(1) He plays innocent puppy passion perfectly and actually makes you feel Tom's pain without relying on a pratfall or incredibly idiotic double take.(2) The fall, of course, was a choreographed pratfall , spoofing all the negative stories surrounding ‘Sweet Charity.’(3) And he also had a nation's sides splitting in the second-placed moment, a classic old-fashioned pratfall in which he falls through a raised bar flap while trying to impress two women in a pub.(4) he took a pratfall into the sand(5) From the commedia dell'arte to Jackie Chan, the pratfall and other seemingly unpremeditated mishaps of physical humor have had a timeless appeal.(6) For every philosophical joke there is a pratfall or sight gag offered to balance things out.(7) The show ends where it began, balancing on the edge of a pratfall .(8) he took a pratfall into the sand(9) It's simply not the right setting for a play so full of movement and slapstick pratfalls : the cramped stage forces the cast to huddle together, while the echoey acoustics magnify every trip and body-slam.(10) As well as being a sad commentary on the state of the American comedy - a genre that once stood tall and proud - it appears as a cautionary tale about the pratfalls of pursuing an acting career.(11) It was indeed a volatile matrix of uncertainty that excited the imagination and the pen, giving us a play, Romeo and Juliet, a sublime mixture of pratfalls and poetry that appealed to crowd and Queen alike.(12) But the film suffers many of the pratfalls associated with remakes, in particular the warmed-up leftovers syndrome.(13) He is constantly involved in physical pratfalls , more cartoon figure than a person.(14) I think of it more as a no-system system with the same pitfalls and pratfalls as every other system, due to human involvement more than anything.(15) It's a strange combination of burlesque - hamming, self-parody, staged pratfalls and the gradual abrasion of the fourth wall - and the truly affecting and sinister.(16) The hardest part in confessing all this is that aside from my pronounced predilection for pratfalls , I really can't justify our forbidden love.
