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"shtick" Definitions
  1. a style of humour that is typical of a particular performer
  2. a particular ability that somebody has

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The irony of Trump's straight talk shtick is that it's so obviously a shtick.
"I think there's a deep phoniness at the center of his shtick, and the shtick is built on the character that he plays," Carlson said.
Also, Trump's shtick excites a portion of the electorate — resentful, xenophobic, white — that is more robust than most political elites realized, but the shtick also polarizes.
His shtick plays well in some areas but not others, and with adequate recruiting Democrats can neutralize the aspects of his shtick that people find appealing.
He growls, rants, shouts, digresses, careens from shtick nugget to shtick nugget, rhapsodizes over past landslides, name-drops Ivanka, Melania, Mike Tyson, Newt Gingrich, Bobby Knight, Bill O'Reilly.
It is an old-school notion, but Tirico's shtick is that he doesn't have a shtick — and that might just be why he appeals to such a broad audience.
S. It's not a shtick — I genuinely don't like you.
He laughed as loudly as anyone at Williams's crazy shtick.
He knew he would have to find a new shtick.
Their whole shtick causes collateral damage for those around them.
I'm told it's called a bit, not a shtick, sorry.
This is their shtick at its broadest and most obvious.
It's low on nautical shtick and high on urban accents.
"This was shtick to them," he said of the actors.
When Trump was in business, his shtick was stiffing contractors.
Part of its shtick is launching faster and cheaper than anyone.
But when a man has a discernible shtick, he's called corny.
I thought his oafish, buffoonish manner was the typical politician's shtick.
He is paid around $10m-12m a picture for this shtick.
The standard first answer: "Traditional stuff," the whole Norman Rockwell shtick.
During more than an hour, this device came close to shtick.
Above all, his Don Rickles shtick — politics by insult — wore thin.
But Mr. Corden's comedy also has another recurring shtick: self-humiliation.
Strong's restraint tends to underline just how shtick-y Baron Cohen, who
And ultimately, it's not a bad shtick if you can get it.
And standing up for the little guy is part of his shtick.
All the children are defined as distinct individuals but without excessive shtick.
So he acts like he doesn't know my shtick, he does. Okay.
"My shtick is, as you may know, textualism," he told the Friars.
"The car is part of my shtick," Grahm said with a laugh.
At one point, during his class-as-therapy shtick, Leon asks his
Bill Clinton used the same shtick back when he was in office.
It was an ideal Cold War shtick in wrestling, where good vs.
Is that, then, shtick to fire up the base, or genuine grievance?
But the throwback-funk innovator is operating on a level beyond shtick.
He has this practiced-exasperation shtick down pretty well at this point.
This is Baron Cohen's shtick, and it works from time to time.
Her latest mixtape, without ever peaking that high, typifies her obscene shtick.
"Sorry I was late," Obama began his eighth and final Correspondents' Dinner shtick.
Which, of course, it was: Every prominent person performs a shtick in public.
Some are just more seamlessly performed, and less discernible as shtick, than others.
Even Watts thinks the "blame the bots" shtick has gotten out of control.
"When you do conventional things, you take away your shtick," Mr. Gross said.
Virtually all of the Deadspin Awards were completely in line with Deadspin's shtick.
Each year, journalists gather in black tie to hear a comedian's political shtick.
Shaq says he used to do the same shtick back in the day.
"Self-aggrandizing is not really his shtick," Mr. Roe said to the reporters.
Aldi's shtick is all about limited options, small store sizes, and low prices.
While filming, she encountered Nekrasova, who appeared amusingly unfazed by the whole shtick.
We've seen this before, but it's an interesting shtick when it comes along.
The ordering, the cleaning and the one-man-restaurant shtick became too much.
Her teaching style is a mix of spiritual patter, pragmatic instruction and shtick.
Surely he'll drop the reality show shtick as he moves toward governing, right?
He has described this shtick as constituting about 7% of who he really is.
Part of his shtick was being ostentatious, flashing expensive jewelry and wearing absurd outfits.
He has no shtick — unless you count "Bang!" for critical 214-pointers as one.
Now that Jones is seeing someone, what will happen to her single-lady shtick?
" If his anxiety could become shtick — his production company was called "How's My Hair?
My shtick is I tell people to draft (or in this case, keep) talent.
They've since grown up and ditched the whole same-outfit-in-different-colors shtick.
This confusion reflects various partisan derangements, plus the destabilizing influence of Trump's strongman shtick.
TV: They have an act, they have a shtick and it worked very well.
For whatever reason — the eternal richness of the entirely inoffensive desperate-to-get-married shtick?
Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich has turned surliness into a shtick that should be beneath him.
Bozo and Ronald McDonald were pasty-faced enthusiasts who performed their shtick with evangelical fervor.
Elsewhere, watch Jack Black do his panda shtick without having to buy a movie ticket.
Maybe Oprah's find-that-woman-inside-shtick is unvarnished honesty, or maybe it's savvy salesmanship.
It's not like they book a few arena dates a year and that's their shtick.
If that were the sole focus of the series, the shtick would get old quickly.
In those last years he grew more famous than ever but was mostly doing shtick.
I know that's part of Trixie's shtick, but it seemed like a very odd choice.
Same shtick on Thursday, but you'll want to dust off your winter coat by Friday.
C. shtick is waiting in the wings to take over when Katherine is eased offstage.
He'd been recruited by the mysterious Mr. Robot (Christian Slater, doing his jocular-bully shtick).
It offended dad that he took an element and made it sterile or a shtick.
Oddly enough, it's his yearly assignment calling the Home Run Derby when Berman's shtick really shines.
"Donald is a showbiz guy, and his talk is his shtick," says one friend, Christopher Ruddy.
Sidebar: this whole "look how different we are!" shtick is getting kind of old, just saying.
It seems fair to say that, with or without Trump, the Fox shtick doesn't change much.
Lynde, particularly, had perfected his shtick and made it family friendly enough for the sitcom Bewitched.
Maybe it's time for Democrats to drop the paranoid shtick - there's a Russian behind every bush!
His favorite shtick is secretly taping employees of institutions like NPR, Planned Parenthood and now CNN.
"It's a shtick, and a good one," Kevin Iole wrote of Ferguson's boxing career in 2013.
Would Gnoli have done endless variations on this shtick until he beat it into the ground?
Spencer's shtick is a mix of history lesson, political science lecture, motivational speaking, and pure trolling.
This wrist shake, recycled as phrases end, is silly, a shtick, like so many Morris motifs.
He really needs the role, because it's good business but also because, alas, it's good shtick.
And the editorial decision to title each chapter with a Yiddishism goes a shtick too far.
For two decades, Jones's shtick played equally well on the far left and the far right.
For those unfamiliar with their variety club shtick, McGuinness and Walsh are not exactly cutting edge.
The Trump-Conway shtick is to trash the country so they can make us great again.
And Tharpism can become mere shtick, without the spontaneity that was once its most breathtaking component.
But even those allergic to Southern-fried shtick are unlikely to go away feeling entirely empty.
Ms. Farmiga is warmly appealing, and Mr. Plummer drizzles a welcome acidity over Jack's roguish shtick.
Finally, we review a Gauguin exhibition in Chicago, as well as Michael Moore's shtick on Broadway.
"It's a shtick as much as Amazon saying it'll deliver parcels to your home by drone."
"The fury Sean brings to this shtick is really quite ... adorable," Goldberg wrote on Sept. 3.
Definitely give me Darren Daulton's Art Bell shtick over Curt Schilling talking bloody-sock grit bullshit.
" — Conservative pundit Carmine Sabia "Her entire shtick is her contempt for the president, his family and conservatives.
He's been suspended by Twitter, so now Martin Shkreli is taking his trollish shtick on the road.
Many companies offer lower-cost alternatives to payday loans, but others are running much the same shtick.
He escaped out of the back door of one pub after his Bosniak shtick went down badly.
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about artists who neither fit in nor have a shtick.
"I still don't consider us a political band—to me that's a gimmick, a shtick," Fisher says.
Maher's shtick has long been controversy — in what he often characterizes as a battle against political correctness.
Take note, fraternities of America, commitment to the shtick is the key to a classy toga party.
Eight years later, Clinton didn't shy away from gender in the face of her opponent's hypermachismo shtick.
Their main job is to travel the U.S. promoting the brand and its most recognizable marketing shtick.
But that doesn't make her fixation on the romantic love she's so insecure about anything like shtick.
He's ridden a deadly combination of goofy visual shtick and killer tunes to the cusp of stardom.
Is "The Favourite" little more than a smart and extended shtick, or will it continue to shine?
Yes, Snicket has his shtick: ponderous character names, an air of the old-fashioned, unlikely plot twists.
But his tirades are also a shtick in the sense that they're politically useful, Mr. Baker added.
"It is part of his shtick and it's working for him," he said of the Twitter attack.
Some constructors have what I call a shtick, or something they are known for in crossword puzzles.
If a certain amount of vaudevillian shtick is required to keep everyone's identities separate, that's just fine.
Also, he can be funny, especially if you haven't seen his shtick more than a few times.
