pratfalls

What's lacking amid the over-acting, shoddy special effects and pratfalls is imagination.

'Furry Vengeance': Coarse family film is a slapstick stinker 2010

Otherwise, Obama has successfully avoided the kind of pratfalls that loom large on TV and crystallize perceptions.

MRC Latest Headlines 2009

Otherwise, Obama has successfully avoided the kind of pratfalls that loom large on TV and crystallize perceptions.

MRC Latest Headlines 2009

In the thousands of videos I've introduced over the past ten years, I've seen the mirror image of the C-SPANtastic budget "debate" played out countless times with thought-challenged bravado leading to wince inducing pratfalls.

Tom Bergeron: America's Funniest Home Videos Meets C-SPAN Tom Bergeron 2011

Why do people still find humor in crotch gags and pratfalls?

'Old Dogs' advertising makes me shrug in a clichéd way | EW.com 2009

How can he embody so many graphic idioms, from four-panel pratfalls to grisly realism, and have them cohere into such an effective and singular style?

Kirihito reprise 2010

No pratfalls – even when his character was stoned he played it straight.

The End of Time — It’s Complicated : Bev Vincent 2009

You can only do so many pratfalls before turning into Jerry Lewis.

Balloon Juice » 2010 » January 2010

The style of delivery might have moved on from his pratfalls and plaintive songs, but the tradition of the little man or woman taking on a hostile world and winning has not died but gloriously evolved.

Thanks to plucky Norman Wisdom, it's now OK to fail Stephanie Merritt 2010

In 1992 he had played a retired burglar in a film thriller, Double X, which sank almost without trace, but, more tellingly, the following year he was the subject of a South Bank Show in which he explained the secrets of pratfalls, backward tumbles and stair-falls.

Sir Norman Wisdom obituary Stephen Dixon 2010