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Practical joke.
A practical joke is a trick played on someone that is meant to be funny for people watching, though normally embarrassing for the person being tricked.
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One was a Johnny Carson special on practical jokes that didn't pan out because of one of his divorces.
He joked with teammates, joined in on practical jokes, even had a kangaroo court to handle in-house offenses.
Written in a style studded with epigrams and with well-contrived plots often turning on practical jokes or surprise endings, his stories reveal a vein of cruelty in their author and a self-identification with the enfant terrible.
Cops are also big on practical jokes.
Although intelligent, Birkett was not noted as a particularly academic student and spent as much time on practical jokes as he did on his studies.
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In the mid-1980s, during the height of the New York tabloid wars, the Daily News sold more than a million copies a day, and the two papers had the verve to play a series of practical jokes on each other.
Just as important, he is relying on a deep well of practical jokes to ingratiate himself to players.
Don't use your costume for practical jokes on people.
Like forgetting lines, sneezing and yawning, it can be a sign of a lack of concentration, or a production and a performance which has become tired and mechanical; in fact, during long runs, actors sometimes actually try to make each other laugh by playing on-stage practical jokes.
Jacksonville Coach Jack Del Rio placed severe restrictions on the practical jokes, including rookie haircuts.
Tree was the actor-manager who brought Shakespeare to the West End, supported playwrights, founded Rada and specialised in outrageous bombast, trowelled-on greasepaint and practical jokes.
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