But this shtick didn't become really awkward for museums until the social-justice set racialized the issues.
They have worked out an odd-couple shtick in public, but the stark cultural differences are obvious.
If a certain amount of vaudevillian shtick is required to keep everyone's identities separate, that's just fine.
Now that a handful of those exciting opportunities have quietly evaporated, my Pollyanna shtick is getting old.
And you know that even though he does what he does ... fashion-wise, it's part of the shtick.
"I find a lot of Tristan's shtick pretty annoying," one of Harris's former colleagues at Google told me.
While other presidents have possessed the traits of entertainers — Kennedy, Reagan, Obama — shtick alone didn't put them there.
Cool Girl is a nice, nonthreatening shtick that works beautifully on men because it depends on male approval.
In this case, the shtick happens to be a bit too much and low-key ruins the movie.
Or is HE actually Arnold, pulling a Darth-Vader-like "he died and was reborn as me" shtick?
Would this Trump have been as popular or capable of building his cult of personality without the shtick?
Historically, Hollywood's been a little too reliant on its quotas-to-fill shtick, leading to some trash stereotypes.
It's an attempt to amplify the shtick that made Kjellberg famous, and to charge a premium for it.
He had lost most of his hearing but was still trying to pass off his silk-pajama shtick.
There's something about the mysterious barista shtick that makes people open up and tell you about their problems.
She's not an incredible dynamo of charisma, but she does have a kind of charming dorky Midwestern shtick.
He also continues to throw some classic Trump shtick into his speeches — an insult here, an anecdote there.
He often employed a shtick that involved a lot of talk but an aversion to actual physical contact.
And when a Twitter troll tried to call her out for her shtick, Monáe's clapback was strong and poignant.
Part of Denino's shtick is interacting with viewers, who try to suss out his location and mess with him.
And indeed, Dolemite's brand of comedy was calibrated for an audience who wouldn't find Billy Wilder's shtick funny either.
Its Gilded Age- Firefly shtick wore thin through repetition, and doing quests often involved one forgettable massacre after another.
The shtick of The Boring Company is that it's tunnel-boring, but cheaper and faster and with Elon Musk.
But even though the WWE intercontinental champ LOVES Conor's shtick ... he ain't exactly sold on him out-boxing Floyd.
Negan is a fun villain, but he does only have one shtick, and a little goes a long way.
Presumbly anybody who thinks her shtick has stagnated is too embarrassed to pay attention, because without doubt it's evolved.
Will their vocal resemblance to John Ritter and fondness for George Michael's greatest hits undermine their drug dealing shtick?
It was not the goofy dances the players performed, a shtick that has become a mainstay of the event.
Tesla founder Elon Musk swiftly abandoned his benevolent billionaire shtick once his notoriously exploited workforce began to consider unionizing.
In part, because Arnold's very strength—the mashup of grime and epiphany—is in danger of becoming a shtick.
But more interesting than their shtick is why Asian-American audiences enjoy watching Asian Americans performing caricatures of Blackness.
James is really sweet but his whole "I'm just not the coolest guy"-shtick on this date got pretty old.
Others expected Mr Trump to drop his proletarian shtick and help deliver the tax cuts they had always dreamed of.
I've done every shtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags.
Some have persuaded themselves that being in office brings "normalization," and that Mr. Trump's vile campaign language was mere shtick.
Like her whole shtick is she goes on and says whatever she wants and that is what works for her.
Some think it's a shtick, a gimmicky representation of broad Jewish stereotypes brought to life by mostly non-Jewish actors.
But his groundbreaking sitcoms, especially "The Larry Sanders Show," elevated the shtick into something both more grandiose and more human.
At the moment, it's in the possession of The Collector (Benicio Del Toro), whose whole shtick is to collect shit.
This raises an obvious question: How much of Yiannopoulos's shtick is real, and how much of it is performance art?
I think his shtick of calling Trump "Daddy," or "Uncle Steve" when he refers to Bannon, is sort of old.
Still, you don't have to disagree with Mr. Moore's politics to find that his shtick has become disagreeable with age.
Kimmel was previously pranked with a similar shtick by Rihanna who tricked the 2016 Emmys emcee on April Fool's Day 2015.
The governor of New Jersey shocked the political world on Friday by endorsing the guy who stole his whole shtick, i.e.
When it comes to beauty secrets, they won't do you wrong like celebrities with that "just drink lots of water!" shtick.
That kind of shtick could help in the Rust Belt and win back some of those drawn to Sanders's economic platform.
"It isn't easy to tell how much of Trump's performance is merely shtick and how much is real," the editorial said.
Social awareness had become something of a tired shtick in hardcore by the late 80s, when straight edge culture ran rampant.
It reveals an artist who seems slightly bored with his own shtick and is taking shortcuts to underscore painting's commodity status.
He writes: "You don't have to disagree with Mr. Moore's politics to find that his shtick has become disagreeable with age."
Then everyone can continue with the basic deal whereby Republicans run policy as usual while Trump does a populist shtick on Twitter.
"No one's trying to look like David Bowie, no one's trying to fake his voice or his shtick at all," he promised.
"My whole shtick with my show is that I recreate foods from movies and television as rigorously accurate as possible," he said.
The multi-channel work dissects the famous comic's shtick using closeups and framing and gives us little fixed meaning (and no audio).
After wading right back into the same shtick, and for being just as unfunny at it, it's clear: he's just an idiot.
A little of that goes a long way, but you guys do it week after week and it doesn't seem like shtick.
And Efron — who has come to rely on his obnoxious frat-boy shtick far too often — takes off his shirt…a lot.
They were part of my shtick since before I had a penny to my name, and I unequivocally meant them in jest.
Looking ahead to November, any Republican nominee would be wise to disassociate themselves from the Palin clan and their snowmobile racing shtick.
Now I will do my Santa shtick For Q.B. Colin Kaepernick, And belt a coupla carols with Josh Norman and Za'Darius Smith.
The popular culture has turned one of our actual feminist heroes into a cartoonish figure—you know the shtick: the Notorious RBG.
In other words, at some point his "I alone can fix it" shtick may grow stale, if he really can't fix it.
Now, though, with Thor (and Mr. Hemsworth) at last settled in, what he needs is a myth as mighty as his shtick.
The neighborhood is a perfect fit for his shtick; its architectural style might as well be called International "Hell Yeah, Pimp" Modern.
The fact that he was fired, the fact that perhaps people are sick of hearing that particular shtick — that's the interesting part.
Instead we are left with politicians whose shtick is based on being the man on the street or the woman next door.
Redmayne can be a sensitive presence, but when he isn't well directed his fluttering and darting looks quickly settle into ingratiating shtick.
Jackson and especially Willis remind you again of how fine they can be when asked for more than booming shtick and smirk.
Anyone who has ever come into contact with my opinionated, sassy 104-year-old grandma feels inspired by her women's empowerment shtick.
The breakup shtick seemed like too much of a gimmick when Kermit and Miss Piggy did it in the revamped Muppets TV show.
Listening to him lecture Quinton "Rampage" Jackson about the racial dimensions of his shtick ahead of their UFC 114 grudge match was illuminating.
"The writing was on the wall that the Sanford shtick, that the Sanford approach to things was catching up to him," said Felkel.
Dovaleh's edgy, "tightrope-walking" shtick narrows into a lacerating narrative of the cadet camp where, at 14, he learned of a parent's death.
Ms Richardson's black-sister shtick and the snarks against black heroes such as Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey got all the biggest cheers.
Instead of a flawed hero, he further pushed that whole perfect savior shtick—the still symbolic, aspirational cup-holder to everyone around him.
Wise has also endowed Fedor's character with an exaggerated Jewish-American identity, one marked by Yiddishisms and shtick and often verging on caricature.
The whole shtick is the most logical extension to the advocacy she's already championed and an obvious threat to angry dudes with keyboards.
That they're game for the elaborate shtick means they hear something in Yachty, and that they see something more than can be heard.
He expresses himself in the orderly paragraphs of a former high-school debater, but with deft comic timing and a gift for shtick.
Now, a mix of original and new cast members will perform their movie-mocking shtick live on the "Watch Out for Snakes!" tour.
Cupcakke: Ephorize (Cupcakke) Chicago rapper Cupcakke has been releasing hooky, carnal, furious albums for several years now, continually refining her joyfully scabrous shtick.
For all of the jokes about his chilling efficiency, Saban's post-human shtick isn't all that far removed from Meyer's totalitarianism in Gainesville.
By this point, there are many riffs on VoiceoverPete's shtick, but the most famous one has to be a Fortnite video uploaded in October.
And as you can see, he did that to the fullest," Lindsay said, admitting later that his shtick put her off "a little bit.
He was practically born to host the Oscars, and could inherit Billy Crystal's old song-and-dance shtick at the top of the show.
Their shtick involves shooting and smashing things and filming them in slow motion, which is what online videos are all about really (besides cats).
But Lindsay knows what she was talking about, so whenever she would fall into that shtick, it was disappointing: 'Oh, you can do better.
