Former Gov. Jon M. Huntsman of Utah came prepared with a pocketful of zingers, but his dry delivery, coupled with a Tea Party audience who never quite warmed to him, often left his one-liners hanging awkwardly.
Here's a few examples of previous contest winners for inspiration, but, as a personal request, let's see if we can break the tired leitmotif of bored dudes in drippy eye-liner hanging out in a forest.
As parrots can, he also picked up one-liners from hanging around the lab, like "calm down" and "good morning".
Michael Moreland, as the slightly desperate whiny ginger Stevie, and Andy Clark, as the "sexier" Tony, have some fabulous Scots-male silences together, stirring one-liners left hanging and sweating in awkwardness.
If I don't see some on parade in a show garden at Chelsea this year, I'll eat my hanging basket liner.
Cut away any excess liner that might be hanging over the side of the bog area.
Rodriguez also ripped a liner to center field — "a hanging cutter," Pettitte said, chuckling — which probably would have been a single.
As the Los Angeles Times writes, "More curious is how ineffectual the gabbing menagerie shtick is, as if a group of majestic beasts... are only interesting when hanging around tossing out one-liners.
He gradually honed his stagecraft – "hanging cut, listening to stories, picking up ideas, one-liners, jokes" – and eventually developed his highly individual stage persona and style.
At a meager833 minutes, "Zoom" can't afford to spend the first 60 hanging around in a government building while Mr. Allen delivers one-liners as exhausted as his demeanor.
Far from hanging out, hoping for inspiration, she has stayed as close to the originals as possible, citing, in her liner notes, a dictum from opera diva Maria Callas: 'The composer has already taken care of everything.
