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In the episode, George Costanza goes to great lengths to deliver a retort (the eponymous comeback) to a coworker that he thought of too late to deliver on the spot (a phenomenon described by the French expression l'esprit de l'escalier). Jerry Seinfeld learns the proprietor of a tennis pro shop is a bad tennis player.
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Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS.
Comeback (publicity), a return to prominence by a well-known person; Comeback (retort), a witty response to an insult or criticism; Comeback (sports), an event where an athlete or team losing a contest by a wide margin ultimately prevails The Comeback (American football), a 1993 NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Oilers
Molly Shannon. For seven seasons (from 1995 to 2001), Molly Shannon brought all the funny to SNL as a cast member. She has since mixed a bit of drama into her acting work, starring in shows like ...
An older English term that was sometimes used for this meaning is afterwit; it is used, for example, in James Joyce's Ulysses (Chapter 9).. The Yiddish trepverter ("staircase words") [4] and the German loan translation Treppenwitz express the same idea as l'esprit de l'escalier.
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