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He is just the great American novelist of the great American comedy.
2
American Hustle, hardly a comedy, actually won the thing two years ago.
3
That's the largest opening of any live-action comedy so far this year.
4
Alice wants people to stop mentioning 'female comedians', especially on comedy lineups.
5
Robinson: He's a character in a comedy who takes things too far.
1
You think I won't get heckled when I'm up on stage clowning?'
2
For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life.
3
Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning?
4
Once the clowning begins, Thicke says anything is bound to happen.
5
All their dances are new and full of their characteristic clowning.
1
It makes me feel funny-andit's not a nice kind of funniness either.
2
Now, you don't appear to appreciate the funniness of the situation.
3
Wired: Were you born funny, or did your funniness come from practice and development?
4
After a while Ellis saw the funniness of it too.
5
I didn't inquire as to the nature of that funniness.
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The piccolo, in highest treble, inverts the second melody, in impertinent drollery.
2
The villagers gathered to see the city folks pursue their mad drollery.
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The admirable drollery in Congreve about Lady Froth's verses on her coachman-
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This is a little piece of drollery that I thought of myself.
5
Action rhymes, by reason of their practical drollery, never fail to amuse.
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I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.
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Everybody felt better for this touch of drollery except the captain.
8
This is what makes Sancho Panza's drollery the despair of the conscientious translator.
9
Richard Wagner's music is not famous for its hilarity and drollery.
10
The old man suddenly smiled at him, all quaint drollery again.
11
Boldness, drollery, dramatic spirit, force, and spontaneous satire characterize both artists.
12
The drollery in the voice was more touching than amusing.
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But all yield in grim drollery to the last given:-
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Of all the men I have encountered, he was the surest fund of drollery.
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Teddy did the same, and a great roar was the reward of their drollery.
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There was a suspicion of drollery in his reproachful tones.
