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
When it is really silly, the dumbness can be disarming, as it was with Nauman's predecessor, the American Dada gagman Man Ray.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Lower the Globaler When he stopped working for Comedian Jack Benny, the veteran gagman Harry Conn was asked his opinion of Benny's ability to ad-lib a joke.
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
The veteran variety man returns to the cameras with Jackie Vernon, John Byner and Eddie Lawrence heading a list of guest gagmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bob Hope's gagmen were awakened at 3 a.m. for emergency jokes; James Allardice wrote the droll TV monologues that made Alfred Hitchcock a household deity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The take: $630,000, out of which Benny pays for an orchestra, announcer, gagmen and his cast, leaving a gratifying net before taxes of some $350,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
But not a single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
