Romantic walks with wholesome-looking young men are upended by pratfalls.
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Mr. Hopkins's antics and pratfalls had the audience giggling all afternoon.
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Nightclubs, we're told, are the sole preserve of pissheads, perverts and pratfalls.
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So much for football, where such pratfalls are merely part of the show.
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People, do you think it's unfair to make fun of Trump's verbal pratfalls?
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Late signee Mark Sanchez will serve as the emergency fallback if Prescott pratfalls.
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Comedy norms may shift drastically from generation to generation, but pratfalls remain in style.
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If only this administration could simply play as comedy, as pratfalls and double takes.
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It's broad and dubiously sentimental, and relies on gross-out slime gags and mega-pratfalls.
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Recent electoral pratfalls argue for leaving critical decisions in the hands of well-trained, pragmatic technocrats.
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There were no short-cuts in "Julieta," he told me—no mixing of genres, no pratfalls.
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Cue up the streaming services and grab a pen; you may want to avoid these pratfalls IRL.
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And as Trump and his team get more comfortable on stage, there will be fewer pratfalls to judge.
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Last year, Trump's campaign juggernaut survived a lot of pratfalls, any of which would have derailed other candidates.
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Avoid these common pratfalls, and your space will feel bigger, brighter, and better than you ever thought possible.
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Replace flirtation and sex with pratfalls and comic repartee and "Stan & Ollie" is a heartstrings-yanking Hollywood romance.
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Mr. Tomsic, a TV journeyman, executes both the dumb pratfalls and the quick banter with discipline and professionalism.
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But Jukin's existence performs a strange sort of alchemy, retroactively transforming these pratfalls into some kind of labor.
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Mischief Theater's metafictional farce about an amateur dramatic troupe trying to stage a murder mystery pratfalls onto Broadway.
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The film is about how she negotiates the pratfalls of trying to make a good impression on Nick's family.
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A clip of monkey nurses assisting humans features a zany series of comedic pratfalls and charming intra-primate gestures.
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Outside, I laughed at Tina Fey's drunk pratfalls, while inside I remembered the bottomless agony of loving an addict.
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With a female lead who wasn't scared of pratfalls, fake mustaches, or even being a champion for body positivity.
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So began a bicontinental life with more pratfalls than a Jerry Lewis movie — except the French like Jerry Lewis.
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The Comedian pratfalls into predictability by the end, but it has a spark of something interesting in its head.
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Instead, "Skiptrace" settles for a warmed-over plot, tedious fight sequences and humor that's heavy on crotch jokes and pratfalls.
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He tripped them and laughed at the ensuing pratfalls and slapped them around when he could get away with it.
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Taken seriously as a director, comic and actor by French audiences, filmmakers and critics, he responded with pratfalls, slapstick, endless schtick.
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It is nothing so much as a series of pratfalls by inept leaders and the suckers who follow them toward doom.
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Given the number of pratfalls — bodies are dropped, scenery collapses — audiences often ask if actors ever get injured doing the show.
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The nested stories are very much rooted in post-medieval Spain, but the pratfalls are timeless; self-delusion knows no cultural barriers.
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It's the Architect scene from The Matrix but with teenagers doing pratfalls and blowing their iPhone speakers out in a deafening chorus.
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An essay could be written on the semantic distinctions, which Owens had just elided, between mistakes and accidents, and between accidents and pratfalls.
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You can't fully make sense of his policy pratfalls without acknowledging the extraordinary quality of the people with whom he has surrounded himself.
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A timid economic liberalisation has created a small entrepreneurial class and attracted foreigners with money to spend on private displays of pranks and pratfalls.
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As if trying to outrun high anxiety, her clipped speech rushes and doubles back, reeling and sliding around in the verbal equivalent of pratfalls.
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I assumed that he had managed to win the hearts and minds of millions of teens and tweens purely by being cute and doing pratfalls.
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The WWE Superstars recently appeared on PEOPLE Now to talk about the pratfalls of new parenthood and preview their upcoming USA reality series Miz & Mrs.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine gets real laughs from pratfalls, deadpan delivery (Andre Braugher is the show's not-so-secret comedic weapon), and, well, everything Chelsea Peretti does.
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John Aldridge, a former Liverpool striker, had made a brief cameo, twice losing his footing as he tried to run, his pratfalls greeted by uproarious laughter.
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During the winter and early spring, it looked as if Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren would be the next entry in this parade of presidential pratfalls.
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From skimpy bathing suits to an outlandish hot air balloon ride, Upton and Daddario bring on the laughs and the pratfalls as their characters duke it out.
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If this sounds a bit heady for a rollicking tragicomedy in which pratfalls and death throes are tumbled together, that is part of the play's unusual scheme.
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At intermission, I remarked to a friend I couldn't believe how deftly the whole team, led by director Scott Ellis, were handling all the potential problematic pratfalls.
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There are others — goofy accents, nicely staged pratfalls, humiliations large and small — though not much that rises to the level of unforgettable, wild-eyed, laugh-out-loud hilarity.
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I appreciate that she chose a fast-food chain with no clown, if only because some gestures are simply too obvious to be symbolic: goofier, even, than pratfalls.
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It's such a basic skill that we don't consider the vast amount of information that is used to make these predictions — concerning gravity, inertia, the nature of pratfalls, etc.
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Wilton Parmenter, his character, was a bumbling accidental hero who was involved in more pratfalls than you might expect from the dignified leader of a strategically important Western fort.
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A big guy like Aaron should want other big targets around – especially one who's in a showmance, who draws attention to himself from his challenge pratfalls and general clumsiness.
