jackass
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An actor playing a heightened, jackass version of himself and flexing improv muscles we never knew he had?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
"Any jackass can kick over a lantern and burn down a bar. It takes a carpenter to build one - we want to be on the side of the carpenter," Roemer told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2022
Mr. Fieri proceeded to make something he calls the jackass roll — rice, pork butt, fries and avocado — so named, he said, because a friend told him he looked like a jackass preparing it.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2022
As early as 2009, no less a master of rap beef than Barack Obama called West a jackass, a verdict the 44th president reconfirmed to The Atlantic in 2012.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2021
He was still standing there, smiling like the most pleased jackass.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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“Unfortunately I’m really good at playing jackasses of one kind or another,” he told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
“Unfortunately, I’m really good at playing jackasses of one kind or another,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2012.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
“Before I came down with the virus, I was one of those jackasses who thought the virus would disappear the day after the election. I was one of those conspiracy theorists,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
And I know my sister and I were jackasses who sometimes deserved to be yelled at.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2020
If it came up heads, it simply meant that the three men would have to line up in a row and make jackasses of themselves once again in front of the live television cameras.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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