Sentences with phrase «about comedy in»

While I'm at it, the Gamers With Jobs podcast had an interview with Tim Schafer about comedy in games, and the writing process for Brutal Legend.

Not exact matches

She trades in observation comedy, sometimes about situations she's far removed from («Types of Kids at School,» for example).

Netflix description: «Emma Stone and Jonah Hill star in this remake of a Norwegian dark - comedy series about an institutionalized man who lives a fantasy life in his dreams.»

Summary: This semi-autobiographical show about Andrew «Dice» Clay's attempted resurgence in the comedy scene lasted just two seasons.

Amazon description: «A coming - of - age comedy set in the «go - go» 80s about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end — and the future begins.»

After Alex Jones used his platform to rant about the Comedy Central host, Klepper weaved his comments about «The Opposition» into a bit at a test screening in New York.

The movie, which is due to be released in the United States and Canada on Dec. 25, is a comedy about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Not to belabor the point about the irrational exuberance that was the taper talk, but it's not often that one finds moments of true comedy in the staid world of high finance.

Just look at Seinfeld: as of this April, the emblematic»90s comedy «about nothing» has banked more than US$ 3 billion in syndication revenue for its creators.

A year ago Sony suffered a major hack that prompted a string of events that seemed worthy of a tragic - comic blockbuster, in response to the studio's comedy about North Korea, «The Interview.»

They have a sense of humor about things and recognize the importance of finding the joy in the irony and comedy of everyday life.

«In a 2008 study, nearly 120 students were induced to feel amused, neutral, or sad (by watching a comedy video, a nature documentary, or a film clip about cancer).

A comedy about a group of Vermont state police officers engaged in a border dispute with Canadian «Mounties,» «Super Troopers 2» premiered to a solid opening over the weekend, raking in $ 14.7 million against the $ 5 million to $ 7 million it was projected to hit.

What it's about: The type of comedy that would never get made today, «Blazing Saddles» shows Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder at the height of their talents, with a scathing satire on racial attitudes in America.

Urinetown — a satirical comedy about assistant urinal custodian Bobby Strong's rebellion against the mega-corporation Urine Good Company — opened in Toronto in the late spring of 2004.

«Fast Money's» Karen Finerman spoke to Kathy Griffin about women in business, in comedy and her investment strategies.

Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation incomedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation inComedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

An animated comedy about the struggles of the former sitcom star (Will Arnett) who happens to be half - horse, half - man, while living in Los Angeles.

A half - hour show will give me the time to do a higher percentage of the comedy in, and out, of the studio that I love and that seems to resonate in this new digital world,» O'Brien said about the changes.

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

The comedy actress known for her roles in Miranda and Bridget Jones talks about her Christian conversion and her campaign for Down's syndrome... More

The comedy actress known for her roles in Miranda and Bridget Jones talks about her Christian conversion... More

A reader of the Comedy unversed in medieval debates and unaware of Dante's idiosyncratic notions about them is easily persuaded that this work indeed represents the late middle ages in nuce.

Created in misinformation and convoluted by error, a comedy is resolved by the disclosure of a deeper knowledge about the harmonious way things really are.

In comedies as diverse as Shakespeare's and those on prime time television, life progresses from a state of crisis created by some illusion to a harmonious recovery brought about by discovering the true nature of the circumstances.

In the end, he had to put on the only completely crueltyfree film he could find, a comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, but I still managed to cry when they crossed the finishing line and wondered whether this transformation into a pathetic weepy female was permanent.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

The thing about Tim, leaving aside his comedy, he's also the most stunningly talented musician in terms of song writing.

Maybe you even feel a little lost, like Dory Stewart in the new TBS show Search Party, a new dark comedy about a girl who finds meaning in someone else's story.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

It manipulates the whimsy of fan - boy power that Jared Hess explicated in his fine but critically reviled Gentlemen Bronchos (a comedy about young, would - be sci - fi novelists) and that David Gordon Green's 2000 George Washington, with its poor Southern boy wearing an old football helmet, basketball jersey, and kitchen - curtain - cape made poignant.

Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social justice issues, for much of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work with him when he was an MTV VJ.).

I sometimes imagine there is a «Comedy Hour» in heaven where God and the angels read through all the things we Christian theologians preach and teach and write about.

Lol David — I don't intend to be insensitive in laughing, rather, to laugh at the silliness of it, a comedy tutor once said to me that comedy is about alchemising what has been pain into passages of great beauty.

«There's comedy about it, hot debate about it, lots of pundits weighing in.

There were some iffy - looking films made at the time, and in French cinema there's the fine Louis Malle comedy May Fools about May 1968, but that's about all that I'm recalling.

Reminds me of what a comedy tutor said about comedy having in common with other art forms of alchemising pain into passages of great beauty.

(CNN)- The Muslims are Coming is a comedy tour that is traveling to small towns throughout the South in hopes of opening up a discussion about Muslim stereotypes.

I know in my earlier years when I would «align» myself with «white» values, I felt I was different and doing something special, and then I realized what Whoopi Goldberg said in her comedy routine years ago about the little girl who wanted to be white with the long flowing hair, «you still gon be black.»

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The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

For one, comedy is self - elevating (it's supposed to be about you) whereas preaching should be, at least in some way, self - denying.

There is a show that is supposed to be funny... about home videos where people have «accidents» or strange things happen to them and often I believe someone must have gotten hurt when they fall or slam into something... and people just roar and think it is so funny, but stuff like that does not make me laugh as I think about how that must have hurt... so I guess humor is in one's funny bone, and that is about all I can say about comedy!

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

When not mentoring other sommeliers in the Bay Area, she can be found at the clubs watching live comedy and drag, tweeting about feminism, or at home drinking Burgundy while slaying dragons on her Xbox.

He has built a stereo control room (about 5 by 5 feet) off his den, and in it he keeps his records (mostly musical - comedy albums), turntable, tape recorder and amplifiers.

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After filling the role of a player in Eddie, a 1996 Whoopi Goldberg comedy about NBA life, Fox stepped out to thespian three - point range this summer in Oz, a riveting drama on HBO about a maximum - security prison.

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