Sentences with phrase «allen-esque schlemiel»

Stan is also very good as Jeff, a schlemiel whose account of the events he is said to have masterminded often flies in the face of Tonya's version of the same things.

Stevens rejects his objectively handsome persona and becomes a Woody Allen-esque schlemiel, bumbling and oafish and constantly screwing up.

When we first see him — trying on tuxes with Doug — he seems a schlemiel.

The main character is a poor schlemiel writer, played by David Duchovny, who actually believes that his pilot has a chance of getting on the air the way he created it.

It would seem that way from the videos of Guy Richards Smit, an American up - and - comer who, in 1999, created the character Jonathan Grossmalerman (or Big Painting Guy), an ego - bloated, alcoholic schlemiel with a rapier tongue trying to get a break in the art world.

Reading Adam Minter's book Junkyard Planet reminded me of the many stories I've heard about the business, about the menches and the schlemiels who were part of it.