The platform stage which thrust out into the audience made asides quite common in Elizabethan drama.

He wasn't sure that a god of any kind would make asides to the audience, let along speak in Middle English and quote Wordsworth.

The song is performed in a light-hearted manner, with band members making humorous asides throughout.

At nationally televised debates, he acts as if he's making asides to colleagues in the cloakroom.

All the way back to New York, my husband and daughter made ironic asides about how close they felt after being at Smugglers'.

In The Hobbit, the narrator speaks as if he's telling a story to children, often interrupting himself to make little asides.

When things were bad, her colleagues enjoyed making furtive asides just loud enough so that she could hear them.

German artists, it must be said, were by no means above making racist asides in their works toward black musicians and minstrel singers.

Burns topped-and-tailed each episode with a monologue, and relished making asides to camera.