Although New York is not in play, it was hard to tell by the effort that both Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush brought to their two speeches, a combination of jokes, skilled shots at their opponents, and even efforts to display their knowledge of New York politics.
"Skilled dentistry," he joked.
He/she has to be fast and discreet while doing the prank, and be bold and skilled in the ways of practical joke-dom.
Teammates, noting how often Revis held down the elite wide receivers the Jets faced, used to joke that the most skilled opponents got lost on Revis Island.
He's also a surprisingly entertaining presence who keeps you watching with his tears, anecdotes, foibles, jokes and odd talents: a skilled machinist, he makes espresso machines.
Don't tell jokes unless you are truly skilled at it.
Both are also skilled, if that's the word, at telling corny jokes.
As Hill is a skilled tap dancer, but Janney is not, the two would do this joke where Janney would fake tap dancing in a doorway while Hill did it for real behind the wall.
But it barely touches on how Newman's Own, started as a joke, then run as a circus, and now in the hands of skilled executives, has recently become a mainstream fixture, procuring lucrative alliances with McDonald's and Costco.
At least in that regard, Victor, who speaks in Mr. Sullivan's voice, is something of an alter ego for the filmmaker, a skilled illustrator and cultural omnivore who decorates his imaginary provincial landscape with odd little jokes and allusions.
