Untroubled by inconsistency, his main problem is that he never knows when to stop; fizzing with ideas that are good, bad, too-clever-by-half, dumb, labyrinthine, exasperating, incomplete.
Above all, they're good fun: half-dumb beach reads for smart (or at least literate) people.
So, only half his dumb act is an act.
Keep the new revised shorter television diet a higher quality one - no more evenings with two good shows and an hour and a half of dumb things nobody likes in between.
He flipped on the television and watched half of something dumb.
To most of us, Lady Gaga is a talented musician with a great (and sadly under-utilized,) voice, whose act is one half catchy, sublimely dumb pop songs and one half a postmodern kitchen-sinking of references to other works.
Ranging from "too cute by half" to just plain dumb, they should all be rejected.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin November 22, 2011 In the last week and a half, Newt Gingrich called one thing "dumb" and another thing "stupid".
Peter Farrelly, the older half of the Farrelly brothers ("Dumb and Dumber," "There's Something About Mary") with his brother Bobby, concurred.
They feel he has scapegoated them for too long, calling professors lazy, administrators incompetent and students half a notch short of dumb.
There were two brothers - one half-smart, the other genuinely dumb - who'd gotten a few bucks from Mommy and Daddy, along with their partner, a slightly more cognizant college friend who could actually read a P and L sheet and crunch a few numbers.
