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...hype and drama that attended the speculation about Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid, his actual announcement was rather tepid. There was no Oprah performance filled with wordplay on "audacity" and "hope," no tension-filled live broadcast, no Monday Night Football gag, just the oddly flat, open-collared video announcement; perhaps he's already trying to tamp expectations downward, after so many weeks in the hype machine. The substance of his announcement leaves little doubt that he's sincerely interested in running, and the polls suggest that even if the YouTube clip was a little disappointing, he benefits from people...
...medical instrument could access the blockage. So, for a change, something sensible was done. The world's tallest man, all seven-foot-nine of him, was summoned - from the flock (of what, yaks?) he was herding in Inner Mongolia. His great long arm reached in past the gag reflex, grabbed the plastic and pulled it out! Mission accomplished...
...saying anything, but where else can you sit in a room full of revved up undergrads, chugging malt liquor out of 40 oz. bottles in brown bags and hearing jokes about why it’s not so great to have a large penis? The punchline to that particular gag, by the way, is too risqué to be printed here.The event was Harvard’s “first annual stand up comedy show,” and it took place at 8 p.m. in the Science Center. It was organized by Harrison R. Greenbaum...
...irony, of course, is that Geraldo is probably the least cool person on the planet; by going along with the gag, Wexler proved to be one of the few politicians in this country with a genuine sense of humor...
...Mostly, the play provides an excuse for overcooked gag lines about how Hollywood agents can't be trusted, how artists are corrupted by the philistines who make movies, how people in California order Cobb salads with everything on the side. Some of the lines trade on offhand buzzwords: "tears finding their lazy way down his derm-abrased face." Other just slap us hard in the kisser: "A writer with final cut - I'd rather give firearms to small children." Compared to a really incisive Hollywood satire like HBO's Entourage, this is pretty lame stuff...