Talking pictures ushered in a new crop of wisecracking performers.
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At its heart are a wisecracking editor and matriarchal publisher.
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Ms. Russell's character, Hildy Johnson, is a fast-talking, wisecracking reporter.
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It's a whole to-do described by a wisecracking bilingual P.A. announcer.
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Furhat can be male or female, old or young, wisecracking or serious.
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Hollywood made films about wisecracking, heartbreaking truckers outsmarting policemen and other authority figures.
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Harry and Louise's early flirtation depends on a facility with wisecracking screwball style.
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She then briefly worked on a cartoon called Candy about a wisecracking maid.
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Cade is a wisecracking inventor ("patents are pending") who has become a wanted man.
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McMillan, justifiably celebrated for her wisecracking dialogue, also pokes some fun at midlife reinvention.
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She instructs with folksy patter sprinkled with wisecracking, delivered in a New Yawkese chirp.
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This week, the world lost a twofer — Debbie Reynolds and her wisecracking daughter, Carrie Fisher.
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This is the third time Schumer has drawn wisecracking parallels between her pregnancy and Markle's.
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The twins have a similar manner: direct but wisecracking, with an inclination toward dark humor.
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Social media feeds exploded with predictions of military action and wisecracking memes about end times.
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Social media feeds exploded with predictions of military action and wisecracking memes about end times.
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As guests on other shows, Monsignor Hartman and Rabbi Gellman held their own against wisecracking hosts.
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He was particularly enjoyable as Sterling's wisecracking parrot Crackers during season 9, aka Archer: Danger Island.
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Along the way, he befriends a wisecracking racing-game misfit named Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman).
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She rushed to the hospital, where her husband, although fighting for his life, was still wisecracking.
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Then there was the thrill-seeking Garrett Miller—a wheelchair bound, wisecracking jock with a brain.
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And naturally, a wisecracking droid, speaking in the dry, sarcastic tones of the indispensable Alan Tudyk.
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CNN's "Larry King Live" hired the comedian Mo Rocca as a wisecracking correspondent at political conventions.
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He's now continuing on with his voice work, and gives new life to Jafar's wisecracking parrot, Iago.
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Tim is aided on his search by Detective Pikachu, a wisecracking Pokemon voiced by Ryan Reynolds ( "Deadpool").
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With the first official Deadpool 2 trailer, Marvel has reunited us with our favorite irreverent, wisecracking mercenary.
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Throughout it all, Lourd has used the hashtag "#findingthefunny," a positive mantra that references her wisecracking mother.
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The unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" has an often spirited, wisecracking relationship with the reader.
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Idris Elba and Dominic West, late of The Wire, play a pair of presumably wisecracking sea lions.
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The character lurches from whiny to irritating to inappropriately wisecracking — Homer Simpson with a think-tank-caliber résumé.
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Like Leeloo, Laureline — Valerian's ass-kicking, wisecracking counterpart — is a more intriguing character than her blandly heroic partner.
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Hundreds of Deadpool fans dressed up as the wisecracking assassin and even took part in a beauty pageant!
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But being consistently typecast to portray a doting and wisecracking friend can be... what's the word... the worst.
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"Whistlestop" unfolds as a series of good yarns, told in plain language with wisecracking asides here and there.
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You've seen versions of these wisecracking kids in sitcoms for decades, even if their problems have been modernized.
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In her career survey, this wisecracking Bronx native proves that she can do just about anything with painting.
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For kids, J. J. Abrams's "Star Wars" reboot was an introduction to the series's lightsabers and wisecracking robots.
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On The Daily Show, Minhaj is a wisecracking correspondent — a comedy journalist — and an astute commentator on political events.
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The series tells the story of John Constantine, a chain-smoking, wisecracking magician who frequently tangles with the Devil.
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Any woman knows we talk different talk, but it had not been on TV before, except for more wisecracking types.
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In the campaign's second televised debate on April 4th, it was the wisecracking Mr Mélenchon who delivered the memorable lines.
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Lakin is 22010 years old, a wisecracking, bespectacled white girl with a soft spot for conspiracy theories and fart humor.
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The goal, Elaine Stritch once told us, is to be a "ladylike broad": half civilized charmer, half wisecracking bomb-thrower.
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A female-flipped reboot of a reboot: Sandra Bullock leads a team of wisecracking crooks to loot the Met Gala.
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On screen was Abla Fahita, a popular satirical character based on a wisecracking widow with a salty sense of humor.
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One of his first projects started as a new series starring wisecracking Star-Lord, but it snowballed into something much bigger.
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Friends, associates and hangers-on zip in and out of view, including a wisecracking, fresh-faced acolyte played by Mr Bogdanovich.
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Nevertheless, viewers saw a take-charge princess, a Howard Hawks-style wisecracking heroine with a kick-ass blaster — a new icon.
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But, even with her wisecracking humor, Stone also delved into a more serious interview on ABC with Vanity Fair's Krista Smith.
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Now, he looks for the exuberance in the faces of the wisecracking, jostling boys still savoring the waning days of summer.
