But those twitches are never more than airy comic shtick.

The 90-minute monologue is an extended comic shtick in which Ms. Filler impersonates many members of her large Jewish family.

Sutton has a non-speaking role in some of the formal-dress scenes, and subtly performs some comic shtick.

It has long stretches with no gags, with no great tendency for comic shtick.

This hoary comic shtick can be funny when you and your dead-drunk companion get all tangled up with each other and fall flat on your faces.

To keep things moving, there was some comic shtick with a ringing telephone.

Instead of slick sophisticated satire, Miss Kaufman provides routine comic shtick.

What followed in the next 2 hours 20 minutes was not a performance, though it had moments of comic shtick, dramatic tension and tremulous, naked emotion.

His overcoming of his phobias is played as gentle comic shtick with a Chaplinesque sense of the perils of the mechanical world.

For all of Mr. Feinstein's detours into comic shtick, traditional American pop still formed the bedrock of the concert.