tummler

He also worked as a tummler, a kind of social director.

Later, Tummler aims an air rifle at a cat.

The film then cuts to a different scene with the same boy, Tummler, in a wrecked car with a girl.

The film cuts back to Tummler and Solomon, who are hunting feral cats.

The narrator introduces Tummler as a boy with "a marvelous persona", whom some people call "downright evil".

Seeing that Jarrod isn't home, Tummler and Solomon decide to leave.

He is becoming a tummler.

The name of the character Tummler is taken directly from the vaudevillian term given to lower-level comics of the day.

Roth has always been a tummler, and last night he was only more so for abandoning the spandex outfits and high kicks.

"Uncle Hiram was a tummler."

He introduced the "tummler, Todd Stanford Trainer."

"A tummler was the hired social director always screaming, 'Have fun' at those borscht-belt resorts in the Catskills back in the day."

You're a perfect tummler," and when I told her I'd learned how at the Beersheba, she embraced me, wouldn't let me go.

On sitcoms, which form the bulk of comedy programs today, he or she serves more as a master of ceremonies, social director or Catskill-style tummler.

Nick was what their grandmother Elena called a tummler, a big, lovable clown-who maybe was going to turn into a successful "alrightnik" out in Hollywood.

Since 1959, when he changed course from dancer to artist, this Romanian-born (1930) tummler has been at home all over Europe, and pursued a relentlessly avant-garde career.

The hotel tummler (pronounced TOOM-ler, with the oo as in look) was often a steppingstone to bigger careers in comedy.

He learned his trade in his teenage years in the Catskill Mountains as a tummler in the Borscht Belt.

Oy, vay - whatever that may mean," to the one tummler's definition of a Zionist as "a New Yorker who pays someone else to live in Israel."

With his rapid-fire, "G'wan, let's take ya pick-cha" mantra, Mr. Schwartz turned out to be part barker, part tummler and all business.

Recalls Korine, "I saw his face and I thought that was the boy I dreamed of, that was my Tummler.

He is the boss, charge d'affaires, official greeter, maitre d'hotel, accountant, tummler and "parish priest, hearing everyone's confessions," he said in his County Clare lilt.

There was even a ballpark tummler, a Borscht Belt throwback whose job it was to get people up and, if not doing, say, the hokeypokey, then at least clapping.

It was a tummler's story, the one told by the life of the party, for Mr. Roman is the top tummler in the Valhalla of tummlering.