The film opens with a flurry of sight gags and double entendres, layered over incipient tension. |
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Each story was a report, essentially a series of gags, rather than a story with its own comic jet propulsion. |
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We're looking for jokes, gags, funny stories, pictures, whatever, but they must be your original work. |
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Four years ago, I started the Lie Emporium, a website dedicated to lies, whoppers, porkies, politicians and just plain old cheap gags. |
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At least 25 per cent of the gags were funny enough to get me to laugh out loud, which counts for something. |
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Plus, you get many of the gags that would eventually be tiredly rehashed in sequel after sequel but are fresh and original here. |
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The script is so heavily laden with gags it can barely fit them in, and the acting is impeccable. |
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There were also syringes, metal and leather gags, electrodes and even a laryngoscope, normally used by doctors to examine patients' airways. |
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In both cases we're talking about gags on the Zarathustrian saw rather than an act of theophonous violence. |
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After these first wan gags, subsequent riffs on the same themes fail to amuse. |
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Wind gags are basically furry things that fit over your mike, that cut down on the roar you will hear if filming in wind. |
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And yet it's also just a part of a pleasurable little scene between two performers intent on topping one another with their jokes and gags. |
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There are plenty of gags, but few that are likely to make you laugh out loud. |
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Instead, save the scythe for the kitschy styling, indolent performances, and hokey gags. |
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Alex can ride the unicycle, lie on a bed of nails, spin plates, juggle, deliver gags and is now mastering the art of puppetry. |
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As he wages his campaign against them, the visual gags and wise-cracks come thick and fast. |
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But those seemingly random gags only work effectively when anchored to strong characters and tight story structures. |
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Stand by for a second helping of tongue-in-cheek humour, sight gags and a great soundtrack that should appeal as much to adults as children. |
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The plot treads water and most of the gags are so achingly obvious, you'll be hard pushed to even smile. |
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I'm sorry to say that looking at the movie today I found the jokes, sight gags, and puns all to be a little forced. |
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The hilarious gags come at a slam-bang pace, and they're occasionally edgy. |
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Dropping the gags led to New York, where he's part of the new breed of Britcom that's making waves in the United States. |
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The special effects are fantastic and the humour is twisted into new visual gags which can be appreciated on a whole new level. |
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In television cuts of the film, there are tons of alternate takes and extended gags. |
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He wasn't at his spontaneous best, but at least he wasn't filled with grabs and gags and ockerisms he felt obliged to quote all at once. |
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There are sight gags a plenty, and some great one-liners and verbal repartee. |
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While most successful cartoonists stick to either magazine gags or newspaper strips, he's been successful at both. |
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Although the situations are often ridiculous, the gags don't feel overly contrived. |
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The film is utterly hilarious, filled with loads of sight gags, cheeseball dialogue and numerous in-jokes for horror buffs. |
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Around us there are so many pantos where they don't even know what gags were told last year, so you just get the same jokes year after year. |
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Working with these gags in mind, the performers still retain the freedom to completely improvise the dialogue. |
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In particular I loved it's absurdity, it's gross attention to detail and it's endless fart gags. |
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He throws in a few fart gags later, plus we get to see him in a sumo thong. |
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Watch for the mean spirited and endless gags about fatties, boyish girls, overweight Hawaiians etc, etc. |
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The movie is a veritable mine of in-jokes, strange gags, and funny one-liners. |
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There are guests and goal-clips and interviews, but it is all interspersed with games, gags, skits and phone-ins. |
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Lame gags, boring characterization, and a plodding story makes for a very long 97 minutes. |
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Undoubtedly the contraptions and apparatuses in Keaton's films are the basis for his gags. |
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The invention, the story, the gags make it all irresistible and completely satisfying. |
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The sight gags are fantastically inventive, the detailing in the set design and costume stunning. |
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There are references made to both of those movies, both in the form of sly sight gags and in scenes almost directly cribbed from them. |
