A shtick () is a comic theme or gimmick. They often make references to vaudeville shtick. Timberlake and Samberg work an intentionally cheesy R&B shtick with hilarious results. His ad-libbed shtick and comic asides to the audience. Because he is portrayed as insane, the Plinkett shtick "legitimates our nerd-rage by literalizing it". Like Jordan's naughty-girl/good-girl shtick, these tunes are depressingly predictable. Moran's shtick on stage was losing things. Like the other Wiggles, Page had a shtick, which was doing magic tricks. VanDerWerff praises that Thorn "undercuts [Bannon's] entire shtick". The title means "whichever-ly" (adding ungrammatical adverbial endings is a shtick of the main character). As Rebecca Goldstein records, "he kept up his instructive shtick until the end". "Some people find their shtick," Ledger reflected on the categorisation of style. I respect artists that have an act, a look, a shtick. But the shtick was piled ever higher. Norman's distinctive interview "shtick" included several recurring features.