I wonder if that's where the term "hamming" for the camera came from?.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lebovitz] Reference

He looked around him, terribly casual, hamming it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kobra Manifesto]

He bowed again, which I thought was hamming it a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sign of Chaos]

Not acting at all would be better than hamming it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drawing of the Three]

All about cat-hamming and what I must do to avoid it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

As it was, he just looked as if he were hamming it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

How could someone immediately then start hamming it up?.    From Wordnik.com.  [When humor tells us troubling truths...about ourselves] Reference

And so I kind of, like, you know, was hamming it up extra special.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Birch: The 'Bible Belt,' In Eclectic Song] Reference

VARGAS: Kelly Ripa, that ` s her hamming it up with Regis Philbin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2005] Reference

It makes my skin crawl to hear an actor hamming the drawl too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

He also warned against tricks and against hamming it up on the radio.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS: The Power and the Profits] Reference

We have been hamming it up a bit, screeching things like "Sock wars!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

I said, only mildly ashamed of the disgraceful way I was hamming it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dexter in the dark]

Titters had begun at the way the girl playing Ismene was hamming it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Frequently hamming it up, George to some (his base) can be a laugh riot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape to Crawford] Reference

Here he is hamming it up with reporters ( "my base") at a black-tie event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel Beehner: Bad Timing for a Broadway Show] Reference

"Cat-hamming is ended, " Skimmerhorn said, leading the young bull to a dray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

Tony Carlucci stopped hamming it up and straightened importantly in my chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tinker's Dam] Reference

Mr. NAVARRETTE: I can't figure it out, is this hamming it up for just Hamlet?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race?] Reference

When he's not hamming it up with us on the radio, you can find him on his blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is There A Sarah Palin Effect?] Reference

After the jump, check out another photo of Lindsay hamming it up for the cameras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Lindsay Lohan SCRAMs, Shows Love For Tru Blood] Reference

Only dress him up if he is comfortable with it and enjoys hamming it up for guests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brianne DiSylvester: How To Keep Your Dog Safe and Happy This Halloween] Reference

Here he is, at once deadpanning or hamming it up with his fawning "buddy" Bill Maher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pundit as Careerist: The Art of Sounding Smart] Reference

It was a challenge for me to “act,” even if it was only hamming it up pantomime style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad Dog Movies « 25 Hour Horror Feast] Reference

Riggs played the male chauvinist, hamming it up for the cameras, while King focused on her game.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2008] Reference

The girls then all fall down on top of one another, are mugging and hamming it up for the camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2002] Reference

CHORUS half-speaks, half-sings the opening lines before the music kicks in, hamming it up big-time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nowhere Town: Act TWO Scene I] Reference

The members are hammering one another almost as much as they're hamming the fine points of this bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009] Reference

He contradicted himself several times and he really seemed to be hamming it up, at times, for the camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007] Reference

I could tell just in the last couple of hours that the winds have picked up and no, I'm not hamming it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007] Reference

You see these children jumping on a trampoline, and then they fall down and are hamming around for the camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2002] Reference

My Mom tips an empty wine bottle to her lips, hamming for the camera, my Dad's mouth agape in faux bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Much Silence, So Much Space] Reference

And then there's Britain's Oliver Reed, hamming a hissably villainous cattle baron with a burr that could shred a bagpipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sequel: A Sudsy Return To Lonesome Dove] Reference

Michaele also posted pics of her posing with Matt Damon and hamming it up with the "Dancing with the Stars" champ Donny Osmond.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009] Reference