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  • The real Bond was never meant to be the campery of Moore or the oneliner foolery of Connery.

    Shaken and Stirred 2007

  • I can't work out whether this is satire, tongue in cheek campery or just reactionary lunacy.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Rachel 2006

  • High campery, a comedy routine, and, most important of all, over two hours in the company of a man who is quite possibly the finest songwriter of our time.

    Archive 2005-05-01 annawaits 2005

  • There's the depressed response to a failed marriage ( 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free'); there's the political commentary rendered obsolete by the historical turn of events ( 'Russians'); and there's the ill-conceived stab at wholly un-Sting-like campery ( 'Englishman In New York').

    Fields of Gold 1994

  • The first two pretty much sum up Winner's USP - he doesn't buttle these days even if you've won a clutch of Oscars - the very epitome of a wise fool, who knows when to call the shots and when to judiciously ramp up the campery.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • More importantly (for fans at least), is the news of GaGa's new album title which she announced while accepting an award, which saw her bursting into song and presumably thrilling her gay followers with her knowing campery.

    Hecklerspray 2010

  • More importantly (for fans at least), is the news of GaGa's new album title which she announced while accepting an award, which saw her bursting into song and presumably thrilling her gay followers with her knowing campery.

    Hecklerspray 2010

  • "We have to remember what Rudolf looked like back then on a staid British stage," says writer and photographer Keith Money: "The bare midriff and all that glitzy Soviet campery were to some the absolute height of bad taste."

    The Sheila Variations 2009

  • First it means that Little Britain's fabulously boring high-campery might be against the law, which will see David Walliams and Matt Lucas incarcerated for the rest of their natural lives, despite the fact that either one or both of them definitely bat for the other side, an irony which they can mull over while sewing those mailbags.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • First it means that Little Britain's fabulously boring high-campery might be against the law, which will see David Walliams and Matt Lucas incarcerated for the rest of their natural lives, despite the fact that either one or both of them definitely bat for the other side, an irony which they can mull over while sewing those mailbags.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

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