Word: quipping
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...backup plan,” he claims. “When you’re a comedian and it’s just you and the mic, if the audience doesn’t like you you’ve got nothing.”Greenbaum delivers a sample quip that sometimes opens his show. “My girlfriend—she doesn’t go to Harvard. But she’s a lot like Harvard. She’s expensive, well-endowed, and tough to get into.”Fans of sleight of hand will...
...attorney Austryn Professor of Jewish Studies Jay Harris, who accused Pharaoh of committing crimes against humanity. Dershowitz retorted that Pharoah could not be convicted because he lacked free will, citing the famous Biblical line that “God hardened Pharaoh’s heart.” The quip drew laughter and playful boos from the near-capacity crowd, all of whom seemed to get the joke immediately. Dershowitz countered by calling Moses a “terrorist” who tried to achieve his political ends through biological warfare, and tried to redeem the ruler?...
...utter absurdity of ticket prices compared to the salary of the average Chinese worker led Jagger to quip that he was “pleased the Ministry of Culture is doing so much to protect the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends...
...Mickey Mouse tie. The former newspaperman, who began advising Reagan in 1965, retired as a White House aide in 1982, but not before filling in memorably for press secretary James Brady after Reagan and Brady were shot by John Hinckley in 1981, delivering to reporters the President's quip "Honey, I forgot to duck...
...Francis Ford Coppola’s abysmal depiction of the infamous Harlem night club was a huge pitfall for Gere. Cheap lines like, “You’ve got about as much style as a bowl of turnips,” solidified his doom. Unfortunately, that quip was also an insult to turnips everywhere...