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sight gag

noun

  1. a comic effect produced by visual means rather than by spoken lines, as in a play or motion picture.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sight gag1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, the way she’s deployed as a sight gag makes it hard to take her seriously when it counts.

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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.

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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.

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There is also an inspired sight gag involving the development of the Julia Child severing her arm sketch that the show later made famous.

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She also alleged that Cohen pitched a sexual sight gag for the film.

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