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sight gag
noun
- a comic effect produced by visual means rather than by spoken lines, as in a play or motion picture.
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Origin of sight gag1
Example Sentences
Unfortunately, the way she’s deployed as a sight gag makes it hard to take her seriously when it counts.
At the retirement home, everybody’s got problems — memory loss, cancer, loneliness — but these darker moments alternate with sight gags, punchlines and snarky wisecracks in a way that somehow feels cohesive.
And the “memoir†we’re invited to observe is a wounding one, rife with heartbreak and trauma — but also, as it turns out, raunchy humor and slapstick pratfalls, literate puns and winking sight gags.
There is also an inspired sight gag involving the development of the Julia Child severing her arm sketch that the show later made famous.
She also alleged that Cohen pitched a sexual sight gag for the film.
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