Spit Take
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^ Johnson, Will (May 24, 2016). "LinkedIn Called Me a White Supremacist" . Slate.com . Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
^ "Spit Take, Merriam Webster" . Merriam-Webster.com . Retrieved 18 September 2019 .
A spit-take is a comedic technique or reaction in which someone spits a drink, or sometimes food, out of their mouth as a reaction to a surprising or funny statement.
An essential part of the spit-take is comedic timing . The person performing the spit-take usually starts drinking or eating right before the punchline is delivered. When the joke hits, the person accentuate the effect by pretending that the alleged humor /shock is so overwhelming and irresistible, he cannot even control the urge of laughter/scream before swallowing, and therefore has to reflexively spit out the mouthful of content to prevent choking .
In performance, a spit-take represents a reaction of shock, while in real life it is typically one of mirth.
"Spit take" was included in the Oxford Dictionary (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary ) in a 2014 update. [1] It was also added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in an April 2019 update.
Two characters sit at a table. Character #1 has a cup of coffee in hand.
Character 1: Did they ever find that missing toxic sludge?
Character 2: Yes...
(Character 1 sips coffee.)
Character 2: Someone poured it into the coffee urn.
(Character 1 spits the coffee all over the table.)
In a spit-take, the reaction is usually one of surprise. In the above example, Character 1 intentionally spits the coffee upon learning what's inside; however, a spit-take can also be done unintentionally, in response to a surprising statement unrelated to the drink itself. The "spit" action is overly dramatized; performers will add much noise and spray liquid from their mouths in an exaggerated fashion.
Albert Brooks ' short film, The Famous Comedians School , features a workshop on spit takes.
The spit-take, as a comedic technique, is a noun, but it shows up in media in some different forms. It can be seen used figuratively in a description of a satire work: " Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping " "(it) is a spit-take on the world of contemporary pop music and celebrity..."
It can also be used as a verb: "On the morning of May 12, LinkedIn … emailed scores of my contacts and told them I’m a professional racist. It was one of those updates that LinkedIn regularly sends its users, algorithmically assembled missives about their connections’ appearances in the media…. This surely caused a few of my professional acquaintances to spit-take. — Will Johnson, Slate , 24 May 2016." [2]
The conjugation of spit-take as a verb is not clearly defined. There is evidence of both "spit-taked" and "spit took." Constructions like "made me spit-take" are convenient for avoiding this issue all together. Beyond that, leaving the phrase as a noun, like "do a spit-take," continues to be the most common usage.
Originally called a spit gag, the word itself most likely dates to the early 20th century, but it mostly existed in showbiz vernacular.
Danny Thomas , commonly associated with the spit-take, is credited [ by whom? ] as the comedian who made it famous. It is sometimes referred to as the "Danny Thomas spit take." He perfected it during the 11 seasons of The Danny Thomas Show (1953-1964). However, Ricky Ricardo did it a year earlier in an I Love Lucy (1951-1957) episode. It has been used in several sitcoms since
The "spit" part of the term is clear, but the "take" part is a little less obvious. In this context, the word "take" is used in the sense of a visible response or reaction (as to something unexpected). It is similar in construction to the phrase " double-take ". [3]
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Update: This word was added in April 2019
The act itself is familiar to anyone who's ever watched comedy: One character takes a swig or bite of something just as another character says or does something shocking or outrageous, causing the first character to spew out the contents of his or her mouth. It's called a spit take.
'Spit take' originated as a showbiz term, but it's increasingly seen in general contexts.
The spit take goes back at least as far as vaudeville, but it's commonly associated with Danny Thomas , the 20th century comedian who is often credited with making it famous. In some circles it's in fact referred to as the "Danny Thomas spit take."
Originally called a spit gag , the word spit take itself (also styled as spit-take and in some contexts as spittake ) looks, according to preliminary research, to date to the early 20th century, but it mostly existed in the realm of showbiz vernacular until this century.
Now, though, you're likely to encounter it in general contexts:
We’ll leave the most important detail for last, and that’s the price of the top-end 10-core part. First, sit down and swallow your mouthful of Diet Coke, lest you do a spit take. The price is $1,723. Yes, we’ll repeat that lest you assume it’s a typo: $1,723, for one chip. — Gordon Mah Ung, PC World , 31 May 2016
It's the only segment of the mainstream media that can bash the mainstream media and not prompt spit-takes. — Philip Bump, The Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2016
The origin of the "spit" part of the term is obvious, but the "take" part is a little opaque. It's the sense of take defined in this dictionary as "a visible response or reaction (as to something unexpected)," as in "a delayed take."
This is the same sense of take in the term double take : "a delayed reaction to a surprising or significant situation after an initial failure to notice anything unusual."
While double take has not expanded much beyond its original use (and literal meaning), though, spit take has been making all kinds of moves.
And among the most adept satirists of contemporary popular culture is the team of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone…. Their latest, “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,” is a spit-take on the world of contemporary pop music and celebrity, in which Samberg stars as a duly dull singer reuniting with his former bandmates. — Mark Olsen, The Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2016
And it's a common interjection on social media sites like Twitter, where it's often preceded by a hashtag or placed in brackets or between asterisks:
There's also evidence of spit take in use as a verb:
On the morning of May 12, LinkedIn … emailed scores of my contacts and told them I’m a professional racist. It was one of those updates that LinkedIn regularly sends its users, algorithmically assembled missives about their connections’ appearances in the media…. This surely caused a few of my professional acquaintances to spit-take. — Will Johnson, Slate , 24 May 2016
The conjugation of that verb may be a significant hurdle to full adoption, though—at least in the past tense form. We see evidence of both "spit taked" and "spit took"; neither seems easy to swallow, but the former seems at this point to be the preferred form:
Larissa spit-taked her oolong tea then laid her head on the table in a summer storm of giggles. — Bruce Wagner, I Met Someone , 2016
This is the pattern that double take follows in the occasional cases in which it's used as a verb:
Later truck-drivers honked their horns and passers-by double-taked as Mrs Cameron led her group of fashionable walkers through the streets of Whitehall to Somerset House. — Luke Leitch, The Telegraph (London), 6 Sept. 2011
In the meanwhile, constructions like "made me spit take" avoid the issue and are much more common.
Using the noun in the phrase "do a spit take," however, continues to be the most common method of employment, and it's the noun that is most likely to be considered for entry in the near future.
Words We're Watching talks about words we are increasingly seeing in use but that have not yet met our criteria for entry .
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