wisecrack

Pickard got the audience laughing with his wisecrack: "The song Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII. I'd play some of it here, but it's not royalty-free."

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

Burry is just as likely to be dismissed on social media, where jokers trot out a version of a wisecrack that he predicted 20 of the last two recessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

More powerful than any wisecrack was the space she left for anticipation not only of what she might say but how she might say it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

In the aftermath of her cable show being canceled last April, Ziwe has spent her post Showtime period being online famous in continuing her spicy brand of witty, wisecrack colloquial humor.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

At some point, a line in the play had led to Laura making some wisecrack about the tokens business, and we’d all laughed, Miss Lucy included.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

The other is “Fleabag”: Like Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acidic reprobate, Ms. Weisz’s character is unconstrained by a fourth wall, sharing with us, reflecting, observing, making wisecracks but not being particularly funny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

"Parker offers immaculate room service as she delivers polished rounds of rueful wisecracks."

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024

Some of them, like me, were journalists who had dutifully showed up to watch Tiffany Haddish trade wisecracks with digital ectoplasm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Arthur Engoron, a 74-year-old judge with a penchant for wisecracks, sat just a few feet away from the prickly, smirking former president whose bluster and bravado helped propel him to the White House.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

Kids wouldn’t move to the right places during rehearsals, or would ad-lib wisecracks, which Mrs. Finley didn’t think at all funny.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

After asking Warsh to stand, Trump wisecracked that he would sue him if he failed to lower rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

He added that he was “grateful to my doctors for their care and to Evie and the kids for putting up with me” and wisecracked that all his emails would “be handled by my pancreas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

The bond also involved friendly rivalry and humor: “I never knew I’d be married to somebody that old,” he wisecracked when Rosalynn was 91.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

“I would trade it in a minute, if I could just be a wife and mother,” wisecracked the gold lamé-wrapped, gum-chewing Tenuta, who accepted her award from Carlin.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

“I did it in a moment of weakness,” Yossarian wisecracked with glum irony.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Whenever the tone of the film tilts toward the overly reverent, Waters comes in with a bit of wisecracking, truthtelling remembrance: Oliver chain-smoked, swore, was stubborn, walked in the forest “like a crazy person.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Nicholas Brendon, best known for portraying the loyal, wisecracking Xander Harris in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” died Friday from natural causes after dealing with a congenital heart defect and other health issues in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

It’s tough to top the superlative energy Moore shared with Asner, Valerie Harper’s wisecracking Rhoda Morgenstern and Cloris Leachman as Mary’s smugly married downstairs neighbor, Phyllis.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

Dobson's wisecracking style of magic saw him rise to prominence through the 1980s.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

In the middle sat Garvey, the gravelly-voiced, wisecracking Indian parole officer from Minneapolis.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen