Pratfall

True that, somehow, a pratfall is always funnier than a straight walk, even on a high wire. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or consider what psychologists call the "pratfall effect": Attractive people, it turns out, become more attractive if they commit a blunder. ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2011)

If you can’t tell a joke without yelling into the mic or making some kind of pratfall, then I suggest you invest your money well, you’ll need it very soon and for a long time. — ❋ Unknown (2007)

"The worst kind of pratfall jokes make them laugh," he said of gorillas he encountered in the Congo. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

Next time he may not be so lucky as to have a Coakley to pratfall out of his way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not because he's just a dog but because he's the only character in the film who knows how to do a pratfall and that trick is no small feat by any means. ❋ Nancy Chuda (2012)

He's the first to throw himself to the boards of the painted-desert set to incarnate a pratfall called for in the script. ❋ David Montgomery (2011)

Moneyrunner: Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argumentArthur then makes the case for partisan posturing rather than principle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Had he thought it through he would have seen the obvious pratfall into which he was falling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No 'whatever happened to Spangles' routine – just pratfall after pratfall. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On present form, even their FA Cup tie at Macclesfield on Saturday has the look of a pratfall about it. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Crumb ended the evening the way he began it, with a pratfall. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was more to the joke than just the pratfall or its equivalent. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

Rebecca Tushnet's 43 (B) log: Family Guy pratfall skip to main | skip to sidebar ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argument ❋ Unknown (2010)

A good pratfall is what turned the silent screen into an audience's roar. ❋ Nancy Chuda (2012)

Or are you a couch-potato slob with a juvenile delinquent apprentice for a son, lurching from pratfall to catastrophe? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It waits for somebody like you to pratfall and then it jumps. ❋ < (2010)

One laughed, tripped over her own feet into a pratfall, then laughed again. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

I went [rollerblading] too, but [after all] those pratfalls I'm [never going] again! ❋ FlyByTheSeatOfYourPants (2008)

That [pimp] [dequan] is so pratfall in [front] of his how. ❋ Burkblue (2015)

1. Famed pratfaller [Chevy Chase] was hilarious on the original [Saturday Night Live]. 2. [Joyce] is a habitual pratfaller because she demands to be at the center of attention at all times. It's really very sad. ❋ Improviduto (2005)

nobody laughed at the [idiotic] pratfaller, [Tyler] [Mendoza]. ❋ McCheesy (2003)

Look at that pratfall clown, his argument is comprised of him yelling random [obscenities] rather than addressing the issue. He's raging yet not getting anywhere. He isn't [making a point], he's simply spewing obscenities and falling over in his own rage. He's saying things with such low amounts of effort that they are making him look worse rather than [bettering] his case and argument. ❋ Ungkyan Shanden (2020)