It made the guests laugh, gave him some street cred by mentioning an A-list actor, and became a unique shtick on his show.
Every once and awhile, the R-rated G.I. Joe shtick lands on something genuinely funny, but it usually feels like it's trying too hard.
In America, we've just got a drunk Russian man throwing first pitches, but the Nippon-Ham Fighters have a whole nother shtick going on.
So, you didn't know exactly what his shtick was, but you knew him as Fox News so you knew what you were getting into.
Though he passed on the bachelor party, he gave a "standup comedy shtick" toast that Mr. Perillo said had the crowd shouting his name.
Demetri Martin is a self-referential, think-y kind of comic, and "The Overthinker," as the title suggests, is the epitome of his shtick.
Certainly not everyone loves the company's shtick, which Morgan from the Fug Girls calls "your quirky old aunt's style," but that's besides the point.
Some voters at the events recognized that some of Mr. Kemp's presentation was exaggerated shtick, while others felt that liberal America should lighten up.
"A Holiday to Remember" was also devoid of the sort of comic shtick that has long been a staple of Mr. Feinstein's nightclub performances.
Johnson and Hart's septuagenarian shtick is the main attraction, though, and they gleefully commit to "Saturday Night Live"-worthy impressions of DeVito and Glover.
Ryan, who was persuaded by his House colleagues to replace Boehner as speaker in 2015, has perfected his ''I don't need this job'' shtick.
Ellen DeGeneres' shtick as a TV host is to put her guests on the spot, which usually leads to well-received fun by all.
She has mocked Mr. Trump's obsession with what she terms his "manhood" and gone all in with the grandmother-wrangling-an-unruly-child shtick.
Trump's successful pitch was that he is a different kind of Republican, whose lowbrow shtick indicated a real desire to sideline the interests of wealthy.
With 12 overlapping sets on Sunday night at Webster Hall, Globalfest included dance music, protest songs, tradition, fusion, electronics, shtick, spirituality, camp and the blues.
Ascribing postmodernism to this archetypal Romantic feels too easy, too much a slick rationalization, but Cohen had a shtick and he performed it with distance.
Rubbishing the government's dealmaking record (which he, disdainful of geopolitics, reduces to the zero-sum terms of a property transaction) is part of that shtick.
He told news anchors his speech would include a "modified" version of the anti-socialism shtick that's become a staple of his 2020 campaign rallies.
Brock O'Hurn is here to make mouths water again for the holidays -- 'cause he's back to doing his Sexy Santa shtick ... which nobody minds whatsoever.
But racial polarization has always been Jones's shtick and somehow keeps him employed to share his thoughts in front of millions of people per week.
Fallon's apolitical shtick increasingly makes him an outlier among his peers, many of whom are less comics than propagandists — liberal "explanatory journalists" with laugh lines.
She's tired of Kris' old friends killing her vibe — she literally tells her mom that her friends are too old, and her shtick is lame.
"I try to tell everybody I don't know how to paint, that this is half shtick," he says, standing behind a comically tiny travel easel.
Mr. Harris and especially Ms. Pfeiffer bring a jolt of shtick and a whisper of camp, qualities that you may miss terribly when they depart.
"David has got his own shtick and wants to make his own mark," said Michael Novogratz, a Goldman alumnus who now runs a merchant bank.
It's gimmicks galore with crocodiles and segways from the Northern Territory Police, but they don't have the one shtick that would've made the video better — rhythm.
Anyone who has dealt with her knows the "I'm a victim" shtick didn't start with November of 2016, and would not have ended if she won.
The trailer mostly shows Arthur without makeup, and the scenes where he's in makeup seem to take place before he's wholly committed to the Joker shtick.
Chrome OS's whole shtick was supposed to make computers cheaper by removing all the traditional local OS stuff and replacing them with powerful cloud-based alternatives.
In particular, the Hammer Horror lyrical shtick of previous albums is gone, in favor of a bolder step towards a more personal and expressive lyrical style.
Though, for me, the "can you believe two pretty teen girls are saying this stuff?" shtick got a little bit old after the first 20 minutes.
Click here to view original GIFBy now you've likely heard of TechRax, the YouTuber whose shtick consists of buying expensive gizmos and destroying them for views.
They're just not treated that well, and their stories are shuffled to the bottom of the stack in favor of the more lighthearted "tech bros" shtick.
They're the Rottweilers of computers: Since their shtick isn't fitting into designer purses, they can be as big and brawny as you need them to be.
In my opinion, Nicki's "women empowerment" shtick is nothing but a façade after she made some pretty baseless comments about sex work in a recent article.
"Dynasty" works a little too hard at living up (or down) to its splashy billboards in the early going, with Gillies overplaying the femme fatale shtick.
But I made distinctions: I became impatient if there was theme music with a logo, or if the instructors did any playacting shtick at the start.
There's a comic aspect to some of this: Humiliation has a reliable role in stand-up shtick, and Mr. Acconci's burlesque of masculinity can be hilarious.
Chinese cultural icons and writers as diverse as Li Ao [in Taiwan], Wang Shuo and Han Han have made outbursts of vituperation part of their shtick.
West's guest appearance feels like a nauseatingly transparent ratings stunt that sells out the millions of fans still reeling from his commitment to his MAGA shtick.
Like the kitschy shtick and deadpan stand-up that it references, White's portion of the 2017 SECA Art Award exhibition engages the improvisational, unexpected, and haphazard.
She brought the party by taking shot glasses and a flask out of her considerable cleavage, but it was her country shtick that made everyone gag.
They accuse her of fashioning a shtick as a free-agent vote because she loves the attention (as opposed to those other senators who hate attention).
Mr. Lee's dialogue encompassed Catskills shtick, like Spider-Man's patter in battle; Elizabethan idioms, like Thor's; and working-class Lower East Side swagger, like the Thing's.
He soon turned his foibles into a permanent shtick, becoming an unapologetic stand-in for what he saw as old-world British habits and political views.
But Davidson has finally returned to SNL, with his usual semi-aware, oversharing millennial shtick that makes him one of the show's most beloved cast members.
Zachary Levi, meanwhile, plays the heavily muscled hero, mimicking Tom Hanks' man-child shtick, only with a lot more special effects and a bulked-up physique.
I'd watch episodes through narrowed eyes, wondering if Dunham realized how truly awful Hannah could be, or if she wanted the character's shtick to be charming.
As my colleague Zack Beauchamp explained, this is part of Yiannopoulos's shtick: Say something inflammatory to anger a whole lot of people and get widespread media attention.
It's a sense of humor that is irreverent and heavy on folksy shtick, which wormed its way from Odessa to Kryvyi Rih and, later, to Brighton Beach.
Gunn's tweets made light of pedophilia, and he apologized for them years later and attributed them to a shock humor shtick of his back in the day.
President Trump has directed much of his anti-media shtick at CNN over the past few months, publicly attacking the network for its coverage of his administration.
The bit is a darker variant of Mr. Friedlander's "World Champ" shtick, in which he calls himself the world champ in anything and everything, including table tennis.
Eventually, Berman's shtick became tired—there's only so many ways you can circle the wagons like the Buffalo Bills—but I never lost my affinity for Jackson.
But what really makes the show worth watching is the combination of Mr. Tennant and Ms. Colman, even if what they're doing is shtick we've seen before.
But again and again on Capitol Hill, the shtick proved useful: Sometimes it's better to be Captain America than a Holly­wood liberal elite who defends Roe v.
Of course, that entire encounter, which was actually pretty well-telegraphed by William's morphing-into-Mulder shtick, followed an inordinate amount of collateral damage involving peripheral players.
For all his well-honed sheepishness, Priebus's "just a kid from Kenosha, Wisc." shtick belies a penchant for main stages, big-ticket rooms and high-level company.
The public struggles of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George T. Conway III, are not shtick, friends say, and they are not having fun.
Eventually you tire of Ms. Gillette's ribald little-old-lady shtick, Ms. Keenan-Bolger's flattened anger and wonderment, Mr. Kunken's verbal manspreading and Mr. Castano's nonspecific bonhomie.
I mention privilege associated with not caring or thinking things impact you, but stick mostly to my "vote for the people that can't" shtick, which he likes.
Diddy tapped out on his "Brother Love" shtick QUICK ... but the original Brother Love -- pro wrestling legend Bruce Prichard -- says he still wants to kick his ass!!
That shtick works when he's in front of crowds who already love him, but it's not clear if it's enough to win over those mythical undecided voters.
"The Attorney General's whole shtick is his focus on violent crimes but he refuses to connect the dots between the policies he's pushing that promote violence," said Gupta.
James Corden isn't always the jolly host he plays on TV ... and that's probably 'cause he can't always get the guests he wants for his sing-along shtick.
But it's difficult to reconcile a face so associated to lowbrow comedic shtick with the heartfelt young lawyer who has doubtlessly experienced his own fair share of discrimination.
What felt like a fresh combination of characters 10 years ago — Eisenberg's fussy nerdiness, Harrelson's sensitivity-masking bravado, Stone's no-nonsense sarcasm — now comes across as repetitive shtick.
