low-key as one can get.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has no shortage of running gags — and one of the jokes that keeps on giving is Titus's nicknames.
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But those reviews don't just focus on the film's solid mystery, or its great gags, or even its terrific character work.
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I always knew a tabletop RPG session was heading off the rails when people started doing gags and bits within it.
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But the twisted trauma that made the comedy feel so urgent has faded, leaving only seemingly random gags in its wake.
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His show The Ranch is a "middling comedy, loaded up with corny and broad gags," according to the New York Times.
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But Matt also couldn't keep from picturing another parade of scenes: light bondage, choking, gags, hand-shaped bruises on her ass.
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No matter what happens to the "Archer" team, fans can always trust in show creator and writer Adam Reed's running gags.
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As for the speed and the gags and the dance breaks, well, purists might want to keep some lavender drops handy.
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Of course, all actors love to re-enact theatrical disaster stories, and Mr. Harrison loads "The Amateurs" with plenty of gags.
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With its sight gags, verbal wordplay, pop culture allusions and jokes about high art, the show has humor of every stripe.
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For fans who are expecting another story involving gags, whips and safe words, "The Mister" may come as a let down.
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With its sight gags, verbal wordplay, pop culture allusions and jokes about high art, the show has humor of every stripe.
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Much like their "Very Bad" counterparts, the women quickly embrace self-interest, which leads to unfunny gags with an inconvenient corpse.
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Unfortunately, the gags seem a few years too late, immediately dating themselves: there are multiple jokes about Olive Garden's unlimited pasta.
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" When racist jokes get only bigger laughs, he switches to gags about sticking his fingers into women's butts and their "clams.
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Beyond obvious gags like the ice cream fight or Morgan pulling up Google search results, it's got some delightfully deadpan humor.
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Without a focused narrative, the humor dulled into a series of gags, propped up by guest stars who overstayed their welcome.
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Many of Chaplin's best gags have to do with the tramp getting lost in time, repeating the same actions without reason.
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The show garnered a rabid fan base for its running gags, rapid-fire quips and easy rapport between its two stars.
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One major sidequest nailed a string of physical comedy gags—which is a feat, given how broken the cutscenes can be.
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I started shouting gags at people and swanning around, almost knocking over a giant paper maché horse, and had some more wine.
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You know the one: Rachel Bloom has dropped the "Period Sex" video, in honor of one of the show's greatest running gags.
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The laughs derive from fish-out-of-water gags, as the Coneheads' customs and culture shock smack head-first against American normalcy.
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This personal input and rotating casting means that fans can see the same show several times and always chuckle at fresh gags.
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The new film hits many of the same beats, from Mark Mothersbaugh's bouncy electro-score to some of the same character gags.
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Fortunately for The Lego Batman Movie, while its gags may make it a one-trick pony, it's still a pretty funny trick.
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When comedians perform for big crowds in AltspaceVR, they can wear a full body suit, allowing them to act out physical gags.
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"We're going to take a look back and celebrate some of the show's most memorable moments and hosts and gags," said E!
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Unlike a lot of "all-ages" family movies, it doesn't rely on cheap sentimentality, sugar-high freneticism, or sarcastic pop-culture gags.
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In recent years, the opening monologue of the Oscar host has become a platform for gags and jokes lampooning politicians and Hollywood.
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President Donald Trump is the master blender of performance and politics, replacing policy pronouncements with a routine of gags and put-downs.
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He and the other characters often come across as straight men wandering haplessly through a series of mean-spirited Monty Python gags.
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Every shower, engagement party, wedding, and *gags* gender reveal event reminds me just how seldom a single woman is celebrated after graduation.
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Full of cheap gags, body-shaming, and a high school jock mentality, this bizarre music video is wildly bizarre and off-kilter.
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As you watch, you can spin the camera around and look all over the room, which is full of gags and jokes.
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Some might eventually follow suit, while others could use the void created by Microsoft to come up with even more grandiose gags.
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On her fifth time hosting the show, Melissa McCarthy stays true to what she likes: sight gags, transformative costumes, and Sean Spicer.
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There are many great gags in this movie, but you should watch it if only to know where "Sure, Jan" comes from.
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Of all the running gags throughout Gilmore Girls's seven season history, Emily's constant firing of her maids is one of the best.
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They pass up the obvious chances at misogyny, gay-panic jokes (so easy, given the several crotch-groping gags), and racist barbs.
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ThinkGeek's April Fools' gags are typically thoughtfully conceived faux-products, some of which become real products once enough fans offer enough money.
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Instead, it's an excuse to lean into a bunch of ridiculous gags about air travel made deliberately worse by horrible little monsters.
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There are one-liners and running gags and it's hard as hell to get right but brilliant fun to see working well.
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This year, more brands took the gags a step further and formed some unlikely partnerships in the name of absurd fake products.
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FX's comedy "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll," with Denis Leary, returns Thursday still suffering from dated gags about rock dinosaurs measuring their microphones.
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Heavy on sight gags, the movie delivers some raunchy laughs, but they arrive so sporadically as to make for a bumpy ride.
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There's a sense of pure respect for the product, with an undercurrent of irreverence marked by sight gags involving a toy whale.
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You can find restraints like gags or shackles and punishment tools like floggers or clamps in any sex shop—even on Walmart.com.
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And it's taking a toll on the real clowns, who just want to hear a laugh at the end of their gags.
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Say what you will about the paper—and there is a lot to say—but "Snyffidor" and "Snorticulture" are very solid gags.
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As might be suggested by a cartoon about a humanoid kitchen tool, "SpongeBob SquarePants" is replete with visual gags and aquatic puns.
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I think this is why some of the series' most successful gags come from the segments' packaging, rather than the segments themselves.
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Most gags trod on the already downtrodden have-nots of Dreamland, the show's trope-y fantasy kingdom backdrop, instead of punching up.
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GLOW never shied away from the issues, exactly, and it still has plenty of wild sight gags and humor and outrageous antics.
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If you place all these gags in the context of Ralph Breaks the Internet co-director Rich Moore's career, however, they make sense.
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The theme was Prohibition, and everyone arrived in their own kind of dressed up: leather and lace or ball gowns and ball gags.
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And then they moved over to Facebook, and made fake clickbait gags like 53 Secrets the Internet Will Never Tell You About Kittens.
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They're from the poorest region on the planet and are the butt of the most violent visual gags in the first few episodes.
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Like, if you can understand the context of a live camera, you could actually, I think, create lots of funny gags around stuff.
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Matt Goldberg, Collider: The biggest problem with the film is the pacing and perhaps relying a little too heavily on the Internet gags.
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The script is a mix of serious, modern-feeling dramedy and self-consciously corny sitcom gags, which sometimes feels like a cop-out.
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There's plenty of visual gags in the background (not to mention a Stan Lee cameo), and the bit ends with a lengthy ramble.
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Although he's always been prone to blunt, low-effort gags, this is so stupid and dated that it wraps around back to charming.
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And they've responded to Infinity War in a variety of ways: frustration, ambivalence, or amusement at the gags and references they don't follow.
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I've no doubt that Johnson understands a crucial Star Wars balance—the calibration between goofy creature gags, starship melees, and high-minded fantasy.
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In one especially toe-curling scene, he interrupts Cat's heartfelt acceptance of a song-writing award with lame gags and narcissistic microphone-hogging.
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In both cases, the gags became less funny as the comedians turned the projects into touring bands, appearing at festivals and making albums.
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What's the process of putting together big visual gags like the one in the trailer, with Scott using a truck like a scooter?
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It struggles to distinguish itself from Groening's Futurama in anything but setting, and it relies too much on easy medieval setting sight gags.
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The ensuing field piece was something of a mixed bag that skewed toward lower-brow gags, like having the fictional president swig mayonnaise.
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Office communications, Giphy gags and helpful pings were halted while Slack worked on the issue that prevented many users from accessing the app.
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In Rotten Tomatoes' critics' consensus, they say that it's "loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs."
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Most every Tuesday, a crew of cartoonists face the harrowing task of presenting their weekly batches of gags to this magazine for judgment.
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Slick wordplay is a constant, as are left-turn gags that take you a second to register before you realize you're already laughing.
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That's easy to see in their work, which regularly jumps between thoughtful consideration of the human experience and wild comedic gags without warning.
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Sanders made a name for himself for his comedic stunts, like narrating strangers' lives, or pranking friends with gags inspired by Disney movies.
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The setting would seem to call for dark humor, and sometimes the show does go there—but it's reflexively averse to cringe gags.
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Even as we're inundated by a deluge of data online, often all we can see is just those punchlines, sight gags, and memes.
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Though seldom will an episode go by without a healthy number of gags, the show has increasingly leaned into its reputation for devastation.
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"Zootopia," like its heroine, is zesty, bright, and breakneck, with chase scenes and well-tuned gags where you half expect songs to be.
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The standoff between the two men, then, is a rich vein that the filmmakers mine for no more than cheap, excruciatingly belabored gags.
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Because everyone sees the same upvoted posts when they open Imgur, it creates a shared experience full of inside jokes and running gags.
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The presence of Issa Rae — the creator of HBO's acclaimed "Insecure" — heightens expectations, but they're cut down by the trailer's painfully strained gags.
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Yet it turns out that Sanders is not only a rich source of gags for others, but is himself a comedian of formidable talent.
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The gags focus on problems faced by most Zimbabweans, especially the middle classes, such as not being able to get money from the banks.
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The episode boasts probably more than twice the usual number of gags, albeit distributed through separate story threads, giving it twice the replay value.
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Fortunately, while Seth MacFarlane enjoys a good fart gag — actually, make that a googol's worth of fart gags — he also truly loves Star Trek.
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If you're someone who finds immense joy in the animal gags sprinkled throughout Bojack's ambitiously human storytelling, then this is the show for you.
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One might overlook a few, but the dialogue is jammed with more eating-disorder jokes, gay jokes, plastic-surgery sight gags, and stereotypes galore.
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That may be one of the reasons computer-animated films are so often known for their dialogue-driven gags rather than more physical jokes.
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But, as we prepare our pranks, gags, and ruses, many believe we're actually paying tribute to one of the biggest jerks in Norse mythology.
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Waititi likes practical, grounded gags that jump rapidly from gravity or hilarity, but the soundtrack's leaps are harder to follow than the tonal shifts.
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For one thing, many of Zootopia's gags rely on what are, for all intents and purposes, animal stereotypes: Sloths are slow, bunnies multiply, etc.
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The film relies heavily on corpse farts and broad gags, but it's also sweetly sincere about longing, embarrassment, and the difficulty of being human.
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The editing is frequently awkward, clunkily overemphasizing physical gags, and lingering too long on the actors as they try to light up dusty material.
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It's funny, for sure, with a brazen mix of styles and musical gags that lend it the manic energy of an improv comedy show.
