In a music hall, Archie opens the show with a short would-be comic patter and a brief song and dance routine.
Mr. Froot stirs homicide into his mixture of songs, dances and comic patter: no wonder he subtitles it "A Gangster-Vaudeville."
Florville has an appealing aria at the start, and there is a nice patch of comic patter in the first encounter among Bruschino, Gaudenzio and Florville.
The only character to be seen onscreen is an entertainment impersonator, who actually changes into the people and events he talks about in his comic patter, using Will Vinton's technique of stop-motion claymation.
He normally partnered with a girl, sometimes in an adagio dance routine, sometimes comic patter.
There's no comic introductory patter.
The comic patter is the wasp in the diving suit.
In the late 1920s Warner Bros. filmed their songs and comic patter for Vitaphone short subjects.
There's a rousing opening act in which a singer, Judy Scott, serves up comic patter ("Like my dress?
In addition to performing the usual tasks expected of an orderly, he entertained the patients with comic patter, teased them, drew them out.