gagman
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“As hard as it is to find anything at the Pentagon,” the veteran gagman quipped, “they finally found a sense of humor.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2018
His next-door neighbor, Augie Poole, wants the magazine to buy his cartoons, but Augie can’t draw very well — he’s “a third-rate artist in whom a first-rate gagman was trying to claw his way out.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
Here was a master craftsman of the one-liner to rival the great American gagman Emo Phillips.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012
But by this time Capra knew enough about picture-making to get a job as gagman for Hal Roach.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the halls of the National Assembly, Giscard is known among Gaullist Deputies as le gagman because of les gimmicks.
From Time Magazine Archive
For his 59th birthday, co-workers gave him a $40 stuffed panda, a cake ablaze with candles, and a good-humored ribbing written by his own gagmen and delivered by Co-Star Lucille Ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
But good gagmen are rare and once an artist gets his hands on one he keeps him captive if he can.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 1940s he gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This?
From Time Magazine Archive
The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage.
From Time Magazine Archive