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Cue a bunch of sight gags about the primitivism of the recent past, designed to make today's teen-age viewers feel sophisticated and suave.
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The first Lego film , in 2014, with its unrelenting surfeit of gags, both visual and verbal, was directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
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Still to come: dance numbers, camel gags, an unexpected burst of animation, and cans of potted meat bubbling like cauldrons over a naked flame.
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Banging your ex's little brother, staging elaborate gags, or stirring up shit (sometimes literally)—these are all ways spurned lovers have staked their revenge.
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But if you don't and, like me, you're a sad nerd desperate to understand the gags you're missing, there's a site dedicated to helping.
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You will, however, witness some rude and suggestive sight gags and an extended sequence in a morgue involving the genitals of a dead man.
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The rhyming names, the matching sailor suits, the tomfoolery of mistaken identities, the two-places-at-the-same-time movie plot—genetics for gags.
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There were a few mechanical constraints that we had to keep in mind when it came to actually implementing these gags into the game.
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It seems like it would have been pretty easy to start designing more elaborate gags that relied on the goose being human-level smart.
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Reynolds, finally alone, he kicks his feet up on the coffee table to relax, then gags from the stench of the still lit candle.
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Still, Reels lacks some of the video filters and special effects that TikTok has purposefully built to power certain gags and cuts between scenes.
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And even if he is indicted he'd likely keep on talking unless and until a federal judge gags him with a threat of jail.
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There was plenty of action for the children, slam-bang stories with standard animation gags like characters blowing up or falling out of windows.
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It seemed like yet another cheap kids' movie: computer-animated characters and very real actors interacting unconvincingly, and lots of gags about bodily functions.
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The self-aware gags keep them from coming across as drily earnest no matter what subject matter is being discussed on Nick's heavily reverbed vocals.
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Unlike Wreck-It Ralph where I could have done with more video game gags, the sequel had me eager for more of the friendship storyline.
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Similarly, the jokes about Tambor were essentially, "Look at the man in a dress" gags that stopped being funny in the era of Milton Berle.
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Yes, we needed a "life goes on" moment, and a sense for the new normal, but nothing about the gags here really landed for me.
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Genesis possessed a number of other religious leaders (including, in one of the series's best offscreen gags, Scientologist Tom Cruise) before it got to Jesse.
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The visual and verbal gags came at a staggering if-you-blink-you'll-miss-something rate, as if trying to keep viewers overwhelmed and hypnotized.
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It's cheap and tacky—a bizarrely dated parody of Ritchie's Holmes (complete with a soundalike score) poisoned with rib-elbowing topical references and puerile gags.
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Sure, some of the gags might earn a half-hearted chuckle or a startled "Ha!" but the gaffes can also be way more grimace-inducing.
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The reach for new territory opens the door to more complicated ideas, and ever-more-absurd gags (stick around all the way through the credits).
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For years, Soda Drinker Pro has been one of gaming's loveliest inside gags, one that has extended far beyond the reaches of the normal punchline.
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One of the recurring gags pivots on Kincaid's survival skills -- a guy so hard to kill that his wife refers to him as a cockroach.
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Rip Taylor put a lot of heart into his comedic gags for decades, but ultimately heart troubles did him in ... according to his death certificate.
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Those gags, though, quickly begin to run dry, and even at a mere six half-hour episodes, get stretched beyond even Van Damme's legendary limberness.
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And how will the trademark gags from Charles M. Schulz's comic strip, so beloved by parents (or even grandparents), play to today's 7-year-olds?
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"'Angie Tribeca' fires groaners and sight gags as haphazardly as an academy rookie at a shooting drill," James Poniewozik wrote last season in The Times.
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A precise writer who uses language in sharp, meticulously crafted gags, his rapid-fire sets are a blend of dense wordplay and roastlike insult comedy.
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This series, created by Suzanne Martin and inspired by her own life, has a throwback feel, with lots of quick gags and not much depth.
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I rediscovered puns that wormed their way permanently into my memory, absurd comedy gags, and a cast of shallow, entitled characters with no moral compasses.
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That's an unconscionable encroachment on free speech; it effectively gags doctors and nurses from giving patients accurate information about their completely legal health care options.
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One way to enjoy "The Trip to Spain," the third entry in Michael Winterbottom's gags-and-gastronomy franchise, would be to periodically mute the sound.
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The gags are fine — good enough to delight children and elicit a chuckle from adults — but very little feels distinct and unique to this film.
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People are posting the hashtag #stillthereforyou, a nod to the show's theme song, as well as video compilations of their favorite scenes and running gags.
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The show's other hilarious strength, its meta-visual gags, are also on point and so clever that it's worth pausing to fully take them in.
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Jokes like these, based on exaggerated depictions of minorities, appear pretty often in Sandler comedies — if not as the main conceit, then in the gags.
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Some scenes from previous trailers have been extended, and new jokes promise a movie that doesn't give away all its best gags in the trailers.
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The show's intoxicating blend of so many different elements means that even a comedy like Psych could do a full hour of Twin Peaks gags.
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Yet she also serves as The Nice Guys' moral and emotional center — and, in one of the movie's funniest running gags, its only effective detective.
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There are simple, satisfying sight gags built around the clumsiness of farm machinery, the absurdity of sheep and the indignities of advancing age and cold weather.
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In the case of the Chewbacca mom or the exploding melon, the platform demonstrates its value as a showcase for affecting personal stories or entertaining gags.
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The music throughout the 10-episode season is gently jazzy, and the gags never get any sharper than, say, Groban spraying Danza with a fire extinguisher.
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As such, the filmmakers rely on other tactics, like the tendency to mix in sight gags and dad jokes—an essential part of the family appeal.
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The show is filled with gags like this, playing with the concept of irresponsible college students who have the power to break the rules of physics.
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They're a prompt which allow the McElroys and Robinson to bounce off one another, improvising backstories for characters and conjuring running gags out of thin air.
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The Muppet Show is, of course, in another category altogether, but here Mostel's strategy is different: his gags are more coded, made simultaneously accessible and impenetrable.
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What used to be a home for funny, irreverent comedy and harmless gags gradually transformed into an unaccountable cesspool of toxic actors and bad-faith harassers.
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The duo would frequently break the fourth wall to make their audiences complicit in the gags, which is partly what inspired such devotion in their fans.
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But when the film's credits roll and Laurel and Hardy's original gags, all fuzzy and monochrome, are played, the new renditions can feel flat in comparison.
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Mario & Luigi jokes are usually at Luigi's expense, while Paper Mario pokes fun at its paper-thin characters with visual gags and a lot of puns.
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Amid this flurry of faux-feminist (fauxminist?) gags, Ocean's 8 runs on two core questions: Will this gang of plucky gals make off with the loot?
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His little boat races the gigantic spacecraft — one of the film's few truly clever visual gags — only to be tossed ashore in some unspecified American city.
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And that's why creating broad facial expressions or changing characters' forms to pull off better gags or more affecting moments is so difficult within the format.
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This becomes an actual storytelling problem if you squint too hard, through the leaning towers of pizza boxes, artful penis bathroom graffiti, and sexual predator gags.
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But all along, director Jonathan Kesselman places more emphasis on absurdist gags (a key character is named Mohammad Ali Paula Abdul Rahim) than on faith itself.
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Like the contemporary Naked Gun series, Fatal Instinct traffics in a brand of spoof-y humor that values visual and verbal gags over a strong narrative.
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Lamar screams and gags as if possessed by a demon of black rage and vengeance, while the word guilty flashes in and out of the screen.
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And finally, it's incredibly dense, with sight gags in the background of almost every scene and literate scripts that talk at length about theories of ethics.
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So, too, does a steady stream of interpolated gags referring to, most prominently, the recent election, which many in the audience would probably like to forget.
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This ultimately means there's a plethora of gags from the first 22 Simpsons seasons that don't land because the cropping prevents the joke from being fulfilled.
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All of that said, it's not as though we found ourselves totally fenced-in by this constraint—we weren't ever trying to concoct especially elaborate gags.
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Silicon Valley excels at running gags, but the jokes about Dinesh's gold chain in this episode provide some of the best and funniest references to date.
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Michael Che, the comedian who co-hosts "Weekend Update" on "Saturday Night Live," often jokes about poverty in New York City — and the gags are personal.
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One of the running gags in "Crashing" was Pete's passive-aggressive campaign to be allowed to sit at the hallowed "comedian's table" at the Comedy Cellar.
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Are rape jokes and other gross gags crossing the boundaries of respectability really doing any good if they're increasingly out of touch with the mainstream comedy?
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Since Gags came into our lives, the terrifying clown trend has travelled to U.S. states such as South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Mississippi.
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Each of Plympton's gags could stand alone as their own short films, and beyond that deconstruct assumptions even The Simpsons' vast repertoire of canon has left unchallenged.
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Recognized around the world thanks to his disheveled platinum hair, Johnson is also known for gags and insults often delivered in colorful, erudite language peppered with Latin.
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But you're not about to see her throwing out gags on 20163 Out of Ten Cats, or showing up in the showbiz section of the Mail Online.
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Rather than use its position as a cultural touchstone to advocate for our rights, the comedic duo has always preferred to use us as cheap, hateful gags.
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So, as is tradition, we've rounded up the best goofs, gags, and gimmicks from around the web as we enjoy the antics of the various internet companies.
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Zombies, of course, have assumed a rather over-sized role in pop culture, and one of the throwaway gags has Eisenberg reading a "The Walking Dead" comic.
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We'd move mirrors around, and hold mirrors, and try to figure out where to hold the guns, and all the different gags we could do with it.
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People who've actually experienced racism and sexism may be bolder about addressing it in fiction and less inclined to play it off for light, easy, disposable gags.
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Meanwhile, Needham opted for even bigger, more ambitious gags than usual, stunts that only look more impressive when compared to the CGI-dominated action scenes of today.
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Cannon had written that folks who use those kinds of gags should be kicked off Twitter, a seemingly different approach than the one he took with Hart.
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Goddamn you, BOJACK HORSEMAN, for putting in visual gags so quick that I MUST pause to read them, only to have you mock me for doing so!
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Or maybe it was in Green Bay, when a clown named Gags showed up August 1 as part of a viral marketing stunt, according to USA Today.
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But it's also a missed opportunity — a film about games that doesn't understand them, with lowest-common-denominator gags in place of inventive humor or sly observations.
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After an Oscars ceremony filled with gags, Moonlight star Naomie Harris tells PEOPLE she at first thought the film's upset win for Best Picture was another joke.
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This, of course, is by no means the wrong take to have; you don't have to be Tipper Gore to think people shouldn't make anti-Semitic gags.
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Gags the Green Bay Clown was standing outside as part of a viral marketing campaign for a short horror film, and it worked perhaps all too well.
