shtick

1 So Matt Baker and Alex Jones actually began with some shtick about what a tizzy they were in to have such a big-wig with them.

2 Too many recent Bollywood movies have felt frantic, so eager to please that they seem like flop-sweat machines spitting out knockabout gags and silly shtick.

3 The latter sequence is an extreme example of Lee's shtick – extreme, because his shaggy dog story about hobnobbing with Cameron at university intrigues, but hardly amuses.

4 The animation itself is disconcertingly 2D, but from the off, you can’t help credit Disney with its sheer devotion to its own shtick.

5 The assembled talent was no joke, though, and the tiresome comic shtick was an unnecessary distraction.

6 The production’s strange combination of comic shtick and existential weariness makes it feel rather like a long-running sitcom being filmed before a live audience that knows its characters’ signature tics and flourishes by heart.

7 And the shtick — perhaps not one of Hitler’s favorite words — that flies between them could come straight out of vaudeville.

8 I preferred the less scatological shtick – including Davies' absurdist quarrel with a cabbie who claims the only ingredient in a pie is pie.

9 Occasionally this could harden into shtick, but rarely, in part because Mr. Stewart marshaled arguments the way great journalists do.

10 There’s much more shtick here than science or stunts, but it’s still extremely funny shtick, and this is the last weekend to catch it.

11 In “Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors,” a gender-bending play at New World Stages, Dr. Van Helsing calls for a “shtick” to slay her greatest foe.

12 At its worst, it comes across as a faux-naive shtick that detracts from the content.

13 With the eyes of nearly every “Office” cast member on him, Mr. Ferrell did not resort to loud voices, wild gesticulations or other showy shtick, but gave a sincere reading of his oration.

14 Lundgren gets great comic mileage out of Gunner's lunkheaded character, while Couture and Crews hold down the stalwart combat veterans' shtick.

15 It’s rare that Tyler encounters someone more committed to a shtick than he is to his own.

16 It looks as if Hope might be capable of coming up with her own shtick, and it would have been interesting to see the supporting cast receive a little more agency.

17 Instead, he larded the show with interstitial shtick.

18 His everyman shtick and wonderful observational gags, rooted in his South Shields upbringing, show why he's tipped to become big in 2011.

19 Taking her to his car, he attempts to dazzle her with his big city style, giving her the whole “You’re in New York now baby” shtick.

20 The thriller spoof “The 39 Steps” milks absurdity for all it’s worth, the shtick involving a milkman being a case in point.

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