I think it's skitch but can't find it in dictionare|||Its 'Kitsch' as in "Inferior, tasteless copy"|||There are two answers. Interestingly both are Yiddish in origin.
shtick (or schtick) is a comic theme or gimmick. "Shtick" is derived from the Yiddish word shtik meaning "piece"; the closely-related German word St眉ck has the same meaning. The English word "piece" itself is also sometimes used in a similar context. Another variant is "bits of business" or just "bits", mannerisms such as Laurel and Hardy's fiddling with their ties, or one of them looking into the camera shaking his head while the other one would ramble on; or the countless little slapstick and nonsense routines perfected by The Three Stooges, especially by Curly. When someone approves of a shtick that has been executed by another person, the appropriate response to display such approval is simply responding, "Good Shtick."
Kitsch is a term of German or Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an existing style. The term is also used more loosely in referring to any art that is pretentious to the point of being in bad taste
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