pratfalls

• “What's lacking amid the over-acting, shoddy special effects and pratfalls is imagination.”

  'Furry Vengeance': Coarse family film is a slapstick stinker

• “Otherwise, Obama has successfully avoided the kind of pratfalls that loom large on TV and crystallize perceptions.”

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• “How can he embody so many graphic idioms, from four-panel pratfalls to grisly realism, and have them cohere into such an effective and singular style?”

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• “No pratfalls – even when his character was stoned he played it straight.”

  The End of Time — It’s Complicated : Bev Vincent

• “The style of delivery might have moved on from his pratfalls and plaintive songs, but the tradition of the little man or woman taking on a hostile world and winning has not died but gloriously evolved.”

  The Guardian: Thanks to plucky Norman Wisdom, it's now OK to fail

• “In 1992 he had played a retired burglar in a film thriller, Double X, which sank almost without trace, but, more tellingly, the following year he was the subject of a South Bank Show in which he explained the secrets of pratfalls, backward tumbles and stair-falls.”

  The Guardian: Sir Norman Wisdom obituary

• “Why do people still find humor in crotch gags and pratfalls?”

  'Old Dogs' advertising makes me shrug in a clichéd way | EW.com

• “In the thousands of videos I've introduced over the past ten years, I've seen the mirror image of the C-SPANtastic budget "debate" played out countless times with thought-challenged bravado leading to wince inducing pratfalls.”

  The Huffington Post: Tom Bergeron: America's Funniest Home Videos Meets C-SPAN

• “You can only do so many pratfalls before turning into Jerry Lewis.”

  Balloon Juice » 2010 » January

• “To keep the attention of young readers, Hergé crammed his stories with conflict and sight gags, with explosions and pratfalls and jets and cars and rampaging animals.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tintin & Co.

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