gagman
Example Sentences
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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
But by this time Capra knew enough about picture-making to get a job as gagman for Hal Roach.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
