If I use the phrase vaudevillian for Bill Clinton, by contrast you think that President Bush has a front row seat to watch rather than to perform. ❋ Unknown (2001)
In his more relaxed moments, Bernard's speech fell into a kind of vaudevillian patois. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rebecca Mead, writing in the New Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction." ❋ Unknown (2010)
And Jody Rosen argues that Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago. ❋ Unknown (2006)
With this "vaudevillian" song the band wanted to assert that "this wouldn't be a paint-by-numbers Hold Steady record," says Mr. Kubler. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Jody Rosen argues that "Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He never lectures or hectors, and he never reduces the drama to a vaudevillian conflict between white-hatted environmentalists and mustache-twirling industrialists - the kind of bumper-sticker poses that can make environmental fiction sound so schoolmarmish. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Miss Hope Springs, a 6ft 2in "ex-Las Vegas showgirl", is the retro-glam, vaudevillian alter ego created by the pianist Ty Jeffries in order to sing his own compositions in theatres and clubs around the country. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Here is former vaudevillian Eddie Cantor performing two songs in 1923: ❋ George Heymont (2011)
Interview magazine says “these vaudevillian vamps are putting the show back in showmanship.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
If the sight of a puffy Damon wearing a Tom Selleck mustache isn't enough of a gag, the film's vaudevillian score, composed by the inimitable Marvin Hamlisch, will do the trick. ❋ Alex Baldinger (2010)
When the youngest son (Johnnie Ray) decides to become a priest, his father (a long-time vaudevillian and hoofer) reacts as negatively as some men do upon learning that their son is gay. ❋ George Heymont (2012)
I think that Freddy kind of became a vaudevillian comedian rather than a really terrifying character. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Theatre Alley, tucked inside the Financial District, still bears a vaudevillian wall painting from "Billy Bathgate," which filmed there in 1991. ❋ Nick Carr (2011)
They performed the typical song-and-dance numbers, comic dialogues, skits and humorous songs of the vaudeville oeuvre, but found fame when they discovered, after portraying the stereotypical vaudevillian roles of con-man and victim (Williams and Walker, respectively), that they got a better reaction by switching roles. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even within that, though, we had these wraparound bits we did of Tom walking to the stage, passing these other vaudevillian performers--we wanted to make it feel like we shot it in the '60s or something. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)
Perhaps the finest postwar American writer (in my view) is Stanley Elkin, whose work is relentlessly comic in an almost vaudevillian way, and which implicitly includes within its comic purview Elkin's own hyperactive, gloriously excessive style, its at times ridiculously extended tropes and setpieces offered up as the focus of laughter in and of themselves. ❋ Unknown (2010)