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His biggest challenge will be to mobilize a deeply divided staff to deliver something for Americans who want to see progress rather than pratfalls and bickering from the White House.
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The lack of policies or purpose in Downing Street, coupled with Mrs May's frequent political pratfalls, have driven the Conservative Party to the brink of seeking a new leader (see article).
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Whether the stories of costumed miscreants are fact or fiction, the hysteria is creating a serious PR problem for those who earn a living delivering pratfalls and punchlines in curly wigs and floppy shoes.
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In their book "This Time is Different", Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, two economists, point out that eight centuries of financial pratfalls have not persuaded investors to treat financial booms with the requisite caution.
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Vicarious Visions saw fit to oversee this retelling, coloring in vivid details from the more vaguely penciled lines of the original, but maybe adding in a few more unintended pratfalls with their fuzzy collisions.
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During his administration, verbal pratfalls became enough of a running joke that David Gergen, then his director of communications, commissioned a large plaster foot with a bullet hole in it to be passed around.
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After all, we have always heard or seen comical caricatures of male politicians — jokes about John Boehner's tan; or cartoons of Barack Obama accentuating his ears; or pratfalls performed as imitations of Gerald Ford.
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In terms of the story, "Daddy's Home 2" quickly whisks the whole extended brood off to the mountains (Kurt secures an idyllic holiday getaway), which mostly provides a snowy backdrop for pratfalls and sight gags.
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Their pratfalls in recovering it — an attempted break-in finds Stan trying to raise Ollie to the second story of a building using a rope and a mule — are the source of much characteristic humor.
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"More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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When he clowned around, hiding his skill at pratfalls and slapstick behind wide-eyed alarm, his audience seemed to open up to God, releasing pent-up emotions and becoming like children in faith, hope and love.
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The truth is that the performative nature of social media can turn even the simplest conversations into a WWE style cage match with emojis and internet slang taking the place of pratfalls and over the top costumes.
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It's a lighthearted late '60s action comedy, full of bumbling pratfalls and failed seductions all scored to the kind of vaguely Chinese-sounding music common in that era's spy films, meant to evoke the exoticism of international espionage.
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Cartoons and superheroes are flexible: they can bring in action and forge real emotion connections with the audience, while still drawing on the big sight gags and pratfalls that used to be the sole province of comedy films.
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And while waiting for that to happen, all that's left, mostly, are a series of pratfalls, as the pampered heir -- who has never worked a day in his life -- tries to master a construction job and simple household chores.
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Although A. L. Kennedy's novel came into being before the Brexit vote and the subsequent pratfalls of so many British politicians, her Londoners have already lost faith in the machinery of the state and are spoiling for a fight.
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With grand cinematic flourishes—a gyrating camera on a factory floor and at a café table, rapturously colorful visions of romance, and hair-trigger comedy of pratfalls and narrow escapes—Fassbinder exalts the exploits of the hidden heroes of daily life.
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He starred in "Cinderfella," written and directed by the noted comedy director Frank Tashlin, and -- when that movie was held for release -- came up with "The Bellboy," a silent-film-style story of pratfalls and adventures that Lewis wrote, directed and starred in.
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Again and again, no matter how much she tries to circumvent her fate, Nadia keeps on dying—tumbling down stairs, taking pratfalls into basements—at unpredictable intervals, inevitably ending up staring at herself in the mirror (and at us, through the camera lens).
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Credit...Peter Saul/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Winnie Au for The New York Times Politically, 21987 has been, so far, a gonzo variety show of executive howlers and hissy fits; prayer breakfasts and Iowa pratfalls; split "victories" and revenge firings.
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Mr. Shiner and particularly Mr. Irwin were once at the forefront of the new vaudevillian movement to revive and rebrand circus conventions, but now, as their title suggests, they are proudly grizzled veterans of the traditional art of pratfalls and imaginary gusts of wind.
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At the time, his then-publicist told The New York Times that the actor had developed a "dependency on prescription drugs relating to chronic and long-term back problems'' tied to the pratfalls and stunts he did on projects such as "Saturday Night Live.
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He had a very rich family; his cousins, brothers, and sisters were all living a great life at the turn of the century, doing anything they liked, driving racing cars, trying to build airplanes, and failing, and Lartigue was making pictures of all these pratfalls.
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But it was largely because of the nature of his output: lots of low comedy, an abundance of pratfalls and funny faces, but ("The King of Comedy" and some others excepted) not much of the kind of substantive or enduring work that brings statuettes.
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He came away with nothing worse than a chipped tooth, but his misadventure inspired Yankees teammates to dub him Gooney Bird, for the albatross, found mostly on Midway Atoll in the Pacific, known for what are taken to be pratfalls while it scurries on land.
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It has gone from being a variety of ways to tickle a person — real life, funny because it's true, ironic funny, deadpan funny, parody funny, no-duh funny, slapstick, farce, absurdity, pratfalls, a real variety — to merely, glumly reflecting what a terrible world this has become.
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Although the film has been breaking box-office records all over Asia since its Chinese New Year-pegged release overseas, the presumption seems to be that whatever non-Asian-American audience Mr. Chow has here wants to see him doing the pratfalls, not just plotting and filming them.
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While the request was done in the interest of protecting USA Gymnastics from a legal standpoint — Raisman has filed a lawsuit against USA Gymnastics — it also served as another in an increasingly long line of public relations pratfalls by one of the crown jewels of the U.S. Olympic movement.
