True that, somehow, a pratfall is always funnier than a straight walk, even on a high wire. From Wordnik.com. [Five-typo feast of fail] Reference
The master of the pratfall is back baby!. From Wordnik.com. [Fall 2009 TV Preview! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more] Reference
The sergeant glanced at him, unamused by his pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
Dig the toady's pratfall -- an instant all-time classic. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
Yet the Cardinals are not finished, even after this pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
Crumb ended the evening the way he began it, with a pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Ed’s Thoughts on the Crumb/Mouly Event » Comics Worth Reading] Reference
When a guy says he'll go down on you he doesn't mean a pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Levine: The Porn Industry Has Gone Too Far] Reference
There was more to the joke than just the pratfall or its equivalent. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Due Date] Reference
NHL players and their pratfall in the Nagano Olympics last winter, and. From Wordnik.com. [1999 World Jr. Championship] Reference
It's one thing to brush off a quarterly pratfall by a small high flier. From Wordnik.com. [This Love Could Hurt] Reference
I thought I watching the intellectual return of the Chevy Chase pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Joe The Nerd Ferraro: What Should He Have Done?] Reference
Perhaps because I had found a new way to force someone to take a pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Enjoyment] Reference
As it happened, a pratfall, functional if not stylish, saved her bridgework. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
(Thelma & Louise had its funny moments, but that final pratfall was deadly.). From Wordnik.com. [Who Says Women Aren't Funny?] Reference
Calvin almost made him slip and take a pratfall, just to pierce that dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
Next time he may not be so lucky as to have a Coakley to pratfall out of his way. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Scott Brown Claims That The Stimulus Has Not Created ‘One New Job’] Reference
Also helping stocks briefly rebound this summer was an abrupt commodities pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Recap] Reference
Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional] Reference
However, there are those (Chris Farley, for example) who made an art out of the pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [drbigbeef Diary Entry] Reference
The audience gave me a standing ovation, thinking this was a pratfall and part of the act. From Wordnik.com. [Flowers In The Attic]
And that's where the Times, rather obliviously, took the pratfall with its Limbaugh article. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Boehlert: The NY Times Sends A Dittohead To Interview Rush Limbaugh] Reference
Jokes about the pratfall president didn't come across as nasty, they were sort of endearing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2006] Reference
Kerry's goof about education and the war was another classic flub, a pratfall tinged with darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
If we have to do it in a big hurry, I think there's some potential pratfall with that, and that was that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2007] Reference
She almost took a pratfall, but a wild flail of her arms and a helping hand from Justin kept her upright. From Wordnik.com. [The Disunited States of America] Reference
This includes Mr. Owen employing a completely over-the-top southern accent and doing what amounts to a pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [A Character Actress Who Deserves True Fame] Reference
The smart money, doping past performances strictly, was on Grady, but this time the smart money took a pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Actually, I didn't so much care if I was humiliated; I've always been willing to take a pratfall for a good laugh. From Wordnik.com. [David Murray: Just Like a Woman: My 12 Downs at Quarterback (VIDEO)] Reference
His Scrooge is not the least bit funny and the occasional pratfall or high-flying antic is rarely played for laughs. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: A Christmas Carol: The 3D IMAX Experience (2009)] Reference
For me, that seemed like the last straw: set us up for a little lift, and then dash our hopes with a drunken pratfall. From Wordnik.com. [Take a Bow, George Clooney: Who Knew You Could Direct?] Reference
Investors could learn this week whether General Electric's earnings pratfall was a freak mishap or a disturbing trend. From Wordnik.com. [IBM, Google And Caterpillar: Profit Prophets?] Reference
Hyundai took a pratfall during the early 1990s for the suspect quality of the first generation of cars it sold in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Chrysler's Woes Are Partly] Reference
I did more the traditional type of comic where people fall down and get hurt and, you know, pratfall-type of classic humor. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: World Mourns Loss of 'Peanuts' Creator Charles Schulz - February 13, 2000] Reference
The sector that performs best in one period tends to take a pratfall in the next, as Nathan Hale reminds us in this smart post about ETFs. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Schurenberg: Why China Is Dangerous for Your Money] Reference
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