Sentences with phrase «as a comedy for»

It's classified as a comedy for the purposes of the Golden Globes, but there are fewer jokes than there were in The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie this evokes enough to categorize as a spiritual sequel or companion piece.

Viggo Mortensen enters Best Actor in a Drama for «Captain Fantastic» (he was submitted as a Comedy for Critics Choice).

The film was submitted as a Comedy for Critics Choice and a Drama for the Globes, earning Mortensen nominations in those respective Lead Actor categories.

Not exact matches

He has had a notable media career outside of football as well, serving as an NFL analyst for CBS for several years and even starring in the Jim Carrey comedy «Ace Ventura Pet Detective.»

Just ask Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling, who are responsible for two network comedies some might call hits, and others might label as failures.

But as broadcast entertainment moves ever faster toward a world where viewers are free to choose what they watch, where they watch it and when, the audience for top dramas and comedies continues to fragment.

Dynamics has since inked deals to create and produce an original unscripted show with Zac Efron for MTV; a comedy show, Wild»n on Tour, with Nick Cannon for MTV2; a scripted show for Animal Planet, starring Anthony Anderson, which Volk - Weiss describes as «The Daily Show for animal lovers»; a comedy special featuring Kevin Hart; and a scripted series for Seeso.

When that happens, Volk - Weiss had better hope that comedy is as hot as it is now, that he's as good at producing it as he is now, and that his clients will still be willing to overlook the fact that with every deal they make with him, they hand him a few more bullets for his gun.

NBCUniversal has a subscription service called Seeso specifically for comedy, and the Peacock network is planning to launch as many as nine targeted services aimed at discrete markets.

According to Comedy Hype, Chappelle was recording these sets as his next comedy special, and their sources have told them it'll be for HBO, although there's no title set in stone just yet, and nor is there a date on when we can hope to sComedy Hype, Chappelle was recording these sets as his next comedy special, and their sources have told them it'll be for HBO, although there's no title set in stone just yet, and nor is there a date on when we can hope to scomedy special, and their sources have told them it'll be for HBO, although there's no title set in stone just yet, and nor is there a date on when we can hope to see it.

Not that I'm complaining, as HBO has been a friend to stand - up comedy for decades.

Since securing a job as a writer for «30 Rock» in 2006, Glover has used his diverse talents and signature humor to find success in a staggering number of industries, including television, stand - up comedy, music, and film.

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.

As for Community, NBC renewed the celebrated comedy for a fifth season, bringing the total tally to 94 episodes.

«You might have «Comedies» as your fifth row,» says Yellin, «and for another person it might be 25th.

His background is impressive, having written 10 books and appearing regularly on CNN Headline News, Fox News, and Fox Business, as well as numerous nationally syndicated radio programs — for financial advice, not comedy.

Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's dark comedy won acclaim for its biting take on the pitfalls of Hollywood fame as well as some daringly experimental cinematography.

When I trained with The Second City (the famed comedy and improvisational school that is known as the breeding ground for SNL, etc.), I had a few options.

In a statement, Univision's chief news and digital officer Isaac Lee said comedy is «playing an expanding role in our culture as a vehicle for audiences to explore, debate, and understand the important ideas of our time.»

From Comedy Central's ability to provide a fresh outlet for up - and - coming comedians to VH1 unveiling the truth, grit and brilliance behind artists such as Bob Marley and John Lennon, Viacom's properties were once the envy of mainstream television networks.

The extent of her contributions as producer - writer - director, for which she's gained respect within the industry, is still unknown to the general public — not to mention her talent for sketch comedy, which is on view in her movies.

When Trump and Daniels met for the first time, at the July 2006 American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Stateline, Nevada, she was already porn - famous enough that the previous year she had a bit part in the 2005 Judd Apatow comedy «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» (as a fantasy character).

What really got Scientology's goat, however, was the November airing on Comedy Central of a South Park spoof of Scientology, called «Trapped in the Closet,» in which a kid named Stan pays $ 240 for auditing and scores off the Bridge as an O.T. IX, which makes everyone think he is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard.

Show to Watch for: The Meyers - created animated comedy The Awesomes, which debuted in August, features the voices of SNL alum Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader and Taran Killam as members of the world's (former) greatest superhero team.

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner:: Buechner is another perennial favourite of mine but this one somehow escaped my notice for many a year.

