ad-libbing

• “These hosts are actors who follow scripts, so don't expect the ad-libbing acumen of Billy Crystal, but they've already got some insiders on the edge of their seats.”

  The Washington Post: Oscars 2011 preview: What will viewers be talking about?

• “With subsidiary characters such as Madame Oglepuss a retired opera singer, Beulah Witch, and Fletcher Rabbit, the improvised puppet show became notorious for its ad-libbing.”

  The Huffington Post: George Heymont: Specialty Acts -- From Vaudeville to Blue Man Group

• “If you want to hear incoherent ad-libbing, take a trip to the links I posted.”

  Barack Obama can't even repeat the Oath of Office without the prompt being repeated

• “What I mean by doing the right things is they don't do a lot of ad-libbing.”

  The Washington Post: Capitals defensemen John Carlson, Karl Alzner earning more responsibility

• “We relied on a DAT tape for the beats as Will and Apl threw down the lyrics and I followed their lead, ad-libbing on the back of them.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fallin’ Up

• “It doesn't matter that it was on radio and I was ad-libbing.”

  The Huffington Post: Ed Schultz Apologizes: Laura Ingraham Comments 'Vile And Inappropriate' (VIDEO)

• “He later apologized to the Anti-Defamation League, but not to NPR, saying, "I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR's willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough.”

  The Washington Post: Rabbis buy ad targeting Fox News Rabbis' ad aims at Beck, Ailes

• “There's a lot of ad-libbing between them that is just great; it sounds like people who used to date.”

  ‘A-Team Week’: Jessica Biel Brings Badass New ‘Nemesis’ to the Soldiers of Fortune » MTV Movies Blog

• “She credited her incredible ad-libbing skills to the years she spent attending embassy cocktail parties with Paul, where she learned to disarm the stuffiest foreign diplomats with her down-to-earth American humor and entertaining anecdotes.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Covert Affair

• “While he was hoping his magnetic seals held, he was busy ad-libbing technobabble to talk the neo-hippie through the complicated emergency shutdown sequence in anticipation of an EMP blast.”

  And now, a kind word about my Firefly RPG crew

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