Richard Stevenson reminds his readers that there's plenty of streetwise wisdom to be found in wisecracks.

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The grizzled ex-cop Mike, with his dry wisecracks and his Realpolitik masculinity, fulfills our antihero needs.

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The result is a play whose wisecracks float atop a roiling current of anger and despair.

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Rumors and wisecracks help men endure the unendurable, which is why they are integral to every war.

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Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

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This gives the steady flow of wisecracks a firm foundation of dramatic sense.

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Not that any of Willis' wisecracks are anything to write home about.

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What help make protagonist Walker believable and empathetic are his cynical, searing insights and wisecracks and his politically incorrect habits of smoking and drinking (the liquid of choice: good old scotch, not wine).

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This book crackles with wisecracks and chuckle-inducing aphorisms.

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Debbie and her husband, Pete (Paul Rudd), a Los Angeles couple with two daughters, are hitting early middle age, and Apatow has arranged their discontents (with themselves, with each other, with their parents) into a generous and vibrant series of confrontations and fights, all garnished with wisecracks of startling pungency.

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