If his life seems fairly unremarkable except for the bitterness of the exile and of his unfulfilled political hopes, it resulted in an overpowering single work, the Comedy (which was not known as The Divine Comedy until 1555, an apt editorial intervention that has remained with the poem to this day).

It is what the saints strive for, what Dante attempted to suggest in the closing lines of the Divine Comedy, what, in a lesser way, many of our best novels grope after as well.

She has been described as «America's pastor for outsiders» and her route into the priesthood came via alcoholism and stand - up comedy.

Actually, while Allen does include standard religious solutions as his targets for comedy, he is far from regarding thoughtful religious inquiry as inane.

Watching ultraconservative fundamentalist Republicans» faces as they try to bring themselves to vote for Mitt the Magic Mormon (with his history of por - choice and universal health care) = comedy event of the decade!

More often, though, he aims at a kind of sardonic comedy, as in his «Rejection Note for Paradise Regained,» imagining what John Milton's publishers might have said to his follow - up to Paradise Lost:

The burdens of the book are to establish that television and movies are nihilistic; they display the inherent tendency of democratic liberalism towards nihilism; they remove any possibility for classical tragedy or comedy; and they hold up «demonic antiheroes» such as Hannibal Lecter for our emulation.

Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Three years ago, Tracy Morgan — the guy responsible for such comedy gold as SNL «s Brian Fellows and 30 Rock «s Tracy Jordan — almost died in a severe car accident that resulted brain trauma.

Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Straying from the standard, modern superhero formula it helped to pioneer in 2002, Homecoming is more teen comedy than it is a «good vs. evil» tale, highlighting a distinctive setting in Queens as the battleground for crushes, parties and yes, actual super villains — this one played by Michael Keaton in a scene - stealing performance.

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.

Fielder's show Nathan for You, which has been picked up for a second season, follows the comedy writer as he attempts to «help» small businesses by employing insane marketing ideas.

For our folly conducts us to paradise, bringing us into the arms of the beloved (as in the Shakespearean comedies of mismatched loves resolved) and lifting us to the court of the Most High, where by all logic and etiquette we most certainly do not belong.

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin during the 2008 election cycle is one of the most prominent uses of comedy for the sake of political statement in recent memory.

Again it is not the Reason that made this discovery; it merely snatches the words from the mouth of the Paradox, strange as this may seem; for the Paradox itself says: Comedies and romances and lies must needs be probable, but why should I be probable?

With activities for all ages such as a casino, art gallery and Nickelodeon - themed events as well as entertainment including Blue Man Group, comedy troupe Second City and a Cirque Show, Norwegian Epic's goal is simple — be all things to all people.

As for matches, The Carnies match Duke said is here, an excellent comedy match against Angel Cruz, B Cool and Tyler Bate (I know, just watch), vs Joey Ryan, Colt Cabana and Candice LeRae and a few promos that are fantastic.

Its necessary for arsenal to bring an end to its latest perception of arsenal the laughing stock and as a comedy club.

The videos are slapstick mini-masterpieces for softball aficionados, with Butler and Woodward giving famed comedy duos through history a run for their money as a pair of buffoons — Butler the boisterous, over-the-top funny man; Woodward the perfectly droll, hyper - vocal straight man, filling in dead air with improvised lines — desperately trying to get into a bat to juice it up.

A professor approached Foreman and appealed to him to tone it down, as he was interfering with a lecture on Blake's illustrations for The Divine Comedy.

He hosted Comedy Central's» The Man Show» as well as the ubiquitous pseudo-porn for the sexually crippled, «Girls Gone Wild», both solely and shamelessly for financial gain.

The three short pieces feature «SouthSide Sailor Scouts» (think: Beyonce - meets - Selena - meets song, dance and stories), Peter Carpenter's «Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times # 7: Divisions of Labor» (one part humorous and two parts conversation starter) and The Hypocrites» «Midsummer Dream» (a retelling of Shakespeare's most popular comedy as told by four actors, who also double as production designers).

Mayim Bialik, Ph.D., is perhaps best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the 1990s television sitcom Blossom, and she currently appears on the top - rated comedy The Big Bang Theory.

In fact, for a film derided in the popular press as a «jihadist comedy», Four Lions treads far more carefully when it comes to firing pot - shots at the politics of suicidebombers, or the Muslim faith, than one might expect.