The best the movie can do is add new shtick to the mix, courtesy of Madison (Zoey Deutch), a young woman Columbus and Tallahassee meet at a mall.
As part of her shtick, she gets the Lyft users to sing along to her songs, and even asks one girl whether she likes Lovato or Gomez better.
Oh, and there's backstabbing, shit-talking, (totally) scripted lines, a manufactured romance, and lots of Joanna Coles walking on a treadmill (her go-to shtick) but it works.
But my good vibes did not last until the end, as once the product announcements began in earnest, Apple returned to its familiar shtick of immature trash talk.
Amy Schumer, who's practically built her career around discussing her awkward-sex-filled relationships, and blackout nights on the town, may need to rework her stand-up shtick.
It was uploaded by the user Xiubandrng, whose shtick appears to be exactly this: Another video attributed to them shows ramen filling a cut on a wooden table.
I feel sorry for anyone who's favorite character is Michael or Jim or Pam because whilst funny and objectively good, as individuals, their shtick can become slightly dull.
She has a bit of a shtick—a habit of cocking her head or raising her eyebrow and speaking confidently but with an air of almost bemused incredulity.
At this point, I've got my shtick down with how to represent female-bodied orgasm: a series of carefully crafted shots to portray the feedback of escalating pleasure.
Their whole "shtick," or whatever you decide to call it, is that they are relentlessly optimistic, constantly working to make human beings more fun, thoughtful, and laid-back.
Once we can see the effort — once Lawrence's goofiness starts to seem like shtick, and Hathaway's nerdiness like a desperate need for approval — we start to hate it.
Macdonald was sensational in the under-loved indie comedy "Patti Cake$," and she easily holds the screen here, too, even when working on fumes and with dumb shtick.
His shtick goes something like this: Set up a speech in a progressive bastion, ideally a college campus full of coastal elites who have never left their bubble.
Her every bit of shtick has been precisely chosen and honed, and rather than forcing it down our throats, she makes us come to her to admire it.
And that "talking stick" shtick seemed to be going pretty well — that is, until one senator reportedly flung it toward another, and nearly took out Collins's office decor.
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.
One of the other snags in Ellen's relatability shtick: She has been criticized for occasionally getting a little too aggressive in some of her celebrity interviews, particularly with women.
Veganism isn't their only shtick — we watch them walk theirdogs, talk us through meal prep, or pack for a weekend trip in between eating a plate ofmangoes and bananas.
"You want to maintain the core of what people like about the characters and not be so reiterative that it feels like, 'Oh, Jesus, this shtick again,'" Woods said.
Robert De Niro got back into his political comedy shtick again this weekend, making a sorry joke about Brett Kavanaugh hours after he was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Ron Jeremy got right back to his usual shtick after giving a speech memorializing his late pal and Bunny Ranch owner, Dennis Hof ... signing cleavage and cheesin' with fans.
The spooky no-names, no-photos "anonymous band" shtick is a metal move that I generally find irritating from a practical standpoint, but, in some instances, makes perfect sense.
Joe and Sophie rolled up to Cipriani, where they were met with the James Bond theme song ... seems like everyone was in on the Bond shtick for the night.
The conceit could become a shtick in the hands of a lazier artist, but Wegman executes it with his signature humor and an impeccable handling of composition and color.
One critic from the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film's director, Ralph Ziman, "struggles mightily to weave hot-girl assassin shtick, trendy exploitation style and future-shock grimness."
For one thing, Louis' material was founded upon a knowing playfulness and interposition of the life-art divide, and he was brutal about himself as a matter of shtick.
Kaufman's shtick was further complicated by his Tony Clifton character, a persona into which he periodically disappeared, and which his pal, Bob Zmuda, also played with near-equal facility.
"We got compared a lot to OK Go, and at first I thought, 'They've made some cool videos, and we made one video using a viral shtick,'" says Versteeg.
Unlike other entries, there's a concept around virtual reality and the morals that should extend to those worlds, through the lens of a cliché as hell, final frontier shtick.
That Johnny Depp seemed to be turning into a caricature of himself, and that Tim Burton's aesthetic was developing rapidly into a shtick, didn't stop me from loving it.
It makes the usual "Happy Sunday!" shtick feels glib and disrespectful, so how about this: Seven days have gone by, some neat tech stuff happened, here are some examples.
Cole drags Bram to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, partly out of guilt for his family's role in getting him hooked, partly as a form of macho scared-straight shtick.
The shtick hasn't aged well, in my opinion, and the spinoff movie of the same name is generally considered the worst movie ever made by an S.N.L. cast member.
Like Sandler's earlier work, "Jack and Jill" is a broad comedy — slapstick, fart jokes, mockery of difference — a time-tested shtick that endures for more people than you'd think.
Directed by John Rando, with a choice cast of singing shtick artists, "The New Yorkers" makes the most puerile silliness seem deeply sophisticated and high sophistication look sublimely silly.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is back, and although the world seems to have changed irrevocably since it was last on air, Oliver's shtick remains pretty much the same.
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.
But his grandfatherly demeanour and family values shtick, plus a crowded Republican field, helped him to the governorship in 2010; his devoted wife Dianne baked cookies for the campaign team.
And on his new, sophomore album Lil Boat 2, Yachty rid himself of the humanitarian shtick and made a markedly better project by doing exactly what he wanted to do.
By April, the congressman had perfected his shtick; hundreds endured long waits and tight security — as if by the very nature of their being they were to be guarded against.
When Midge enters show biz, her shtick, just like Rivers's was, is to dress for a date, in a black dress and pearls, then free-associate truths about women's lives.
But if you believe those who've worked closely with the Southern radio duo over the last three-plus decades, no one has ever been offended by Walton and Johnson's shtick.
I will admit that even after I figured out the shtick, I still parsed it incorrectly as "No table" and had a hard time figuring out how that meant POWERLESS.
Lorelai and Rory taking their buddy-comedy-duo shtick on the road is charming, and Rory finally getting a chance to see the school she's been dreaming about is lovely.
Garza -- who wrestles with a "ladies man" shtick -- was walking out for his RAW match at Capital One Arena in D.C. ... when he found a lady friend on the railing.
His outfit also includes a bomber jacket for a shtick he developed involving the George Steinbrenner character from "Seinfeld" and the idea that everyone is trying to steal his recipe.
He's lost the strut and the shtick that used to define (and sometimes undermine) his performances, and does everything with his sad, watchful eyes and his lovely, walnut-shell face.
The transvestite subway trip "Uncle ACE" turns focus track when its distressed harmonics bloom into a saxish finale-turned-fade, with David Longstreth's pained shtick right after augmenting the mood.
The phrase "America First" has been a feature of Trump's rhetorical shtick since he began campaigning for the White House, but the phrase itself has a long and troubling backstory.
This shtick became sufficiently embedded in the conventional wisdom around Trump that it even persuaded some prominent leftists who by no means actually agreed with the substance of Trump's agenda.
Mishaps and intrigues along the way include a misfiring audience-participation antidisco shtick, and the unnerving prospect of the heavily made-up group playing for a few thousand grungy Motorhead partisans.
But his shtick can't be laughed off; for the music to truly click requires caring about Drake's feelings, and if you do, the sensual, mysterious calm captured on More Life transfixes.
The "young" Will Smith has an uncanny effect, but it would arguably be weirder to see a computer-generated version of his old shtick, performed by the actor in middle age.
This article originally appeared on EW. Rihanna is already famous for being spotted in public with a wine glass in tow, but she changed up her shtick at the Grammys Sunday.
And while Trump's gonzo shtick will continue to be appealing to a significant segment of the Republican electorate, what Cruz managed to do was to energize while espousing orthodox conservative views.
But none of that explains how the adult industry actually makes this shtick work—how it sexualizes the decidedly unsexy, family-friendly, belly-full-of-jelly figure that is Santa Claus.
Fefu's restlessness and loose tongue—she claims not to like other women—scandalize the mousy Christina (Juliana Canfield) and amuse Cindy (Jennifer Lim), a cooler customer who's used to Fefu's shtick.
Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — I like to believe that if a constructor goes to the trouble of making a puzzle that incorporates a particular shtick, there is a good reason for it.
If there's a girl whose whole shtick is to shove the largest objects on the planet up her ass in every scene that she does, that's not a lot of range.
The crisis, when it hit, slotted neatly into a national-conservative shtick that Mr Orban had honed for years, including in a notorious speech in 2014 celebrating the virtues of "illiberal democracy".
The voice acting and writing both perfectly walk the line of a disaffected philosophical teen without it becoming too much of an annoying shtick or making them feel like a 1980s edgelord.
While Michael is the obvious Mindy stand-in, brothers Vince, the de facto hero, and Matthew, with his well-meaning simple sidekick shtick, have a Mindy-Morgan Tookers (Ike Barinholtz) situation developing.
In her review of Tragedy Girls, my colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany pointed out a "can you believe two pretty teen girls are saying this stuff?" shtick that can easily get taken too far.
It's tempting to make the next logical step—Trump fans are nothing if not predisposed to sense danger, and their candidate's whole shtick is to invoke threats to their way of life.
