gagman
Americannoun
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gagmen
plural
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a person who writes comic material for public performers.
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a comedian who uses a patter of jokes and funny remarks.
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Origin of gagman
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“As hard as it is to find anything at the Pentagon,” the veteran gagman quipped, “they finally found a sense of humor.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2018
His next-door neighbor, Augie Poole, wants the magazine to buy his cartoons, but Augie can’t draw very well — he’s “a third-rate artist in whom a first-rate gagman was trying to claw his way out.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
Here was a master craftsman of the one-liner to rival the great American gagman Emo Phillips.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012
But by this time Capra knew enough about picture-making to get a job as gagman for Hal Roach.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Lower the Globaler When he stopped working for Comedian Jack Benny, the veteran gagman Harry Conn was asked his opinion of Benny's ability to ad-lib a joke.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 1940s he gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This?
From Time Magazine Archive
The veteran variety man returns to the cameras with Jackie Vernon, John Byner and Eddie Lawrence heading a list of guest gagmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
But good gagmen are rare and once an artist gets his hands on one he keeps him captive if he can.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also had the Paramount gagmen scraping the barrel bottom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bob Hope's gagmen were awakened at 3 a.m. for emergency jokes; James Allardice wrote the droll TV monologues that made Alfred Hitchcock a household deity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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