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But Hope does more than his usual shtick of self-referential gags and breaking the fourth wall. |
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Yolanda passes out in the elevator, forcing Lana to drag her into the penthouse where she gags her and ties her to the bed. |
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Remember this is an organisation that gags its critics, has hired a private detective to look into me, and has consistently misled its members. |
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But a Chairman who gags his directors betrays a nervous and patently vulnerable company. |
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He says the information is better public, but came to a settlement on Friday which effectively gags him from saying anything more. |
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Jane has signed a confidentiality agreement, which gags her from talking about the night. |
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It's just like having a plasma widescreen except there's someone standing in front of it cracking rather amusing gags. |
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The film's racial stereotype gags might be offensive if they weren't so shamelessly dumb and done to death. |
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The music is just as loud as in the previous films, and the gags and one-liners are more often lame than funny. |
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Radio has killed all the good gags and is responsible for the present low caste of gagsters and gags. |
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The gags almost seem muted by the technical proficiency of a practiced master of cinema. |
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Who knew dated music, predictable gags, audience participation, gaudy costumes and blinding colours could be this much fun? |
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It's all great fun and manages some terrific gags along the way, savaging lots of Hollywood pretensions and familiar scams. |
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So it is that jokes that might once have been accepted as bad-taste gags can now be denounced as intolerable racial insults. |
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There are games, gags and goss all right, but these were only intermittently entertaining. |
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The smart lines drop in fast and quick, with some great gags that click two seconds after you think they should. |
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The jokesmith best known for making gags about his resemblance to Prince is finally attracting a larger following after more than a decade of honing his act. |
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The film is a comedy, but rarely relies on outright gags for laughs. |
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There was the obvious sight gags of Valerie not realizing who everyone was clapping for, when the party was clapping for her. |
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I then tried to weasel my way into the audience's affection, assuring punters that if they laughed at all my gags everyone would get their money back on the way out. |
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Anna Peters's work, by comparison, is a lot looser, cartoony drawings on paper plates, paper, acrylic on canvas are jokey one shot reflexive gags. |
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However, there is evidence of the shameful goings on at Guantanamo Bay, where cameras have shown us cages not fit for animals, shackles, gags, hoods and blindfolds. |
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For me I'm a little bit claustrophobic, so whenever I've had the sensory deprivation, the gags and the blindfolds and of course the heat I would get panicked. |
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Some of the singing was a little weak and difficult to hear in parts and there were perhaps a few too many gags, one in particular sailing a little close to the wind. |
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Packed with rapid-fire jokes, visual gags and an infectious exuberance, the character's big-screen debut is film comedy at its silliest and most inspired. |
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Donald was hopeless at gags and not very good at remembering jokes. |
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A Middlesbrough fan with a nice line in gags, he has also written a cultural history of Belgium and an appreciation of country fairs in the north of England. |
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I normally hate buddy road movies filled with gags and understanding girlfriends, but darned if this one doesn't hit every one of its marks and then some. |
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As for her most memorable lines, they are demonstrable reworkings of old vaudeville and burlesque gags that had been kicking around since the dawn of creation. |
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As the production gags on a surfeit of imagination, you find yourself filling in an imaginary multiple-choice list, ticking off the useful and crossing out the padding. |
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As such, the seriousness of the conflicted family situation is completely undermined by one-dimensional walking gags that wouldn't qualify for low-rent sitcom duty. |
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In a disastrous miscalculation, the producers carefully put back all the lame, dated gags and Manhattan provincialisms that dotted the original production. |
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This is one of those commentary tracks that won't entertain with funny stories or gags, but is certainly packed with informative tidbits on the making of the film. |
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The city's municipal HQ was surrounded by a large group of people who had volunteered to have gags placed in their mouths while their hands were tied behind their backs. |
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Locked inside this menagerie of failed comic bits are attempts at real anger, sadness, pathos, broad sight gags and genuine rock and roll metal moves. |
