1.   All it takes to dash such fantasies is a director with no instinct for the sight gag, and the most carefully prepared comic bits fizzle like soggy firecrackers.

2.   But his comic bits prove useless in livening up the film when the Farrellys run short of material.

3.   For years, Joey has been sexually impotent, a condition to which the movie alludes in several nastily funny comic bits.

4.   He kept adding comic bits to his guitarwork.

5.   His comic bits were jumbled, his delivery clouded in rage.

6.   Its weary cliches and flat comic bits are apparently supposed to be fresh and insightful.

7.   Most of the fun in the movie is its riffs and comic bits.

8.   She never wrote her own material or even suggested comic bits.

9.   The ever-shrewd Kelley addressed both issues in comic bits on the show.

10.   The movie is at its most disarming when it slackens the pace and takes its time developing a comic bit.