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Important areas of the executive branch are barely staffed or functioning, the White House is in a state of low-grade civil war, and the bungling, pratfalls, conflicts of interest, weak attempts at propaganda and brazen lying are all, well, not normal, as the self-styled "resistance" likes to say.
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Nevertheless, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was almost universally praised, with special compliments for the score, the signature Disney magic in the production design, and for Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, a character who felt like a throwback to the era of musical comedy and hammy pratfalls.
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Rogers was against the fast-paced children's programming of his time that, as he saw it, found most of its humor in denigrating its characters' dignity via pratfalls and cartoonish violence; it's an easy line from that to the loud and shallow form that cable news uses to get its adult viewers addicted.
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Parker's twin qualities of incompetence and sweet-temperedness end up making him more of an ally than an adversary, and the role allowed Mr. Conway to develop and deploy the arsenal of pratfalls, double takes, facial tics and other hyperbolic depictions of physical and emotional distress that served him for the rest of his career.
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Matt Singer, Screencrush: After 15 years, Captain Jack has devolved into an accumulation of ticks and pratfalls, and his movies are basically lavish high-seas versions of a Scooby-Doo episode: A guh-guh-guh-ghost does a bunch of spooky stuff and everyone runs and screams for a while, and then the bad guy gets caught.
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In her first collection of essays, Kendall, a military veteran who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, addresses the pratfalls of white feminism™, explaining how providing basic needs like adequate health care, housing and access to food, destigmatizing sex work, and dealing with gun violence, among other issues endemic in working-class black communities, are actually bedrock feminist issues as well.
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Earlier, he had been mentioned as a possible successor to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel in a possible Jacob Zuma-led ANC administration in 2009.Donwald Pressly. "Songs and pratfalls demonstrate fickleness of rand." Business Report.
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Gans, Andrew. "Nominations Announced for 67th Annual Tony Awards; Kinky Boots Earns 13 Nominations", Playbill, April 30, 2013 "McClure Profile" broadway.com, accessed May 7, 2013 The Newsday reviewer wrote of his performance: > McClure … doesn't just replicate the waddle and pratfalls of Chaplin's > little tramp.
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Occasionally there are other shows that are produced every few years, including the Pratfalls comedy show which appeared for its third production in 2005, and a Night of Improv, which returned April 2006 after its successful debut in Pratfalls III. The troupe performs in The Performing Arts Hall of Gulf Coast High School, one of the largest auditoriums in the school district. Pieces are rated in the following fashion: Superior, Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor. In 2006, for the first time in troupe history, one theatre student received the award for Best Overall Technical Theatre Piece for their Costume design in the District 6 Competition.
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Of the two, Estragon suffers the most physically. He is kicked by Lucky, takes numerous pratfalls, and is beaten by a gang of thugs every night. He also has great difficulty with his boots. In the first act, they do not fit and cause him pain.
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"Genevieve's Revue Short on Novelties: Jack Paar Discovery Tries 'Evening' on Intime Scale" Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 21 March 1962: C15. Shirley Jones accepted her role in part because she did not have to sing."Hamlet Tired of Taking Pratfalls" Scott, John L. Los Angeles Times 15 July 1962: A5.
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In the Stooge films, Mahoney—striking a heroic pose—would suddenly get clumsy, tripping over something or taking sprawling pratfalls. Beginning in 1950, Columbia management noticed Mahoney's acting skills and gave him starring roles in adventure serials. He succeeded stuntman Ted Mapes as the double for Charles Starrett in Columbia's Durango Kid Western series.
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Cookie tales were full of slapstick, violent pratfalls, low-brow jokes, and gags involving unusual props. The book has been compared to the wildness of animation director Tex Avery or the wackiness of the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes. ACG's Hi-Jinx was touted as "a brand-new idea in comics" and debuted in 1947.
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Buster is the owner of "Keaton's Snappy Hats" hat shop. While modeling hats for a customer, jewel thief Dorothy Appleby, a stolen ring is stuffed into his porkpie hat. She convinces him she likes his hat and has it delivered to her apartment. When Buster arrives, the maid Elsie Ames, winds up doing many stunts and pratfalls with Buster.
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Brooklyn-born Schindell was born Seymour Schindel in 1907. He was a former middleweight boxer with 19 fights from 1926–1928.Cy Schindel He was later bitten by the acting bug, and found work as an extra at Columbia Studios, most notably appearing with comedy team the Three Stooges. A skilled stuntman, Schindell performed many pratfalls himself.
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" Nick Schager of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, saying "A few decent one-liners notwithstanding, the movie comes off as willfully uninspired." Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film one star out of four, saying, "Mystifyingly, the movie manages to emerge plot-free. Instead, it offers a succession of humorless gross-out gags, fat jokes, suggestive posturing, bullying, belches and pratfalls.
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His borrowings include snippets of the French hunting signal Le Réveil, the military bugle call Retreat, and Offenbach's can-can Le rondeau du brésilien, which he incongruously managed to turn into a polka.Whiting, "Satie the Bohemian", p. 464. "The scoring and the continual oom-pah capture the ambiance of a circus processional, with pratfalls along the way", Steven Moore Whiting noted.Whiting, "Satie the Bohemian", p. 464.
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Jokes from these sources usually depended on sexual themes. Cicero believe that humour ought to be based upon "ambiguity, the unexpected, wordplay, understatement, irony, ridicule, silliness, and pratfalls". Roman jokes also depended on certain stock characters and stereotypes, especially regarding foreigners \-- as can be seen within Plautus' Poenulus. Roman culture, which was heavily influenced by the Greeks, had also been in conversation with Greek humour.