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There's the classic "introduction, development, conclusion" seen in the puzzle design of Super Mario Galaxy or Portal, sure, but there are also running gags, setups and punchlines.
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" Gags like the observation about teenagers don't need to be germane, if they work, and the same goes for the rhyming prose of "before cellphones" and "pheromones.
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The dialogue retains plenty of Virginia ham (puns; gags about Ed's cooking), but it provides sincerity, too, and some of Arnold's zingers have a touch of wisdom.
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These sequences have offered peeks at coming attractions or glimpses of the Avengers' everyday lives, gifted us Easter eggs to turn over or gags to laugh about.
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The journey lends itself to misadventures and crude gags, not least of which is a trip to hot springs that turn out to be pools of sewage.
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Much like other cult comedy favorites such as Broad City, Archer, and Arrested Development, Happy Endings knows how to harness the power of callbacks and running gags.
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For one thing, many of the gags in a movie about how stereotypes aren't great are based on the most clichéd animal jokes you can think of.
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More drinks follow from a series of other visual gags, including an IV drip bag, a radio and a pair of binoculars, all of which conceal vodka.
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The season's final four episodes expertly weave together numerous threads the earlier episodes have developed, some of which started as apparent one-offs or even running gags.
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How would the elder Henson, who died in 1990, feel about gags like the porn-movie scene in which an octopus milks a cow's eight udders simultaneously?
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Isn't It Romantic has a larger-than-usual percentage of visual gags that exist in the background; they're Easter eggs for rom-com fans to delight in.
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"Jerry went back to the silent era, and he brought visual sight gags back to the American movie theaters," Steven Spielberg said in the same Encore documentary.
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The laughs are consistent if less roaring this time around, with Hart and Black still reveling in self-deprecation — though the gags do start to get tedious.
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This marks the start of one of the show's longest-running gags: as the "D" is never replaced, Hollywood gets referred to as "Hollywoo" from then on.
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"USCIS' messages to employees in the form of illegal gags and threats seek to, and likely will impede, the exercise of their whistleblower rights," said the letter.
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At a glance, the idea of Stone Age man running into their more advanced Bronze Age cousins seems promising, if only as an environment for visual gags.
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The key is that, rather than use the casting for grotesquerie or sight gags, Erskine and Konkle just play it straight, drawing on memory and personal experience.
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But the business does supply Sami and Van Beek with a steady stream of gags until it becomes clear that the film's real subject is their friendship.
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The comedian's desire to have all of America like him means he never feels more ill at ease than when he's trying to execute pointed political gags.
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At half an hour, the show's collection of random gags and occasional hints at a larger storyline drawing all of its characters together might have packed more punch.
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Before he did, he had to have a very frank conversation with the people managing his campaign about why the skeletons in his closet were wearing ball gags.
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Gregory even gags at the sight of the blood, and as some members of Hilltop pass by she explains that it was Gregory's first time killing a walker.
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Lloyd is often compared to two other silent-era comedians, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, who all had a rare genius for constructing elaborate, physically taxing visual gags.
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The fast gags help break up Miles' externalized personal struggles, as well as the tensions caused by both versions of him wanting to make things right with Kate.
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The episode also shows off Archer's animation chops with a mix of silly sight gags and sequences meant to evoke Ridley Scott's alternately suspenseful and grotesque space horror.
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And I guess the same sets of restrictions probably pushed us there as well, in that the game [doesn't have any dialogue] so we can't do spoken gags.
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But beyond the jokes and sight gags, political satirists have done an excellent job of seriously covering the Trump administration — sometimes even better than major TV news networks.
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None of the grossout gags are gross enough to prompt real laughter — a major setup is "Jon thinks cat shit smells bad," which, sure, but I need more!
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Each episode is peppered with blink-and-you-might-miss-it visual gags that demand viewers pay attention, while also providing bursts of relief from the dark themes.
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There'd be sex-related narratives of course, but then we'd include gags where Obama and Biden hide a Kenyan passport in the Oval Office to fuck with Trump.
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As soon as Mr. Burns tells Smithers he has "24 hours" to get his nine ringers, the episode snaps, and the frenetic gags slip into light-speed screwball.
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A Facebook page called Gags — The Green Bay Clown designed to track the clown's activity states that the first clown sighting was on August 1 around 2 a.
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It's never unpleasant to luxuriate in Rowling's wizarding world, and the movie is full of the little side gags that always populate both her books and these movies.
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Ultragenyx's experimental treatment for mucopolysaccharidosis — a rare genetic, metabolic disorder when the body is unable to breakdown GAGs, a kind of complex carbohydrate — is in its late stage.
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How did you break down how you were going to accomplish these gags; was there ever talk about doing that car sequence as an actual rear-projection shot?
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Quentin's crimes through EDITH are portrayed as outgrowths of his own corrupt soul, and Peter's accidents as funny little gags about how in over his head he is.
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" A reliable amplifier of internet gags, New York editor Max Read tweeted the story with the added comment that "hitler just wasn't the same after the hacienda closed.
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But tucked among the sight gags and Trump criticism was Griffin telling the leader of the free world that "Family Guy" is "trying to phase out" gay jokes.
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It follows the Freemakers, a family of scavengers, and judging by the trailer it's packed with plenty of Lego-style gags from Star Wars characters old and new.
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But others pulled out their firearms, according to C.J. Guzan, a local actor who said that the Gags project was just a viral marketing stunt for a movie.
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But it does offer one of the film&aposs smartest and most enjoyable running gags by showing how immigrants and those of different races are often lumped together.
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This is exacerbated by a framing mechanism where we occasionally see a movie theater crowd doing the classic audience participation gags (like pulling out newspapers during the rainstorm).
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Consider this Fidelity Commercial from 2009, released less than a year after the financial crisis: Gone are the lighthearted tone and the gags intended to instill brand familiarity.
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To review the greatness of "Archer" as it reboots its business, Business Insider asked the "Archer" voice stars to name their favorite jokes, running gags, and funniest storylines.
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Even the best gags, even if they're made by a person, if they're made on April Fools' Day, it has to be fucking good for you to laugh.
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The damage had been done: deep house, for a certain kind of person, was forever enshrined as the soundtrack for a thousand weak gags about shuffling and Huaraches.
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Add the magnificent Christine Baranski to the mix and "A Bad Moms Christmas," while still a slog of base sight gags and lazy profanity, becomes marginally more bearable.
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The ultimate boundary pusher (and a force in the life of the fictional Midge Maisel), Bruce pulled the tablecloth out from under comedy's respectable gags and one-liners.
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Everything in Rocko's world is too much: too many sight gags, too many fart jokes, too many warped lines, too much capitalism, too much unceasing and relentless noise.
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In 2004, he edited a special comics issue of McSweeney's Quarterly, and as with his own titles, even the unfoldable dust jacket teemed with extra texts and gags.
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Big sight gags are fine, but if there's the slightest doubt that something pushes too far in an effort to get noticed, err on the side of caution.
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Syfy asked critics to avoid spoilers in any reviews, but it's hard to "spoil" something that has already grown this stale, serving up a composted collection of gags.
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Any chuckles on Monday emerged, then, not from the high-wire precision of the music but from the broader gags in Bartlett Sher's decade-old, putty-colored production.
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And he'll do his best to entertain us with all the means at the disposal of his waning faculties — word games and gags, and pensées read from notecards.
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This is a nice safety feature, and it prevents those common TV and movie gags where the person using the treadmill falls and gets launched into a wall.
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Year after year, the family comedy has conquered the sitcom format, delivering topical one-liners, punchy dialogue, and running gags that somehow never seem to stop being funny.
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Like Katamari Damacy, the game is full of visual gags even if there isn't quite the same depth and satisfaction to be wrought from actually playing the game.
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The protagonist, an earnest Brahmin policeman investigating the rape and murder of two lower-caste girls, gags when he opens a shack and sees raw pink unskinned carcasses.
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"It's unconstitutional for the FBI to impose indefinite gags on the companies that receive NSLs," said Neema Singh Guliani, senior legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Big Ben goes digital The Brits are masters of April Fools' gags, and in 1980, the BBC's overseas service said the iconic clock tower was getting an update.
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Along the way, Mark Bell, their physical theater professor at Lamda, joined them as the play's director; they added a second act, and all the gags got bigger.
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Her command of auction lingo is satisfactory, and there are some good gags about the lengths to which Sotheby's and Christie's sometimes go to win the choicest lots.
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The first Hotel Transylvania is a lot of fun, thanks to director Genndy Tartakovsky's effervescent skill with cartoon physics and animated action, as well as some solid gags.
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I've done every shtick thing you can do with a baby, on TV. I've sang every slow Elvis song, I've done all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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And Snatchers generally avoids easy gags about women's bodies, focusing instead on the weirdness of Sara's situation, the cultural baggage around pregnancy, and the frequently undignified ridiculousness of sex.
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"Angie Tribeca" fires groaners and sight gags as haphazardly as an academy rookie at a shooting drill; it could have used a more forceful veto in the writers' room.
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Ah, that helps explain one of the film's funniest running gags, which is that there's a lot of jokes about Ed Sheeran and they're made right to his face.
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Mostel plays it for laughs as well as for subtleties — he calls Terkel "Studsy" and the audio recording lets us hear Terkel's cackle, along with Mostel's clownish physical gags.
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It's all disparate and ephemeral, but the fact that these gags and references are centralized makes a new home for narratives that otherwise feel solitary in a whitewashed world.
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The smutty gags in this bit are tired, and it's never clear why Brockmire himself is funny, as opposed to the content of his vindictive rant against his wife.
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Now, he's able to access the entire internet, providing tremendous opportunities for gags about everything from social media and viral videos to the dark web and pop-up ads.
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Her mission is to train young people in the art of errenzhuan, or "two-person turn", a traditional form of comic song-and-dance that often involves raunchy gags.
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Some of the gags work, like a scene where Bean steals a carriage and is pursued by guards on siren-wearing donkeys whose hee-haws provide the alarm sounds.
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Jordan, on the other hand, was baffled and unimpressed, and no matter how much time her co-hosts spent over-explaining the various gags, we couldn't win her over.
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Yes, the long-awaited first trailer for the MCU's long-awaited Captain Marvel is finally here, and it's full—nearly too full—with Clinton-era references and sight gags.
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It's almost like the Daniels are tiptoeing up to the point of sincerity, but feel scared to commit, instead retreating behind the safety of gags and burbling sound effects.
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VERY CONFIDENT ... in a win, while he was seemingly less confident that the Steelers wouldn't be up to their old shenanigans (deflating balls, taping practices, you know the gags).
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They inhabited a quirky world of running gags like the beleaguered Charlie Brown's Sisyphean quest to kick a football, Lucy's testy psychiatric help and a blanket-toting child philosopher.