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"Assistant Wanted, Female" opens with her sharing breakfast with her best pal Rhoda, a wisecracking cynic, stressing out about her diet.
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He was the wisecracking tummler in the rumpled suit, always on the lookout for a car crash or a dead gangster.
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Jake Gyllenhaal and a wisecracking Ryan Reynolds provide the cast its marquee value, but as constructed, "Life" is a pretty egalitarian exercise.
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" Comment sections of many slideshow videos on YouTube just like these make wisecracking jokes about Danielle being "a fetus" deprived of "dignity.
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As it stands, Valerian and Laureline are most compelling when they forget their assigned personalities and just act like wisecracking platonic partners.
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He literally blows himself into small pieces — but he has regenerative powers, so he's back in the next scene, wisecracking and complaining.
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Mr. Jones was slightly annoyed, a lot like a wisecracking correspondent on "The Daily Show," where he worked for nearly a decade.
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Dern will play Dr. Ellie Sattler, Neill will portray Dr. Alan Grant, and Goldblum will return as the wisecracking Dr. Ian Malcolm.
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That production featured a now excised character, Saint Catherine, as a wisecracking narrator, glibly pointing out the differences between then and now.
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This isn't a wisecracking, tongue-in-cheek picture: Green wants us to believe in his Bogeyman, and Curtis is his ace card.
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CGI Iago (the parrot): Disappointing, though more because the film mostly excised his wisecracking personality rather than because of how he looks.
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They acknowledge that many people still view him as the wisecracking Asian guy who wants to give every American adult $1,000 a month.
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On the 10th comes Middle-earth: Shadow of War, which we now know has wisecracking Cockney orcs in it—what's not to love?
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But Marcus dies in a hit-and-run accident, and Isaiah has to raise himself, with the help of his wisecracking friend Dodson.
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WASHINGTON — In private, President Trump sometimes addresses his adult children as "baby," a term of endearment tinged with a New Yorker's wisecracking edge.
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The wisecracking Mae West, who once slyly said "you've got to use what's lying around the house," seems to have been Galey's inspiration.
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Alda is best-known for his role as wisecracking Hawkeye Pierce in the 1970s comedy series about life in a Korean war medical facility.
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Mr. Lazarus invented "Miss Peach" and its cast of wisecracking third-graders with outsize heads in response to a United Features Syndicate talent contest.
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Wisecracking in the shadow of death has been the basis for entire club acts (Tig Notaro) and amiably morbid movies (Judd Apatow's "Funny People").
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Jane, having just unceremoniously lost her virginity to a stranger at a party, is feeling down, and Bonnie's easy, wisecracking cynicism buoys her up.
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A wisecracking, boyish septuagenarian of seemingly unlimited energy, Mr. Sabin runs a privately held precious-metals recycling business that has made him enormously wealthy.
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"This is the 'Cheers' of Park Slope," said Brian Gurl, a wisecracking 51-year-old telecommunications technician, as he sidled up to the bar.
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People might see this film in 50 to 100 years as a nostalgic depiction of old media, complete with wisecracking journalists in period costume.
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When the score does relax, it's usually in the scenes between Jobs and Kobun (the friendly, mellow-toned bass Wei Wu), his wisecracking mentor.
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A nerdy, Tumblr-reading, wisecracking Pakistani-American teenager from New Jersey, devoted to justice and fangirling Wolverine, the new Ms. Marvel was an instant hit.
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The fear, of course, is that Hollywood will copy the most obvious surface-level things about Deadpool, thus producing more obnoxious films about wisecracking superheroes.
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But Holland's web-slinging, wisecracking hero was so crucial to the charm of Homecoming that a Sony Spider-verse without him would feel weirdly empty.
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Refreshingly, "Russian Doll" isn't a romantic comedy—Nadia may be a wisecracking hipster and Alan a repressed jock, but they aren't quite opposites who attract.
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That was the heart of the fascination: as an American, one was a wisecracking, slang-speaking, in-the-know street kid of an unknowable colossus.
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But here, Mirabel sees the effect her words have had and does something rare in this era of wisecracking, me-centered kiddie characters: She apologizes.
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Perhaps the best example of this is the way the show approaches Joey Sasso, who initially presents himself as a macho, wisecracking Italian American cliche.
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Wherever "Mary Kills People" takes place, the services rendered by Dr. Harris and her assistant, a wisecracking cosmetic surgeon, Des (Richard Short), are definitely illegal.
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Ryan Pinkston is best known for playing the wisecracking kid -- opposite Ashton Kutcher and Dax Shepard -- on the early 2000s MTV celebrity prank show 'Punk'd.
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She was relieved to find that where the bed would normally be was a sushi bar — and behind it the exuberant, wisecracking chef David Bouhadana.
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On its face, this show is a solid new entry in the Sherman-Palladino pantheon of wisecracking heroines and the assorted people who love them.
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The Nativity Story starring Oscar Isaac as Joseph, the eldest Sand Snake as the Virgin Mary, and three wisecracking wise men to leaven the mood.
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The Fate of the Furious introduces us to Eric Reisner (Scott Eastwood), a protégé to the well-funded, well-armed, wisecracking Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell).
