And just when things might start to lag, Pierce arrives, nailing every pun, every aside to the audience, every double-take and every droll observation.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
But unlike that 1996 Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino joint, Sinners isn’t winking at the audience from behind grotesque violence and droll B-movie tropes.
When it was all said and done and Yorkie gave one final wag of her tail, she was revealed to be Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, singer, and actress Erika Jayne.
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Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
The direction of the wag matters, too—research suggests that dogs tend to wag more to the right when feeling positive and to the left when experiencing negative emotions.
Once infused with the diabolical spirit, the guide is transformed into a buffoon, complete with a harlequin outfit—a mad joker and a dancing fool who does a little jig to the sound of a jazz trio.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service.
The comedian spoke out while hosting a gala in tribute to Duke Ellington at New York's Jazz at the Lincoln Center on April 30 and got a laugh from Alec Baldwin and Joy Reid, who were in the audience.
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Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
Louis-Dreyfus and her mother went to family therapy as adults
When the comedian was 60 and Judith was 87, the two went to therapy together.
Learn more about management options and which food plants are most susceptible to this insect in our harlequin bug on vegetables web page.
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Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Apr. 2025
Once infused with the diabolical spirit, the guide is transformed into a buffoon, complete with a harlequin outfit—a mad joker and a dancing fool who does a little jig to the sound of a jazz trio.
But, of course, seeing one of our best musical comediennes so deliciously live out the maxim that all is vanity is especially a treat for Hilty heads who’ve longed to see her in a Broadway production that lives up to the title of her former TV series.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2025
On the last day of the season, when the apprentices had been winnowed from 16 to two, then-emcee Donald Trump fired Annie on national television in favor of the comedienne Joan Rivers.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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