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Guests such as Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira) and Mulaney’s real-life hypnotherapist bumped up against comedians including Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld, who gushed flop sweat while having to talk about stuff that wasn’t promo or stand-up disguised as banter.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Nearly 50 years later, the soundtrack is still soaked in flop sweat.
—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024
Quaid personifies flop sweat as White, a Louisiana pharmacist who brings his brother Jeff (Rice) along on his pilot lesson — to heckle him, apparently — before the two of them, aided by his wife Terri’s (Graham) sauce, take first prize in a barbecue cook-off.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
Time to deck the halls with angst and flop sweat!
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
A lot of that confidence melted into flop sweat during the celebrity interviews.
—Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 20 June 2021
Not the brilliant but marginalized borderline personality so popular in today’s television, but the real deal, a creature held together by flop sweat, desperate cunning and doggedly delusional ambition.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
In the lead-up to Sunday’s 94th Oscars ceremony on ABC, there’s been all kinds of panicked flop sweat about dwindling audience numbers and reversing the trend.
—Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
Will these steps liven up the show, or give it an aura of flop sweat?
—oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Nearly 50 years later, the soundtrack is still soaked in flop sweat.
—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024
Quaid personifies flop sweat as White, a Louisiana pharmacist who brings his brother Jeff (Rice) along on his pilot lesson — to heckle him, apparently — before the two of them, aided by his wife Terri’s (Graham) sauce, take first prize in a barbecue cook-off.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
Time to deck the halls with angst and flop sweat!
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
A lot of that confidence melted into flop sweat during the celebrity interviews.
—Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 20 June 2021
Not the brilliant but marginalized borderline personality so popular in today’s television, but the real deal, a creature held together by flop sweat, desperate cunning and doggedly delusional ambition.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
In the lead-up to Sunday’s 94th Oscars ceremony on ABC, there’s been all kinds of panicked flop sweat about dwindling audience numbers and reversing the trend.
—Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
Will these steps liven up the show, or give it an aura of flop sweat?
—oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
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“Flop sweat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flop%20sweat. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
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