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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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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The show has a street-wise vibe often fueled by sly sight gags, memorable characterizations, and games of one-upmanship, like jousts with wooden poles and garbage can lids.
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But were the bracelets real, or just a sight gag for a political video?
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Cena, whose massive frame has mostly been deployed as a sight gag in films like Daddy’s Home and Trainwreck, is finally used to his fuller potential here as a gentle giant.
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In between laugh-out-loud sight gags that range from the usual cartoon violence to unusually graphic anatomical humor, the three teens emerge as bright, confident and ready to take the reins of their lives.
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Once the movie kicks into gear, Cannon (working from a script by brothers Brian and Jim Kehoe) conjures some truly blue sequences and sight gags that yield explosive laughs.
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Credit the creative staging and charming sight gags, including runaway shoes with no owners, a cheeky human golf ball, and a performer (Valentina Paylevanyan) tethered to four giant balloons that bounced into the crowd.
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Noises Off reaches frenetically for laughs through humor high and low, with a profusion of puns, sight gags, and physical comedy.
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First Known Use of sight gag
1949
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