“I struggled once more to get the gag from my mouth when he gently removed it and silently offered me a taste of water.”

“Elvis had pulled a gag on one of the studio engineers, and when Elvis doubled over laughing, he split his pants right down the back.”

“There's a running gag in the film about the way he hires musicians to be sad on America's behalf.”

“This may have been, in part, due to the fact that he was honing his skills as a writer and gagman at the time.”

“What I hadn't realised is that Cryer, apart from being a consummate gagman, is a closet rocker.”

“By Charles Cooke and James Thurber The New Yorker, September 10, 1932P. 9 Talk story about Al Boasbert, the country's leading gagman.”

“We greet ministers who can't think of a moral, gagmen who can't think of a joke.”

“It's hard to see why Stan and the gagmen were so determined to do it because the results are pretty standard slapstick.”

“I have noticed on TV that the same handful of gagmen and women are everywhere.”