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Her conversations with Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch), the BFF she can't remember, strike a poignant note even among some (rather funny) gags about just how slow '90s technology was.
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"Grimsby," which has gags about celebrities contracting AIDS and men hiding in an elephant's vagina, adds to a difficult period for Sony, which last year ousted its movie chief.
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This clip encapsulates a wonderful era in the British zeitgeist, when two guys making faux-self-deprecating gags about their weight was seen as the pinnacle of light entertainment.
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Don't try to for anything political; avoid memes and topical gags—they're not original, and you'll feel embarrassed and sick of the joke before the night even gets started.
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An astute analyst of directing technique, Mr. Bogdanovich sometimes falls back on hollow critic-speak, enthusing over the perfection and brilliance of gags that speak just fine for themselves.
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As the models emerged, some with "Gucci" tattoos inked like gags across their mouths, it was, Mr. Michele declared, also a loud rallying cry for freedom of self-expression.
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The best moments come during the end-credit blooper reel, where the audience gets a look at just how complicated some of the movie's simple-seeming gags really were.
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And Jack Whitehall, the British comedian and host for the evening, attempted to entertain the crowd with gags around the Mannequin Challenge, the latest charity drive sweeping the internet.
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He was an accomplished magician, and after being discharged he changed his name to Orson Bean and worked Boston nightclubs with tricks and gags that evolved into comedy routines.
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The Treehouse books are a perfect balance of minimal text, maximum black-and-white drawings packed with jokes, and unbelievable amounts of nonstop action, gags and exuberant, anarchic storytelling.
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She's not simply going to exit the home, though, and tell everyone what happened, because Shannon is back (and, well, not dead) and ties Jasmine up and gags her.
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Once the undisputed juggernaut of the late-night category, Mr. Fallon's "Tonight Show," a celebrity-friendly cavalcade of games and gags, has seen its ratings decline in recent months.
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Once the movie kicks into gear, Cannon (working from a script by brothers Brian and Jim Kehoe) conjures some truly blue sequences and sight gags that yield explosive laughs.
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It often takes the shape of a joke without actually being funny, which is deadly to anybody playing with comedic land mines like gags about child molestation and rape.
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The result is a digital cartoon, exactly like a never-ending series of couch gags from The Simpsons or a best-of compilation of Frank Tashlin and Chuck Jones buffoonery.
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I've been practicing for a long time," he said, joking, "I've done every schtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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Alas, "Long Shot" keeps dropping that thread, essentially, to pursue its more conspicuously R-rated gags, which feels like a missed opportunity, however funny a few of them might be.
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As this second exercise begins, the band is still together, pretty quickly taking up residence in an abandoned White House, which offers some fertile comedic possibilities and amusing visual gags.
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I've been practicing for a long time," Stamos said, joking, "I've done every shtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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Amidst Sausage Party's whirlpool of lurid sex jokes and on-those-nose gags — like a character who is a lesbian, Latina taco shell — is a story about religion and empathy.
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I've been practicing for a long time," Stamos said, joking, "I've done every schtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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According to this 2.5-minute teaser for the show, though, this show is apparently a random assemblage of unrelated confrontations, VR gags, mockery of startup culture, and virtually no music.
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I've been practicing for a long time," he says, joking, "I've done every schtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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But the script, written by Todd Berger from a story by Berger and Dee Austin Robertson, doesn't give the director or performers much to work with beyond gags and gimmicks.
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By about halfway in, the gags dry up and the story sinks like an overweight tourist who took a dip too early after the all-you-can-eat surf'n'turf buffet.
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And that's before Jack-Jack starts teleporting to other dimensions, or — in one of Pixar's funniest gags — using his superpowers to battle the persistent raccoon who lives in the backyard.
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And, I mean, even if there isn't much book evidence for Cleganebowl, the show has already gone off the rails in terms of self-referential gags geared toward the fandom.
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I've been practicing for a long time," Stamos said, joking, "I've done every schtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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The new season is loaded with self-referential gags, including a few aimed at Ron Howard (who again narrates the show) and his producing partner in Imagine Entertainment, Brian Grazer.
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Most fruitful of all is the husbandry of the gags, some of which are planted early in the film and must wait for more than an hour before they bloom.
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Both Cheers and Frasier, for example, made running gags out of Norm and Niles's ever-absent wives (which Broad City alludes to with Abbi's roommate, whom we've never actually seen).
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Like "The Detour," another recent (and not as good) TBS comedy, this one is gleefully unsophisticated, full of caricatures and gags that are just a notch above frat-house humor.
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" And moments like that are next to images of torture and abuse, next to genuinely funny sight gags, like a Magic Mike-style dance-off in a guard "talent show.
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Adolescent gags and misogyny — which occur less frequently than they do in his biker comix — dampen the impact of Manning as satire and render it as nasty as its target.
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And Ms. Cohen, a reliable actress with fine comic instincts, is saddled with labored gags that include outing a fake rabbi (Eric Edelstein) by getting a glimpse of his penis.
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Shaun is a resourceful "little fellow" in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, and his adventures are similarly well-constructed machines of gags, foils, everyday foibles, and comic exaggerations.
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"His breath doesn't smell, but if he burped, I was green by the time I came out," said Mr. Lacey, whose quips backstage are as common as clown gags onstage.
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Then I move to the live-action iterations of similar gags in the 1956 jukebox musical "The Girl Can't Help It," directed by Frank Tashlin, a former contemporary of Avery.
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The humor includes enough slapstick and gross-out gags to keep the kids entertained, but there are clever callbacks and meta-jokes for older audiences to chuckle at as well.
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" For lighter moments that involve sight gags and a more comedic performance from Bumblebee, Knight employed Julián Nariño, who drew storyboards for the coming stop-motion Laika comedy "Missing Link.
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As the Post points out, Trump started talking about tape gags the day after a meeting with representatives of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing Border Patrol agents.
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That led to gags like "Abe Vigoda's Dead," a spoof of the Bauhaus song "Bela Lugosi's Dead," and appearances on late-night shows to prove that he was still alive.
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There's so much to love about Downsizing, in its self-aware dialogue, its consciously corny gags, its sense of creativity and adventure, and its vivid creation of an entire new world.
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We see it when June and Aunt Lydia first arrive in Washington, with Aunt Lydia gazing at Handmaids wearing the gags in sort of titillated-seeming admiration and June looking horrified.
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Throughout its 12-episode run, Insatiable crawls its way through a series of tired, stale gags, punching ever further downward, to finish with the most subdued of whimpers in its finale.
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" He said that he was glad that the cop and the group of people around could tell it was a joke, adding that "everyone had a good laugh at the gags.
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He is, of course, aware people raise their eyebrows about the name, and one of his running gags whenever someone asks for the "story" behind it is to make one up.
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Sarabhai vs Sarabhai revolved around an idiosyncratic Mumbai family, with many of the gags focusing on the playful sparring between the parents and their elder son and wife living opposite them.
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I've been practicing for a long time," he told PEOPLE, joking, "I've done every schtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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Silly visual gags are hidden in almost every scene: a cafe menu lists "croissant juice" for sale, while a movie poster for "When Tabby Met Snappy…" hangs on an office wall.
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Winter Song finds the now octogenarian director working again in this vein, wasting no time before showing off his gift for imbuing stand-alone visual gags with a certain philosophic eloquence.
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Big Mouth occasionally leans too heavily on absurdist humor, and some of its gags and characters regularly fall flat, but the writers take much bigger risks than Groening does in Disenchantment.
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" A sort-of TV news version of "30 Rock" overseen by that show's stewards, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, "Great News" recycles gags as old as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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ThinkGeek's annual gags are a classic example of this — every year, at least one of their phony products generally ends up being demanded into the real world by would-be buyers.
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Nearly everything about the sequel to 2001's Zoolander, from Stiller's goony fake voice to the specific situations and gags, is a retread of the first film, done louder and bigger.
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The jokes that fell flat Chris Rock generally got a lot of laughs -- even if some of them were uncomfortable -- but a couple of gags just didn't work for the audience.
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Michelle's out-of-touch arrogance lets her play a more controlled, precise, sleek version of her familiar energy, and lets her access new gags about excess instead of desperation for access.
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It happened when I watched the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous, which features, among other questionable gags, the portrayal of a anorexic beauty queen who is hospitalized after she's won her crown.
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Some iterations of the Jordan meme work as bizarre visual gags: replacing Michael Jackson on the cover of "Thriller"; making up James Harden's beard with layer upon layer of Crying Jordans.
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The uncarrier announced its involvement in the game late on Friday by way of a 50-second clip chock-full of red herring references to other brand's classic Super Bowl gags.
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Instead, judging from that admittedly small sample, bots seem to be most useful for regularly scheduled and customized doses of information from media companies or lifestyle brands, quizzes, and novelty gags.
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" But one of the show's most memorable gags is Tobias Fünke's "never nude" condition, which the narrator describes as "a rare psychological affliction of never being able to be completely naked.
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But in the case of a show with so many sight gags like The Simpsons, the tops and bottoms of an image can be where some of the best stuff lives.
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They have cylinder gags in their mouths, are given access to a small arsenal of weapons, and within minutes, are being blown up and shot from a bunker in the distance.
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The complexity of the animation behind Pixar's take on the Dio de los Muertos mythos is as much a reason to light up as the doofy dog gags and touching ending.
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Tierney's comic presence paves the way for the segment's more obvious and over-the-top sight gags, anchoring them in believable human reactions rather than the goofball stuff of outright parody.
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As such, Google has now made the decision not to run any centralized April Fools' Day jokes — and is urging managers to make sure no smaller gags slip through the net.
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True, Johnny Knoxville gets power-hosed down a slide and catapulted into a barn for our amusement, but the inventive, stake-raising, borderline surrealist gags of the old "Jackass" are gone.
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This pattern can be traced back to August, when a clown in Green Bay dubbed "Gags the Clown" began frightening passersby by standing on a corner and, well, looking really creepy.
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The director, Todd Strauss-Schulson, who had a way with projectile gags in "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas," keeps things visually lively whenever the film turns into a stealth musical.
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But if you need some convincing, watching the episodes one after the other reduces the gags to a relentless parade of wacky tricks that tumbled straight out of a clown car.
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But individual episodes almost always have a handful of gags that work, and the show is still (mostly) committed to the solid storytelling that set it apart from its many clones.
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None of them contain uncomfortably long bidet gags, or references to "pains in my undercarriage," or a scene where Larry the Cable Guy's talking tow truck character pees himself in public.
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And, true to the show's love of wordplay, one of its running gags is literally gags: In addition to packing its scripts with ever-deepening jokes, Happy Endings boasts a guest-star roster stacked with comedy heavy hitters, including Megan Mullally as Penny's mom, Larry Wilmore as Brad's boss, Rachael Harris as a disgruntled realtor, Rob Corddry as a car salesman known as the Car Czar (he knows what cars are), and too many more to list.
