pratfall

• You'd think you were accustomed to it and then you'd take an embarrassing pratfall, especially on stairs and ladders, and the problem was worst in the Strange Range, where the spingravity lessened or increased with higher or lower terrain. —  Analog, July-August 2006
• But the best comedies are defined by their ability to impart even the heaviest messages with the same light touch as a pratfall or a put-down. —  The Seattle Times
• Mix the kind of comedy mastered by 1600s Frenchman Moliere with Homer Simpson pratfall-type humor and what do you get? —  Rockford Register Star Home RSS
• For the 18 million-strong Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits to the 72 million registered Democrats praying for a Palin pratfall, "101 Things You - and John McCain - Didn't Know about Sarah Palin" proves politics can be much funnier than fiction. —  Daily news
• For the 18 million-strong Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits to the 72 million registered Democrats praying for a Palin pratfall, "101 Things You -- and John McCain -- Didn't Know about Sarah Palin" proves politics can be much funnier than fiction. —  YubaNet.com

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