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This new film is a very black comedy that is also a heist story with some bloody violence, along with a bit of knockabout slapstick and a theme of family bonds.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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The teaser, below, is pretty creepy.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
23 Sep. 2025
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So what better time for the studio to release the first teaser trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, a feature film spinoff from its megahit Star Wars series The Mandalorian?—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Shaun rose to fame in the late 1970s to early 1980s as both a teen idol and entertainer.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Cage's Rayford Steele, for example, was played by God's Not Dead star and conservative entertainer Kevin Sorbo.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
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Not with the return of coffee culture but with a new lineup from a YouTube prankster called PUMP energy which contains six hundred milligrams of caffeine per can, in flavors like Lemonade Ice Nicotine and Strawberry Sports-Betting.—
Reuven Perlman,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Michael Shannon can be a prankster, particularly during interviews conducted over the phone.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Daily Show comedienne was also asked to weigh in on the state of late night, especially given how The Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert will end its run next year.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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On the set of Palm Royale, Friedberg got to meet one of her heros, the legendary comedienne Carol Burnett, one of the stars of the series.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
4 Aug. 2025
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Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.—
David Aldridge,
The Athletic,
27 Aug. 2024
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Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2024
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“Practical joker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/practical%20joker. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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