(1) (Yiddish
(2) (Yiddish) a little
(3) A piece
(4) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
(5) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
(6) (Yiddish) a devious trick
(7) A bit of cheating
(1) There are many great comics who have based their stand-up shtick on observational comedy
(2) It would be easy to say Clark simply needed the time to develop his campaign shtick .
(3) I know Devito was just continuing his Taxi shtick at that point, but I really thought it worked for this movie.
(4) The shtick worked brilliantly, granting Farrell his edge but softening it too.
(5) Her shtick was to haul out her pet ferret
(6) This made him look silly, because the whole shtick belongs to a different generation.
(7) My favorite waiter there is an old man who works his charming shtick on both willing and unwilling customers.
(8) Her shtick was to haul out her pet ferret
(9) What saves the whole shtick from utter banality is Wang's great location work and his ability to get performances out of even a block of wood.
(10) Or at least it's the shtick that sets the tone for the evening's witty and intelligible discourse.
(11) The director doesn't let the shtick stand on its own but instead molds radiant and memorable characters to carry the story.
(12) I believe it is a true sign of a comedian if she can do her comedy shtick in an operating room.
(13) There are many great comics who have based their stand-up shtick on observational comedy
(14) But, that is a big part of their shtick and I guess they are stuck with it.
(15) Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at.
(16) Is Jones really flubbing his lines, or is it all part of the shtick ?
(17) Movies about ordinary women who do extraordinary thingsu2014that's my shtick
(18) Movies about ordinary women who do extraordinary thingsu2014that's my shtick
(19) Now, it's not like Johnny had some former great glory with The Swing Orchestra, but at least they had a shtick , something to work with.
(20) Thus, while the music rather than the shtick is the focus here, these songs were actually made to work as backgrounds to other arts.
(21) Sure do - but not when they're dancing, and that's why the whole shtick works.
(22) It is part of his shtick , his way of underlining the absurdity of the system.
(23) What we've already got, courtesy of executive producer Jeffrey Lane (Mad About You), is a bawdy night of shticks and bones.
(24) The best bloggers develop hobbyhorses, shticks and catchphrases that they put into wider circulation.
(25) Most comics have to work their shticks and hone their craft.
(26) One of my shticks is about why we need to do hard scientific research on religion.
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