| His shtick was to create concrete expectations, only to void them instantaneously with his voice. |
| But Hope does more than his usual shtick of self-referential gags and breaking the fourth wall. |
| Or at least it's the shtick that sets the tone for the evening's witty and intelligible discourse. |
| Thus, while the music rather than the shtick is the focus here, these songs were actually made to work as backgrounds to other arts. |
| Byrne develops this beleaguered-performer shtick to Basil Fawlty-like levels of physicalised impatience. |
| The governor rehearses a few zingers and then commits the whole shtick to memory for later delivery. |
