| He broke into the film industry as an animator eventually working on nearly 50 comedy shorts and as a gagman, developing skills that would serve him well on the many comedies that he would direct over the course of 30 years. |
| What I hadn't realised is that Cryer, apart from being a consummate gagman, is a closet rocker. |
| This may have been, in part, due to the fact that he was honing his skills as a writer and gagman at the time. |
| So spuds sped Lynn from rock to comedy, and he's been Wales' premier gagman ever since. |
| By Charles Cooke and James Thurber The New Yorker, September 10, 1932P. 9 Talk story about Al Boasbert, the country's leading gagman. |
| We made gagman do the cleaning up, training for his work at Lehman. |