Though I was horrified that the couple in episode five might throw out their copy of Settlers of Catan (they appeared not to, thank Neptune), I generally found the show's shtick refreshing.
A certain level of vacuity is clearly part of the shtick -- especially for those expected to hate-watch the show -- but "Kylie" pushes emptiness toward its limits even by reality-TV standards.
At first it seemed like a shtick to cover up the fact that he didn't feel like performing the Spanish lyrics or because he was too inebriated to remember all the words.
Horan's shtick, however, revolves around his being an outlier within the realm of boy bands—he plays the damn guitar in a world where exports aren't supposed to possess actual musical talent.
" He envies a certain kind of confident Southern man, about whom he says: "His is a discerning shtick of which the Southerner is king: wicked-sounding but affectionate, droll, imperturbable above all.
His relationship to reality appeared tenuous, as if he were a method actor who had gotten stuck in his own shtick, reacting to phantoms he created to help him play the part.
Each time, she has surprised people, mainly by showing that what many saw as genuine haughty grumpiness is actually a carefully crafted shtick, designed both to protect and amuse nobody but herself.
His perceived lack of recognition may have made for an appealing shtick in his early development, but as his career sailed along it apparently evolved into a narrative destined to go nowhere.
He was out there doing his shtick, and while we can appreciate the effort for social commentary ... it doesn't look like there were very many souls around to bask in its glory.
She was still doing a variation on this shtick in the 1978 screen version, when Marlowe was played by a careworn Robert Mitchum only a few years out from collecting Social Security.
" But Green says of the "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker and liberal activist that "you don't have to disagree with Mr. Moore's politics to find that his shtick has become disagreeable with age.
At the center of the trial was the question of whether Jones's on-air shtick is, well, for real, and affected his ability to be a good father to his three children.
Ahead, we're dishing out six surprisingly simple, delightfully seasonal recipes that will wow friends and fam — and are lightyears ahead of the whole pumpkin-spice-everything shtick, too (okay okay, we included one).
We're always looking for something that goes beyond flowers and a card — something that's original, just like our mamas — and we know not all moms are into the whole "breakfast in bed" shtick.
Up until this weekend at least, that shtick has not been associated with any one person so much as appearing as a morally gray cloud that hangs over the genre's many, many participants.
Even if DSA won't adopt Chapo's insult-humor shtick in its official platform, it's hard to imagine that some of its beliefs won't seep in some way into the organization through new membership.
A crucial personality at ESPN nearly from its inception, Berman has become a caricature of his better self by failing to adjust his once-playful shtick and boisterous personality to the 143st century.
Trump openly ran on a platform of white resentment and triggering the libs, appalling writers like Williamson who saw their shtick performed in a way that was more vulgar, but also more forthright.
In a 2003 C-SPAN interview, Carlson mocked Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News host whose time slot Carlson would one day take over, for the "phoniness" he epitomized while using a similar shtick.
I heeded advice posted on the web from internet-famous dog owners and social media mavens: Find a shtick, publish your posts at strategic times, craft funny captions and engage with your audience.
Fred's editor at the Advocate cautions him that he can be "a little too much," and the same goes for Rogen, who, as usual, both appeals and aggravates with his froggy, loudmouthed shtick.
Now, a mix of original and new cast members will perform their movie-mocking shtick live on the "Watch Out for Snakes!" tour, stopping in Times Square for 6 and 9:30 p.m.
Never a particularly gifted retail politician — even before he took a decade off from campaigning for office — Mr. Bloomberg has a weakness for shtick, often followed by a note of but-seriously-folks.
The shtick begins with a thick-tongued, high-pitched voice, an affect that appears in many Sandler characters and is so bizarre that you have to wonder if he is parodying a type.
The song's rhetoric echoes the "as a father of a daughter" shtick that's become a commonly lazy reason from men online as to why they suddenly care about issues related to sexual misconduct.
Setting up Jessie's lifelong traumas as a literal face-off between the external and internal perspectives in her life is a smart, symbolic move that makes King's internal voices shtick more resonant and believable.
In "The Post", Tom Hanks does his hail-fellow-well-met shtick (with an outer layer of crustiness, because he's Ben Bradlee, a newspaper editor), but with more hailing and more meetings of fellows.
But especially compared with the emotional richness of the character interactions that occurred in last week's episode, these separate storylines do nothing but try our patience, despite Eugene's quirkiness and funny redneck-savant shtick.
Eliminating some of the obligatory host shtick would also assist in producing a shorter telecast -- one closer to three hours than four -- which was among ABC's goals in an effort to improve the ratings.
Her shtick — she billed herself as a Russian student visiting the United States who decided to champion the expansion of mostly nonexistent gun rights in her homeland — was simply too good to be true.
President Donald Trump, whose administration has come out in favor of the House's SNAP reforms, could also pull his unpredictable shtick once more and refuse to sign a functional compromise bill, further complicating negotiations.
As early as 1988, Trump hinted at a run for the White House, though this was understood to be part of his carny shtick, another form of self-branding in the celebrity-mad culture.
Anthony Scaramucci was doomed from his first blown kiss — a guy who has watched "The Godfather" films a few too many times and actually believed Mario Puzo's shtick works in this crumbling southern town.
Ben's whole shtick is that he wants to save the physical aspects of his many budding relationships for later (like, Fantasy Suite later, Ben?) and get to know the girls on a personal level first.
It makes sense that today "living rent-free in your head" most often refers to the effect on liberals of Donald Trump, a social media president whose shtick is dealmaking and whose methods are transactional.
The burgers are served rare, the ketchup made in house, and the servers are occasionally eye-rollingly pretentious about the whole shtick (and the end of the day, we really are just talking about sandwiches).
Sure, I knew morning sickness was a possibility — I'd seen the movies, and I knew the shtick that it shouldn't be referred to as morning sickness when it can and does come at any time.
Amid the comic shtick, much of it related to Passover, Mr. Nadler paused to offer a heartfelt tribute to his close friend the singer, songwriter and popular-music archivist John Wallowitch, who died in 2007.
And if the shtick is that we all know he seems out of touch with reality, shouldn't we re-examine why our society is so comfortable ogling at the idea of a "genius" gone mad?
He collaborated on a study of Funnyman, a Jewish shtick-wielding comic book superhero who was conjured up in 1948 by the creators of Superman — and wrote a biography of Hitler's so-called Jewish clairvoyant.
And he abandoned the birds entirely for a while — not wanting them to be seen as a shtick — and composed music that conjures elemental forces like wildfires and storms and glaciers crashing into the sea.
There were silly moments, and she knows how to lean into a shtick, but the self-love sermons were the real draw for the almost entirely female audience and Lizzo always came back to earnestness.
Wilson's shtick fell mostly flat, while Singh's interview with Kaling suffered because the host kept looking directly into the camera to deliver lines, which broke the sense that the two were engaging in a dialogue.
It seemed obvious that if Trump used the same domineering, bullying shtick against Clinton that he had used against some of his male opponents in the Republican primary, it could very easily backfire on him.
Unlike Trump's daughter Ivanka, who's leveraging her working mom feminist shtick to offset her father's grossness, Melania has stayed largely out of the spotlight (and largely out of trouble), tending to her son back at home.
We all perform different versions of ourselves on the internet, and I found the contrast between Lane's content and the way he communicated with me so strong that I thought his "Seattle" character was mostly shtick.
But it does seem people are getting tired of Dirty Cooper's brand of sinister shtick, including a pair of associates, Ray (George Griffith) and Darya (Nicole LaLiberte), who accepted a job to whack him for $500,000.
Unable to meet the numbers of his predecessor Colbert, whose shtick miraculously resonated with viewers on both ends of the political spectrum, Comedy Central canceled Wilmore's show last week, making me one of his final guests.
I read all the Palahniuk books that were out when I was in high school, but by the fifth one the unreliable narrator and random-pieces-of-information writing style had become repetitive and shtick-y.
An elfin black man in lingerie belting out a jittery New Wave song about a 32-year-old nymphomaniac who keeps her 16-year-old brother as a sex slave — the shtick was hard to ignore.
Acrobuffos first thought that "Pas de Deux" could be worked into a sort of omnibus clown act, alongside shtick from "Water Bombs," a "water balloon gladiator show" they've toured as a street-theater piece in Europe.
Gray holds court with a nebbishy, self-mocking churn of anecdote and lamentation, and his humor, in the outer-borough Ashkenazi style, can leave one unsure where the shtick ends and the real self-loathing starts.
One of the things Bowser would always do was bite people — that was part of his shtick — and I thought it would be a hilarious idea as a second grader to go bite my teacher's butt.
Their shtick, their show and their book are targeted at Americans who mostly follow the Premier League, but who are also fans of the United States men's and women's national teams — or any other team, really.
Another early work, "Rorschach Blot" (1995), encapsulated Yuskavage's psychosexual shtick in a single image: a cartoonish blonde, knees splayed, reveals the entirety of her nether regions, rendered by the painter as a sort of lewd exclamation point.
