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  1. a clever remark or joke

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True to form, he has a wisecrack at the ready.
His abstemious style made me long for a despairing wisecrack.
The point of a wisecrack is to make people comfortable, right?
The only joke that really lands is the "family tree" wisecrack.
This wisecrack – from both characters – is a call-back to that scene.
Ferrell-as-Bush brought the house down with one wisecrack in particular.
Mr Kalanick's wisecrack seems to have been emblematic of a deeply macho culture.
Last week, after an Uber board member's wisecrack and the interruption of Sen.
People are often rewarded with a wisecrack, most of it directed at himself.
LOL." Clearly, Zolciak was trying to be cheeky with that wisecrack, hence, the "LOL.
It was a wisecrack, but it landed with an ominous thud in the courtroom.
Mr. Russo's people prefer to sideswipe, wisecrack, sneak, scheme and talk to figments of their imaginations.
First because Mr. Kimmel's story was so raw, grateful and — but for the occasional wisecrack — sincere.
In one version, a character quips about Pocahontas, while in the other the wisecrack involves Lady Godiva.
David Bonderman, a founding partner at TPG Capital, directed a wisecrack about women at fellow board member Huffington.
She's a compelling speaker, as comfortable delivering an emotional plea or self-deprecating wisecrack as she is explaining wonky legislation.
Almost every wisecrack in A Black Lady Sketch Show spouts and spreads like magma, its wit and social clarity inescapable.
Reagan's off-air joke regarding the Soviet Union, "We begin bombing in five minutes," was a wisecrack worthy of Bill Murray.
Amy Klobuchar's drinking habits -- a wisecrack for which he later apologized -- mark a new low for the Supreme Court nomination process.
A longtime prosecutor, he sometimes acts like a budding pol; his rhetoric leans more toward the wisecrack than toward the jeremiad.
And he has a job his peers would kill for, producing a talk show on which celebrities wisecrack and bare their souls.
Judge Judy thinks Johnny Depp is in the clear for his Trump assassination wisecrack, but that doesn't mean she thinks it's ok.
Bill made a political wisecrack, too -- but it may have been an accident -- when he explained the glory of playing President Whitmore.
We'd apologize for that probably inaccurate American wisecrack, but Aussies have taken to using the #Lynnsanity hashtag, so let's call it even.
""He would abruptly change the subject, ADD-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Pinker said, calling Epstein an "intellectual impostor.
Sikorski stood at a podium and opened his remarks with a jovial wisecrack at his rival institution, delivered in a posh accent.
But a wisecrack on Thursday about Russian President Vladimir Putin produced some laughter, at least from the Democratic side of the chamber.
It makes Eddie a ride-along passenger in his own chase scene, with nothing to do but watch and make the occasional wisecrack.
Mr. Sudeikis is a funny fellow but his default facial expression is that of a guy at a bar contriving his next wisecrack.
His latest, a revealing wisecrack about Chinese President Xi Jinping's power grab, came during closed-door fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday.
The door was opened wide for POTUS to make a wisecrack about Buttigieg when he was a guest Thursday on Geraldo Rivera's iHeart radio show.
The wisecrack, which was met with laughs and groans, came as The White House hosted technology CEOs like Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos on Monday.
When I asked him if he had a favorite, half-expecting another droll wisecrack in response, he replied with what appeared to be complete sincerity.
That affinity allows "Hansard" to elide past and present: A wisecrack about "European foxes" wreaking havoc on Diana's adored garden winks at Brexit-era realpolitik.
If late-night TV were a high school, Fallon would be its class clown, always ready to lighten the mood with a wisecrack or five.
Elena took Lewis' body (who just so happened to be wearing her own dress) to a pub, where a drunk made a wisecrack about Lewis' outfit.
The source made that wisecrack after Trump called EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt last week and told him to keep Grassley happy on the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Much of her thread in the novel is rendered on the page screenplay-style, nearly every line a Preston Sturges-worthy wisecrack or pun or both.
She met the great man briefly and reported that he made a good wisecrack: One conversation with a philosopher, he said, was as pointless as one piano lesson.
" After the writers read a few wisecrack-infused messages to laughs from the crowd — "Thank you, Hillary, for for all the work you've done for public health care.
Ellen DeGeneres' wisecrack about boob piercings forced a judge to actually break down the English language for the woman suing Ellen's show ... before tossing the case out of court.
But Dreamland Archer and his cohorts start out as such straight tributes to film noir archetypes that they rarely come up for air to make a wisecrack or break the illusion.
