Sentences with phrase «actors on the comedy»

Jack Black, Michael Cera, Dave Grohl, Winona Ryder, and Kristen Wiig are some of actors on the comedy show based on the Funny Or Die concept where historical reenactments are explained by drunk narrators.

Tambor, who won Outstanding Lead Actor on a Comedy Series for his role in Transparent — which also won for Comedy Directing in a Series — became the first male or female actor to win an Emmy for playing a transgender character.

In addition to her musical pursuits, Kamala has been a voice actor on Comedy Central's Superjail and Cartoon Network's Golden Age, and holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the New School for Social Research.

Not exact matches

Starring numerous actors who have gone on to become huge stars, this wacky 1980s - set comedy that looks at the last day of camp has become a cult classic.

Netflix, on the other hand, landed a dozen nominations, but was only victorious in one: when Aziz Ansari heard his name called for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy TV Series, for his Netflix original comedy series Master ofComedy TV Series, for his Netflix original comedy series Master ofcomedy series Master of None.

People go to see comedies based on the actor / comedian, while not many go to big event movies like Transformers to see Labeouf.

An article on Tuesday about reaction on social media to sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein quoted incorrectly from comments the HBO comedy host John Oliver made about the actor Casey Affleck.

The actor (and now director) best known for his work in films including Juno and Scott Pilgrim and, of course, as George Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, will co-star alongside John Hawkes (Winter» sBone) in a new half - hour comedy from creator Charlie Kaufman.

Danny McBride returns for new PepsiCo Mountain Dew spot - video PepsiCo has released its second Mountain Dew collaboration with comedy actor Danny McBride, who once again takes on the mantle

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Donald Glover, who won two Emmys including best comedy actor for his FX show «Atlanta,» joked on stage, «I want to thank Trump for making black people number one on the most oppressed list, he's the reason I «m up here I think.»

Vin Diesel, who co-stars with Johnson in the «Fast and Furious» franchise, came in third on men's list with $ 54.5 million, just ahead of comedy actor Adam Sandler, who made $ 50.5 million, largely because of a deal with Netflix that allows him to produce his own movies.

How many times did you wish, when you were watching a romantic comedy on TV, to feel that passion which main actors share in the movie?

In 2015, Caitlyn Jenner won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards and Jeffrey Tambor won the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of a transgender person on Amazon's «Transparent.»

British actor Tim McInnerny first caught the attention of audiences in the early»80s, playing Lord Percy Percy on the comedy series The Black Adder.

She generally appeared in comedies and musicals and was paired ten times on the screen with actor Dick Powell, to whom she was married from 1936 - 45.

When jobs became scarce in films for highly specialized character actors in the 1950s, Pangborn thrived on television, guesting on a number of comedy shows, including an appearance as a giggling serial - killer in a «Red Skelton Show» comedy sketch.

Smigel eventually had enough bits to launch a whole show as creator, executive producer, and voice actor of TV Funhouse on Comedy Central.

Fan ascended to star billing as Breeze Loo (a riff on Bruce Lee) in Finishing the Game (2007)-- a martial arts - themed comedy about director Robert Clouse's attempts to polish off the actioner The Game of Death following the death of lead actor Lee.

Christopher's won three Emmy awards — two for Outstanding Supporting actor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar&raactor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar&raActor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar».

A gender - bending role in the 1989 comedy Nobody's Perfect provided more exposure for the emerging actor, though it wasn't until his breakthrough performance in the 1991 - 1993 seasons of Life Goes On that audiences truly realized his dramatic abilities.

Picking out any to discuss is a problem; I could write an essay on the subtleties and joys of each actor, from James Spader's surprising energy and comedy to David Straitharn's astonishing deftness juggling exasperation with and admiration for the president he serves as Secretary of State.

Born January 26th, 1966, Rainn Wilson is best known for playing über - nerd Dwight Schrute on the NBC comedy The Office, actor Rainn Wilson parlayed a Broadway career into screen work that began with a role on the daytime soap One Life to Live.

If one were to base one's judgment of David Schwimmer's talent on his low - key performance as the anxious, awkward but lovable paleontologist Ross on NBC's smash hit comedy Friends, one might never suspect that beneath the affable exterior lies a versatile, multi-talented actor and filmmaker.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

Sure, they may have popped up in the odd film to give a solid dramatic performance, or cameo in a comedy, but the real magic from seeing these actors on - screen just is not the same anymore.