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Hollywood seems loath to relinquish the ethnic jokes of the past, and so its new favorite thing is wrapping those racial gags in plausible deniability by having a heinous character utter them.
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At a glance, the 19803 Chevy Chase comedy—the third movie about Clark Griswold, the unironic idol of suburban dads across America—is an unabashedly stupid and fun series of slapstick gags.
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The Deadpool version of the story is an extreme exaggeration, and just one of many gags that's reaching for subversion by making light of the most serious subjects the screenwriters can find.
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That setup produces some great gags, as Tony Stark expresses his frustration that Bruce is embarrassing him "in front of the wizard" when he faces his first bout of superhero performance problems.
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"The Good Place" manages its light and dark material with grace and skill; in less capable hands, playing off discussions of human behaviour with gags about Taco Bell might not have worked.
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Every video was packed with self-referential humor and moving parts—visual gags made from pixelated stock images with comic sans captions would flash on the screen for two seconds then disappear.
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The experience seems to fit in a surprising number of references from the show and generally appears to be a lot more high quality than most of these marketing gags generally are.
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The high spirits in that Bartlett Sher staging often seemed forced, but in Bushwick the simplicity and immediacy of the presentation (seen last Saturday) make the jokes and gags land without thudding.
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"Tati looked at my drawings and thought they had a lot of the humor and observational skills, and I was really good at writing gags," Mr. Étaix told The Los Angeles Times.
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From the meme-referencing voice over opening, to the gratuitous slow-motion glory shots, to the actually enjoyable gags, to the ample Jeff Goldblum, this looks like a very different Thor movie.
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In particular, The Ranch overrelies on gags where Elliott's character tells his sons they're wussy little women for [insert gender stereotype here] or where said sons joke about sleeping with high schoolers.
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From murals of Trump and Putin making out to late night show gags, it's now pretty popular among progressives to paint the US and Russian presidents as being gay for each other.
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But in the case of a show like The Simpsons, which contains many, many sight gags, the tops and bottoms of an image can be where some of the best stuff lives.
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Directed by Frank Coraci, the film feints at comedy with background gags and an occasional broad performance or two, but it's primarily a dramatic story — and not a focused one at that.
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Upon the debut of Disney+, Simpsons fans immediately pointed out how the crop can cut out some of the show's visual gags and sly jokes — and they weren't too happy about it.
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When All Stars was RU-surrected four years later, we were gifted with a season — and an episode — that changed the course of culture, stunts, gags, buffoonery, charcuterie, and the padge, forever.
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" In her opening comments, Oh, choking up, took a moment from the gags to say: "I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change.
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Directed by Frank Coraci, the film feints at comedy with background gags and an occasional broad performance or two, but it's primarily a dramatic story — and not a focused one at that.
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So we made this 20-minute thing, all improvised, with five songs, I think, and a couple of big gags that we ... You have Harry Shearer walking through the ... The metal detector.
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A lot of that comes from the surrealism baked heavily into the show's animation and storytelling, which relies on inexplicable absurdity and gags that make little sense in or out of context.
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You can only hear the same "Is Joe Flacco elite?" or "Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard" gags so many times year after year before you want to put your head through a wall.
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In fact, all of Cho's greatest gags—and she has many—are jokes about her Korean-American family and her sexual identity that tread the nail-bitingly thin line between crude and comedy.
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Whether it's your sardonic sad self who tweets gags about anxiety, or your thirst-trap Instagram alter-ego, it's more and more the norm these days to present multiple selves on the internet.
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It sticks to the basic series formula of re-telling the movie's story — with comedic, Lego-fied gags where appropriate — while letting you explore a virtual toyland filled with familiar characters and locations.
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Strangely, both groups might be interested in a new animated take on the tale, either to continue their fandom or to get the taste of Jim Carrey's Grinch gags out of their mouths.
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Ranking the gags and meta-jokes in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a Sisyphean task, but there is one undeniably good goof for Christmas: the holiday record teased in the film.
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BoJack's world, populated equally by humans and anthropomorphic animals, provides nearly endless ammunition for quick visual gags and extended jokes, used to lighten scripts often devoted to depression, substance abuse, and failing relationships.
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And there are aspects of the show I genuinely love: Unfortunately, my distaste for Homer and the way Marge and Lisa are continually abused really soured my enjoyment of these incredible TV gags.
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The raunchy humor extends to gay panic gags strangely similar to the ones found in the recent, similarly misbegotten CHIPS; Baywatch strains for a vulgarity that never comes remotely close to being funny.
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On the latter score, being sentient in 1969 isn't mandatory, but having some familiarity with cultural artifacts of the time, like Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies, surely helps in fully appreciating the gags.
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" The host explains that he "delivered a joke about Tom Brady re-gifting his Super Bowl MVP truck to opposing coach Pete Carroll (trust me, Pete Carroll gags were hilarious back in 2015).
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The fun might last a while longer, but eventually the gags would burn themselves out, and then we'd realize that we'd lost the plot and it was time to call it a night.
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I've been practicing for a long time," the Fuller House star said, joking, "I've done every schtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
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He does futile tasks (walking in circles, trying to catch balls while blindfolded), or subjects himself to discomforts (dousing his eyes with soap, stuffing his mouth with grass, or hair, till he gags).
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Laurel and Hardy's gags, viewed in isolation, rarely amount to much; they turn funny only when one gag falls on the heels of another, and the canter of mishaps becomes impossible to stop.
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Not quite "reading" it, exactly; stalking it, slithering along it, hunting in its sawgrass for stylistic infelicities, typos, boring sentences, clichés and gags that, face it, Chabon, just never were going to work.
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Then there's Hot Fuzz, now ten years old, sitting between the two, playing with those same themes, but making them second fiddle to an almost extreme barrage of jokes, gags, and movie references.
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Master of None not only has time for random asides like a talk show hosted by Raven-Symoné, it downright delights in them, finding room for jokes and sight gags and offbeat moments.
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"Paprika" has affinities to the montage gags in Buster Keaton's "Sherlock, Jr.," when a projectionist dreams his way into the world onscreen, but what Kon's film truly celebrates is the triumph of animation.
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It's a series fond of wordplay and wacky sight gags, but it's also frequently touching about what it means to be different in a place where everybody tries diligently to be the same.
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Once we had a few setpieces in mind, Jake would start building a level around them, which typically underwent a lot of revision as we tried to shoehorn in setups for more gags.
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That is one of the quieter—and better—gags in the new "Ghostbusters," which is directed by Paul Feig, written by Feig and Katie Dippold, and based on Ivan Reitman's film of 1984.
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As a viewer going in, you're not required to know the plot of the game (if it has any plot at all, let's be real) to enjoy the nonsensical running jokes and gags.
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Everyone records their audio remotely, with Parker currently doing all the post-production work (audio editing, visual gags, music, etc) herself, as well as providing her incredible voice talent for the OG, Sonic.
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Chapters outline the foundation of democracy and its future, but also the muddled execution (as in the aptly titled "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom"), along with sidebars and graphics that double as sight gags.
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Best of all, it sees Steff making gags with great timing: "Stacking money like a real don / and I'm piff," she winks, and her contentment with and relaxation into her skill is palpable.
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Otherwise, Undercover is the perfect rainy afternoon attraction: kid-friendly GTA-ing full of fun references, with a laughing bag of gags and a glorious world to steadily smash into tiny plastic pieces.
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But I want to also shout out this lyric, which is one of my favorite kinds of Lil Wayne gags, where he raps about some sort of absurd linguistic device and then enacts it.
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In its scant 10 seconds, it manages to be at once satire, in-joke, and charter of tech culture's shifting corporate landscape—while packing the screen with blink-and-you'll-miss-it sight gags.
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The world begrudgingly worked around the gag rule in the 1980s, fought it and the abstinence prevention strategy during the George W. Bush years and will likely do battle with reinstated gags in 2017.
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Litt said he typically started with over 500 gags -- only about 5% of which make it past the President's exacting gauge of what is appropriate and sufficiently funny make it into the final speech.
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While Fricker's day job is interviewing hollywood hearthrobs on national radio, her other pursuit is that of dark, insightful and expertly crafted stand-up with a side serving of musical gags for good measure.
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Occasionally, they're just visual gags and callbacks to previous story elements, like Ant-Man and the Wasp's 20-second view of Ant-Man's abandoned house, with a super-sized ant playing his drum set.
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No matter how validating the onscreen gags are, they're still a reminder of a man who found more emotional resonance in Jurassic Park's T-Rex than in a connection with a living human being.
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Consequently, there are lots of gags involving Clarence and Rell feeling incredibly squeamish about using the N-word but letting the epithet fly to convince Cheddar and his thugs that they're from the streets.
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Wertmüller has a tragicomic style of directing, and even in a scene as horrendous as one involving dismemberment, she makes sure there are uncomfortably comedic gags, like Pasqualino bumping his head on a bedpost.
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Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger that once again flipped the premise of the afterlife-with-assholes comedy and Season 3 continues to deliver exciting twists, bizarre gags, and the occasional heart-melting moment.
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Mother's Day and sex aren't the most natural pairing, but the massive online porn platform is no stranger to cheeky promotional gags, but this is definitely right up there in the O_O department — literally.
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The Lego Star Wars series has a rich history that extends beyond the source material — an interpretation of the two trilogies that stays both stays true to the films while injecting innumerable visual gags.
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As if to compensate, sight gags (some deriving from Tiffany Yeager's costumes) are trotted out: colossal breasts (each carried by an actor); a giant prophylactic; and a six-foot penis and scrotum (two, actually).
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Sporting spiky blonde wigs straight out of a Sia music video and crystal-encrusted ball gags, the male dancers are pushed, pulled, and stepped on all while maintaining a seductive allure over the Queen.
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Standing in front of a collection of trunks, he grabs sight gags like a New England Patriots helmet that doubles as a Kleenex dispenser or goofy objects like Croc shoes pasted to toy crocodiles.
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Here's some of the gags CNBC saw embedded in the intro: Facebook's scandal over Russian interference in during the 2016 U.S. elections is acknowledged, thanks to a Facebook logo that briefly changed to cyrillic.
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Take the trade paperback collection of Howard the Duck and the newest issue of Doctor Strange: Howard is pure chaos, meta-gags, and silliness that extends even into the comic's covers and press material.
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And this third film promises to send a bunch of your favorite monsters on summer vacation, which is just enough of a premise on which to hang a bunch of Tartakovsky's perfectly paced gags.
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Just as his mostly somber 2014 graphic biography of wrestler "André the Giant" is fitted with punchy gags, Brown's new book is definitely funny, even if the subject isn't much of a laugh at all.
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Yes, the decade's most dominant sitcom about zany family hijinks, dad jokes, and clown sight gags is about to murder a beloved character, and that death will leave "repercussions across several episodes" in its wake.