That's why this isn't a very good wisecrack, but it does set up "just a little anxious to get up there and whoop E.T.'s a–, that's all!" which is great.
French Montana's adamant his "Black lives matter" shout-out wasn't a wisecrack at cops -- instead he was reacting to what he saw as harassment of his crew ... for no good reason.
Both recalled a moment when Felix dropped a glove on the ground in front of Simpson and made a wisecrack about it fitting, an allusion to the famous moment during his trial.
Last week, after an Uber board member's wisecrack and the interruption of Senator Kamala Harris during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, The New York Times asked women to share their own experiences.
Donald Trump just made a shocking wisecrack during a speech, in which he mused Hillary Clinton was out to abolish the Second Amendment but the Second Amendment people know how to stop her.
TMZ reported that the argument occurred between Lambert's friend and an "older man," and that the argument began after someone made "a wisecrack about millennials and their phones" in the men's bathroom at the restaurant.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to dismiss the possibility of locking up members of the Trump administration with a wisecrack on Wednesday morning, joking that the Capitol building lacks enough prison space for the entire Trump cabinet.
As for why Miranda felt compelled to dump her dinner on the woman ... we're told the woman's husband picked a fight with Miranda's friend, which started in the men's restroom with a wisecrack about millennials and their phones.
Last year, when Mr. Colbert became the new host of "The Late Show" (succeeding David Letterman), he dropped the facade and has been hosting this program as himself, an all-around entertainer who still enjoys a good political wisecrack.
So it's no surprise that seven across clues, at 23, 31, 50, 67, 683, 100 and 115, all have to do with the art of comedy, the knocking of the funny bone, the ol' ha ha ha, the wisecrack.
Within minutes, another parrot, Sabrina, and a cockatoo named Murphy are also chiming in, leading Thomas to sigh and reach for his slippers, then smile, knowing that his birds will greet him with friendly squawks and a wisecrack or two.
However, take our word that they exist, from the above clip featuring Rainn Wilson reimagining Lector's, ahem, "face borrowing" scene, to Dumb and Dumber, South Park, The Cable Guy, The Simpsons, Family Guy and even a wisecrack from Sofia on The Golden Girls.
Oh, he forgot the names of friends and neighbors and sometimes even the names of his grandchildren, but he rarely forgot the words to a song or the punch line to an old joke, and he rarely missed an opportunity for a wisecrack.
The film is largely humorless and airless, without any of the banter that has made so many of the recent Marvel-derived movies compelling, but when Martha Kent (Diana Lane) meets Batman, she manages one friendly wisecrack that serves as a much-needed catharsis.
Chuck wins the election (I defy you to read the news for five minutes and then tell me this isn't possible), and impresses the hell out of his increasingly close associate Bobby Axelrod, who promises his first wisecrack about Rhoades's predilections will be his last.
Bots right now are pretty emotionally stunted; some can crack jokes, pulling from a pre-programmed pool of one-liners, but few, if any, can detect that you might not be in the best of moods for hearing a wisecrack and instead opting for a more sympathetic response.
The twin spectacles Tuesday — an Uber board member's wisecrack about women talking too much, and Senator Kamala Harris, Democrat of California, being interrupted for the second time in a week by her male colleagues — triggered an outpouring of recognition and what has become almost ritual social-media outrage.
It would be easy enough to have Henry's clone wisecrack his way through the action to signify carefree youth, but the clone, raised to be a super-soldier, has the social inexperience of a kid (his room is filled with model kits) and the creeping soul-sickness of a practiced killer.
In a framed image captured in the background of a "60 Minutes" interview at the White House, Mr. Trump sits among Republican presidents from the past century and a half, looking as if he had just made a wisecrack that drew laughter from the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Richard Nixon.
Sometimes, in the middle of a covert operation or a terrorist heist, a beautiful girl would come along and briefly win the hero's heart, before he had to shove his feelings back in the glove compartment, pick up a marlin spike and 1,000 rounds of ammunition and save the world — while making the occasional wisecrack.
The authorship of "Truth Hurts" also became one of the industry's most closely watched controversies, after Lizzo was accused by two songwriting brothers, Justin and Jeremiah Raisen, of taking her song's signature boast — a wisecrack about the results of a DNA test, which itself came from a tweet — from another song they had written with her, and denying them credit.
The wisecrack joke about "pubes on a coke can" is a reference to the Judge Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.
As well as detailing every studio wisecrack, fall-out, belch and bifter, the tome does turn up frequent nuggets.