The hammy younger actor [James Roday] isn't quite as cute as he thinks he is, and he belongs on a louder comedy series, a laugh - track sitcom in which his clowning might fit in more naturally.

On the heels of their previously announced action - comedy, 30 Minutes or Less, from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, actors Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari are attached to star in a second planned comedy feature, this one currently untitled.

Briefly: Director Jody Hill and actor Danny McBride made the bleak comedy The Foot Fist Way before collaborating on multiple seasons of HBO's comedy series Eastbound and Down.

Soon after his breakout in «Bottle Rocket,» Wilson had a small role in Stiller's second movie as director, the dark Jim Carrey comedy «The Cable Guy,» then paired with him on addiction drama «Permanent Midnight,» but the film that really launched them as co-stars was Stiller's absurdist comedy «Zoolander,» with the actors playing moronic male models.

The event, which honored the industry's top writers, directors, actors and stand - up comedians, took place in New York last month and was simulcast on Comedy Central, Spike TV, TV Land, VH1 and Nick at Nite on Sunday.

He didn't exactly choose an easy project for a first film, as black comedy is a very difficult style of film to pull off, and with a cast of very seasoned actors to have to tell precisely what to do, Guthe very well could have lost control and focus on the project and turned in a disaster.

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Wahlberg may not have a giant range as an actor on the whole, but for a guy who started his career in action flicks, he now has an even firmer handle on comedy.

I loved the way Coppola and her actors negotiated the hazards of romance and comedy, taking what little they needed and depending for the rest on the truth of the characters.»

I have pretty much the same winners here as with Oscar, with the exception of Ridley Scott winning Best Director, on the potential strength of The Martian going Comedy and winning Best Picture in that area and getting Matt Damon that Best Actor win as well.

Reminiscent in tone to classic dark screwball comedies like Ruthless People, director Seth Gordon (Four Christmases, The King of Kong) succeeds by keeping the energy high, the actors flowing naturally with off - the - cuff reactions, and by keeping the tone light, the performances spot on, and the quips lightning - fast throughout, even during the pitch - black comedy moments.

Lead actors nominated in a comedy series along with LeBlanc are Alec Baldwin for «30 Rock,» Steve Carell for his final season on «The Office,» newcomers Louis C.K. for «Louie» and Johnny Galecki for «The Big Bang Theory,» and last year's winner, Jim Parsons, also for «The Big Bang Theory.»

Penélope Cruz rescues this frequently silly comedy, set on a 1950s film set in Franco's Spain, as a larger - than - life actor in a part - entertaining, part - exasperating tale

Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.

Odds are you have seen Entourage, HBO's successful 2004 comedy - turned - drama, which is loosely based on Mark Wahlberg's experiences in Hollywood as depicted through the life of star actor Vincent Chase.

After that, the young actor would gravitate more to comedy, reuniting with two of his Platoon stars for some of his better movies (Tom Berenger on the two Major League films and Keith David on the underrated, hilarious Men at Work).

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

And so is the movie itself; Horrible Bosses is one of those comedies that gets by on a mix of likeable actors and being just funny enough.

Viewers would be forgiven for their hesitance to see another movie from the directors of the «Vacation» reboot, but John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, working from a pitch - perfect screenplay by Mark Perez («Accepted»), have crafted an ensemble comedy that lives up to its high - concept premise while giving a gang of talented actors — including the gifted Jason Bateman, so rarely employed to great effect on the big screen — fun characters and big, outrageous moments.

On Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture comedy or musical for his role in the film.

However, as much as we might be able to protect ourselves, when Bay plays the film for comedy — that's when he puts the steel - toed boots on and really drives it into your groin with a wallop, and the only reason the final hour of destructive mayhem seems easier to take is that the actors play heir roles with straight - faced seriousness.

Payne's cringe comedy follows crabby teacher / unpublished novelist Paul Giamatti and soon - to - be-married hack actor Thomas Haden Church on a bachelor's trip through Santa Barbara County wine country.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Rated R for strong crude and sexual content throughout, brief graphic nudity, pervasive language, comic violence and drug use Available on DVD and Blu - ray With the help of Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C. Reilly, Will Forte and many others, comic actors Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim star in this sketch comedy - like movie about two idiot filmmakers that lose everything and are forced to run a mall that has been rundown.