Sentence examples for a real gag from inspiring English sources

It's a decent premise, and the story hangs together, just about, but it's not until about 20 minutes in that we get a real gag, concerning the spelling of the word suicide, and the film suffers from the romcom disease of being very light on the com.

The problem is self-indulgence and a distinct shortage of real gags.

This is a little gem of a comedy, a film candidly and professionally structured around the business of getting real laughs with real gags.

Captain Jack Sparrow sounds and moves like Johnny Depp – a remarkable achievement from a brick avatar that never forms a real word – and throwaway gags abound (the miniscule Tom Hollander/Cutler Beckett character is particularly funny).

Maybe the joke could start like this: A fashion designer walks into a real estate office…But this gag has a $25 million punch line, according to the New York Post.

That's a sitcom gag, not a real situation.

Is that a real "SNL" script or just a gag for Pumpkins-loving fans?

That precinct recorded five homicides in 2007, among them a man stabbed by a strip club dancer and the stabbing death of a real estate broker found bound and gagged in his 100th Street apartment.

He based the screenplay (originally 245 pages!) on a pair of fact-based books by Tatiana Niculescu Bran about a real nun who died after being gagged and tied to a cross for days in a Romanian monastery during an exorcism.

It's the kind of surprise "gag" FX folk love to do, and a real crowd-pleaser.

The real finishing move involves a gag gun with a "bang" flag then a real pistol that blows your opponent's brains out except in the US we won't see the latter half of that fatality.