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tummler

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tumm·ler  (tmlr)
n.
1. One, such as a social director or entertainer, who encourages guest or audience participation.
2. One who incites others to action.

[Yiddish tumler, from tumlen, to make a racket.]

tummler [ˈtʌmlə]
n
(Performing Arts / Theatre) a comedian or other entertainer employed to encourage audience participation or to encourage guests at a resort to take part in communal activities
[Yiddish, from tumlen to stir, bustle]


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The book to which this bears the most resemblance—William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade—is written in the voice of a wise-guy big brother, a tummler who wants us to have a good time while we’re (hopefully) learning something.
At the roast, Gilbert Gottfried, a squinting tummler with a shrieking ferret schtick, was scorching old Hugh.
Catskill refugees, they were tummlers and shpritzers incubated in resorts, supper clubs, casinos.
 
 
 
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