Word: bantering
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...show. Female lead Hale did the witty script justice, nailing the one—and sometimes 15—line comebacks to Bartels’s unmitigated insults. Though they didn’t hit the high notes of the songs as easily as one might have hoped, their banter was convincing and charismatic.However, the minor characters clearly stole the spotlight. The colorful array of characters included a creepy show host (Hessel E. Yntema ’09) who frighteningly resembles Hugh Scully, an eccentric, bangled appraiser (Kimberly D. Hagan ’09), and a guileless bird connoisseur...
...coulda been a legend like Big and Pac/Instead I caught a bad case of writer’s block.” He seemed nervous, however, and didn’t even attempt to engage the crowd with the usual clichéd stage banter. When his hypeman filled in the other verses on The Pharcyde’s classic cut “Passin’ Me By,” he just stood there, patiently waiting for the return of the mic. But there is no one like him when the music starts going. The spectrum kept swinging...
...comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naivet. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret...
...inner New York City high school students. The dancing is phenomenal, and the movie is a guaranteed good time for a wide-ranging audience. Sexually charged young hetereosexual women will coo over Antonio Banderas, while the more geriatric, or straight male, viewer will appreciate the dancing and witty banter...
...Treo for messages and simultaneously answering my questions. Then he was off for two hours of negotiations with retailers to persuade them to place orders for his cookware. Next he did the demo, and afterward he signed autographs for about 250 fans. He also kept up a running banter that had continued all weekend...