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The Rock: It's gratifying to see that Moana is doing most of the badassery in this trailer, shuffling the Rock to the role of wisecracking sidekick.
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It was officially unveiled Friday at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, alongside news that Maya Rudolph will voice your virtual sidekick, a wisecracking droid named ZOE3.
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Then again, few of the other characters particularly pop, among them Scott Grimes as Ed's wisecracking pal and Halston Sage as an alien with extraordinary strength.
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So much of nonwhite representation in cinema is trivial at best, stereotypical at worst — the wisecracking sidekick or the background player stuck there as a token.
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In ''An American Childhood,'' her classic memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh, Dillard describes life with her parents as a long and rigorous apprenticeship of wisecracking.
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When the overall tone is more modernized, Aladdin and the Genie don't stand out as much as wisecracking exceptions in a land full of unfriendly citizens.
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"Red Birds" centers on a wisecracking and callous American pilot, Major Ellie, who crashes his $65 million warplane in the desert on his 637th bombing mission.
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The wisecracking patient For those who knew him before the attack, the big question in his recovery has always been about the severity of his brain injury.
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She was trying to write with flair, though, in short spaces, and most of the reviews are sprightly, wisecracking things that seem more like Parker than Didion.
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He starred in deep-fried action movies like Gator, in which he played wisecracking good ol' boys who found themselves on the wrong side of the law.
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Rose Marie -- best known for playing wisecracking writer Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" -- died Thursday at her home in California ... according to her publicist.
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Jeff Goldblum, who is reprising his role as the wisecracking scientist David Levinson, can't remember many actors who have taken on the same role two decades later.
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In the comedy "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," opening across the U.S. today, Tina Fey plays a wisecracking journalist sucked into the grueling but addictive pursuit of war reporting.
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It was an especially crippling drawback for him given that he was running in the upper South, which has a long tradition of charismatic, wisecracking, folksy politicians.
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We aren't just wisecracking, here, we're "cracking wise" — or cracking Ys. For what is a Y, really, except a letter I with a V on its head?
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She played her role like the wisecracking star of a black-and-white movie, and she helped make the Vanguard an unfailing fountain of late-night music.
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On Arabella's trail is Phoebe Siegler, a wisecracking, 30-something Nancy Drew manqué who is a friend of Arabella's mother, an NPR producer, back in New York.
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City Kitchen "Tonight, I'm dining on pheasant bordelaise with peach fuzz dressing," said Ginger Rogers's character in the wisecracking 1937 movie "Stage Door," ridiculing snobbish fancy food.
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Scuderia was staffed by a crew of young, wisecracking gear-heads, who, after finishing their shifts, stayed late drinking beer and rehabilitating decrepit old bikes for fun.
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Even characters such as Parks and Recreation's sardonic goth April and Orange Is the New Black's wild-haired, wisecracking Nicky owe their identities to the original rule breaker.
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Nowadays, even with the physical anonymity that voiceover work tends to provide, North is frequently recognized as the wisecracking hero of what is, unquestionably, an interactive entertainment behemoth.
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In the sitcom adaptation of the comic, Salem is a wisecracking feline who has just as much to say as Sabrina, but in Netflix's version, he's eerily silent.
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Winfrey, Perry and 30 Rock vet Tracy Morgan will voice Deborah, Cyrus and Flexis, respectively — three wisecracking camels who happen to be traveling with the Three Wise Men.
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The post said that fans would remember Harrison as a "sometimes grumpy (always loving, however), often wisecracking, and voice of absolute reason" on the History Channel reality show.
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Shimura's true place of origin is Berkeley, which would locate his politics if he didn't believe that in hip-hop, wisecracking middle-class critical realism is ideology aplenty.
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Page — whose breakthrough 2007 role in "Juno," in which she played a wisecracking and disarmingly mature pregnant teen, won her an Academy Award nomination — never used to dance.
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Ms. Fearon, 50, was not home, but she was certainly in her element making a typical wisecracking entry as she showed a client yet another property for sale.
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They pulled off some of the great double acts, whether as strait-laced Bert and wisecracking Ernie, or as antic Grover and flummoxed Kermit, now officially a frog.
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" He went on to play wisecracking army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in the 1970 movie version of "MASH," as well as roles in thriller "Don't Look Now" and "Klute.
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With its high sentimentality quotient and wisecracking briskness, it came across as an honorable, gender-tweaking variation on Neil Simon's classic cash-cow comedies of urban Jewish anxiety.
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Matthew Perry played Chandler Bing on Friends, and somehow, he managed to embody that character—a wisecracking, emotionally paralyzed "transponster"—while completely off his ass on booze and opiates.
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The highly anticipated "Star Wars" spinoff, slated for a May 2018 release, follows the adventures of the wisecracking swashbuckler Han Solo as a young pilot, played by Alden Ehrenreich.
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For nearly 1333 years, he has served as a wisecracking, press-savvy, deeply informed public citizen who tells the unvarnished truth about the shortcomings of the subways and buses.
