There is action of a sort — a car blows up, shots are fired — and what might pass for witty, sexy banter to someone who once overheard a conversation about an episode of "Moonlighting".
Gethard opens the show with some banter with someone in the front row, and it demonstrates to the audience right away that this isn't going to be a comedy show that preys on the crowd.
It's nice to have some banter, too, with someone in your own language now and again".
Related taboos already started to crumble over the last decade, as housing prices exploded, particularly in cities like New York and San Francisco, and people suddenly started to consider it innocent dinner-party banter to ask someone, to the dollar, what they paid for their two-bedroom condo.
He may well turn out to be a banter vacuum now, someone who just bought into the ideals of the club he was at a little bit too much and got carried away, like Terry Butcher throwing out all his "rebel music" U2 records when he joined Rangers.
If someone bantered me, "Are you part of that vegan religion?" I would smile, but definitely not take the bait.
Between songs, she mumbled phrases and mimicked the howls from the crowd – there was no slick banter,marking Myers out as someone who wants to operate on her own terms.
"This could be in the form of archived news reports about the defendant's previous court appearances, or it could be, to use the words of the old authorities in a modern context, mere chaff and banter about the case on someone's Facebook page or Twitter feed.
Every single in-joke that the office has shared this year in a desperate attempt to fend off the aggressive ennui of working there has now been printed off onto a faux certificate template and is being handed out by someone with zero banter and a microphone as you all sit at a table littered with dirtied plates and hasty Secret Santa wrapping.
That said, as soon as someone actually says the word "banter", all illusions of banter are lost, shattered and swept away into the wind.