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It's a non-stop rollercoaster ride of feel-good action, packed with gags, movie send-ups and poignant interludes, making this a thrilling rival to any live-action blockbuster. |
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He is a master of dry straight-faced witty delivery and he brings a subtle sense of pathos to a script that has a tendency to milk its gags to death. |
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Yet beneath the gags and one-liners that pepper You Will Meet, a tragicomic pessimism is clearly obvious. |
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The show sucks and its overdependence on gags is cheap and irksome. |
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And it also seems to me that in film, there are comedies that involve sight gags, slapstick, visual stuff, and comedies that are based very much on dialogue and words. |
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Polly Findlay's funny modern revival of this anonymous Jacobean black comedy is filled with slapstick, chavs, visual gags and lots of blood. |
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The comedy website Chortle described him as having 'distinctive and eclectic gags his best lines are inspired. |
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Luckily, he's very bright and entertaining about it all, meaning that his evenings of anecdotage and gags are always worth a look. |
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Familiarity aside, the film isn't funny with the gags and forced zaniness teeth-gnashingly awful. |
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Be gobsmacked by classic one-liners, rib-tickling gags and comical storytelling. |
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Inside a box I could see a pile of whips, chains, ball gags, and hoods. |
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The quirky visuals are up to Aardman's usual impeccable standards and there are plenty of sight gags in what is mostly a dialogue free film. |
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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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The concept of mixing pathos with slapstick was learnt from Karno, who also used elements of absurdity that became familiar in Chaplin's gags. |
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The city has never looked more atmospheric and there are tons of sight gags to be enjoyed. |
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Cheap gags and glinty eyes remind us that they dislike each other but, as the film progresses, they realise that they make a really good team. |
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Expect gags about the dreadful state of the economy, the latest celebrity relationship gone pear-shaped and hilarious international stories. |
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She fearlessly embraces everything, from sight gags to pratfalls. |
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Such a scattergun approach to the pacing and gameplay may make you smirk, even though the woeful gags fall on deaf ears. |
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The gags in this follow-up to 21 Jump Street are hit and miss but its sense of glorious self-referential goofiness proves to be infectious. |
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The oddities of pregnancy are regularly mined for gags, but thankfully not in a contrived box-ticking fashion. |
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Some groaners are converted into running gags, as when Joel and his brother get in a duel of parting, one-last-thing-before-you-go affirmations. |
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The production numbers of La Cage sparkle, while the comedy is a bevy of sight gags, wildly drawn characters, and sexual rompery. |
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But this stream of vomit and poo gags is delivered with such witlessness that they start to resemble a form of torture. |
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It's great to see Clint still willing to crack gags and play to the gallery, but the trouble with Randy Brown's debut script is that it curves off target. |
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Furthermore, as agreed under the terms of the 1993 Convention on Bone Idle Journalism, the remit of the ban extends to ALL related middle-east gags. |
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The film is action packed and often amusing but too many jokes fail and there are bizarre running gags concerning gravity-defying horses and ferocious bunny rabbits. |
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There are a couple of key times this month to be spelunking for big gags. |
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The late addition of Angie Harmon promises a few snarkier gags. |
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There are plenty of sight gags in what is mostly a dialogue-free film. |
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Top comedian Peter Kay is swapping his trademark gags for more serious acting to play the cold and powerful Victor Kennedy in BBC1's popular Saturday-night special. |
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Expect an assortment of jokes, stories, observations, ad-libs, one-liners, accents, theories, topical gags and self-deprecation from the laid-back gagsmith. |
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Broadway-savvy gimmicks, gags and arched-eyebrow throwaways are embedded in every nook and cranny of Yasbek's score and librettist Jeffrey Lane's book. |
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse 93 mins 15 SUPERBAD meets Night Of The Living Dead in a goofily enjoyable horror comedy big on gore, gags and nudity. |
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The gags in this follow-up to 21 Jump Street are wildly hit and miss, but its sense of glorious self-referential goofiness proves to be infectious. |
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It has some funny gags, it moves along at an agreeable clip, and as the night in question stumbles toward pass-out time, the camerawork gets appropriately sloppier. |
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