Costolo won the audience over by sprinkling deadpan gags and self-deprecating humor into the pre-dinner interview.
The result takes itself much too seriously, with acts of brutality outnumbering the gags.
One listens to a pair of science-savvy comedians cracking a blistering set of research-related gags.
The producer-screenwriter, Dale Launer, bides his time, scattering hoary gags while planting details that eventually pay off.
In most rich countries there is a feeling that it has limited the range of permissible gags.
But the picture is less than the sum of its outrageous gags and inventive bits of business.
The movie alternates predictable tenderfoot gags (sore behinds, stampedes, and the like) with long, ludicrous passages of group-therapy-on-the-range.
And, ugh, those cheesy DJs are no longer polluting my listening experience with their allegedly wacky and zany gags.
Martin disperses gags and characters with a generosity that borders on the manic.
The act of printing is the original hurt and the gags come later.
It has a silly catchiness, as do the pop-culture references and sight gags.
The humor thins out as the movie goes along, because Allen tends to labor, and even to repeat, his gags.
The gags are far from politically correct, usually involving someone getting bonked in the head with a hammer or a brick.
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Moosa describes such gags as "hard jokes" but says he should able to extract humor from every aspect of his life.
Her face was shiny and her color unhealthy, and there were cuts so clumsy that they seemed like vintage Monty Python gags.
The Office is one of those shows you either love or hate, that is not necessarily heavy on the gags or one-liners.
That's not to say there aren't a few laugh-out-loud sight gags and a couple of good one-liners stolen by mama Kathy Bates.
There were some other gags which although included neat one-liners, didn't seem to fit in, and distorted the flow a little at times.
Amidst the sight-gags, the slapstick (often literally), the absurd moments and hilarious quips, there is a scene that is transcendently important and deeply affecting.
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But the gardening-mad Duchess slyly understood all her correspondent's erudite gags.
It is astonishing to see, with stunning projections, animations and visual gags provided by Mr. Norris's direction, and a bit of interesting World Music supplementing the orchestra.
That's not to say there aren't at least a few outrageous gags, YouTube moments to share, but mostly this looks like exactly what it is: a wasted opportunity.
President Museveni accuses Rwanda of trying to destroy Congo, and says that Rwanda manipulates and gags its rebels, and does not understand how to build support among the people.
Cartoonlike sight gags conjure his memories and fantasies, running throughout the film as it leaps ahead in time and sketches a decade of experience with a sharp, novelistic yet wondrously comical audacity.
Still, it whips along briskly enough (even if the best gags, as ever, are in the trailer) and feels blessedly free of the in-jokes that have clogged up recent DreamWorks projects.
In one of the movie's better running gags, she proves it again and again when she delivers a vicious sucker punch to the throat of anyone foolish enough to threaten her well-being.
But the gags don't blossom with repetition.
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