He started fooling around on stage and brought the house down in the process, the tough audience quickly warming to his gritty humour.
And with a measure of wry, gritty, unexpected humor as well.
We witness touching displays of grief and sorrow and many flashes of a gritty streetwise humor.
Mr. Naumoff delivers all of this bad news with energetic, gritty good humor - at least for those readers who can take the joke.
Against that, though, many people sought to invoke the memory of Britain's bulldog wartime spirit, when Londoners grew accustomed to German bombing and confronted it with gritty humor.
The show's gritty yet verbose humour derived largely from the tensions between Terry's cynical, everyman, working class personality and Bob's ambition to better himself and move to the middle class.
-San Francisco Examiner "One need not be a new parent to appreciate Lamott's glib and gritty good humor in the face of annihilating weariness.
The innate tragic grandeur and gritty, stinging humor of this story of racial exploitation and musicians at loggerheads can be discerned only in fitful flashes.
The gritty humor is a bonus.
