wisecrack

An early example shows Mahesh’s new landlord making a wisecrack that he might be a terrorist.

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.

Tipsy and flailing a champagne glass around in one hand, she alludes to a Detroit stereotype about cheap housing, making a wisecrack about outsiders thinking houses can be bought for $15.

In 2019, Barack Obama said: "I've always appreciated her steadiness, her perspective, and the way a wisecrack from her reverberates around the room."

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.