gag writer

He continued working through the teens and 1920s as a gag writer.

She works with gag writers around the country for possible future captions.

He broke into the movie business by means of a talent hunt for gag writers.

Bil was a good gag writer, but he'd never had this kind of assignment before.

To know what can't be shown by the gag writers, however, you have to know about a world beyond the movies.

A gag writer was also hired to create many of the ride's visual puns.

The son of a gag writer, he has a gift for snappy one-liners.

I'm a gag writer: I write a bunch of jokes, and try to string them together into a plot.

"We gag writers felt pretty good about that."

Increasingly, he ignored the Times's gag writers and began to campaign seriously, but still finished only sixth in a field of ten.

Over five years, he was variously an assistant cameraman, bit player, featured actor and gag writer.

The two books agree that most so-called Goldwynisms were the inventions of publicity agents and gag writers.

He then diligently learned his craft, advancing from prop man to gag writer to director-producer.

This news has every stand-up comic and gag writer in America in a feeding frenzy.

"A great gag writer, a great physical comic, with an endless supply of wonderful characters.

Has Brown hired a gag writer?

In "The Dinner Party," they often feel like the offerings of a veteran gag writer, hot off the word processor.

At 19, he joined a vaudeville troupe, traveling across Italy and working primarily as a gag writer while performing utility tasks.

Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers.

LeRoy worked in costumes, processing labs and as a camera assistant until he became a gag writer and actor in silent films.

This means that the producers are considering calling in a dentist from Long Island as a gag writer to boost the show's laugh quotient.)

When Astaire's show ended the following year, Oppenheimer landed a job as a radio gag writer for Jack Benny.

The celebrity panel failed to identify Harris as "Jackie Gleason's Gag Writer."

M. F. K. Fisher - author, translator and one-time Hollywood gag writer - is at her best when telling a good little story.

In addition, they were also gag writers for American comedians including Bob Hope when they wanted jokes for British tours.