Definition of sight gag
: a comic bit or episode whose effect is produced by pantomime or camera shot rather than by words
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Your filmography’s full of great visual humor, sight gags, things like that.
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But the toughest to master for Rudd involved a brief sight gag in which his suit malfunctions, zapping him to the size of a toddler.
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Her performance is among the strongest, propelled by an iconic outfit and great sight gags.
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To watch an entire movie with a young woman at the center whom no one is abusing/resenting/seething with anger toward was refreshing in ways that more than made up for the mediocrity of the plot/dialogue/sight gags.
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The writing is alternately wry and outlandish, delivering jokes and sight gags at a rapid clip.
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Think about it: His whole deal is goofy sight gags, shrinking and growing his person and other stuff at will, and just otherwise being Paul Rudd.
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The genius of the script, which Reynolds wrote with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, still lies in its jokes and sight gags.
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The staging spills over into the aisles and balconies, and is replete with sight gags and one-liners, some of which are funny, others merely labored.
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First Known Use of sight gag
1949
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