So would it be correct terminology to refer to Chico Marx or Norm Crosby or Foster Brooks or anyone else whose shtick was funny mispronunciations as a “malaprop comic?”
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So would it be correct terminology to refer to Chico Marx or Norm Crosby or Foster Brooks or anyone else whose shtick was funny mispronunciations as a “malaprop comic?”
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Most definitely appropriate. In fact, Norm Crosby is the first example on Wikipedia for Malapropism. Of course, Tigger is one of my favorites… -sln