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Apu's characterization—Hank Azaria's silly accent, cheap gags about many-armed gods, and lazy punchlines about out-of-date convenience store food—has remained consistently crass despite evolving expectations for South Asian characters on screen.
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And, depending on your specific kink, it can also mean wading through webpage after webpage of products you'll need to get started — floggers, blindfolds, handcuffs, ticklers, paddles, whips, clamps, gags, and the list goes on.
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On the Alexa Skill Store today, there are 1,607 skills in the "Novelty & Humor" category, for example, which is filled with apps for children, like bedtime stories, funny noises, jokes, gags, fun facts, and more.
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Aside from some Game of Thrones-inspired jokes in the first episode, the humor mostly hearkens back to Monty Python, with gags about medieval life, its abundant plagues, and its lack of child labor laws.
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Where there were once the rampant pedophile gags of Morning Glory and quasi-intellectual anthropomorphized dinosaurs, there are now chintzy motivational messages from cats sitting in teacups shared ad infinitum on your mother's Facebook wall.
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However, the "quality" part of that is questionable; as Tristan Cooper heroically pointed out on Twitter, cropping and stretching the old episodes completely killed some visual gags and made other moments look straight-up wrong.
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"Critics rating:Critics consensus: "'Tuca and Bertie' skips right past Bojack Horseman's shadow with its chipper sensibility and madcap sight gags, bringing plenty of laughs as it addresses adulting anxiety and exalts the joys of friendship.
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In terms of the story, "Daddy's Home 2" quickly whisks the whole extended brood off to the mountains (Kurt secures an idyllic holiday getaway), which mostly provides a snowy backdrop for pratfalls and sight gags.
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That is a beautiful riff, worthy of Chaplin, on the inverted values of a world gone to rot, whereas the gags in Anderson's film are more about themselves, delighting in the literal and the overparticular.
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He was an assistant to Jacques Tati on the 1958 film "Mon Oncle," providing gags, designing sets and illustrating the poster, before striking out on his own in 1961 with "La Rupture" ("The Break-up").
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The trick was structure: Mr. Simon's sense of the situations he devised was so clear he could write boffo gags that did not seem to come from him, but rather from the character and conflict.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK.While The Simpsons has had some pretty out there "couch gags" in recent years, thanks to the likes of Don Hertzfeldt and Michel Socha, the episodes themselves remain pedestrian.
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In many ways, Family Guy is most similar to sketch comedy, where beloved running gags (like, say, Peter Griffin getting in a fistfight with a chicken) have similar functions to recurring characters on Saturday Night Live.
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"More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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But even when they're visual gags or Easter eggs, these stingers are still almost always meant to move viewers' focus on to whatever comes next in the series, not to comment on what they just saw.
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The old Walking Dead relied on tricks and promised gags to keep people watching; the new Walking Dead seems focused on genuine surprise and jettisoning characters so it can get to the business of new storylines.
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Although Yes Theory's prank is nothing more than that — a harmless joke done time and time again in the past on shows like JFL Gags and Jackass — it does signal a growing issue on the internet.
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The studio behind Minions is making its own take on The Grinch, and it seems to be hitting the exact mix of shiny animation, annoying kid humor, and cute visual gags that you've come to expect.
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Rating The Mick doesn't stray too far from this basic idea in its first few episodes, and there's only so much mileage the show can get from focusing on "everyone on this show is awful" gags.
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The rapidity, the montage, the running gags, the cultural pastiche, the banality of Marge's sports-commentary: "Homer at the Bat" is the distillation critical elements that made classic Simpsons an unstoppable, all-consuming, hilarious comedy beast.
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OK, this isn't exactly a hard reboot of the Home Alone franchise, it doesn't star a grown-up Macaulay Culkin (yet), and it could easily fall into cheap stoner gags like that annoying Die Hard parody.
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Fox's mid-90s animated series melted the minds of the American youth with its surrealist running gags and inane catchphrases that enraged a generation of elementary school teachers, but it frustratingly lasted just a few seasons.
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This plus countless sight gags and the best food-raining montage in recent memory makes Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs one of the best 250D, computer-animated, sci-fi/disaster/satire/family comedies out there.
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Two and a half months of prep/rehearsal prior to filming, we choreographed 8-10 different fight sequences, and tested out countless other gags for every stunt player, villain, and of course, for Web-Head himself.
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JME's Twitter is essentially the online equivalent of that scene in Nil By Mouth where Ray Winston shouts at himself in the mirror (but with a few more gags and winks, and a bit less psychosis).
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Now their grown-up son, Rusty (Ed Helms), heads back to the amusement park with his wife (Christina Applegate) and children — resulting in his own misadventures, crude gags and a climactic fight on a roller coaster.
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Also new, and also given a series of rather canned gags: a local boy, Charlie, played with deadpan spunk by Morgan Gao, who implausibly keeps serving Jim with bank papers signaling his increasingly dire financial straits.
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But Corden's Grammys hosting gig is illustrative as to where the show's producers would like to take it: more presence, more comedy, more sight gags, and more Hollywood razzle-dazzle than a Honda packed with Adeles.
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It builds on the wild comedy of Wreck-It Ralph and the subtle, feminist positivity of Frozen in impressive ways — and it even finds a way to make its political message align with its crazy gags.
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"The worst that could happen is that you hide someone's Easter basket where they can't find it, or give them diet eggs that have nothing inside," Cardinal Tobin said, brainstorming some appropriate April Fool's Easter gags.
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Whether it comes out through absurd sight gags or the verbal daggers the four Roy sibs throw at each other with abandon, the humor is there — often subtle, occasionally in your face, and almost always dark.
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Unlike in Harley's animated roots and comics appearances, live action doesn't lend itself as easily to those visual gags, leaving Robbie to do the heavy lifting of injecting the right amount of comedy into Quinn's mania.
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Since 2008 The New York Times has avoided the dinner, because the schmoozing and gags among journalists, politicians and celebs "sends the wrong signal to our readers and viewers," Dean Baquet, the executive editor, has said.
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The result is a hilarious mix of skewered Star Wars stereotypes, fresh (and less-than-fresh) takes on tired gags, and – the real highlight – an epic Star Wars explainer for anyone who's never seen these movies.
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As lamentable as social media can be for giving every would-be teenage idiot a platform to showcase their harebrained gags, it also gives the rest of us a way to instantly see and judge them.
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The tiresome toilet humor is partly compensated for by some impressively orchestrated gags — involving chain reactions worthy of Rube Goldberg — and a fireworks display that brings down the abandoned factory where the final battle is staged.
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Those include Lorelai's mom (Kelly Bishop), still wrestling with the grief of her loss; and Luke (Scott Patterson), who in one of the amusing recurring gags keeps giving out wrong passwords for his diner's Wi-Fi access.
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Even in this quick clip, the audio is crammed full of funny gags about how proud the "Duffer mothers" must be of their writer-director boys, and other, less verbal audio reactions to sudden on-screen action.
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The series includes other gags about preferred pronouns, gender identity, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); twisted mentions of statutory rape and Emma Gonzalez; and uses of the word "gay" and other slurs as derogatory terms.
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"'Angie Tribeca' fires groaners and sight gags as haphazardly as an academy rookie at a shooting drill; it could have used a more forceful veto in the writers' room," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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He called it "the funniest comic book film since the first 'Deadpool' from 2016," noting that one of the running gags in the film is a dossier that appears onscreen every time one of Harley's foes appears.
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That leer goes well both with her Marie Antoinette outfit and with the lingerie that's exposed as she's stripped by her mirror-bearing henchmen, who wear fishnets on their legs and jeweled ball gags in their mouths.
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It takes an author of Mr Grossman's stature to channel not a failed stand-up but a shockingly effective one, and to give him salty, scabrous gags that—in Jessica Cohen's savoury translation—raise a guilty laugh.
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Most of the gags come and go (excluding Gmail, of course, which everyone thought was a joke thanks to its April 1st launch timing.) In most cases, everything is reset back to normal and everyone moves on.
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Both movies revel in the visual gags made possible by the power of scale, with Ant-Man almost washed down a drain (despite Mr. Rogers' reassurances) and engaging in a life-or-death battle in a briefcase.
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In that scene, a white curator speaks condescendingly to a black visitor and then gags on poisoned coffee as he reminds her that the African objects they are standing in front of were stolen by Western collectors.
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There are bawdy, Carry-On-esque gags, and as it's Drake's actual home, there's a distinct family feeling to it, especially among the staff and table magicians who've been hand picked and molded over years of service.
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Although these kinds of gags are not unusual during a change in leadership, they could signal significant change for federal environmental organizations, considering Scott Pruitt, a noted climate change denier, is Trump's pick to lead the EPA.
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This is practically the Platonic ideal of a sequel: a bigger, louder, more manic retread that brings back Neighbors' characters, cast, conflict, settings, and even specific gags, and scales them all up to even more frantic levels.
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But, like every chapter of The Good Place, "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By" is a Trojan horse — a Simpsons-indebted package of butt jokes and sight gags sneaking a philosophical message into our brains.
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Though a teensy bit intoxicated with its own cleverness — some of the sidebars don't land, and the narration (delivered, wryly, by Brett Gelman) overstays its welcome — "Harpoon" offers stylish compositions, amusing running gags and sharp, snappy dialogue.
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The father-son bonding (over tacos and beers) does strike a chord in the hands of two winning personalities like Mr. Teller and Mr. Cranston, but it's as calculated as the film's gross-out and stoner gags.
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The film turns a hockey goon into an everyman golf superstar, turns a top golfer into an insecure villain of the highest order and manages to be touching among all the teenage-boy humor and slapstick gags.
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As comic as Jojo Rabbit can be — and it packs in plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, including some deeply silly running gags — it's these moments of human connection that are the real point of Jojo Rabbit.
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By contrast, "Friends" gets most of its gags from its characters' foibles: a pretentious one (Ross), a vain one (Rachel), an insecure one (Chandler), an uptight one (Monica), a stupid one (Joey) and an eccentric one (Phoebe).
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The first new episode tosses three axes in the air in the intro—a split-screen montage, showing a year of intimate bathroom gags—and then keeps juggling, offering up seven increasingly elaborate sequences of physical comedy.
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The line between the laid-back and the listless, in "The Dead Don't Die," may be too fine even for him, and most of the running gags don't run at all, merely loping around in a circle.
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These brief scenes reveal a two-woman world of soul mates who truly get each other's sensibility, drinking and sharing private gags, huddling up against a hostile world that views single women as both threatening and pathetic.
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The gags come fast and furious, but many characters who aren't Rell or Clarence seem to completely switch motivations, or their level of suspicion regarding Rell and Clarence's criminal acumen, depending on what the corresponding scene requires.
