Word: gag
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...chew any kind of gum. I have to when we play live because all that screaming will dry out your throat. The last thing you want to do is gag and barf in front of 20,000 people...
...judge issued an injunction against Tenenbaum, preventing him from sharing music but refused to issue a gag order intended to prevent Tenenbaum for advocating piracy on his private Web site...
...most nonsensical film of 2009 stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Kevin Spacey. Ultimately, “The Men Who Stare At Goats” is a monumental waste of talent, employing A-List actors in the cinematic equivalent of the “no soap radio” gag. It is a prank without a punch line, a satire without a point, a joke at which we are supposed to laugh because we don’t want to be caught as the only one to say we didn’t get it. Don’t fall...
...that it seems to want to say everything. It's The Simpsons on Red Bull, with a dysfunctional family - the Griffins of Quahog, R.I. - but twice the outrageousness and thrice the pace. Its signature move is to cut away from a story line for a non sequitur gag (a pop-culture parody, a celebrity spoof, a Star Wars reference). The Simpsons is a satire, but it's rooted in its family. Family Guy is less a half-hour narrative about characters than a delivery system for unconnected jokes the writers can't bear to part with...
...same can't be said of MacFarlane's other shows. Sitcoms like The Office (and, still, The Simpsons) prove that the best comedies aren't always those with the most jokes per minute. MacFarlane has the talent to be in their league. But he needs to control his gag reflex...