Starting in 1979, other heroes began to appear, including Man of War, Mighty Man, The Witch, Airman, The Shark (a.k.a. Thresher), The Arrow, Ferret, Aura and Arc. These heroes would gather together in the town of Brinkstone, VA to battle various villains (a group that included The Conqueror, Wisecrack and Jackdaw). The resulting conflict caused the destruction of the town, and The Conqueror, Wisecrack, Jackdaw and most of the citizens of the town were transported to a demon-dimension.
That the poor paid a minimal fee for the visit of a medicus is indicated by a wisecrack in Plautus:Aulularia 448 "It was less than a nummus."A coin, usually one sestertius, made of about 1.125 g. of silver in Plautus' time. The price of silver is a variable.
In Employee's Entrance, a woman enters the office of a scoundrel boss who remarks, "Oh, it's you — I didn't recognize you with all your clothes on."Doherty, pg. 176. Racial stereotypes were usually employed when ethnic characters appeared. Blacks in particular were usually the butt of the wisecrack, never the author.
To keep from going mad, the trio frequently comment and wisecrack during the movie, a process known as "riffing". At regular intervals throughout the movie, the hosts leave the theater and return to the bridge of the satellite to perform sketches (commonly called "host segments") that often satirize the film being watched.
The American Historical Review remarked: "The profound is mixed with the wisecrack. It has the shortcomings of its virtue. It will shock the scholarly reader but it must challenge him too.... A returning American scholar reports that it challenges equally German historians, some of whom admit that it will make them rethink their modern national history".Burk, p. 254.
Rimmel Mohydin suggests those men to "smile, you'll look prettier that way." Ms. Mohydin humorously questions Women can be the subject of many sexist jokes, but if the women crack a joke on what ground that wit is considered offensive? She says Every wisecrack, every sassy one- liner, every appealing slogan masked years and years of invisible pain that women have suffered.
Lola's shows don't involve vulgar, corny or spicy humor; rather, they rely on witty asides and straight-faced questions for humor. In 2006, a Limited Edition Deluxe Official 2006 Notebook Chronicle of Lola— the VJ, the Woman and the Wisecrack was released. The Notebook features various facets of Lola—modelling her "LolaWay products", giving gyaan (knowledge) and discussing movies. The first edition received a very good response.
The film takes some liberties with the timeline of the mission. For example, the incident involving Michael Collins’s biomed sensors going out, leading him to wisecrack, "I promise to let you know if I stop breathing," occurred during the return voyage, on day 8 of the mission, but is depicted as happening during the approach to the Moon before the separation of the command module Columbia and Lunar Module Eagle.
'The feast of reason, and the flow of soul,' - i.e. - the wits of the age, setting the table in a roar, by James Gillray (1797) Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks. Forms of wit include the quip, repartee, and wisecrack.
Wisecrack, inc. is an American film and video production company operated by Jacob Salamon, Jared Bauer, Greg Edwards, Drew Levin, and Todd Mendeloff. The company was founded in 2014 and produces various web series and podcasts such as Thug Notes, Earthling Cinema, and 8-Bit Philosophy. The group is focused on an analysis of anime, film, literature, and video games drawing out philosophy, sociology, psychology and other meanings that can be interpreted from media.
Hardware is set in "Hamway's Hardware Store" in London, where main character Mike (Martin Freeman) works with Steve (Ryan Cartwright) and Kenny (Peter Serafinowicz) for shop owner Rex (Ken Morley). They relax at the next- door-but-one cafe, "Nice Day Cafe", where Mike's girlfriend Anne (Susan Earl) works with Julie (Ella Kenion). The series revolves around the store staff as they engage in a daily wisecrack battle with packs of DIY obsessed clients.
A story developed that "Sam" would fire his gun if a virgin walked by, but never did (he was silent) because he never saw any. In 1937 this story was called an "old local wisecrack". The monument has been a subject of controversy and a site of protest since the 1960s. In 1965, a discussion about the monument's meaning and history occurred in the letters to the editor of the UNC student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel.
He refused to provide unemployment relief or federal aid to the provinces, saying that if Conservative provincial governments demanded federal dollars, he would not give them "a five cent piece."Neatby, William Lyon Mackenzie King, 2:312, 318 His blunt wisecrack was used to defeat the Liberals in the 1930 election. The main issue was the rapid deterioration in the economy and whether the prime minister was out of touch with the hardships of ordinary people.