Her shtick is to update Mrs Thatcher's freedom agenda for a populist age: continue with the Thatcherite policies of deregulating markets and encouraging competition but also put a heavy emphasis on the gig economy and social liberalism.
I think it also helps that a lot of conservative entertainment, or docutainment or whatever this is, is just bad and unfunny, while D'Souza has refined his shtick into something amiable, conspiratorial, and not too high-brow.
Until the 47-second mark, at which point she drops the tough-girl shtick and unleashes the chorus, so sweet and soaring you'd think it was a 1989 Target bonus track you unfortunately and unwittingly passed over.
Last weekend I started playing The Division again in a frantic attempt to finish the game before the sequel comes out, and I realized that in every single neighborhood, the local quest-giver has some overdone shtick.
Mr Trump declared himself ready for that outcome, as he must: his professed willingness to walk away from any negotiation, whether with a rival property developer or the world's second biggest economy, is part of his shtick.
With his shtick of a loony academic, Corey's onslaught of comedic non sequiturs was augmented by his unique look - a shock of crazy hair, a tuxedo jacket with black tails, a string tie and high-top sneakers.
Though some of what was offered could be considered mawkish schlock, much was vigorous and moving, particularly once the literary playwright Jacob Gordin insisted that actors stay faithful to the text and stop larding it with shtick.
Perhaps the best example of his typical content is, for my money, this video from February on Steve Bannon, which effortlessly undercuts the former Trump adviser's entire shtick and features a cover of a song from Hadestown.
"Macdonald was sensational in the under-loved indie comedy 'Patti Cake$,' and she easily holds the screen here, too, even when working on fumes and with dumb shtick," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
This year, in two narcotically addictive songs ("Work" and "Too Good"), a couple of hot videos and some are-they-or-are-they-not shtick at the MTV Video Music Awards, they were near their best together.
There are limits to this shtick: Mr. Yiannopoulos recently resigned from his job as an editor of Breitbart when an ugly joke he made about Catholic priests and young boys was interpreted as an endorsement of pederasty.
From the stairwell tryst at the outset to the matched pledges of devotion and destruction that bring proceedings to a close, the amassed detail of the settings and feelings doesn't so much eliminate shtick as transcend it.
And then there's the villain, Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), who has the gall to not be demonized with a "hood" shtick, but instead, reflect valid frustration around the identity and survival that many black folks wrestle with.
Officials with the IFAW, PETA and The Elephant Sanctuary said it is more likely the elephants, which can weigh about 6,000 pounds (2,700 kg), will never again perform that circus shtick unless they are forced to do so.
But in the current, eighth, iteration of the show, which debuted June 26, MTV flipped the shtick by including only sexually fluid participants who are attracted to all genders, so that, in the parlance of promotional materials, anything goes!
Best Coast's songs weren't all lyrical love letters to California — or weed, or Cosentino's beloved ginger cat, Snacks — but the idea that the group was beholden to a guiding aesthetic and a thematic shtick stuck to them like sap.
After asking guys to consider ditching the macho shtick in 2016, Axe body spray, the number-one men's fragrance brand in the world, is back at it again, this time addressing the never-not-topical conversation of fragile masculinity.
From more freewheeling cable shows to the mainstream broadcasters, the prevailing message was that late-night hosts had been here so many times, after so many mass murders, the sad comic's display of apolitical grief response had become shtick.
When Ratchet (voiced by James Arnold Taylor) succeeds in entering the ranks of the Rangers, he finds that the vain bluster of their leader, Captain Qwark (Jim Ward, reproducing Patrick Warburton's pompous shtick in "The Tick"), to be hollow.
He's basically a TV personality, whose shtick is preaching the magic of tax cuts, and nothing – not the Kansas debacle, not the Clinton boom, not the strong job creation that followed Obama's 2013 tax hike – will change his mind.
In contrast to Jackson's first biographer, Judy Oppenheimer, whose 1988 book, "Private Demons," somewhat played up Jackson's alleged occult powers, Franklin argues that Jackson's sorceress persona was mostly shtick: a fun way to tease interviewers and to sell books.
In a way, the absence of a host filled that role this year -- wondering what the show would look like -- and not having to service one's shtick did help streamline the ceremony and put the focus on the nominees.
If coolness denotes — or once denoted — a certain indifference to what people think, then these middle-aged mothers with their silly, adorable shtick and their paunchy husbands are perhaps the only cool people left on our try-hard planet.
A microcosm of Hollywood, the Dee-Luxe is a stage, and everyone, except perhaps the anxious boss, Mr. B (Sully Boyar), and his gruff ex-con employee, Lonnie (Ivan Dixon), entertains a fantasy or at least wields a shtick.
Where the Weeknd, say, struggles over the course of an album to convince you he believes in self-expression, the multi-artist compilatory format guarantees shtick as its operative mode while proceeding with restrained, deliberate command of tropes and genre.
Bringing back Gervais to pretty much run through the same shtick he pulled out a few years ago felt anticlimactic after three straight years of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey tackling Hollywood's worst qualities while also not seeming like total jerks.
According to Business Insider, the company has long said it would never put queso on the menu because, "Queso has to be made with artificial stabilizers to keep its shiny liquid form," which goes against Chipotle's all-natural ingredients shtick.
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.
Taking over for Nathan Lane's meerkat and Ernie Sabella's warthog, Eichner and Rogen make their own shtick together and they, more than anyone else, give "The Lion King" a breath of fresh air, even as they make plenty of fart jokes.
In stark contrast to the one-man-show vehicles Eddie Murphy or Jim Carrey starred in at their peak, comedians like Ferrell, Sandler, and Ben Stiller tend to recruit friends and ringers, ceding a lot of shtick to their supporting players.
When the context isn't so explicitly for entertainment value — when so many women see themselves in Hillary's exhausting and exhaustive efforts to impress and satisfy the interminably unsatisfied men in her professional life — Trump's haranguing shtick proves far less effective.
British YouTuber KSI's original shtick was recording himself playing FIFA, but 4 billion or so views later, he moved on to a very public feud with a controversial vlogger/wannabe actor that culminated in a pay-per-view boxing match.
"Her whole anti-Scientology shtick was scripted and choreographed by her, casting herself in her drama as the 'victim' so she could cash in on her false narrative while savaging her friends and those who helped her most of her life."
Happy Gilmore has some good jokes, but one of the biggest things working its favor is that it came at a time when no one was tired of Adam Sandler yet, and when Sandler himself seemed less tired of his shtick.
But these smaller, personal moments do a great job of balancing the more serious, save-the-world shtick common to the genre (that aspect seems to already be covered pretty well by the upcoming CG movie Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV).
But the I-don't-see-what-you-see shtick, and interaction with snooty beauty queens, wears thin in places, in part because a slim conceit that should have run a crisp 90 minutes or so drags on close to two hours.
It was a fun marketing shtick until I received an unexpected message from a bald, big-bearded, mixed-martial-arts fighter who said he was a Smaldone relative and was not amused by our use of his family name and likeness.
His whole shtick is just a first paragraph: Build a wall, tear up the Iran deal, tear up TPP, defeat ISIS, send troops to Niger and Afghanistan to kill terrorists, kill climate policy, kill family planning, cut taxes, raise military spending.
Maybe Mr. Lewis's aspiration to Mr. Martin's genteel gentility — while at the same time realizing and fearing that the very reason people adored him was because of his shtick — was part of the tension that eventually broke up the team.
One former White House official cautioned against assuming the fallout from the president's shtick will be disastrous, even as the person conceded that the Oval Office episode was "wild" and agreed that Trump had given Democrats an easy talking point.
"It's not that it's going to be storming or rainy or all that terrible, but we should see about a 15 mph sustained wind, with gusts up to 20," he tells the audience before diverging from a typical weatherman's shtick.
Perhaps people make fun of it reflexively so they don't have to endure that process — see, for instance, the air-drumming shtick so often adopted by fans, and memorably spoofed by a guy in a gorilla suit for a 2007 Cadbury ad.
D'Souza can't make any real claim that Republicans are the party of equal opportunity, because that would be insane, and even D'Souza's "I can't believe all this crazy stuff that I, a humble, genteel man, am learning" shtick couldn't pull it off.
Short on policy, long on ego and bombast, promising to redeem a nation he disparages through the force of his will, Donald Trump's strongman shtick is familiar from Buenos Aires to Rome, inflected though it is by reality TV and the property business.
Where the one remake Mick and the boys shine up a little is Little Johnny Taylor's near-soul 1971 "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing," Bromberg leads a livelier band through a set that kills the same the-postman-told-me shtick.
And if you think it's all shtick, some wink-and-nod act by a couple who fights by day and snuggles by night, planning a payday after Mr. Trump leaves the scene, think again, say some people close to America's oddest political couple.
The exercise thus boils down, largely, to one's tolerance for Ryan Reynolds being allowed to engage in what amounts to unbridled verbal mugging -- a modified, PG-rated version of his "Deadpool" shtick -- as the voice of Pikachu, a device that quickly yields diminishing returns.