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Its wisecracking former leader, Abdurrahman Wahid, was the first president to be elected—albeit by parliament, not by popular vote—after the overthrow of Suharto, Indonesia's dictator of 32 years.
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Last fall's Doctor Strange brought yet another cynical, selfish, wisecracking, extremely powerful middle-aged rich guy into the universe — a potential understudy for the position that Tony Stark now inhabits.
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This wisecracking, sexually voracious woman—she beds another man before the night is through—had her premiere a year before Betty Friedan publicised women's exasperation in the "The Feminine Mystique".
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It's not hard to believe: With their tangled rhymes, innate musicality, and constant wisecracking, the Spillage Village guys are proof that you can make fun music without dumbing anything down.
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Neither a hero nor a romanticized antihero, Pesci exudes the controlled curiosity and integrity of an actual artist while hitting the right beats as a wisecracking, law-bending photographer might.
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More notably, both writers have a gift for smuggling other voices into their reviews — that is, the voices of their wisecracking friends, to whom they often give the best lines.
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Think of how Freddy Krueger went from an elemental, primal terror literally out of your nightmares to a wisecracking ghoul over the course of the Nightmare on Elm Street films.
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In Life and Nothing More, Robert and Regina make a winsome on-screen pair, and their slowly burning, tick-for-tat, wisecracking romance provides some of the film's best scenes.
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In Lee's earlier life, when he lived with his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and their three children, he was a joker, the mischievous, wisecracking life of his own roving party.
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Biden is no longer the wisecracking, vibrant politician that he was in the 2008 Democratic race, where he was a sparkling debater who fell at the first hurdle in Iowa.
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A lone wolf without a core crew or mentor, he lassoed social media to help his breakout track from 2015, the wisecracking freestyle "Shut Up," reach the British Top 10.
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It's a thankless, hopeless job and will provide journalists -- and the late-night comedy writers, our wisecracking professional cousins -- with endless opportunities to tell a modern version of an ancient tale.
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Fletch features Chase as a wisecracking newspaper reporter who is offered a large sum of money to kill a terminally-ill millionaire, but then discovers his target isn't sick at all.
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Then we see him in Fort Jackson army training camp, where the recruits are all given handy nicknames by their wisecracking drill sergeant (Vince Vaughn): Ghoul, Tex, Teach, and so on.
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Its central cast includes three wisecracking assassins with good looks and hearts of gold, and the spiraling, frantic story lines allow them and their adversaries to run up prodigious body counts.
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But the core of the film is the wisecracking relationship between Paul and Abe, who have to learn to trust each other to survive the cops and mobsters on their tail.
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MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL This time it's Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth who suit up as wisecracking agents who thwart threats from nasty aliens (and prevent knowledge of the good ones).
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Hader is the clear standout among the cast, finding notes of desperation and tenderness beneath Richie's relentless wisecracking, and he's well complemented by a nuanced Finn Wolfhard as the younger Richie.
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Harper was cast as Mary Richards' wisecracking best friend, Rhoda Morgenstern, and became so popular that she was spun off into her own show, "Rhoda," midway through the flagship program's run.
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Indeed, he owes his Oscar to "Taormina," an arty melodrama about a gay son and his awful mother, played by the wisecracking and wisdom-dispensing 50-something Dierdre Drake (Diane Lane).
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While Ennis's hyperviolent wisecracking might've impressed me when I was younger — I regret to inform you that my favorite movie in high school was Boondock Saints — here it left me cold.
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Before this studious little man was a wisecracking comedian, he was just another happy kid with a bright future growing up in Boca Raton, FL. Can you guess who he is?
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Whether it's Black Panther's wisecracking science genius sister Shuri or Peter Parker's best pal Ned, lots of these characters turned up for a line or two before the story swept them away.
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Walsh opted for the established veteran, Mike D'Antoni, who maintained his sanity by wisecracking his way through 32-50 and 29-53 seasons before a roster rebuild produced a short-lived competitive renaissance.
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The first act is flat, but it picks up considerably once Carol Danvers crash-lands her wisecracking self on Earth and gets to spend some time bouncing off a cheerfully bemused Nick Fury.
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Lynch could easily be played as a stock cynical anti-hero in the vein of Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken or Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, a wisecracking tough guy who's suddenly forced to save the world.
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The franchise has always been aimed at horror fans who don't take the genre too seriously; as its installments have worn on, Chucky's wisecracking, glibly sociopathic persona has set the tone for the franchise.
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Hers is the perhaps somewhat old-school, wisecracking New York vibe—so often explored in the 70s and 80s—that feels like the antithesis to the self-actualization and self-improvement preached in California.
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I FEEL BAD (NBC, Thursday) Created by Aseem Batra ("Scrubs"), this fast-paced, wisecracking show plays on standard Gen-X anxieties about substandard parenting as well as stereotypes about meddling and hypercritical Asian grandparents.
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Charlotte Rae, the quavery-voiced redhead who started out on Broadway but was best known as a warmhearted, wisecracking housemother in two hit 1980s sitcoms, died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles.
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Preview audiences were baffled by the wisecracking tone of a screenplay credited to Huston and Truman Capote; it's been interpreted sometimes as an absurdist spoof of "The Maltese Falcon," which Huston had also directed.
