practical joker

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Noun
  • Then, teases trickled out for a few months before, and unexpectedly, WB dropped a teaser on social media in May, sending fans into a whirlwind.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 12 July 2025
  • After years of waiting and teasers from director James Gunn, the new Superman movie is now playing in theaters.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Craig Miceli, 54, told police officers that his daughter had been a victim of constant bullying at her high school and that he was infuriated by the pranksters’ antics, according to the San Mateo County district attorney’s office.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
  • This was absolutely uncalled for, and on Sunday the misguided prankster apologized.
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This time, the comedienne was asked back to comment on Newark’s airport safety, acting out a bit while on a JetBlue flight.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 17 May 2025
  • Choi is a talented comedienne, so some of her too-drunk drama scenes are entertainingly funny, but at the same time her character’s self-destructive tendencies are also heartbreaking.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.
    A.A. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
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