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For years, he recalled in his Television Academy Foundation interview, he’d tear out advertisements from Life magazine and, behind a closed bedroom door, he’d ad-lib commercials as he pretended to be on the radio.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025
It has a pantomime theatricality to it, featuring shots of the audience and including moments when the actors corpse - a term used to describe breaking character and laughing - and ad-lib on stage.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024
The speech isn’t something he can ad-lib or pull from memory, hence the notes, and he’d never use a PowerPoint presentation.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024
Whether this comment is a favored ad-lib or something his speechwriters cooked up, it needs to go, immediately.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2024
You’ll feel free to ad-lib in the confidence that you can return to your thread.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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