Sentences with phrase «old gags»

As the American novelist Edmund White has succinctly phrased it: «The spiritual side of life, to be sure, is diminished by jokes... Humor is the enemy of lyric beauty and sadism (Jean Genet is never funny), but their friend - or at least their willing accomplice — is wan humor, weak jokes, old gags, tired one - liners.

The Souls series is on the brink of wearing out its old gags; you can sense it pausing for applause every time it brings out an old chestnut.

They beat you over the head with the old gags you might have liked and even the ones you did nt like were brought back i was very disapointed i paid full price to see this overly hyped flop.

When they're not reprising decades - old gags from the first (the aforementioned «meow» gag, putting shaving cream on Rabbit), their dynamic continues to rely on the kind of sophomoric humor that went out of style back when American Pie was on its fourth direct - to - DVD sequel.

Well, here's your chance to prove that old gag wrong.

«Detective Chinatown 2» engineers a reunion for these two, this time in New York City, depicted here as a gun - crazed cesspool of depravity whose police chief is a Trump lookalike and all the cops, yes, that old gag, sit around eating doughnuts.

Even the corniest old gag is enriched by Andersson's unblinking gaze and densely detailed shots: when a joker at a family banquet insists on performing that old parlor trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge collection of crystal and china but also reveals a vintage table inlaid with swastikas.

He turns to me abruptly and pretends to startle — our old gag — and explains how justice is either impersonal and indifferent or extremely personal and shamelessly vindictive, and how finding yourself in front of our volatile jury system means submitting your fate to a bunch of people whose omelets you wouldn't dream of eating for fear they hadn't washed their hands.

I was just sitting on the couch with my fiancé, and I said, «You know, there really ought to be...» And, by the way, this is an old gag.

It's an old gag with a different punchline.

Yesterday, CREDO Mobile confirmed it was at the center of EFF's long - running fight against NSLs after a three - year - old gag order was finally revoked.

Like the old gag, it had luxuries in places that I did not even know there were places in an automobile.

Not exact matches

The world oil market is starting to resemble the old slapstick gag about the French Foreign Legion.

While he was still a 17 - year - old at Midwood High School, he began selling gags to newspaper columnists.

Over the past week, my 8 - and 5 - year old boys have, on their own accord, added several previously gag - inducing foods to their repertoires.

Wenger up to his old political candidacy gag.

Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich were both lefties; in 1972 they were teammates with the New York Yankees, best friends with adjoining lockers and chummy spouses and noted pranksters who specialized in the old padlocking - a-stray-suitcase-to-a-pole gag.

Young babies choke and gagged or throw up easier than older babies because they are still unable to adjust their breathing while drinking nor are they able to pace themselves well on their drinking rhythm... I personally prefer old school way than simply feeding my young baby with meds (zantac, neixum)... no matter how safe doctor says it is for the baby, they're still meds nonetheless.

One of the more gag - worthy examples involves a mother dressing her 3 - year - old daughter up as a prostitute based on Julia Roberts «character in Pretty Woman.

We were singing «There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,» just getting to the cow, when there were gagging sounds coming from where she sat.

Mine gagged on everything, even soft solids, till about ten months old.

When I spoke with the Pediatrician she advised me that 15 months isn?t too old to still be gagging and not eating solids.

My 22 month old son has been gagging and vomiting since birth until about 2 months ago.

MY 3 month old will practically have his fist down his throat only to make himself gag, and a lot of the times it's right after a feeding.

I have a 2 month old, he's gaining weight well but I have bruises under my nipple, he drools a lot and gags frequently.

But by 8 months old, self - feeders had become experts, gagging less than spoon - fed babies.

The joke that was old when Moses was around: Tablet full of crude gags and riddles about beer is found - dating back to Exodus.

The 40 Year - Old Virgin is a buoyantly clever and amusing comedy full of fresh gags about porn and speed dating, yet it has the wit to present its title character's dilemma as a projection of all our romantic anxieties.