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He spent the rest of his career there and, by all accounts, embodied the figure of a laughter researcher: a bearded, congenial, wisecracking presence whose own humor could straighten the spine at its wicked best.
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Mr. Guiraudie's characters are art film creatures and as artificial as the wisecracking stereotypes in "Café Society," where none of the men and women appear remotely aware of the world, much less post-1933 Germany.
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Meanwhile, their two DVDs, 2009's Majesty and 2014's Fool 'Em All, introduced fans to a gang of wisecracking stoners who are just happy to be here playing music that sounds like a stabbing.
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Muppet Treasure Island is a wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking, musical take on the Robert Louis Stevenson tale, starring Tim Curry in one of his most fun performances as a scenery-chewing, singing Long John Silver.
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On the show, she tends to play the straight woman and sometimes good-natured scold to the naïve and wisecracking Ms. Higgins, who said she knew little about climate issues before working on the podcast.
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After Holland showed off some of his real-life gymnastic skills onstage, he and Zendaya presented the clip, which finds the wisecracking arachnid whiz kid sneaking back into his Queens bedroom in his full Spidey suit.
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"Jessica Jones," another Netflix series based on a Marvel comics character, and the Marvel film "Deadpool" came along in the meantime and seduced audiences and critics with moody noir fatalism and wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking nihilism.
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Timothy Hallinan's latest comic caper, KING MAYBE (Soho Crime, $25.95), finds the wisecracking Bender in the awkward position of taking a phone call from Jake Whelan in the middle of a delicate heist involving a rare stamp.
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The story elements are mostly formulaic, familiar from any number of superhero and science-fiction stories aimed at young audiences — the bicycle chases, the first crush, the pudgy, wisecracking sidekick who delivers most of the one-liners.
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David Javerbaum's crowd-pleasing comedy "An Act of God" (starting previews May 28, at the Booth), in which the Almighty comes back to make a few wisecracking clarifications, returns, with Sean Hayes stepping into Jim Parsons's sandals.
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Once again, Christoph Ruckhäberle has painting surrounded, approaching it as reusable history, wisecracking craft, visual delight and abstract form, as ever beneath the guise of a slightly retro figurative style that he usually manages to make new.
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Even Eve's ragtag group of fellow agents find ways to make their marks in between the high-stakes set pieces, from David Haig's affably exasperated Bill to Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Sean Delaney's pair of wisecracking assistants.
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"Detective Pikachu" isn't that bad, and the movie arrives helpfully armed with a couple decades worth of equity and goodwill; still, once you've gotten your fill of its wisecracking namesake, even grading on a curve, it isn't good.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Former actor Wayne Rogers, who played wisecracking U.S. Army surgeon "Trapper" John McIntyre in the acclaimed Korean War television comedy "M*A*S*H", died on Thursday at age 82, a spokeswoman said.
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Patrick Renna (Hamilton 'Ham' Porter) Although his wisecracking Ham was Renna's first major movie role, the actor, 39, has worked steadily since Sandlot's 1993 premiere, popping up in dozens of TV series and films (CSI, Bones, The Closer).
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Barbara Bush's husband, Craig Coyne, is new to the Bush family but if his wedding day toast is any indication, it seems like he'll fit right in with his wisecracking father-in-law, former President George W. Bush.
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Reynolds appears to feel much more comfortable playing Deadpool than he did Hal Jordan/Green Lantern because — let's be real — one of his best on-screen personas ever is Van Wilder, that wisecracking, smart-ass, college party god.
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Roy (Ryan Reynolds) is a wisecracking American astronaut working alongside David (Jake Gyllenhaal), a sensitive American doctor who prefers the international space station to Earth, and Miranda (Rebecca Ferguson), a British doctor who's a relatively new arrival onboard.
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MICHAEL: Emily, John, to kick off our discussion of ABC's upfront on Tuesday, I thought I'd share a 1997 clip from "The Simpsons" about a TV network that dreams up a new ratings bonanza: a talking, wisecracking dog.
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Most of the "Angels" archetypes remain intact: The central trio is composed of clever scientist Elena (Naomi Scott, fresh from the live-action "Aladdin"), former MI-6 agent Jane (Ella Balinska) and wisecracking live-wire Sabina (Kristen Stewart).
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"Ant-Man and the Wasp" is more confident and more fun than its predecessor, with Paul Rudd reprising his role as the wisecracking, diminutive super-dad and teaming up with Evangeline Lilly's Wasp for a quantum-level adventure.
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KILLING GUNTHER Political precedents are broken all the time, but for now, Arnold Schwarzenegger stands as the only former governor of California to star as a bespectacled, wisecracking hit man who becomes the target of other hit people.
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There's also Broben, the chain-smoking co-pilot; Boney, the nimble bombardier; Martin Proud Horse, the Lakota ball gunner; and more — all of them wisecracking, scared young soldiers just hoping to make it through the Big One intact.