During a painting session, set up for Khloé by Disick as part of their on-going "make Koko an aritst" shtick on the show, Disick calls Kris to get her momager input on Khloé's paintings, and instead a different powerful woman answers the phone: Lawrence.
Green Book is more proficiently put together by director Peter Farrelly and his crew, but it's also a clunky cliché of a thing, less interested in examining the racial themes it touts than delving into My Big Fat Greek Wedding–style broad ethnic shtick.
Abedin has clearly had enough of her husband's shtick — and indeed, it's hard to come away from Weiner without the sense that she has spent much of her six-year marriage to Weiner watching a performance she's grown increasingly tired of seeing from her husband.
Nick Denton, the founder and CEO of Gawker Media (which Thiel has been attempting to destroy through a $10 million stealth legal campaign over the last decade), told Recode that Thiel did a good job of turning his usual shtick down a few notches.
Unlike the upper-class gentleman shtick of Chris Eubank or the pantomime antics of Frank Bruno, Naseem had no desire to be accepted in Britain, and rejected the cultural norms of British sportsmanship, with its inclination towards humbleness and decent treatment of the fallen foe.
From there, we got an introduction to the Kingdom, including Ezekiel's shtick; Richard the surly pig herder; Morgan training gentle Benjamin — a reader not a fighter — in the soulful art of aikido; and the Kingdom Tabernacle Choir tackling the work of freshly minted Nobel laureates.
A shrill blonde named Jillian Hall, working the angle of being a horrendously bad singer, screeched horribly off-key songs, and nobody bothered to explain why they dug up I.R.S., the early 90s midcarder who halfheartedly reenacted his shtick about taxes on his bids.
The "we're livingIdiocracy right now!" shtick fits very nicely alongside as Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables," or the Washington Post's heavily lauded profile of the mentally ill Trump supporter, or any slickly edited five-minute video chunk that gawks at assholes at a Trump rally.
His insight was that the way you beat Obama is by grinding things to a halt, which would hurt the Democrats more because they were the party in the White House and the party of government, and because it would undermine Obama's whole comity shtick.
Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — Thursday is "gimmick day" (or "shtick day" in the Bronx), which often means a challenge, like a rebus element where more than one letter goes in a box, or letters outside the grid, or some other extra puzzle-in-a-puzzle.
He's being more blunt now, delivering brusque takes on left-wing politics that have lead his friends of all political stripes to call him "Larry David," a reference to the comedian and star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" whose shtick is speaking without a filter.
Gervais will likely choose one of two approaches to the 2020 Golden Globes and present either a softer version of his penchant for highly personal roasting of the Hollywood elite, or a reprise of the brutal, no-one-is-safe shtick he's best known for.
At least one early 20th century medical journal contains a sketch of a French nurse in a pediatric hospital done up as a clown, and Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams famously brought humor and a degree of clown shtick into his medical practice in the 1970s.
Last night, at the Crüe's career-ending hometown show at LA's Staples Center, the shtick finally bit him in the ass during a big rotating drum showcase, as the machine came to a premature halt mid-solo, suspending Lee upside down in the middle of the crowd.
Using vaudevillian shtick and faux intimacy — like stories of his quasi-mythical work history selling "the three things people want least: burglar alarms, life insurance, and cemetery plots" — he presented himself as a wily veteran of the trade, and more: a guru, a superstar, a personality.
"You could beg me kicking and screaming to stop disseminating the ideas I believe in, and it wouldn't make a fucking difference," Soph says at the end of "Be Not Afraid," in a passage in which she seems to drop her shtick, if only for a moment.
But the title "Metal Queen" has since become synonymous with Aaron's name throughout Canada, even though she abandoned the swords and sorcery shtick almost immediately and found far more success with the radio-friendly style of 1989's Bodyrock, which went nearly triple platinum in Canada.
The music backing his shtick varied over the years, as was appropriate: stark, barely accompanied acoustic with intermittent orchestration in the early years; glitzy synthesizer and soulfully girly backup singers since the mid-'80s; kitschy, maximal, wall-of-sound pseudosoul when Phil Spector produced him, etc.
Still, Singer took the whole "alternative presentation" shtick to literal new heights, staging his catwalk in the aisles of a 747-8 jet, mid-flight — and, according to a release, it marks the first time a designer presents a collection at 30,000 feet in the air.
Since breaking out in 2005 with the Saturday Night Live short "Lazy Sunday," the Lonely Island have radiated a lot of geeky good cheer while seeming hip about it, making the inherent dorkiness of their white-dudes-doing-black-music shtick not just funny but resiliently fresh.
ABC's "The Mayor" might seem like a small-scale version of another duly elected leader, but it's among the fall TV season's more promising series, with the disclaimer that the protagonist's shtick might begin to get old before he completes a season, much less a full term.
In the past, Mr. Bailey has sometimes seemed to lean too heavily on the more superficial Burberry shtick — the trench coat, the Bloomsbury floral frock, the studded biker jacket — repeating it season after season until it began to have the outdated appeal of the Xerox machine.
The book offers a more personal version of the pun-laden shtick that fans have come to love from "Good Eats," his first TV hit, mixed with the polished authority he showed as the M.C. on "Iron Chef America," a job he likens to circus work.
On Thursday morning, on Fox News' website, he published yet another one of his deeply misguided diatribes about the national debt; in the evening, at a Fox News town hall hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, he parroted Clint Eastwood with an empty-chair shtick.
And that Miles was still recruiting with tremendous results, still representing the university well on the national stage with his colorful shtick, and, had he never been fired, would have begun this season as one of only five active head coaches to have won a national title.
But don't be fooled — he tells Samwell earlier in the episode that he's waiting up for "an old friend," which tells us that in this instance, his not-giving-a-shit-about-anyone shtick is all a mask, and this is one encounter he really cares about.
The worst thing about Cars 23, even worse than the fact that it is 106 minutes of Larry the Cable Guy doing his unfunny Larry the Cable Guy shtick against a backdrop of borderline offensive clichés and regional stereotypes, is that the animation is frequently dazzling.
But even with a plot that builds off the emotional heft of "Endgame," another mediocre villain (if perhaps better than the Vulture), heavy dose of Disney Channel-level romance and too much clunky shtick involving the adult chaperones made this feel qualitatively more like a middle-weight contender.
Perhaps aware that she needed a new shtick to stay at the top of the generational-guru game, Twenge is now claiming that, around 2012, data started showing that "many of the distinctive characteristics of the Millennial generation began to disappear" (she does not say what data shows this).
Clay's ability to take Gorgeous George's shtick and make it his own, his intuitive understanding of precisely what reporters wanted and needed, and his ingenuity in breaking into Life magazine all attested to his decision not only to reinvent himself but also to redefine how others saw him.
But Maher has generally gotten a pass for intolerant statements — perhaps because he's on the left, because his shtick is in part about making offensive remarks, or because his remarks are often more subtle and come from the kinds of prejudice that many Americans are seemingly okay with.
But as the New York Times points out in a new investigation on his riches, Trump is a special case—no one had more of a mythology of self-made wealth, a made-for-TV Horatio Alger shtick, so indelibly stitched into the very fabric of their being.
We say this based on the lead single, "Santa's Coming For Us," which bounces along like a reindeer sleigh and nicely inverts the old "here comes Santa Claus" shtick by making Santa some kind of unstoppable force coming to take you over like, well, a pop song by Sia.
At times Mr. Bourdain's capacity as truth-teller could bleed into other, less salutary roles: the attention-seeking bully, the purveyor of well-polished shtick, the lecture-circuit fixture who, on cue, would curse like a line cook who has just chopped off the tip of his finger.
So when a job in L.A. brings him into contact with an acting class presided over by the eccentric Gene Cousineau (a simply wonderful Henry Winkler), Barry decides to hang around, quickly becoming enamored with Sally (Sarah Goldberg), whose struggling-actress shtick is practically a show unto itself.
Even taking "6 Underground" completely on its terms -- an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride, just here for the stunts, "Furious" pace and juvenile bickering -- the movie yields rapidly diminishing returns, in part because the team concept is such a TV staple, and Reynolds' shtick feels more forced than usual.
As for McCarthy (who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress), Bridesmaids showcased the powder-keg side of her comedic personality, which made her a movie star but also made me have to sit through garbage such as Identity Thief, in which she drove her pitbull-intense shtick into the ground.
Like an uncle stinking up the joint with a 1990s sense of fashion and sensibility, Venom feels keen to strut into 2018 with the nonsensical-ness of Batman & Robin (1997), PG-13 gutlessness of The Last Action Hero (1993), and the waste-of-talent-shtick of a Con-Air (1997).
Most happily, the movie (written by Christina Hodson) proves disarmingly witty, working "The Breakfast Club" into its shtick, referencing the Cold War not long before the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down and indulging in teen hijinks -- like toilet-papering a house -- that Bumblebee embraces with a little too much gusto.
Her routines wouldn't land if the ideas beneath the jokes didn't add up, but they do," which is a quality that "sets her apart from other funny writers who are good at stunting on Twitter, but whose thinking doesn't amount to anything deep or new once you get past the shtick.
