Sentences with phrase «best running gag»

The way he simply goes about his godly, heroic business provides the film with its best running gag

(Best running gag: Nicole being aggressively wooed by a little boy she babysits whose voice has dropped early, making him sound like he's about 40.)

Georgia's kicker only stepped into the overtime spotlight because Alabama kickers remained the best running gag in college football.

Actually, this is one of the better running gags in this lazily thrown together movie.

She arrives back in Chicago ready to spoil her grandchildren (one of the movie's better running gags: «Have some X-Boxes,» she says blithely) and throw lavish holiday gatherings more or less in her own honor, with her mostly silent husband (Peter Gallagher) in tow.

Further enrichment is provided by a team of rotating guest artists, who provide the artwork for one of the series» best running gags — The Deadpool Guide To Super Villains flashcards.

Not exact matches

Nationals senator John Williams has reiterated to The Australian Financial Review if Hayne doesn't come good on Monday and ask all financial institutions to waiver gag orders, he will make a speech in the chamber on Wednesday and push for a Senate inquiry to run in parallel with the royal commission.

Though I do like this as a running gag, like the new «Did you know the Warriors blew a 3 - 1 lead in the NBA Finals:» Please hold an «IS NEBRASKA GOOD?»

Madame, with a short running time of 90 swift minutes and peculiar alternating point of views, fail to become anything outside of a gag with good intentions.

The special features included are good but run very short and seems like one long gag.

In Scream 2, the question of whether a sequel can be better than the original film becomes a running gag, with participants intermittently suggesting examples.

Also, the running gag about Bina's attire being too similar to the wait staff's earns a few good chuckles.

And the running gags that work best to support the cynical undertones in the picture's conspicuous social commentary are the ones that reveal truths in a contradictorily positive manner.

The rest of the movie has some set pieces too but it's more focused on running gags and good natured dudes razzing each other.

In fact some of the best jokes — including a running gag about her repeatedly getting particularly frumpy alternate identities — come from others underestimating Cooper.

If those names don't mean anything to you, many of the best jokes and running gags in the film will be unfortunately lost to you.

Yet it's disappointing that the best moments in The World's End are continuations of running gags from the two previous films.

Very Good (3 stars) Rated R for terror and disturbing violence Running time: 81 minutes Distributor: Warner Home Entertainment Group Blu - ray / DVD Combo Pack Extras: Deleted Scenes; Gag Reel; The Gallows: The Original Version; The Gallows: Surviving the Noose; Charlie: Every School Has Its Spirit; Concept; Original Version; and Theatrical Trailers.

Meanwhile, Hill makes good use of his neuroses, improvisational skills and ability to rib at himself with a half - forced grin, this time around playing the man on the outside as Jenko gets in with the popular college jocks and Schmidt has to do the walk of shame (a great, smaller running gag) and eventually gets into a hysterical kiss / fight with a scene - stealing Jillian Bell that's another highlight of the picture.

Violence runs rampant, as demanded of the concept co-conjured with his brother Marcel Rodriguez (The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3 - D) and fleshed out to script stage by Kyle Ward (3 Rounds), but missing in the slicing and dicing and ample Star Wars gags (yes, that's right) is the energy the filmmaker is best known for.

However, most of the film runs along without much catering to its main plot, concentrating more on its characters, tossing up some pretty clever gags and side stories involving such things as the making of jams, the girls» trying to help Gru to get them a new stepmom, Margo's romantic stirrings, and a good deal of Minion slapstick shenanigans, which will no doubt make this a hit for the kiddies.

Indeed, Edwards is about the only active filmmaker who both remembers the running gag and remembers how to use it, build it, and orchestrate its confluence with a dozen other running gags as well.

But it features terrific supporting performances as well, especially from male love interests portrayed by Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia and Nelson, who is responsible for the film's Big Talker of a sight gag, when his character runs afoul of a double dose of Viagra.

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

But the film is often very funny with great running gags and an inspired Chevy Chase turning in one of his better performances.

The short runs entirely on sight gags, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your tastes.

There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the sight gag with the sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.

Best Line: «And that horrible act of child abuse became one of our most beloved running gags.»

Find him at his hilarious best in a running gag — used at least once per episode, natch — where Morticia's (Carolyn Jones, charming and bitter) blasé use of the French language causes Gomez to «go wild» and manically kiss her along her arms and back.

What does nt work quite as well is the Arnie humour, not least a tiresome running gag where he tries to blend in by smiling.

A sub-genre that began as a flippant remark by writer Curt Siodmak to «Wolfman» director George Waggner back in 1943, the verbal gag inadvertently spawned the studio's first ghoulish combo, «Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman,» and enjoyed a good run over the next decade through various recombinations, adding Abbot & Costello when dopey humour was the only element that could milk a little more money before the genre's official retirement at the studio.

He also had a handful of other titles to announce including «Neko Ramen,» a gag manga about a cat who runs a ramen restaurant that was formerly licensed by Tokyopop, as well as «If You Wan na Destroy the World,» «My Sweet Dragon,» «Aoi Hana,» «Elemental Gelade» and «Yasuko and Kenji.»

A throwaway joke about Sybil and the severed head of the Lincoln memorial going out on a date becomes a brilliant ongoing sideplot, minor characters from the first episode of season one become the linchpin of season two's overarching plot in a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan (good M. Night Shyamalan, not recent M. Night Shyamalan), and a weird running gag about mariachis singing at people's birthday parties spirals into probably the most inventive time - travel plot any videogame's ever attempted.

One of NeoGAF's long running gags in review threads usually amounts to «So Game α is better than Game β?»

* The editorial continues the WSJ's disregard of the difference in significance between odd weather events and climate change overall, which is the basis for a running gag that the WSJ's James Taranto uses in his Best of the Web e-mail column — usually, but not always, by targeting an instance when Al Gore gave a global warming speech on a really, really cold day.