Sentences with phrase «about the comedy of»

Nothing about the comedy of democracy (the formal name we give to our republican experiment) is necessary; it is all a luxury of the decision to have a law and to raise up persons to enforce the law.

talk about a comedy of errors, only wenger could have written this mess.

Tony N» Tina's Wedding (Unrated) Screen adaptation of the long - running, Off - Broadway play, set in the Eighties, about the comedy of errors which ensues for a couple of high school sweethearts (Joey McIntyre and Mila Kunis) tying the knot when both of their Italian - American families try to take control of the wedding plans.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

And in Warner Bros Pictures» The Hangover, one of the most buzzed about comedies of the summer movie season, Helms plays another nice guy - Stu the dentist.

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.»

Though there is no definitive proof that this comedy by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg about the attempted assassination of Kim Jong - un sparked the Sony hack, it certainly got a lot of attention.

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.»

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.

Even though Christopher Hitchens» Why Women Aren't Funny is now a few years old, it remains emblematic of his generation's beliefs about a conventional, biological and historical inability to create comedy and humor.

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.»

But the men behind the Comedy Central show, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, now say that they're wary of wading too much into material about the president.

Another study found that viewers of Colbert Report knew more about campaign finance and super PACS than cable news viewers — perhaps because comedy gets people to pay attention to unpleasant but valuable information.

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

The people who claimed responsibility for the hack have said on Internet postings that they were incensed by the Sony Pictures film «The Interview,» a comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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.

Business Insider recently spoke to Matt Novack, one of the composers of the series alongside lead composer Craig Wedren (School of Rock, Anchorman, GLOW), about the challenges of composing comedy, and parodying the music of a nostalgic decade.

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.

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.

The study revealed that less than 10 percent of adult viewing on Netflix was of its much - buzzed - about original series, like «House of Cards,» its political drama, and «Orange Is the New Black,» the dark comedy about prison.

Today, on Marina Franklin's final guest co-hosting episode, James and Stephen give Marina a lightning round of questions about comedy and the comedy business.

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.

Some 200 U.S. theaters screened the Sony Pictures film despite threats of terrorism and an international cyberwar spawned by the farcical comedy about a plot to assassinate the leader of North Korea.

Now, the third season of «Sullivan & Son» was about to air, and the actor was readying for a stand - up comedy tour with fellow cast members.

The gang also talks about the evolution of late - night comedy and the war on drugs.

There have been thousands of movies about police officers, military heroes, lovers, children, comedies, and now we have one for Atheist, my people!

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.

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.

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.

Along with promising comedies, a new David O. Russell film, the latest offering from Pixar and a documentary about Hillsong, our list of the most anticipated movies of next year is filled with reboots and remakes.

How about the idiocy of soft dinosaur tissue confirming the earth is only 6000 years old, comedy gold from the apologists.

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

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.

(CNN)-- What do you get when you mix the highest profile American Catholic bishop, an icon of American comedy, a priest who regularly writes about comedy and a media blackout?

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.).

These days, the Marvel movie on everyone's lips is Black Panther, but we'd be remiss to entirely forget about Thor: Ragnarok, a shaggy, sci - fi buddy comedy that just happened to take place against a vista of wild, intergalactic gladiatorial combat.

I was at a comedy gig this week where one of the acts talked about being ope about his «wounds».

, a hard - R comedy about a group of high - school girls (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon) who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night, and their parents» (Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz) ensuing plan to stop them.

Friday saw the release of Blockers, a hard - R comedy about a group of high - school girls (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon) who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night, and their parents» (Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz) ensuing plan to stop them.

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.

A moving, contemporary version of the incarnation, enlivened by wit and charm appropriate for a divine comedy about children, Hail Mary testifies to a mystery.

Barry is all about contradictions, starting with its own style of deathly serious drama mixed with hilariously dry comedy.