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While Mr. Kelly's concerns were the decisive factor in Mr. Scaramucci's departure, they said, it was clear that Mr. Trump had quickly soured on the wisecracking, Long Island-bred former hedge fund manager, and so had his family.
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Lily Tomlin, the wisecracking comedian who is one half of the duo that makes up Netflix's Grace & Frankie, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 SAG Awards and, as is tradition at these things, doled out some advice.
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Their wisecracking street-smarts, sheer cunning, and showy braggadocio are all coded as things that set them apart from the residents of Agrabah, and Robin Williams's famously improvisational jokes as Genie are anachronistically drawn from contemporary American pop culture.
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Reynolds, in particular, has come to embody the wisecracking character, having played a slightly different version of Deadpool — real name Wade Wilson — in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, before dressing up in the iconic costume to celebrate Halloween last year.
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The Mexican actor Joaquín Cosío, best known in these parts for playing a wisecracking narco in the cult hit "El Infierno," sat dressed in a gray sport coat over a plain black shirt as the plates were passed around.
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There the front-runner to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor donned an apron and headcloth and, pushing a mop around a stage, performed a comedy routine as her alter ego, Gretl, a wisecracking cleaning lady with a thick Saarland accent.
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While she may appear to be her usual wisecracking self — she told her City Ballet dancers to "do it quickly again before I get arrested," referring to the company's tight rehearsal schedule — she fully grasps the pressure of her situation.
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Rose Marie, who decades later became known for her role as the wisecracking Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," was a child star who would go on to spend nearly every day of her life in show business.
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Since his debut in 1991's New Mutants #98, Wade Wilson has gone from wisecracking his way through action sequences to becoming comics' very own Bugs Bunny—albeit a Bugs who's weirdly OK with murder and into the worst kind of mischief.
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When you were getting picked last for football in front of that obnoxious girl you used to be into, insufferable wisecracking jock Nathan Drake had been standing around joking with his friends in the "picked" area for over ten minutes. Nate. Nate.
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It's here that the film briefly sparks to life, as Arthur's grifting, wisecracking cronies (with colorful names like Goosefat Bill) hatch their throne-toppling scheme in thick Cockney accents reminiscent of Ritchie's East London street toughs from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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Given that, it seems misguided to expend so much energy on lame banter and attempts at wisecracking humor -- even in the midst of fight scenes -- when all that's really required is a perfunctory set-up to watching giant mechanized warriors bash each other.
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Trekkies, though, had to be feeling extra excited when Mudd calls Lorca "mon capitan" — a reference to everyone's favorite wisecracking alien from The Next Generation, Q. In the original series, Mudd brings Kirk and Spock down to his planet full of android women.
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"He will be remembered as the best father, grandfather and great-grandfather you could have by his family and by fans as the sometimes grumpy (always loving, however), often wisecracking, and voice of absolute reason on the History television show 'Pawn Stars.'"
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I'd love to see the all-female squad cross over into the gaming medium—I mean, who wouldn't want to play as a virtual Kristen Wiig, wisecracking around New York City, occasionally slapping a spook into a containment unit for "safe" keeping?
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But the contest gained some intrigue on Tuesday with the entry of John A. DeFrancisco, a state senator, into the thin Republican field, introducing a hard-punching, wisecracking and little-to-lose conservative into what has been a decidedly sleepy election cycle.
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Her work is obviously influenced by TV shows like Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, and Firefly, in that it trends more toward a galaxy full of rusty, beaten-up spacecraft and wisecracking opportunists than it does the gleaming ideals of the Star Trek franchise.
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Though some of us may feel that we've known him forever, he is, at age 50, just reaching a new peak of fame, thanks in part to mammoth Marvel blockbusters like "Avengers: Endgame," in which he plays the wisecracking superhero Ant-Man.
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Snub: 'Deadpool' This film about a wisecracking, perverted superhero was never not a long shot for an Oscar nod of any sort, but its recent momentum, with nominations for the Golden Globes and from each of the industry guilds, meant the possibility existed.
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It's a crowd-pleasing, comic-sentimental setup, with the wisecracking but vulnerable child consistently one-upping, and bailing out of trouble, the man who becomes her surrogate father, and Gosselaar does a capable job as a younger version of a Clint Eastwood coot.
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Holland plays a newly rebooted version of the wisecracking teenage webslinger Spider-Man, marking the character's debut in the shared Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Boseman's Black Panther is a royal member of a mysterious African nation with catlike speed, agility and high-tech claws.
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Yet, all the traditional noir components are there, from the feisty dame-slash-love interest, police detective Kristin Ortega (Martha Higareda), all the chain-smoking, a cadre of wisecracking sidekicks — the internet is going to love Poe (Chris Conner) — and a conspiracy that's Bigger Than All This.
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If you have ever seen the 52 film of "The Front Page," based on the jauntily cynical play, you might have been startled by the moment when a wisecracking newspaperman silences his machine-gun-fast patter to raise his middle finger at the mayor and sheriff.
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She could have watched Mary Tyler Moore — but it would have been in reruns of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," where Rose Marie was the wisecracking career woman and Ms. Moore still the TV housewife, albeit the first to swap her aproned skirt for capri pants.