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After serving as a parish priest, Bain decided to convey the Christian message through a different route, inspired by his lifelong love of clowns. His father had written a biography of the famous clown Joseph Grimaldi. As a young boy, Bain had loved the sad-faced clown Coco. So he took a clown's training and became a freelance clown-priest, presenting the Gospel message through jokes and pratfalls.
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Emmadel meets Wilbur's amiable elderly relatives, who present her with $500,000 as a wedding gift. Her parents embarrass her by running screaming through the garden. Emma discovers Pete's presence and visits the gatehouse to have it out with him. While she pulls Suzi's loose tooth, Pete pretends to be in love with Winnifred, Wilbur's fourth cousin twice-removed, and laughs when Emmadel pratfalls on her huge party dress.
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White capitalized on this by staging the kind of rough-and-tumble slapstick not seen since silent-movie days, with the stars and supporting players doing pratfalls, crossing their eyes, getting hit with messy projectiles, having barehanded fistfights and being knocked "cuckoo" in film after film. These comedies were pet projects for White: he kept making Vernon and Quillan shorts long after most of his other series had ended.
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No Beer? was difficult. Since joining MGM in 1928, Keaton was not accorded the creative freedom that he had enjoyed during the silent era. By 1933 personal problems and a messy divorce were interfering with Keaton's work; he often showed up drunk or not at all for the filming of What! No Beer? He was enough of a professional (and a trained acrobat) to complete the film, doing extreme pratfalls even while visibly impaired.
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Much of the character's humor is derived from slapstick comedy. He is extremely clumsy and accident-prone, and is well known for his comic pratfalls. Jack is somewhat of a ladies' man and a playboy, but is also kind, loyal - and protective of his roommates, family, and friends. Despite having been a boxer in the Navy, he often cowered and allowed other men to bully him (mainly because of their larger size).
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The writing style in the Moosepath Saga has been variously compared to several 19th century and early 20th century authors. Reid has been quoted as saying it is a "modern gloss on a Victorian style". The comic aspect of the series plays on misunderstandings, eccentric characters and behavior, word-play, and even physical surprise and pratfalls. The humor is always good-natured and the occasional ironic note is always wry and never bitter.
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Physical comedy as Charlie Chaplin wrestles with factory controls in his 1936 comedy Modern Times Physical comedy is a form of comedy focused on manipulation of the body for a humorous effect. It can include slapstick, clowning, mime, physical stunts, or making funny faces. Physical comedy originated as part of the Commedia dell'arte. It is now sometimes incorporated into sitcoms; for example, in the sitcom Three's Company, actor John Ritter frequently performed pratfalls (landing on the buttocks).
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It featured the band members riding around an urban setting on BMX bikes and a skateboard, performing stunts and pratfalls; professional riders were used as stunt doubles. It featured a brief cameo from Mike Watt. Farm debuted at #29 on the Billboard 200. It has gone on to sell over 51,000 copies in US. In 2012 it was awarded a double silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 40,000 copies throughout Europe.
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The Hank Simms voice-over and the show's organization into acts with an epilogue was homage to Quinn Martin police dramas including The Fugitive, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, The F.B.I., and Cannon. Nielsen portrayed a serious character whose one-liners appeared accidental next to the pratfalls and sight gags that were happening around him. Although the show lasted only six episodes, Nielsen received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
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A merciless official sits at a desk activating a giant buzzer when anyone bites the dust. Attempts at serious artistry — a Pina Bausch-style Macbeth, Aitor Basauri's "proper" Shakespearean acting, Toby Park's stern pronouncements about the artist as "agitator" — are all undercut by the inescapable power of the ridiculous. But the meta-theatrical nonsense disguises a genuine meta-theatrical exploration. Sneaking in under the pratfalls is a sincere investigation of how theatre can — and does — measure up to death.
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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 37% based on 105 reviews, with an average rating of 4.73/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Johnny English Strikes Again might get a few giggles out of viewers pining for buffoonish pratfalls, but for the most part, this sequel simply strikes out." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 39 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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More recent appropriations of lazzi include the 1920s silent films of Charlie Chaplin, the silent/sound films and stage productions of Laurel and Hardy, and Punch and Judy puppet shows. While many similarities exist, a few parallels can be drawn in the use of pratfalls, fright jumps, and physical settings that enable the use of objects to perform the comedy. One popular comparison is Charlie Chaplin's cane to Arlecchino, or the Harlequin's stick when used as a comedic device.
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In early 1928, Chaplin began writing the script with Harry Carr. The plot gradually grew from an initial concept Chaplin had considered after the success of The Circus, where a circus clown goes blind and has to conceal his handicap from his young daughter by pretending that his inability to see are pratfalls. This inspired the Blind Girl. The first scenes Chaplin thought up were of the ending, where the newly cured blind girl sees the Little Tramp for the first time.
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The > Keystone Cops rode in their police patrol wagon skidding on the soaped > streets. Dressed in ill-fitting New York policemen's uniforms, they hit > fruit stands, popcorn wagons, telephone poles and chicken coops. They took > pratfalls and lifted their knees high as they ran and took corners on one > foot, waving their billy clubs over their heads. They were always called to > restore law and order to some impossible, funny scene hurriedly created by > the wit of Hollywood's comedy gagmen.
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Barabara is also unimpressed by this. Smith invites Jupiter into the house and tries to involve him in the new 'family' group, but Jupiter only manages to wet his pants before sitting alone repeatedly watching an inane children's TV show involving an animated chicken. Smith repairs the house and gradually begins to win Barabara over. They all sit down to watch a sitcom starring two big comedy stars (Tony Way and Alice Lowe) which features slo-mo action replays of lame pratfalls.
