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Poehler, who will be honored with Variety’s Legends and Groundbreakers Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Oct. 20, notes there is a running joke around the offices of her production company, Paper Kite.
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Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
There’s a running joke that Doc Rivers dislikes playing young players, but at 25 years old, AJ Green may have outgrown that label.
—Brian Sampson, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
The llama in the film is supposed to represent showrunners’ decision early on that, as a running joke, any time cameras went backstage, the audience would see a live llama, a showgirl, and a guy dressed as Abraham Lincoln.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
Seventy-six years before the first Emmys, whose host, Walter O’Keefe, would become a minor running joke throughout the night, there was not only no television, but no movies or radio or record business.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
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Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
There’s a running joke that Doc Rivers dislikes playing young players, but at 25 years old, AJ Green may have outgrown that label.
—Brian Sampson, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
The llama in the film is supposed to represent showrunners’ decision early on that, as a running joke, any time cameras went backstage, the audience would see a live llama, a showgirl, and a guy dressed as Abraham Lincoln.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
Seventy-six years before the first Emmys, whose host, Walter O’Keefe, would become a minor running joke throughout the night, there was not only no television, but no movies or radio or record business.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
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“Running joke/gag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/running%20joke%2Fgag. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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