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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squibs
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All of Yorgos’ films, in some way or another, are comedies.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2026 -
In creating Judge Travis, Barnes drew inspiration from classic TV comedies like The Larry Sanders Show and The Bernie Mac Show.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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More than a hundred years before the French Revolution, his riotous, scathing satires dared to speak truth to some of the most absolute power in the world.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025
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Christopher Guest really took up the mantle of putting real emotional elements in these satires — look at A Mighty Wind.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Dec. 2025
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Thankfully, future performers took note and mostly left the skits to Broadway and focused on the musical performances.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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All skits aside, Fallon recently gave fans a glimpse of his life off-camera in a rare photo dump with his daughter Frances.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
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One programmer joked that his early sketches of the Goombas looked like chestnuts— kuri in Japanese, which is why Goombas are known in Japan as kuribo.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
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Late night shows like The Tonight Show typically include comedy sketches, and those have become a point of differentiation as the battle for guest bookings intensifies.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Two suburban groups, Plano’s Rover Dramawerks and MainStage Irving-Las Colinas, are opening the new year with farces by prolific British playwrights that are marked by mistaken identity and other comic twists.—
Manuel Mendoza,
Dallas Morning News,
8 Jan. 2026
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His air of louche mischief attended his farces about Dada and James Joyce and moral determinism, his cleverness worn as lightly as a scarf.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
30 Nov. 2025
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