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Richard Thayer (Rudolph Valentino) All Night is one of Valentino's earliest films, and one of the few in which he plays a comedic role. In contrast to the screen persona of "The Great Lover", his character of Richard Thayer is shy and insecure. For this film, Valentino performed several scenes of physical comedy and pratfalls, including falling from a window into a barrel of water. Valentino and Myers starred together previously in A Society Sensation, also directed by Paul Powell.
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In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds. The Latourtes' young daughter, called Red Riding Hood, reads by the firelight until her parents leave for a moment. She starts to play boisterously, getting the bakery staff mixed up in hijinks and pratfalls. Her father and mother return, chagrined by her escapades, and she is told to take a pot of butter and a galette to her grandmother's cottage.
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Laura Kelly of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel drew comparisons to Sex and the City, but called Restless "less smart and less overtly sexual". She also called the film clichéd and noted that its parallel storylines expressed redundant themes. Dennis Lim of The Village Voice noted that Gilfillan relies on "rote culture-clash pratfalls" and fails to deliver on any of its promised storylines. Several critics noted the good use of Beijing scenery, and that Restless exposes some settings in Beijing that viewers might not otherwise see.
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Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and called it "one of Disney's better recent efforts." Gene Siskel awarded three stars out of four and declared it "far better than most of the live-action comedies to come out of the studio in recent years. Don Tait actually has written a cute script that gives adults in the audience a few laughs while watching the inevitable and unending pratfalls designed for the kids."Siskel, Gene (January 3, 1977).
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For instance, his clothing and speech allude to an Australian working-class type and contrast with Charles Chaplin's mock-dapper Tramp persona. The fact that Wallace's performances combine tap-dancing with pratfalls makes him unusual among film comedians anywhere. Moreover, Wallace's films prefigure developments in Hollywood comedy. An example is the fictional country of Betonia in His Royal Highness, which predates satirical depictions of fictional nations in such celebrated films as The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933) and Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940).
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The first season was met with positive reviews from critics upon its premiere. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 85%, based on reviews from 13 critics, with an average rating of 6.33 out of 10. The site consensus reads, "Other Space is a breezy trifle that revels in its low-fi production values and cheeky wonder in the pratfalls of space travel." On Metacritic, the first season has a score of 66 out of 100 based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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In turn, Grant imitated much of McCarey's own mannerisms and personality, becoming a "clone" of McCarey. Grant biographer Graham McCann says it would be an "overstatement" to say that McCarey gave Grant an on-screen personality. Grant had been working on this acting persona for some time; McCarey merely made Grant think more precisely about what he was trying to accomplish on camera. Additionally, McCarey worked to give Grant comic dialogue and physical comedy (like pratfalls) as well as sophisticated dialogue and urbane moments, efforts which Grant also deeply appreciated.
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Efrén Tiburcio Márquez (February 22, 1973 – December 23, 2019), known under the ring name Mr. Niebla, was a Mexican luchador enmascarado (Spanish for masked professional wrestler) who worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). "Niebla" is Spanish for "fog". His in-ring style focused more on comedy, which often included pratfalls (a form of physical comedy based on falling on the buttocks), dancing and mocking his opponents during matches. Mr. Niebla worked for CMLL from the early 1990s until 2007, and again from 2008 until his death in 2019.
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A running joke of the show is Ted's incompetence, featuring a steady stream of mispronunciations, malapropisms, pratfalls, and miscues. Constantly in fear of being fired, Ted is, ironically, the show's only character to survive the final episode's massive layoffs at WJM. In the first few seasons of the show, Knight played the character broadly for comic effect, a simpleton who would mispronounce even the easiest words while on camera. Knight grew so concerned that the show's writers were abusing the character that at one point he considered leaving "MTM".
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These episodes often devolve into gross-out humor and violent slapstick pratfalls, of which Bombo is the usual victim despite his great size and pugnaciousness. While sailing across the Atlantic, Bombo is tied to the ship's yard-arm for propositioning the captain's wife and instigating a mutiny, abducted by French then Irish privateers, and finally set adrift in a barrel. Washing ashore on the Irish coast, Bombo tries his hand at teaching and panhandling. Bombo's trek across the Middle East and arrival in Mecca are hastily detailed in the book's final chapter.
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Lily developed her Dark Clown work (exercises and theory) over many years of practical research, seeking to create clown characters and ensembles with more edge and relevance and a way to make a more exciting and demanding rapport with audiences. She writes: : While the Red Nose Clown has no past and a cartoon-like ability to bounce back from pratfalls, slaps and accidents. The Dark Clown has seen it all, feels it all and has no choice but to ‘sell’ his own pain for our entertainment. One experiences wonder, the other gazes at the abyss.
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How serious this was is open to question; such publicity stunts centered on a performer's "trademark" were common at the time. He developed a vigorous style of physical comedy, including an ability to stage comic pratfalls that impressed even his fellow workers in the rough- and-tumble world of silent comedy. One of his specialties was a forward tumble he called the "hundred an' eight". It was basically an interrupted forward somersault initiated by kicking one leg up, turning over 180 degrees to land flat on the back or in a seated position.
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There were three videos made for this song. One is filmed on location at Masada, Israel, the second is a more cinematic video of the band performing as a man throws himself off a building, and the third is a 'sneak-peek' promo video consisting only of clips of 'pratfalls' from black and white silent movies was used for promotional purposes prior to release. This third version appears as an 'Easter Egg' on the 'Visions of the Beast' DVD. The song was featured in the video game Carmageddon 2.