She slowly but successfully seduces a willing Jeff, admitting she shot Sterling but denying she took his money. Befuddled with desire, Markham proposes the two of them go on the run together. Kathie warns him Sterling won't forget, which Jeff tries to dismiss with the wisecrack that the two of them will send him a postcard greeting every Christmas. Jeff proposes they leave the next morning for somewhere south by sea, and Kathie agrees to meet him at his hotel.
He finds the growing political tension an unpleasant nuisance, but Meyer is endangered by the Nazis' power grab. He arrives one day at the theater with a black eye from an attack and says he is going to go underground. Another performer, a Nazi supporter who caricatures a Jewish man, makes a wisecrack about Meyer's black eye. They get into a backstage brawl, fully made up and in costume—the Nazi as a Jew and the Communist as Hitler.Catherine Hickley, "Stalin Cavorts With Hitler in Communist Spoof ‘Hotel Lux’: Film", Bloomberg News (November 2, 2011).
Critical reaction to Leverage has been generally positive, with review aggregation website Metacritic reporting "generally favorable reviews" by critics and "universal acclaim" by users. Reviewing the shows's first two episodes, Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Leverage is "shrewdly conceived, and it moves along like a son of a gun". He felt that the "backup crew ... wisecrack without much charm", but also that "Hutton's top-grade work and the twisty plots" made up for this. Tucker concluded that the show was "better than the last two Ocean's Eleven movies".
International Squadron was favorably reviewed by Theodore Strauss for The New York Times, who said: "As another aerial and romantic dog- fight in the hurtling succession of epics about the Royal Air Force, it breezes along with dash and bravado and not too much self-importance. Its emotional upheavals are tossed off with a wisecrack; it doesn't belabor its story with inspirational organ music, and it keeps its wheels well off the ground. No ace among war films, it is none the less a brisk, brash flier in pulse-quickening entertainment."Strauss, Theodore (T.S.).
Connie Emerson is always quick with a wisecrack. Lil Carmody is a free spirit who plays piano, and Betsy Bailey is the youngest, a melancholy married woman with two children who is struggling to find her own identity. The play premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, an annual event presented by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, in 1984.Actors Theatre archives The Broadway production, directed by Tom Moore, opened at the Music Box Theatre on March 5, 1985 following eight previews and closed after 24 performances.
Ritchie Blackmore, who preceded Morse in Deep Purple, has stated, "Steve Morse is an incredible player. A lot of people try to get some wisecrack out of me, but when you're talking about guitar players along Morse's caliber, they're brilliant." Morse has proven himself throughout his career as capable of playing highly complex chord structures in classical sequences, as well as being able to play fast, alternate picked arpeggios. He is well known for using harmonics and improvising them in songs during live performances, such as in Deep Purple's "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming".
By 1987, Don Owen was the only remaining member of the original NWA group. In 1987, Len Denton, working for Don Owen, became the first booker for PNW, while still developing who would become stars of the future such as Art Barr, Scotty The Body (later Raven), C.W. Bergstrom, Steve Doll, and Rex King. Scotty, recognized as a good talker, was eventually used as Coss's wisecrack-making broadcast partner. Without new talent and other reasons, mostly lack of good sponsors, business continued to slide as the 1990s came around.
In 1962, he voiced Larry Dart in the children's television show Space Patrol. As a lyricist, he had a reputation for being meticulous about the use of words and rhymes, and having a huge knowledge of the Broadway classics. He wrote the pastiche A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine with composer Frank Lazarus (1979), Windy City (with Tony Macaulay, based on The Front Page, 1982) and A Saint She Ain’t (with Denis King, 1999). In an article for the Times in 1982, Jane Ellison calls him 'a compulsive worrier, perfectionist and master of the wisecrack'.
With no powers or enhanced abilities, Richard pushed himself hard to prove his worth to the team, but in the end he was killed by Mr Monday (issue # 5 of The Protectors). The Witch would also join the group, proving to be a calming influence on Amazing Man, who was secretly being controlled by his old foe, The Great Question. After Nightmask's death, The Eye helped create the third hero to take-on the Nightmask moniker. The story of Brinkstone was revisited during issues 7–9, as the team, along with Thresher and Arrow, travelled to a demon-dimension ruled by Wisecrack.
