hammy

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He left early due to hammy issues, but 15 for 134 is pretty fresh.

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  • Doesn't this sound like a hammy version of Auntie Mame's "stepped on the ping pong ball" scene? —  Firedoglake
  • Under his excellent mask (the black splotches ever rearranging themselves), Haley would win a hammy-rasp contest against Christian Bale, and as the preening, demented billionaire Veidt, a.k.a. Ozymandias, Matthew Goode speaks with a lack of inflection that's very amusing.
  • Relyea may have seemed a little hammy, but really now, could he have kept a straight face any other way?
  • Of course, we remember him for his hammy movie roles like Smokey and the Bandit. —  WDEF News 12 -
  • I find it amusing that you bash Paul Shaffer's speech as hammy, yet. close your article with a quote from Paul Shaffer. —  Top Stories - Google News
 

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