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McCann notes that Grant typically played "wealthy privileged characters who never seemed to have any need to work in order to maintain their glamorous and hedonistic lifestyle." Martin Stirling thought that Grant had an acting range which was "greater than any of his contemporaries", but felt that a number of critics underrated him as an actor. He believes that Grant was always at his "physical and verbal best in situations that bordered on farce". Charles Champlin identifies a paradox in Grant's screen persona, in his unusual ability to "mix polish and pratfalls in successive scenes".
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The film seems hungrier for a pat on the head than a chuckle." Similarly, Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan claimed "Home on the Range may be acceptable on reflection, but its formulaic desire to mix wisecracks for adults with pratfalls for kids is feeling thin, and its overall air of frantic hysteria does not wear well either." Michael Wilmington of The Chicago Tribune noted "Satirizing the movie Western can make for a great cartoon, as it does in Jiri Trnka's brilliant 1949 Czech short Song of the Prairie, a puppet version of Stagecoach. But Home isn't good satire or good slapstick.
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Enter the Ninjago is a short film included on the home media release of The Lego Movie. The president of Hollywood sits down with Emmet and changes up the plot of The Lego Movie to prominently feature ninjas for marketing purposes. They eventually decide to create a new ninja based film, titled "The super-crunchy ninja skateboard party movie with pratfalls slash physical comedy and cute furry animals for the international audience" which the short jokingly states became the biggest box-office bomb in the history of cinema. The whole film is reference to Lego Ninjago.
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Mack Sennett continued to use the Keystone Cops intermittently through the 1920s, but their popularity had waned by the time that sound films arrived. In 1935, director Ralph Staub staged a revival of the Sennett gang for his Warner Brothers short subject Keystone Hotel, featuring a re-creation of the Kops clutching at their hats, leaping in the air in surprise, running energetically in any direction, and taking extreme pratfalls. The Staub version of the Keystone Cops became a template for later re-creations. 20th Century Fox's 1939 film Hollywood Cavalcade had Buster Keaton in a Keystone chase scene.
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Pratfalls at the Palace, Upstairs or Downstairs review by Steve Smith in The New York Times, 5 November 2009 Her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Andris Nelsons, in the opening night 25 July 2010. On the concert stage she appeared at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Mendelssohn's Elijah with Seiji Ozawa. She sang in Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. With the Gächinger Kantorei and the New York Philharmonic under Helmuth Rilling she appeared in Avery Fisher Hall in Handel's Messiah in 2009.
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Enter the Ninjago is a short film included on the home media release of The Lego Movie. The president of Hollywood sits down with Emmet and changes up the plot of The Lego Movie to prominently feature ninjas for marketing purposes. They eventually decide to create a new ninja based film, titled "The super-crunchy ninja skateboard party movie with pratfalls slash physical comedy and cute furry animals for the international audience" which the short jokingly states became the biggest box-office bomb in the history of cinema. The whole film is reference to Lego Ninjago.
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Since then, the film has received acclaim from both critics and audience for its zany antics and pratfalls, absurd situations and misunderstandings, perfect sense of comic timing, completely screwball cast, series of lunatic and hare-brained misadventures, disasters, light-hearted surprises and romantic comedy. In 1990, Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and it has appeared on a number of greatest-films lists, ranking at 88th on the American Film Institute's 100 greatest American films of all time list.
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Enter the Ninjago is a short film included on the home media release of The Lego Movie. The president of Hollywood sits down with Emmet and changes up the plot of The Lego Movie to prominently feature ninjas for marketing purposes. They eventually decide to create a new ninja based film, titled "The super-crunchy ninja skateboard party movie with pratfalls slash physical comedy and cute furry animals for the international audience" which the short jokingly states became the biggest box-office bomb in the history of cinema. The whole film is reference to Lego Ninjago.
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The sidekick has the literary function of playing against the hero, often contrasting in skill, or performing functions not suited to the hero. The sidekick was a regular presence in westerns, where Fuzzy Knight, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Smiley Burnette, and Andy Devine had longer careers than some of the heroic singing cowboys for whom they took pratfalls. In science fiction the sub-type of the alien sidekick has been established. Examples of alien sidekicks are Mr. Spock (sidekick of Captain James T. Kirk) on Star Trek and Chewbacca (sidekick of Han Solo) in the original Star Wars trilogy.
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Now acting as a future son-in-law, Crawl expresses an interest in farming, much to the amusement of Walter and his farmhand Theo, who send him through the pratfalls and tribulations of farming as he is tasked with daily chores. Crawl rebounds though, and begins to prove himself an avid farmer, quickly learning how to perform each task he's given. He also begins to endear himself to the rest of the family; he impresses Becca's little brother Zack with his computer skills, and Zack begins to see him as a big brother. He compliments Connie's appearance and helps to bring her out of her shell for Walter.
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The album received mixed reviews from critics. Barry Nicolson from the NME gave the album a 6/10 review and said "By rush-releasing ‘Shangri La’, Bugg manages to circumvent some second album pratfalls, although he's succumbed to the most obvious one – it's not as good as his first." The Guardian also gave a negative review, giving the album 2 stars and remarking that "his new album is pretty run of the mill". However at Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66 (based on 15 reviews) indicating the reception of the album has been 'generally favourable'.
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Sybil, in hospital for a few days, instructs Basil on several tasks he must do at the hotel, including running a required fire drill and hanging a moose head. At the hotel, Basil has a conversation with Major Gowen, who tells an anecdote about a Test match, in the course of it blithely referring to West Indians as "niggers" and to Indians as "wogs". The Major also expresses his dislike of Germans when Basil tells him a German group is due the next day. Basil then has several pratfalls with Manuel while trying to hang the moose head, including many calls from Sybil reminding him to do so.
