wiseacre

That’s the thing about elections: they help keep wiseacres like me honest.

“Hey,” said one wiseacre, stepping into a gaggle of car people on the patio at the Mission Ranch.

Watching it now reveals an altogether different Fallon, more sarcastic wiseacre than chipper enthusiast.

While “my statue was the butt of wiseacres and witlings, I never in word, or thought, swerved from my principle,” he wrote.

Insouciance goes a fairly long way in “Confess, Fletch,” which revives the wiseacre investigator once played by Chevy Chase and featured in a series of novels by Gregory Mcdonald.