He toys with language, favoring malaprops and mispronounced words (he has a ball with "ferret").
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Senator John Kerry in 2004 won laughs from a Democratic audience for mocking President George W. Bush's halting speaking style and malaprops.
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Once their partnership was sundered, Ivana took her blithe esprit and comic malaprops to enjoy the high life elsewhere ("In 2006, my yacht was parked at Cannes for the film festival, and I was having a party with two hundred people on it"), a pity since she might have been a more inspiriting first lady than the inscrutable, animatronic Melania.
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Some Democrats believe Biden's malaprops and inaccurately embellished storytelling could make him an easy target for President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE, if the three-time White House contender captures the Democratic nod.
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And so I missed out on Babe Ruth's lore; Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle; the significance of Jackie Robinson; Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world"; the abandonment of New York City by the Giants and the Dodgers; Yogi Berra's malaprops; the glorious awfulness of the early Mets and the Amazin' season of 1969; the lunacy of the Steinbrenner years and the so-called Bronx Zoo; the Bill Buckner game and the Mets' second championship; the Yankees' core four; the subway World Series of 2000.
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According to Mrs. Nussbaum, the vegetables included "Carrots, stringle-a-beans and rutta-bagels." Her distinctive accented voice and Jane Ace-like knack for malaprops made her a series trademark.
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That, plus > Givot's appearance and salesmanship, won him yocks upon yocks. ... Givot is > a natural with his Greek malaprops and situation gags. In 1926, 16-year-old student Helen Britt was taken into custody for trying to blackmail the vaudeville entertainer, but was released when police were satisfied she was just joking.
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Schaefer was best known for his collection of "bloopers" – radio and television mistakes, gaffes, malaprops, spoonerisms, and tongue twisters. Schaefer's "bloopers" later became the inspiration for the television shows TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes and America's Funniest Home Videos. A 1945 motion picture, Pardon My Blooper, featured many of Schaefer's collected works. After Carney died, Schaefer featured a "recording" of the "little bastards" incident on his Bloopers album.
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Goodman played himself as a put-upon realtor, and Jane played "his awfully-wedded wife" (and used the name Sherwood as her on-air character's maiden name) with an endearing mixture of sweet-natured meddlesomeness and language mangling. Her husband once swore that she was a natural malapropper, but in radio character Jane became the unchallenged mistress of the kind of malaprops that (unlike Gracie Allen's "illogical logic") substituted words in seemingly ordinary phrasing and still made perverse sense, after a fashion. Hysterical laughter invariably ensued. The Aces signed with Educational Pictures to make Easy Aces two reel comedies in 1934.
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"First performed by George Dixon in 1834, Zip Coon made a mockery of free blacks. An arrogant, ostentatious figure, he dressed in high style and spoke in a series of malaprops and puns that undermined his attempts to appear dignified." The white actors who portrayed these characters spoke an exaggerated form of Black Vernacular English. The blackface makeup and illustrations on programs and sheet music depicted them with huge eyeballs, very wide noses, and thick- lipped mouths that hung open or grinned foolishly; one character expressed his love for a woman with "lips so large a lover could not kiss them all at once".
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" Written by Goodman Ace, who cast himself as a harried real estate salesman and the exasperated but loving husband of the scatterbrained, malaprop-prone Jane ("You've got to take the bitter with the better"; "Time wounds all heels"), Easy Aces became a long- running serial comedy (1930–1945) and a low-keyed legend of old-time radio for its literate, unobtrusive, conversational style and the malaprops of the female half of the team. The show was never a rating blockbuster, but according to Dunning it "was always a favourite of Radio Row insiders. Like Fred Allen and Henry Morgan, Ace was considered an intelligent man's wit. His show limped along [but] . . .
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