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Reflecting the constant stream of visual stimuli encountered through consumer electronics, the thirty-minute video jumps across screens with a plethora of expertly edited visual gags and cartoonish sound effects inserted to short-circuit the viewer's attention.
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While we aren't having any of those inane, "free bagels in the break-room," gags, we are here for the more creatively-involved subterfuge carried out annually by a slew of mainstream brands (that sometimes offer real deals).
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During the show's second season, the writers introduced one of their longest running gags: the Slap Bet, with Marshall (Jason Segel) earning the right to slap Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) five times — at any time and without warning.
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But the copious gore, the cruel extended rape joke, the abortion sight-gags, and any number of other vomit-inducing pseudo-goofs are so distracting and disorienting that making sense of the film would require a repeat viewing.
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Cartoons and superheroes are flexible: they can bring in action and forge real emotion connections with the audience, while still drawing on the big sight gags and pratfalls that used to be the sole province of comedy films.
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There's a plot, of sorts, but mostly, it's a chance for the man behind Beavis and Butt-head and Silicon Valley to crack cynical, despairing, and routinely hilarious gags about America's increasingly aggressive commercialism, crassness, and self-absorption.
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For those who had not played Jazzpunk previously, and shame on you, the game is a colourful slapstick story of spycraft and espionage, brimmed with visual gags and nonsense highly inspired by films like Naked Gun, Hot Shots!
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It didn't have me guffawing at gags or snorting at snarky remarks, no, it employs a sweeter kind of humor than you typically find in games, depending more on an appreciation of the absurd and perfect comic timing.
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Elvis & Nixon, which premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, naturally saves that eventual meeting for the climax — if an unhurried conversation between icons, punctuated with low-key gags and discomfort humor, can be called a climax.
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Yet only the theatrics, gags, and piledrives of Glow were able to finally prove the girls can stunt just as hard as the boys, which seems to be the behind-the-scenes mantra of the beloved streaming series.
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Similar to Eternal Darkness, Back in 1995 will throw some prankish television gags your way, like pretending to change the video input, but because you are probably playing on a computer I doubt they'd cause you any panic.
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The eighth episode does feature a parade that places most of the characters in the same place at the same time (and consequently features some of the season's best gags), but the road there is filled with potholes.
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Mr. Zacherle put on the frock coat and, in October 1957, went to work as the host of "The Shock Theater" (later simply "Shock Theater"), bringing with him an endless supply of sight gags and ad-lib patter.
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After drawing attention to the silliness of discussing art history in a stand-up show, she gets serious again, saying comics have been more likely to make dismissive jokes about Monica Lewinsky or "throwaway gags" about Mr. Weinstein.
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Food has also been long exploited for surrealist sight gags, as in the British artist Sarah Lucas's 1997 "Chicken Knickers," in which she posed with a whole raw chicken, disemboweled and strapped to the front of her underpants.
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We don't know never get a single– Austin: In fact, right, one of the running gags– Ricardo: Yeah, is that each time one of the family members brings up where she's from, it's a different South American country.
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For modern audiences, the controversial 1968 "Star Trek" lip lock between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura feels light years away, as do the gags from "The Jeffersons" that played off the interracial marriage of Tom and Helen Willis.
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In an opening monologue peppered with biting commentary about what he described as "sorority"-style discrimination pervading the film industry, Rock set the stage for a night of running gags that repeatedly returned to themes of racial politics.
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The justification for the TV version seems to be building more story, more jokes and sight gags, and more awkward clashes between vampires and humans — in short, more of everything fans have come to love about the film.
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They're even split up into little groups that allow for maximum character interplay and gags — having Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Bones (Karl Urban) be forced to hang out together turns out to be a master stroke, for instance.
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Aside from some mild laughs that come from the alpha-dog friction between Johnson and Efron, Damian Shannon and Mark Swift's script is a lazy barrage of sad-trombone product-placement gags and red-band boobs-and-boners jokes.
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"When you go on [Fetlife] and it's like ball gags and people getting pounded in the ass and chastity contraptions and penis' getting stomped, if that's new to you that can be a little bit alarming sometimes," says 42.
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There were plenty of jokes about small hands, a few Russia gags ("Just Say Nyet") and some earnest attempts at making points about policy ("Uphold The Paris Climate Agreement"), along with many Black Lives Matter and pro-choice placards.
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Barry and his younger brother Paul came from a family of entertainers in northern England — their father performed alongside a young Peter Sellers — and developed a double act that combined visual gags, catchphrases and the brothers&apos natural warmth.
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Any commentary about Hollywood's sexual harassment epidemic will still be couched in jokes, gags, and bits – you know, like the lighthearted drinking game that previous hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler invented ahead of their first ceremony in 2013.
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As you'll see in this clip of Shaun (Simon Pegg) coming up with a contingency plan to escape zombies in Shaun of the Dead, the comedy is found in visual and aural gags that extend the confines of dialogue.
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There's obviously ample affection for the comics in Edlund's world -- a trait common to any good parody -- but the approach is broad enough that one needn't be steeped in superhero minutia to appreciate the gags, though that surely helps.
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Mr. Timbers — whose varied credits include the immersive Imelda Marcos-centered disco frolic "Here Lies Love" and the punch-drunk "Rocky" on Broadway — uses visual wit and gleefully macabre gags to provide awakening jolts during this sustained singing hayride.
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Utilizing a nuanced combination of 3D-printed objects, textured 2D printouts, hand-drawn animation, and 35mm film, Kim creates a vividly detailed setting riddled with creative visual gags that play with the various material textures used in the film.
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Hinx, played by Dave Bautista), a visit to Q's lab for new gadgets (and see the ones he's not allowed to touch), an Aston Martin chase through the streets of Rome, and plenty of visual gags and one-liners.
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The fast-paced tale of a missing baker, a helicopter turned "were-copter," and a vat of radioactive cracker dough has heaping helpings of surreal alligator action and wordplay gags to keep new readers bent on solving the mystery.
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The gags that felt right to us were typically very low-stakes and elemental, like any good slapstick bit—we never really wanted to get much more ambitious than pulling a chair away from someone as they're sitting down.
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Some of the jokes here, for example, are uneven, as the humor ranges from lines apt to fly over the kids' heads to below-the-belt gags they'll love, like the Yeti thinking toilet paper is a sacred scroll.
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These are the sort of gags that cut across all cultures (as the film makes a point of in a scene where Gus argues about the true roots of world culture with an Iranian friend and a Chinese friend).
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However, Nichols and Henry nail the text's comedic aspects — not just because the two men were seasoned comedians, but because their playful sight gags, which rested on skillful editing and direction, are no small feat (some involved crashing aircrafts).
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Leshurr is perhaps best known for her legendary "Queen's Speech" series of freestyles, in which the appropriately named "first lady of grime" offers up witty gags, cutting cultural commentary, and throws shade at her haters' vain attempts to bring her down.
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Drawing inspiration from The Simpsons, Mad magazine, and Wes Anderson movies, Arrested Development in the early going was a visual and aural marvel, with sight gags, puns, double-entendres, callbacks, and slapstick shtick filling nearly every second of screen time.
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Alexander has been helming the extended comical HARD Summer trailers for the past five years, and was behind putting Diplo in the "Strawberry Gang," Skrillex in "The Last Mustache Ride," and other beloved-by-EDM fan gags featuring prominent DJs.
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But the humor in Toni Erdmann mostly comes from some kind of cinematic brick joke, in which the seeds of punchlines and sight gags are sown so long before their culmination that it's easy to forget they're there at all.
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Still in her pink lingerie, playing with wildflowers outside the open car door, Jay seems perfectly happy with the sex she's just had—until Hugh gags her with chloroform and she wakes up strapped in a wheelchair under a bridge.
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They offered hints of the love of Mammon in the prosperity gospel and, in their gags about black poverty and naivety, a comic spin on the disdain for other blacks that Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer, divines in Mr West.
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Little has been released about the new season so far, though judging by the rest of the trailer, it will feature the combination of tech exec drama, goofball gags, and hoodies that audiences have come to expect from the series.
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But there's also another lengthy interval with hilarious superhero fashion designer Edna Mode (voiced by Bird), a bunch more gags about government mind-wiping, and the obligatory joke about how badass superhero Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) has a nagging offscreen wife.
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For some, the temptation to shine in front of 200 million is just too great to resist and they see this as their big moment to make a mark – dropping gags, anecdotes and even the occasional song into the mix.
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Park crams an unseemly number of gags into this one—unfortunately, the ending leaves a bitter aftertaste when you remember all the indigenous peoples who were not offered the chance to reclaim their stolen land with a bit of friendly sport.
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It's a quick warning shot to the audience, and sets up one of the pilot's best running gags as the force body-hops the globe from preacher to shaman, at one point blowing up a celebrity in a great throwaway gag.
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Schumer and Hawn know what funny looks and sounds like, and they lend their dialogue and gags — no matter how tepid — enough snap and personality to distract you, at least some of the time, from the utter laziness of the material.
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By using callbacks to previous jokes, running gags that span the entire series, and a variety of Easter eggs, Broad City has built an immersive world for its fans to explore — as many other successful comedies have done before it.
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And then came one of the strangest gags I've ever seen on the Oscars, or anywhere: Out from the wings came actress Stacey Dash, an opponent of the Oscars boycott and, for good measure, an opponent of Black History Month.
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The idea that we should be rewarded for our loyalty with the promise of further thrills, or gags, may have been a marketing tool, designed to woo us back into the dark, but it continues to feed a fundamental hunger.
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In an interview, his friend and colleague Carl Reiner said that Brooks wasn't always comfortable seeing dirty jokes on television, and that he was bothered by a "Saturday Night Live" sketch that he felt relied too much on fart gags.
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From its opening shot of Simon Pegg slowly and intensely marching toward the camera, Hot Fuzz bombards the audiences with so many jokes and sight-gags that even ten years later you're bound to find new things to laugh at.
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But it most likely wouldn't be as entertaining as this casual, somewhat shambling series, which catches the spirit of Gaiman and Pratchett's attempt, at the start of their careers, to keep topping each other with gags and comic set pieces.
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Yes, it's true that the show has been prominently panned because its shamelessly tropey plot is packed with dorky, improv-style humor that constantly pelts you with silly jokes, visual gags, cheesy puns, physical comedy, and references to other rock musicals.
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Though it features a jaw-droppingly well-appointed gothic funhouse set (by David Korins, lighted by Kenneth Posner), replete with spooky surprises, this show so overstuffs itself with gags, one-liners and visual diversions that you shut down from sensory overload.
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Rip Taylor, a flamboyant mainstay of the comedy circuit who was known for his gags involving confetti, for his brand of self-deprecating humor, which included removing his toupee, and for his voice work, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.
