| And, finally, pratfalls are a universal language, and Moliere never betrayed his debt to the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte. |
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| Now, before you start up those emails, I'm not saying that movies shouldn't have pratfalls and physical comedy in them. |
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| He also shows off his well-known aptitude for pratfalls and physical comedy in this skit. |
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| The segment, with a voice-over explaining the action, consisted largely of speeded up film and slapstick pratfalls. |
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| The show often revolves around her I Love Lucy-esque pratfalls and goof-ups. |
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| Faith in the perfectibility of man has caused more pratfalls than the banana peel. |
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| It's 80 endless minutes of unfunny pratfalls, pointless chases and awful, awful songs. |
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| All the while we're privy to Bridget's innermost thoughts as she discovers the pratfalls and perils of being a single woman in the city. |
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| But the film suffers many of the pratfalls associated with remakes, in particular the warmed-up leftovers syndrome. |
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| He is constantly involved in physical pratfalls, more cartoon figure than a person. |
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| Not many actors can sing, dance, wear a puffy shirt and do pratfalls while still looking macho. |
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| Of course, there are a lot more pratfalls, comedic lines, wacky mishaps and longing glances, but you get the picture. |
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| Naturally, things don't proceed quite as planned, with emotional pratfalls complicating the addled pair's marriage contract. |
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| The hardest part in confessing all this is that aside from my pronounced predilection for pratfalls, I really can't justify our forbidden love. |
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| You'd think the team's long history of past playoff pratfalls would be motivation enough. |
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| Clark has been protected from media scrutiny by the awful pratfalls that marked the beginning of his campaign. |
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| Moving to the other side of the aisle, the Democrats certainly had their fair share of political pratfalls. |
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| I think of it more as a no-system system with the same pitfalls and pratfalls as every other system, due to human involvement more than anything. |
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| Extreme gore and hysterical pratfalls all combine in a truly memorable mix. |
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| In an attempt to lighten the mood, the camera follows the pratfalls of the galley crew trying to catch the food falling off the counters as the ship takes evasive maneuvers. |
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| Some of the most common pratfalls will actually help in this regard. |
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| Her nose was fat and fruitlike, a nose for pratfalls and slapstick, not jetés and pirouettes and pliés and whatnot. |
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| Occasionally, Hince has struggled with the pratfalls of being engaged to one of the most famous women on the planet. |
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| History rewards reverent earnestness, while the jokes and pratfalls and wit are often lost in translation. |
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| There are hideous '70s outfits, and pratfalls, and a running gag about rotary dial telephones. |
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| The two men hoot at the same pratfalls and comic disasters in the movie. |
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| In spite of the pratfalls described above, for those of you reading this and who have yet to use integrated public transit I encourage you to give it a shot. |
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| It was perhaps late in his career, the mid-1960s, but playing Will Mossop on stage Mr Wisdom relied more on his impish charm and effervescence than his pratfalls. |
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| Playtime was Tati's last film, a ruinously expensive bid for respectability that gave off the empty rattle of perfectionism — pratfalls echoing tinnily through lavish, empty sets. |
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| So make the most of those pratfalls and sly looks to camera, because Miranda Hart is moving on. |
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| Compared to those public relations pratfalls, Clinton's appearance before hundreds of assembled reporters – and millions following across the world – was something of a success as she prepares to run for president. |
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| But beneath all car chases, pratfalls, and expletive-filled put-downs, it does have a feminist thesis, which puts it way ahead of most Bond parodies. |
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| She fearlessly embraces everything, from sight gags to pratfalls. |
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| He dispensed with the customary sight gags and pratfalls that give comic opera a bad name, letting the humor grow Out of character instead. |
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| Metaphors and similes do arabesques, glissades, and entrechats, not pratfalls. |
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| So make the most of those pratfalls, catchphrases, and sly looks to camera, because Miranda Hart, right, is moving on. |
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| They encounter male strippers, mourners, bikers and beauty pageant contestants in a crazy hidden-camera road-trip romp, packed with stunts and pratfalls. |
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| As we were treated instead to replays of her pratfalls from earlier series, was this Hart's way of telling us that her character is finally discovering her inner grace? |
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| The European captain has been visiting a specialist in London to avoid the pratfalls of Faldo in 2008 where he made a series of gaffes at Valhalla. |
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