Fun emerged in the late 17th century and all it meant was "low-wit" or "stupidity".
Maher is intelligent, and quick, but as a comedian he's a heavy-handed drag — low on wit and full of easy ironies.
Equal measures deliberately logorrhoeic lit-crit and cultural broadside, Mr. Hirson's text aims high while avidly embracing the low — to wit, an array of flatulence jokes and the like that give Valere's verbal bravura some bodily, well, heft.
Mr. Huang applies his expertise at perpetual motion, but though he keeps up a slapstick pace, easing slightly for touches of sweet whimsy, the piece is low on wit.
Although the inclusive, vaguely ecological moral message is hard to argue with, it's pretty charmless stuff, low on wit, cheaply designed and so saccharine even reception-age kids might roll their eyes.
Partly because it tries too hard; mostly because O'Connell's abrasive, unapologetically blokey shtick (heavy on "bantz", low on wit) hasn't evolved since Loaded magazine was briefly considered a good thing.
But this hi-tech film, inspired by the original Isaac Asimov short-story collection from 1950, somehow manages to overlook the subversive potential, and it's low on wit, coming up with a good-looking but ultimately inert movie with a feeble non-ending that gave me a pain in all the diodes down my left side.
The show will do its best if it keeps clobbering its victims with high-tech firepower and low-tech wit.
There's little to match the low-budget wit and economy of that "human learning video" in Over the Hedge co-director Tim Johnson's noisily empty film.
Anderson got Murray to channel his outrageous sense of humor into low-key wit and contemplative bewilderment, in a performance that was a perfect match for the italicized delivery that Anderson elicited from Schwartzman.