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Crónicas marcianas began airing on 8 September 1997 to compete with Antena 3's ', which was then the ratings leader. In principle, Crónicas marcianas contributed less sensationalism and a softer form of humor, with comedians, co-presenter Martí Galindo, wild animals, videos of pratfalls, and interviews with celebrities such as Cindy Crawford, Marta Sánchez, David Copperfield, Enrique Iglesias, and Ricky Martin. Crónicas marcianas came to surpass La sonrisa del pelícano in audience, and became the undisputed leader in its time slot after the latter was canceled amid controversy. Boris Izaguirre began appearing on the show to give "semiotic" analysis of celebrity gossip, in addition to performing "transformism" and striptease numbers.
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The trio leave the car with parking attendants, who promptly take the car for a joyride. The trio explore the city, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Sears Tower, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and attend a ball game at Wrigley Field, with their path occasionally intersecting with that of Ferris's father. Cameron remains worried, and Ferris attempts to cheer him up by joining a float during the Von Steuben Day parade and spontaneously lip-syncing Wayne Newton's cover of "Danke Schoen", followed by a rendition of "Twist and Shout", which excites the gathered crowds. Meanwhile, Rooney prowls the Bueller home attempting to prove Ferris's truancy, getting into several pratfalls.
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On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 6% based on 106 reviews with an average rating of 3.3/10; making it the second lowest-rated film on the site ever produced by Nickelodeon Movies behind The Last Airbender. The site's critical consensus reads, "The initial set-up is unbelievable, the plotting is predictable and stale, and the comedy depends on repetitive pratfalls that soon get old." On Metacritic, it has a score of 38 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.
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In a 1999 interview with the Archive of American Television, Aaron Spelling attributed the failure of the show to his decision to allow Ball to do the same type of shows she had done in the past. Spelling said that at her age the audience were more worried for her safety than laughing at her pratfalls. He took the blame for allowing her full creative control, because he said Ball had offered to do something different if he thought that was best, but he felt her ideas were more likely to succeed. Spelling said this experience had a lot to do with his rarely producing sitcoms.
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" Chris Kirby writing for Mania Entertainment said it's "a very exciting series as it avoids any preconceived pratfalls this type of story can lean towards." Kirby "would love to see this series animated because of how clean and attractive the art is and how mature the overall story is." Joseph Luster from Otaku USA said that "there are times that Tadano's artwork comes off as slightly amateurish; awkward poses and angles abound, mostly from human characters. However, he makes up for it in spades in almost every other area" and noted "the hulking mutations are reminiscent of Akira's Tetsuo [Shima]—organs and appendages spewing and twisting together in a tidal wave of flesh.
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121 (6):37 The New York Observer remarked that the album "manages to avoid most of the pratfalls inherent within the genre," and called the music "wildly catchy," although it did acknowledge that "most of it has been heard before" making it less desirable to buy.Rosen, Christopher (February 11, 2009) "The Lonely Island Gets on a Boat, Releases Album." The New York Observer (accessed February 25, 2009) Hip Hop DX said that "as a comedic display, Incredibad comes pretty close to impeccable; as a proper album it's less rewarding," and concluded by saying, "It's nice that someone finally cares enough about [hip hop] music to mock it properly."Noz, Andrew (February 19, 2009), "The Lonely Island - Incredibad" HipHopDX.
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Ken Berry, Andy Griffith and Buddy Foster in Mayberry R.F.D., 1968 Berry continued doing guest roles, but while performing a small part on the short-lived George Burns-Connie Stevens sitcom Wendy and Me, both Burns and Stevens recommended him for the pilot of F Troop for ABC, a western spoof where he played the accident-prone Captain Parmenter—his first starring role in a weekly sitcom. Berry's co-stars were Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch. Berry called his time on F-Troop "two years of recess" as the entire cast spent time between takes trying to make each other laugh. His dancing ability allowed him to perform choreographed pratfalls over hitching posts, sabers, and trash cans.
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Virginia Woolf mused on the unique quality of a Chekhov story in The Common Reader (1925): While a Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, Michael Goldman presented his view on defining the elusive quality of Chekhov's comedies stating: "Having learned that Chekhov is comic ... Chekhov is comic in a very special, paradoxical way. His plays depend, as comedy does, on the vitality of the actors to make pleasurable what would otherwise be painfully awkward—inappropriate speeches, missed connections, faux pas, stumbles, childishness—but as part of a deeper pathos; the stumbles are not pratfalls but an energized, graceful dissolution of purpose."Michael Goldman, The Actor's Freedom: Towards a Theory of Drama, p72.
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As such, Jay was responsible for many of the show's memorable sketches and characters. Johnston often incorporated physical comedy into the show, most notably in "The Story of Everest" sketch, which features Johnston performing six identical backwards pratfalls into furniture. Since the conclusion of Mr. Show, Johnston has made guest appearances in a number of television programs such as Arrested Development, Community, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Parks and Recreation, as well as appearing in films such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. In 2006, Johnston regularly appeared as "The Boss" on FUEL TV's American Misfits, in the show's intro and outro sketch segments.
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"Make 'Em Laugh" is a song first featured in the 1952 MGM musical film Singin' in the Rain, energetically performed by Donald O'Connor. Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the screen writers of the movie, the song is closely based on Cole Porter's "Be a Clown" from the 1948 MGM musical film The Pirate, in which it was sung by Gene Kelly and Judy Garland. O'Connor's performance for "Make 'Em Laugh" is noted for its extreme physical difficulty, featuring dozens of jumps, pratfalls, and two backflips. Hollywood legend states that O'Connor, though only 27 years old at the time but a chain-smoker, was bedridden for several days after filming the sequence.