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"Such big decisions being made about our future made by people who know so little about our past," says Stewart (Stephen McKinley Henderson), a programmer who begins the series as a wisecracking breath of fresh air but, by its end, is reciting poetry and speaking in aphorisms.
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There are wonderfully designed creatures bustling through the 1996 movie and its sequels, but the star attraction is the chemistry between wisecracking Smith as new recruit Agent J, and deadpan Tommy Lee Jones as veteran Agent K. Men in Black: International attempts to move on from that team.
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WATCH: Penny Marshall Pay Tribute To Brother Gary Marshall in Exclusive Clip of CBS's 'The Odd Couple' The wisecracking tomboy and her perky roommate, Shirley Feeney (played by Cindy Williams), were such hits with the audience that the following year, ABC gave them their own show, Laverne & Shirley.
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"Disenchantment," the story of a headstrong young princess (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) and her two sidekicks, an elf with a serious crush on her (Nat Faxon) and a wisecracking little demon out of a Krazy Kat panel (Eric Andre), looks and feels a lot like a conventional TV comedy.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — "Let's go get a steak sometime," Anthony Scaramucci said, throwing his arm around a reporter who turned up at his West Wing office on Wednesday to make contact with the latest — and most profane, wisecracking, roguishly irrepressible — New Yorker to join President Trump's staff.
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While held there, Haller has been able to make both progress and friends, from the wisecracking "Girl, Interrupted" cosplay character, Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), to the psychiatrist Dr. Kissinger (as in Henry) to his girlfriend Syd Barrett (as in Pink Floyd), who has haphephobia, a fear of being touched.
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Trump, in Pinker's view, has focused on the most primitive and regressive emotions among voters: So yes, Trump is wisecracking about overturning millennia of progress in taming our brutish instincts for instant retaliation, and discarding the norms and institutions of justice that our better angels have crafted and perfected.
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"Boss Cai", as Mr Hu is known on online, has for the past year played computer games in a glass-walled studio in Shanghai for eight hours a day, six days a week, showing off his virtual fighting skills and wisecracking to fans, 140,000 of whom follow him on social media.
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In some cases, that debt is small: In an era of muscle-bound uber-macho action heroes who looked and acted like human tanks, Die Hard — which starred a barefoot Bruce Willis as wisecracking New York cop John McClane — helped establish the fragile "regular guy" star as a viable action lead.
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Set a half-millennium in the future, the movie stars Dane DeHaan as Valerian and Cara Delevingne as Laureline, two wisecracking agents who spend the whole movie engaging in painfully flirty banter -- with him trying to convince her that he's shed his womanizing ways and is ready for a commitment.
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Snapshot In the contemporary western "Hell or High Water," which generated buzz at Cannes, Jeff Bridges comes full circle in his portrayal of a steely, wisecracking Texas Ranger whose final mission is to track down two brothers who are robbing banks to pay off the lien on their deceased mother's property.
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But the carnival is full of its own adventures and perils — in the trailer, we see glimpses of encounters with a mustachioed stunt toy named Duke Caboom, voiced by Keanu Reeves, and a pair of wisecracking plush toys voiced by longtime comedy partners Keegan Michael Key and Us director Jordan Peele.
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" But nothing can really obscure the fact that Graham has written a buddy newspaper story—one without a buddy but with all the wisecracking and smoking and typing that we've heard and seen time and again, onstage and in movies ranging from "The Front Page" to Steven Spielberg's "The Post .
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Mr. Platt said he was initially being considered for the "Dear Evan Hansen" role of Jared, the title character's wisecracking friend, who spends much of the musical hurling abuse at Evan but is all in on the deception once he senses that Evan's newfound social status might elevate his own.
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Rogue One has its share of real standouts — Alan Tudyk is the unquestionable comedic highlight as a wisecracking, former Imperial droid named K-2SO, and Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen (Ip Man) is unforgettable as a blind monk with incredible fighting skills and heartbreaking humility to the will of The Force.
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" The trailer also points out a giant plot flaw in the hour-and-48-minute movie, explaining that Reynolds plays a "wisecracking, indestructible psychopath who would do anything to get his fiancée back – except talk to her, which would have been way too easy, causing the movie to end in like 20 minutes.
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The original title, 24's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, was a product of its time; it's easy to forget how fresh it felt back then to play a major game with a wisecracking dude in a T-shirt for the main character, but its endless scores of unimaginative enemies to shoot undermined the whimsy.
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It's populated by familiar types lifted from the movies: the mysterious femmes fatales, the free-spirited artists, the topless, eccentric, bird-raising neighbors, the wisecracking friends, and the grizzled, aimless detective type who finds himself always one step behind a plot that turns out to be much wilder than he could have anticipated.
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The look was far from the wisecracking, gum-snapping, thick-eyebrowed girl of the 703s who didn't shave her armpits, but it was effective: It announced that she was still Madge, the British lady of the manor — except when she crossed her legs, she had the old punk-rock black fishnet stockings under her skirt.