At other times, one liners, sight gags and various villainous antics bring a chuckle to the lips of viewers young and old.

But there's still not quite enough going on here, either in terms of humor or excitement; small children are likely to be disappointed by the paucity of silly slapstick or bathroom gags, while their older siblings will probably fidget at the lack of scares.

The eye poking, cartoon violence gags are straight out of the old shorts, which was like pop culture comfort food, save for a Farelly Brothers - like bit where urinating babies cause trouble for the three.

It would be excusable if the one - liners and sight gags were actually, you know, funny, but having Optimus and his gang act like impatient 5 - year - olds and getting peed on by dogs is anything but.

With the usual attempts at humour that utilise the usual societal outcasts (fat guys, old guys, clumsy guys and so on), this is just another usual one - gag movie.

Most of this expository stuff, however, serves as a weak excuse for the film's performers to have some fun acting like idiots, and there's no doubt that Old School has its fair share of inspired gags, most of them revolving around former SNL standout Ferrell.

Hey, if the sight of two beautiful, virile young women who are, like all beautiful, virile young women everywhere, are clearly gagging for it with absolutely anyone, including sad old gits, gets you upset then fuck off, cos we here at AICN are not elitist, pompous dickwads like you must be.

In 1997, the first episode of the outrageous animated media satire South Park seemed to summarize the actor's status with a gag in which the two - year - old character Ike is persuaded to jump from a spaceship and fall several feet to the ground when his brother yells «Do your impression of David Caruso's career!»

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

Yes, there are scenes that will literally make you turn away in embarrassment or gag in contempt; and the plot involving an 18 - year - old girl that Jim once babysat coming on to him is decidedly creepy — and not funny in the least.

The stock geriatric gags and lumbering action sequences get (ahem) old pretty quickly.Read review

Though there's some adult humor sprinkled throughout, it'll be the young adult audience laughing at every gag while older viewers eventually grow tired of the cheap laughs (especially the repeated fat jokes) and dispensable storyline.

The gag is repeated again and again, as if directed by a 10 - year - old.

There is a recurring gag that has Paul Rudd doing his finest Tony Montana impression (it gets old quick), a scene where the cops try to remove a beached whale from the shoreline, and a couple of run - ins with oft - appearing supporting performer on the TV show, Nick Swardson (The Benchwarmers), as the flamboyantly gay Terry.

You'd think the gag of Baron Cohen constantly mispronouncing Cosette's name would grow old, but he earns a laugh each and every time.

The entire gag takes a long while to play out (the money shot - close - up on a set of buttocks most definitely not those of the 62 year - old Willis), though it is infused with the kind of nutty energy that Willis last exhibited in his 1991 megaflop, Hudson Hawk (a film that has since acquired an army of «guilty pleasure» defenders, including yours truly).

When Old School does take time away from the sophomoric humor for the sentimental scenes, it is clearly busting at the seams to jump into the next gag involving boobs and blowjobs.

Produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, this combination of satire and slapstick also includes the requisite number of dumb, gross and otherwise icky sight gags, whether in the form of Cena agreeing to a «butt chugging» contest with a bunch of beer - buzzed 17 - year - olds, or some unsettlingly graphic close - ups of male genitalia.

Other than the PA series, most of the gags mainly involve The Conjuring, Insidious, Sinister, and The Possession, most of which are now a couple of years too old for anyone but the staunchest of horror movie fans to remember.

It has zippy energy, visual imagination, inspired puns and all the fart jokes, booger gags and vomit spews a 13 - year - old could ask for, yet it's grounded in a harmless innocence.

Unlike most other modern sex comedies, this one plays more toward older couples than it does to young men, which makes it a bit of a rare breed in this era of crass and sophomoric gags.

(In my favourite gag in the film, because I'm intellectually twelve years old, Harry's meth - eating cat Butthole — so named because he has a butthole, duh — flatulates a big gust of feathers.)