During this mission, Gravestone and Arc were captured by Wisecrack. He had Gravestone tortured in order to learn how it was that the heroes were in this dimension, but Gravestone died before revealing anything. He would return to life, as explained in the Gravestone series, by battling his way out of the Underworld. As the heroes attacked Wisecrack's fortress, the villain escaped along with the majority of slaves (former citizens of the town) through a portal connecting to a similar dimension, but The Ferret and Arrow were able to rescue one woman after Arrow killed Jackdaw.
Early on in the show, Murakami told Lowenthal to portray Ben as less of a wisecrack than his 10-year-old persona, and did not want Ben to "veer into the whining, Luke Skywalker". The show was renewed for a second season, and would be followed by Ben 10: Ultimate Alien which ran from 2010–2012, and Ben 10: Omniverse which ran from 2012–2014. In Omniverse, Ben's age was bumped up to 16 years old. Lowenthal said that he did not realize how popular the show was outside North America until he went to Australia, England and Ireland, and saw kids wearing Ben 10 merchandise.
" Variety wrote that the film was "frequently one resonant wisecrack away from turning into a musical comedy. Laboring under the handicaps of a contrived script, an uncertain approach and personalities in essence playing themselves, the Lewis Milestone production never quite makes its point, but romps along merrily unconcerned that it doesn't." Leo Sullivan of The Washington Post called the film "nothing more than a whopping sick joke in Technicolor ... It's a completely amoral tale, told for laughs." Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "has a pretty good surprise twist at the finish and is, of its type, a pretty good comedy-melodrama.
Good friends in real life, Fred Allen and Jack Benny inadvertently hatched a running gag in 1937 when a child prodigy, violinist Stuart Canin, gave a very credible performance on the Allen show, inspiring an Allen wisecrack about "a certain alleged violinist" who should hide in shame over his poor playing. Allen often mentioned his show-business friends on the air ("Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts" was Allen's way of saying hello to his pal Jack Haley), and on the Canin broadcast Allen knew Benny would be listening. Benny, according to Allen biographer Taylor, burst out laughing, then responded in kind on his own program.
Their daughter, Sandra, declined becoming a regular member of the cast, although she appeared in a few episodes as a classmate of Ronnie. In one episode, Ronnie's drama class puts on a vaudeville show to raise funds for the school. Gracie hosts the show while Ronnie and Sandy deliver an impersonation of their famous parents along with one of their classic routines. Since Ronnie played himself, Gracie closed the segment with a wisecrack: "The boy was produced by Burns and Allen." Starting in the fall of 1955, Burns and Allen often reappeared after the end of the episode, before a curtain decorated with the names and locations of the various theaters where they headlined in their vaudeville days.
In 1930 in the first stage of the long depression, Prime Minister Mackenzie King believed that the crisis was a temporary swing of the business cycle and that the economy would soon recover without government intervention. He refused to provide unemployment relief or federal aid to the provinces, saying that if Conservative provincial governments demanded federal dollars he would not give them "a five cent piece."Neatby, H. Blair William Lyon Mackenzie King, 2:312, 318 His blunt wisecrack was used to defeat the Liberals in the 1930 election. The main issue was the rapid deterioration in the economy and whether the prime minister was out of touch with the hardships of ordinary people.Pierre Berton, The Great Depression, 1929-1939 (1990) pp 54, 70Desmond Morton, Working people (1998) p.
When Rube is hit by a pitch in his ankle during a doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox, Hayes is called upon to run for him but refuses to do so, which angers Jake. Vaughn quarrels with Hayes and the two begin fighting, which leads to the entire team fighting each other and getting ejected. After the game, Tanaka criticizes Cerrano for not having any "marbles" due to his struggles and Hayes makes a wisecrack at Baker about his injury, leading Rube to chastise Hayes and the rest of the team for their lack of passion. Inspired by the speech, Hayes volunteers to run for the injured Baker in the bottom of the ninth inning of the second game and promptly steals second, third and home to tie the score.
Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York City, September 2008 Printed receipt obtained from the kortunefookie Kortunefookie is an interactive public art project, a large scale high fortune cookie made of red cedar, which grants users a printed fortune with a simple touch of a button; Kortunefookie’s social network creates the fortunes via the project's Web site. Inspired by the idea of the fortune cookie, the project was created to permit different users to share their thoughts and create a new kind of social ties. It is an interactive kiosk that issues short texts written by anonymous users on the Kortunefookie website that resemble the messages found in the fortune cookies, but each fortune from the Kortunefookie is different, unlike mass-produced fortunes in regular fortune cookies. Kortunefookie's Web site suggest users to send an innermost secret, a smarmiest wisecrack, a private prayer, or an outlandish prediction.

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