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This is only part of The Losers Club — Bill Denbrough (Midnight Special's Jaeden Lieberher), whose little brother Georgie was snatched by It the autumn before; wisecracking Richie "Trashmouth" Tozier (Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard); small-fry and hypochondriac Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer); the logical, prepared Boy Scout Stan Uris (Wyatt Oleff), and chubby Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor).
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In the second season of the show's Netflix revival, with Jonah Ray as host, the basic concept of a funny guy mocking terrible old movies alongside his wisecracking robots (voiced by Baron Vaughn and Hampton Yount) is still working well, thanks to the chops the cast and writers honed during their first season and subsequent live tour.
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"Listen as they gather in the stately Roland Park home of the parents to talk about themselves and the station, the sons joking and wisecracking and chiding one another as if they are at some sort of bawdy class reunion, adding to each other's thoughts, and ultimately deferring almost solemnly to the father," the reporter wrote.
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The film follows a group of residents of one of the housing projects targeted by the NFF — a gang, led by D'mitri (Y'lan Noel); his former girlfriend Nya (Lex Scott Davis) and her teenage brother Isaiah (Joivan Wade); their neighbor Luisa (Luna Lauren Velez) and her daughter Selina (Kristen Solis); and another wisecracking neighbor, Dolores (Mugga).
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When director David Leitch first read the script for Deadpool 2, he was immediately struck by a crucial scene that fell about halfway through the movie; it featured seven pages of dialogue and almost every major character, and it laid out critical plot points for the film's third act, as well as the heavy emotional stakes for Ryan Reynolds' titular wisecracking mercenary.
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It's not clear what that role was, but after meeting Snyder thought Eisenberg was a perfect fit for the role — a mix between a witty charmer and a man full of rage that's described as a mix between the "wisecracking psychopathology of the Joker, the self-satisfied clever-clogsiness of the Riddler, and the big-picture scheming of the Penguin."
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He played a similar role for two seasons in Starz's "Survivor's Remorse" as the wisecracking Uncle Julius, living the high life after his nephew became a star in the N.B.A. Here, he deploys his 80-proof rasp as a questionable-but-loving quasi-nanny to his nieces, the teenage Tia (Iman Benson) and little Maizy (Aalyrah Caldwell), and his nephew, Miles (Sayeed Shahidi).
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A breakout role in Kenneth Lonergan's celebrated film "Manchester by the Sea," as a randy, wisecracking teenager grappling with the death of his father while being cared for by his soul-scarred uncle, has already earned him the breakthrough performance prize from the National Board of Review; Screen Actors Guild and Independent Spirit award nominations; and considerable Academy Award buzz.
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Far more interesting were Dawson's Creek's supporting characters: Joey, the intellectual tomboy who pulsed with a vague, amorphous anger at everything on the planet in general and whatever she was currently looking at in particular (drink every time "you have literally no idea why Joey is mad," advises one Dawson's Creek drinking game), and Pacey, whose wisecracking exterior masked deep wells of self-loathing.
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Offred keeps wisecracking over hers ("Red's my color," and "I wore it just for you"), and there's that lovely flashback to Serena Joy throwing out all of her old power suits and turning to her new wardrobe with a look of shuttered resignation on her face: Her side won, and she's excited, and she sincerely believes in "traditional values," but also, dear lord, those clothes are boring.
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We get Mackenzie Davis's I-come-from-the-future exposition explaining that Sarah Connor did not, in fact, avert Judgement Day; Linda Hamilton's Connor smirking and wisecracking like the apocalypse-averting veteran she is (complete with a callback I'd rather have been surprised by); and some absolutely wild-looking fight scenes — including a moment where Gabriel Luna's evil new-model nanomorph appears to split itself into two separate humanoids.
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Now that GOT is the world's favorite feudal soap opera, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad to feature a guest star from the golden years of showbiz every episode: an all-singing, all-dancing Muppet Show–style revue featuring Rip Torn and Kris Kristofferson as wisecracking deserters from the Night's Watch, Roger Moore as a serially tardy lord who always apologizes for being late to the feast, and Sandy Duncan as the queen of the elves.
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He responds to the laugh track that erupts with each increasingly sick joke — the Aldersons are keeping Tyrell Wellick tied up in their trunk; his father, Edward, (Christian Slater doing his best Bob Saget) coughs up blood because "that cancer's acting up again"; his abusive mother puts out a cigarette on his sister Darlene's arm before beating her unconscious; his deceased boss, Gideon, shows up as a cop only to get bloodily run over by ALF, the wisecracking alien puppet of an actual sitcom — with mounting dismay.
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The introduction of the crew and their gumbo of accents is only slight more coherent: There's Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation) as the no-nonsense rep from the Centers for Disease Control; Jake Gyllenhaal as the slightly depressive chief medical officer; Ryan Reynolds as (what else?) the wisecracking scientist tossing off Re-Animator references; Ariyon Bakare (Jupiter Ascending) as the ship's exobiologist with withered CG legs (which seems like a very pricey method of character building); Russian actress Olga Dihovichnaya as a Boris-and-Natasha-sounding cosmonaut; and Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine) as a Japanese engineer and proud father of a newborn back on Earth.
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