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This mutation of two Warner Brothers tent poles (the DC Universe and the "LEGO Movie" franchise) is less a "real" Batman movie than a spoof of the property, with gags explicitly sending up earlier onscreen incarnations of the Caped Crusader.
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The installment found BoJack attending the Pacific Ocean Film Fest, which led to him getting mocked by a walrus chauffeur, fleeing an angry bodega-owning shark (Tim Jaws) and delivering a litter of baby sea horses, among other animal gags.
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Just watch: From the look of it, the movie is a CG-crazed version of The African Queen, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson playing Bogart and Emily Blunt doing some kind of Buster Keaton-level slapstick gags with a ladder.
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Over the years, running gags and returning characters have given the show an insider feeling, but it's easy to understand what's going on no matter where you start in the series and feel like you're part of the whole crew.
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There are dozens of "snapshots" of landmarks and sight gags, like the giant doing triceps dips on the St. Louis Gateway Arch, but viewers won't see his face in a commercial until the campaign's reveal moment in television ads next month.
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It was a show about changing social customs and mores that lulled you into complacency with big sight gags about how much things had changed since the 1960s — hey, we don't let kids put plastic bags over their heads anymore!
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This is a movie that can be read on many different levels, from a simple family comedy to an action movie imbued with philosophy to a genuine war of political principles that manages to pack in some great sight gags.
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There's a narrative to a lot of these pieces and a linear way to think about them, but then we also get to think about comics and about the formal aspects of comics, because comics aren't just linear storytelling and gags.
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Though Gags was simply in costume and holding black balloons as part of a viral marketing campaign for a short horror film, he still managed to spook people and the sighting sparked a vicious spiral of clown-related headlines across the country.
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Chazelle's film is a song-and-dance extravaganza with actors who can't really sing or dance; it's a movie about artistic dedication that would rather loft trite sight gags — Ryan Gosling glumly bopping the '80s karaoke classic "Take On Me" on a keytar!
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Unfortunately, "pointless, despite some solid moments" describes too much of The Lego Movie 2, a film with its heart in the right place, some great gags in its head, and an inability to make anything connect beyond individual jokes or plot points.
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It's hard to say whether Avatars will be able to top the offbeat charm of a well-placed Bitmoji — one of the best gags on HBO's Barry is Noho Hank's use of Bitmoji, cementing his place as the world's most likeable hitman.
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One of the most enjoyable things about Reubens's work as Pee-wee has always been its abundant sexual innuendoes and double entendres — lines about what ''big feet'' mean, jokes about large tools concealed in repairmen's pockets, gags featuring suspiciously stimulating horsey rides.
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This isn't a movie with a long memory (except when it's reaching back 40 years for visual gags), but it's infuriating to see it try to examine its own tropes responsibly, then take no steps whatsoever to address the issues it raises.
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The film flaunts plenty of flatulence jokes and boner humor, but its becomes clear the puerile gags are actually a feint to lighten the movie's existential angst about death, the nature of existence, and the need to make a connection with another person.
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His YouTube channel is crammed with this kind of stuff, including an interrogation of the Frozen crew in the style of John Carpenter's The Thing and a profoundly disturbing—and no, that's not sarcasm—take on the couch gags from The Simpsons.
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In addition to their eerily similar plots, New Jersey Turnpikes and Semi-Pro share nearly identical gags, a back-handed affinity for the 1970s, and even a pivotal moment in which the team owner has a comic meltdown during a board meeting.
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The closest analogue to "In the Aisles" might be the bleakly comic films of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki ("The Other Side of Hope"), with which this movie shares a taste for deadpan sight gags and an interest in everyday working-class lives.
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But despite indifferent plotting, "Pets 2" has some winning gags, often cleverly built around these creatures' all-too-familiar qualities; any cat owner who's had their pet walk all over their laptop keyboard before knocking over a coffee mug will chuckle in recognition.
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I had a lot of fun watching Valerian, despite its shitty hero—there are fantastic action sequences and visual compositions and sight gags that are totally worth, you know, wishing the main character would just wander out of an airlock by accident.
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Although his byline rarely appeared, Mr. Meglin refined Mad's cover ideas, added puns and gags to stories, frequently ghostwrote Dave Berg's cartoon feature "The Lighter Side Of … " and checked to make sure the lyrics of the magazine's song spoofs had the right meter.
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"Artists and Models" (1955) and "Hollywood or Bust" (1956) were broadly satirical looks at American popular culture under the authorial hand of the director Frank Tashlin, who brought a bold graphic style and a flair for wild sight gags to his work.
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As for Wichita and Columbus, they've hit a rut in their relationship, which he clumsily tries to fix by proposing to her with the Hope Diamond (one of many running gags about using random memorabilia from the White House in everyday life).
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As BoJack, the self-destructive celebrity horse voiced by Will Arnett, negotiated the dark corners of Hollywoo and his own psyche, a steady stream of peripheral visual gags — puns, pop culture references, the occasional cocaine-addled lemur — made his various descents more palatable.
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At a time when psychoanalysis was coming into vogue in the United States, Lubitsch devised uproarious Freudian sight gags (including a dream sequence in which Paul takes the walking stick into his mouth) that revealed sexual desire lurking in banal corners of life.
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While eagle-eyed fans may be frustrated by the show's cropping, which Simpsons aficionados pointed out can cut out some of the show's visual gags and sly jokes, Disney is aware of the issue and is going to fix the aspect ratio.
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If you pay close attention, though, you'll find all kinds of clever gags hiding just below the surface — jokes that reference the show's own past, the histories of its cast members, and the last series executive produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.
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But it also illustrates — somewhat literally — his fondness for one-line gags, which is something (as someone who also grew up in a sad Detroit suburb) I've always considered to be very Midwestern: best get everyone laughing before anything gets too serious.
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The cast stood around microphones with scripts and a screen for visual cues, and played off one another: delivering gags, growls, swoons, screams, pauses for effect, cries of pain, angry rebukes, sweet endearments, coughs, shudders, sips, slurps, snickers, guffaws and an occasional sneeze.
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While I could easily recommend dozens of episodes to the Sponge-curious, I've instead opted to highlight three that embody the main elements that make SpongeBob so great: the show's visual gags, surreal sensibilities, and most importantly, its charming and lovable cast.
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After all, Far From Home mines multiple gags out of Peter's rival Flash (Tony Revolori) idolizing Spider-Man while sneering at Peter, and it's always seemed like that dynamic was a setup for a big comic payoff when Flash finds out they're the same person.
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But where Shaun uses that basic premise to set the stage for lots of gags, Boy uses it to examine the wonders that humanity is capable of as well as the horrible things it can do to both the environment and other human beings.
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But just as it's in the nature of three-camera sitcoms to draw in thick lines, smart TV creators (and Lorre and his BBT partner Bill Prady are certainly that) also understand that one-dimensional characters and gags don't stay fresh for very long.
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The U.S. internet giant is usually celebrated for its creative April Fools gags — some of its others today are funny — but the Big G's attempt to inject humor into email via a 'Mic Drop' button that inserts a Minions GIF in Gmail messages backfired.
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Even the kids in attendance during an advance screening seemed notably antsy, perhaps because of the semi-arid stretches between the big slapstick and vaguely naughty sight gags that the gibberish-spouting Minions in particular provide, including a peculiar foray that lands them in prison.
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What Blockers actually turns out to be, however, is a thoughtful and generous exploration of what sex means to young women and their parents – one that still has plenty of time for uproarious gags about butt-chugging and Fast and the Furious-style car chases.
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Ralph Breaks the Internet is a two-hour journey down a series of rabbit holes filled with laughs, tears, a ton of self-referential meta gags, and a Tumblr-worthy reinvention of familiar characters that eventually delivers something you didn't know you always needed.
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After their vacation goes awry, the movie becomes a B-action buddy comedy with a fair amount of laughs (some wittier and well-earned, others cheap gags) and more of that fantastic chemistry between the two stars as they trek through the Amazon jungle.
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Super Craig is just a better version of Craig For all its adult gags, South Park is at its best when it captures that feeling of being a kid, living an in-between space populated by the real world and the creations of one's imagination.
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But once your brain lights up with the possibility of playing Bulletstorm-style in a game that, surely, never once looked to People Can Fly's title for inspiration, it's hard to shake the enthusiasm for a gleeful murder spree mercifully shorn of terrible dick gags.
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Other than that, "Disjointed" puffs out a series of tired gags about Bates' earth goddess, Ruth, and her stoned-out staff of "budtenders" -- a stock assortment of characters except for one emotionally deeper thread regarding the security guard Carter (Tone Bell), a war veteran.
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And he obviously hopes that "people on trips, people who aren't taking trips, people who like trips and people who don't like trips" are all potential readers of facile, funny, short-chaptered books full of gags, anecdotes, local color and touches of the cheerfully bizarre.
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Asked if it's in his best interest to have Trump stay put in the Oval Office in order to keep the animated gags coming, Fried quotes his colleague Colbert, who's been a fierce comedic critic of Trump as host of "The Late Show" on CBS.
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The conceit is taken even further than you'd expect, and the sight gags are boundless—not to mention legitimately funny turns from people like David Copperfield, Serena Williams, and Michael Sheen, the latter being one of the Samberg-adjacent comedy world's best secret weapons.
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He gets to be on the good end of basically every solid joke in the game, and an early moment where he rescues the entire party from certain doom is one of the best-timed sight gags that I have ever seen in a game.
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Most of the book is a chronological history of Laurel's career, with an emphasis on his struggles to find a character for himself (whereas Hardy is presented as an actor with a gift for gags, Laurel is a gag man in search of a persona).
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To see the black hole breakthrough instantly inscribed into the stupidity of the social web — shrunk and grafted into cat GIFs and gross-out gags — was to realize how much our capacities for wonder, surprise and gratitude have shrunk since "Blue Marble" was published.
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He doubled back on the dirt-packed streets to consult with his crew on how to secure LED lights to show off the gilded letters of signage for a pretend subdivision called the Bombay Beach Estates, one of Mr. Ashkenazy's many sight gags here.
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Rating A big studio comedy requires a handful of ingredients: a bunch of talented character actors, some kind of novel but relatable situation, good jokes, and a selection of running gags that will get funnier as they recur over the course of the film.
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In typical Aardman Animation style, all of this information is conveyed wordlessly, through bleats, grunts, barks, and a slew of giggle-worthy sight gags — like a montage of Bitzer putting up sign after sign forbidding the flock from whatever shenanigan they've just gotten up to.
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Part of the reason it may have taken critics so long to reassess King's work is that "horror" implies the lower rungs of emotion King speaks of in Danse Macabre — the gross-outs and the physical gags that play into our understanding of the genre.
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He believes his sketch was ripped off by an Inside Amy Schumer writer for a bit that copied two gags: one that involves the magician turning condoms into balloon animals and another that involves pulling a never-ending scarf out of a woman's vagina.
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