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The film is a series of short comic skits, set-pieces, and black-out gags, unified by Nefron's attempt to overcome his phobias and malaise, fit into society, find meaning, and achieve happiness. The opening credit sequence is a tour-de-force performance of Nefron (Lewis) unable to get traction on the furniture and floor of his doctor's waiting room (a wry comment, under the pratfalls, on vinyl and plastic decor) and has justifiably become a fan favorite. Other highlights are when Nefron tries to order dinner from a waitress who insists on listing every option on the menu (done in a whiny nasally voice), a Southern sheriff with a glove problem (Lewis, who plays at least two other parts as well), and a running gag involving Nefron's attempts to quit smoking.
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The slapstick comic interplay between Rhodes and Le Bon is faintly reminiscent of Abbott and Costello. At one point, John Taylor (at the time a member of The Power Station, the other Duran Duran side project) comes out of the closet with a contract for the band to sign. This is an especially pointed inside joke, as it was around this time that the three remaining Duran Duran members were preparing to write and record their next album, Notorious, while in legal negotiations with their now-estranged guitarist Andy Taylor. The video's treatment is said to have been written by Rhodes and the various near-fatal pratfalls that occur to Le Bon's character was intended as punishment for his decision to enter the Fastnet yachting race that almost cost him his life in August 1985.
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When Harold White and Gordon Haist bought The Naperville Sun for $600 in 1936, the year-old publication was little more than a typewriter, a desk and a name. At the end of The Sun's first year the paper was still being distributed for free to some 2,000 families, and printed in Downers Grove, Illinois, for a fee that exceeded the revenue coming in, while its size had dwindled to four pages. In that first decade, the number of publishing pratfalls was barely exceeded by the will to learn from a bumpy start — and keep the paper in print. The first Sun, dated July 19, 1935, rolled off the press in Downers Grove under the watchful eye of printer Gordon Isaac, who came to be a mentor to early publishers Harold Moser and Harold White.
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In New York City, 1938 Arthur (Stanley Tucci) and Maurice (Oliver Platt) scrape a living by petty swindles, practicing their acting technique whenever they can. Following a drunken confrontation with pretentious and dreadful Shakespearean actor Sir Jeremy Burtom (Alfred Molina), they are forced to hide as stowaways on an ocean liner. Unfortunately for the duo, Burtom himself turns out to be a passenger on the ship, along with a vividly diverse ensemble of larger-than- life characters: a suicidal crooner named Happy Franks (Steve Buscemi) sobs through a song; Mr. Sparks (Billy Connolly), an aging gay professional tennis player; the first mate Voltri (Tony Shalhoub), who is also a mad bomber with his own language; and many more. Mistaken identities, pratfalls, slapstick, outrageous dialogue, and general mayhem ensue.
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Regardless of its irregular pratfalls, there's something to be said for a title this dark that excels primarily in short bursts rather than prolonged, daylight-avoiding tests of mental pertinacity." The Digital Fix likewise gave it seven out of ten and said that the game "can stand on its own feet proudly, but it’s the potential of the birth of a franchise that should get gamers everywhere smiling into their Mountain Dew." Edge gave it a score of six out of ten and called it "a brave game that dares to weaken players in one way as it empowers them in another. Concept may be wrong in thinking Monster Hunter would be better if it was just about hunting monsters, but Soul Sacrifice is courageous and thematically bold enough to distinguish itself from the clones that have followed in the wake of Capcom's phenomenon.
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Then there were two resident single men in the building, macho hustler cabbie Frankie Millardo (Adrian Zmed), who lived downstairs with his buddy Benny Loman (Peter Scolari), a street performer whose pantomime, juggling and unicycle acts were part of the regular physical comedy and pratfalls seen in every episode. Frankie, who had been the one who drove Betty, Edith and Loretta to the boarding house, wants to prove himself by joining the military but is turned down because he has flat feet. Frankie and Benny often joined in the girls' escapades, escorting them around town and engaging in periodic jitterbug and big band dance sessions. With play came work: Edith was employed at the Office of Price Admissions, as mentioned, Camille was a newspaper reporter, Betty worked for the U.S. Secretary of War, and Loretta, at The Pentagon for bureaucrat General Culpepper (seen in guest appearances by Richard Stahl).
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" He called it an "unpredictably paced part screwball comedy farce, part dramatic buddy picture, part spaghetti western" and wrote, "The Frisco Kid has the feel of an artist's charmingly naive youthful indiscretion... The Frisco Kid is, all pratfalls and tuchus jokes aside, the quintessential 'Torah' movie." Reviewer Ken Hanke wrote, "Robert Aldrich's penultimate film is an easygoing work of some considerable charm that relies far too much on ethnic humor — mostly Jewish, but not entirely — to sit quite as comfortably as it might like... [Aldrich's] professionalism serves the film well. It's very hard to fault on a technical level, and he brings a strong visual sense to bear on a number of sequences that raise them several notches above the TV flavor of the material. The dance sequence, when Avram and his unlikely companion, Tommy (Harrison Ford), are prisoners of a tribe of Indians, is a good case in point, as is the final shoot-out in the streets of San Francisco... Never a great movie, it's nonetheless a pleasant one — an old-fashioned entertainment that more than gets by on the unforced (albeit unlikely) chemistry of Wilder and Ford.
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