On earlier albums, the music placed Koenig's voice in a larger ironic context, one puzzle piece among many: for the cute, smart, talkative, secretly conservative boy in your junior seminar to sing songs that were subtler, funnier, and more exquisite than his voice alone could capture was part of their shtick.
As my colleague Zack Beauchamp explained, Yiannopoulos's entire shtick is to say something inflammatory, anger a whole lot of people (particularly on the left), get widespread media attention, refuse to back down, and say he did it all to stand up for free speech — because no one can control what he says.
Luckily, the Pamela she embodies on "Better Things" is a much more interesting character, chewier, funnier, stranger, and sadder, with desires of her own—and while the show still hews close, at times, to a certain caustic shtick, in the proud tradition of O.G. Roseanne and Maude Findlay, it's also an ensemble.
As with his earlier work in this vein, including "Borat" and "Da Ali G Show," Cohen's shtick is a kind of performance art, built around just how far he can push his subjects, whose instincts to walk away or yell "cut" are curbed by the fact that they're being interviewed on camera.
While he was no more loud, brash or unhealthily hyper-masculine than any other wrestler, much of his shtick involved whipping up a roaring inferno of American jingoism which, in the context of the blatant racism that runs through the modern history of professional wrestling, can hardly be classed as good, clean fun.
Because the new season of Netflix's Queer Eye just started back up—and because the Fab Five's whole shtick is making emotionally-stunted people more pleasant to be around—we took stock of what exactly is wrong with us, and imagined how Antoni, Tan, Karamo, Jonathan, and Bobby might be able to help.
Yet as her band, Paramore, worked to transcend its restrictive genre dogmas across four increasingly ambitious albums, taking the angsty pop punk of the Myspace moment to the Grammys and the Billboard charts largely on the strength of Ms. Williams's voice, the singer, now 28, began to feel beholden to a visual shtick.
Calling people "SJWs" for pointing out how widely unpopular your bigoted shtick is may make you feel better, but makes you look like even more of a forum-hugging pissbaby; from what I've read in various subterranean comment sections, I thought metal was supposed to be about strength and discipline, not safe spaces?
Over the course of three not-quite-sold-out nights, Mr. Clay did his shtick on everything from erratic electronic soap dispensers (saying that's how the Japanese, but using a racist epithet, "are getting back at us for Hiroshima and Nagasaki") to the White House ("Donny Trump, he stole half my act to become president").
Yeah, McCarthy's biggest shtick is the broadest of broad physical comedy, but her films — and it's safe to say she has a creative say in them, thanks to how often she contributes to their scripts or works on them as a producer — boast a refreshing lack of making fun of people for how they look.
Here are a few examples: This is who Yiannopoulos is: As my colleague Zack Beauchamp explained, his entire shtick is to say something inflammatory, anger a whole lot of people, get widespread media attention, refuse to back down, and say he did it all to stand up for free speech — because no one can control what he says.
" The church has denied all those claims, saying in a recent statement to PEOPLE of Remini, "Her whole anti-Scientology shtick was scripted and choreographed by her, casting herself in her drama as the 'victim' so she could cash in on her false narrative while savaging her friends and those who helped her most of her life.
But: the pipe is made of metal, and the stomping doesn't do anything, So M.C. and his friends just look at the pipe, doing fine on the ground, and look up at the cop, who's trying to hold onto his authority-figure shtick even though even he knows that what he just did was embarrassing and didn't work.
Imagine the aural onslaught of Deftones without all the sad-sackiness, combined with the soul-filled syncopation of Every Time I Die without the good ol' boy shtick, and throw in the animalistic invention of At the Drive-In without the college-boy self-importance—add a wink and a worn-in smile and you'd have the new Glassjaw.
Someone as apparently beloved as Tom Cruise had quickly become an internet punchline overnight, simply by doing the same shtick he'd been doing for the last 20 years — only at the time, there was YouTube to remix the couch jump, and Perez Hilton, Lainey Gossip, and countless other gossip bloggers primed to lampoon his attempts at romance.
His infectious personality shines throughout, and he even manages to infuse his martini-swilling Genie with moving emotional moments Sean Keane, CNET Smith is at his best when he puts his own energetic magic in Genie's corner, but he doesn't exude the same warmth as Williams did, and his magical shtick can be a bit of a sensory overload in live action.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla / GettyThrowing his arms around a far-right provocateur whose shtick includes labeling political adversaries "queers" and "fags," Senator Ted Cruz on Thursday tweeted a rebuke of YouTube over the company's belated decision to take action against Steven Crowder, a man whose years-long campaign of harassment against a gay journalist invariably culminated in a barrage of death threats.
Even his supposedly best stuff would be torn apart if presented to the poetry practicum she taught every Tuesday, not only on account of its wordy, clichéd, hyperactive figuration but, more fundamentally, because of the soothsaying persona that the singer so readily deployed, a trope that worked fine in a pop song but on paper came off as a shtick.
Ditto when recited over the twangy riffs, industrial crackles, ominous guitars, skewed piano echoes, percussive bells and looped clicks, obsessive basslines and random squeaks, jittery drum klatches and comic dissonances that drive the record, courtesy of producer Paul White, unified less by any coherent sonic signature than by a muscular spareness of method that elevates Brown's music from shtick to vision.
Author of five brilliantly-titled books: Joy Shtick: Or What Is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments; Sheetzu Caca Poopoo: My Kind of Dog; When You Need a Lift: But Don't Want to Eat Chocolate, Pay a Shrink, or Drink a Bottle of Gin; Sheetzucacapoopoo 23: Max Goes to the Dogs; The Great Gasbag: An A-Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World.
But this breezy shtick of Buchanan's, which appeals to dwindling crowds, is soon revealed to be just for show: Behind the scenes, Buchanan is a self-loathing narcissist with contempt for his audience and a love-hate relationship with acting—a character, Grant himself has admitted, that is not hugely dissimilar to the real Grant, representing a simultaneous savaging of Grant's screen and public personas.
Weirdly, when I saw the show, this was the only scene where I felt that Ambrose, ordinarily so full of life and imagination, lacked truthfulness: she used shtick to get through it, and the laughs piled up, but what stayed with me was the honesty of her tears when Freddy crushed her violets, and when she sang—in a beautiful, if limited, soprano—about wanting to dance all night.
Though think-pieces far and wide credited One Direction with ripping up the boy band formula by refusing to do choreography or wear matching outfits, abandoning the tortured sad-boy shtick, treating social media as life's blood, and leaning hard into an anarchic edge expressed mainly by dozens of weird tattoos and drunken afternoons on party boats, the act of sticking around post mortem might actually be their biggest departure — their contribution to the canon.
But for presumptive GOP nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE to make this shtick work, he has to say something in response to the eye-rolling of adults in the room, so he doubles down with a wink and a nod.
And so is the earnest concession of remorse, which Spicer dispatched a few hours later, after the after-parties (when asked by The Times this week if he regretted criticizing reporters who accurately reported the inaugural crowd size, he replied, "Of course I do, absolutely"), pivoting away from the defiance shtick he previously served up to Trump's base ("I have no regrets," Spicer told Sean Hannity after quitting his job in July).
But the most blatant and strange Moffat moment comes with this episode's big reveal: Just as Sherlock's very first episode revealed John to have a sister, now this season's penultimate episode reveals Sherlock to have had a sister who's been borrowing Sherlock's master-of-disguise shtick to hide herself in plain sight — first as "E," the woman with whom John had his brief affair, then as "Faith," Smith's troubled daughter, and finally as John's vaguely Germanic therapist.
His thesis is clearly outlined in the "Day 7" section of the Challenge (shockingly, with one of the book's only disparaging mentions of magic): The idea that there might actually be a way to hack human interaction and speed-run your way to love or lust is broadly appealing—the Times has their 36 questions shtick, which promises potential couples the ability to fall in love after mutually answering 36 carefully designed questions about themselves, their goals and their values—so how is that kind of boldly analytical optimism so different from the Rules?
Case in point were the few shows that came before: Brock Collection, where Laura Vassar and Kristopher Brock send out an ode to uptown prairie chic in cashmere and mink, gingham and micropleating; Adam Selman, where the eponymous designer embraced a Streetwear of the Roses shtick with funky embroidered denim, billowing gingham shirtdresses unbuttoned to the hot pants and disco slips; and Thakoon, which got a bit hung up on its arty video presentation, a frame that didn't really equate with the cute mash-up of bandannas, striped shirting and trench coats that formed the clothes.
Dave Eggers's new book, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," is part autobiography, part postmodern collage, a novelistic "memoir-y kind of thing" that tells the sad, awful, tragic story of how the author's mother and father died within weeks of each other and how he became a surrogate parent to his 8-year-old brother, and tells it with such style and hyperventilated, self-conscious energy, such coy, Lettermanesque shtick and such genuine, heartfelt emotion, that the story is at once funny, tender, annoying and, yes, heartbreaking — an epic, in the end, not of woe, though there's plenty of that too, but an epic about family and how families fracture and fragment and somehow, through all the tumult and upset, manage to endure.

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