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merry-andrews

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plural of merry-andrew

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His astute stand-up and withering, spot-on insights into race, relationships and celebrity have influenced countless comedians and writers.

— Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026
At a moment when historically reliable sources of employment for mid-career comedians—writing for sitcoms and late night, supporting roles in film comedies, commercials—all seem to be in crisis, the podcast business is comparatively lucrative.

— Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of comedians

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Americans have demonized us as criminals, buffoons, lechers, invaders, criminals and job stealers since the fall of the Alamo.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025

Definition of buffoons

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The Twitch Like wags or swishes, occasional sharp twitches of the tail are no cause for alarm for you, the hunter.

— Tom Carpenter, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
Moreover, if Griffin stepped into public life now, the cynical wags in finance would declare the reason obvious—his hedge fund’s returns have been sagging.

— Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of wags

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There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.

— Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025

Definition of jokesters

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The latter track takes overt inspiration from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, as Jepsen beckons her love to engage in life’s vices with her, like marring bedsheets with fruit stains and dashing nude through the garden.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Holden eagerly rebels against Pencey Prep, gets the boot, and flees to New York City, a place with its own vices and hazards, but without the sort of propaganda and pretense that obscure the school’s dark underside.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

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