Hamming

I wonder if that's where the term "hamming" for the camera came from? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr. NAVARRETTE: I can't figure it out, is this hamming it up for just Hamlet? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But then there's Steve Pemberton, once a creature of League Of Gentlemen strangeness, now fully integrated into the warp and weft of ITV, hamming it up like he's strayed on to the set from Rentaghost. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Mind you, the Telegraph's Neil McCormick reckons Mensch may be slightly hamming this one up.7.47pm: Graeme Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, just gave his support to David Cameron. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You don't think they are capable of lying, hamming it up a little to get sympathy? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only dress him up if he is comfortable with it and enjoys hamming it up for guests. ❋ Brianne DiSylvester (2010)

And in Charlie Wilson's War she's completely wasted in a part that doesn't require her to do anything but stand there and listen attentively while Tom Hanks has a good time hamming it up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Posada and fellow long-in-the-tooth Yankee Mariano Rivera seemed to have the most fun of any Yankees pregame, hamming it up with their old teammates during the exhibition in the morning. ❋ Daniel Barbarisi (2011)

The crap that has been passed by the congress at his initiation, his apology tour, bowing to the Saudi king, hamming it up with Chavez, all add up to a person who is an empty suit masquarding as a president. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Teenager Lauren Alaina does Shania Twain tune "Any Man of Mine" just fine, though she doesn't make it her own, in the usual sense of "Idol" judging - i.e. hamming it up. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He has many strengths -- hamming it up is not one of them. ❋ Kevin Allen (2010)

The cashier-girl is sitting at one of the dining room tables hamming it up with her gentleman friend. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The seven tracks that make up These Wings veer from lo-fi funk spirituals to the sound of a New Orleans parade viewed from inside a tropical fish tank, with Laufman's wobbly vocals like Prince hamming it up panto-style over the top, but expect big things from this man in 2012. ❋ Unknown (2011)