Sentences with phrase «as comedies go»

As far as comedies go, this light British comedy fits the bill and more.

As far as comedies go, this won't appeal to the knuckledraggers for whom The Hangover is the height of artistic achievement.

As far as comedies go, it's not particularly ambitious; hell, as far as movies where a main character eats poop goes, it's not particularly ambitious.

Pretty painless, as comedies go, but these actors deserve better.

But as comedies go, it plays it far too safe to be counted among McCarthy's best work.

Thirty - five years after it's original release, these comedians are pretty much in the gutter as far as comedies go.

As comedies go, «The Campaign» is reasonably funny, though it doesn't even approach the great things its stars, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, have done in the past.

It's written well enough as far as comedies go, and the performances are great of course, making it a fun ride.

The same goes for comedian Zack Galifianakis, who might finally find some success in Hollywood as a comedy go - to guy à la Danny McBride.

While not (yet) on the level of 30 rock as far as comedy goes, the music for this show makes it worthwhile.

In the 70s, the «day in the life of...» occupation movies were more the norm as far as comedies went, with an ensemble cast of colorful characters, and not much plot other than to watch them all interact and laugh at the results.

As far as the comedy goes, however, Stick of Truth is fuckin - A dude.

Not exact matches

But, in business just as with comedy, how you learn from those failures can be the difference between succeeding in the future and going through the same old motions you've always known.

Hell, even if this doesn't go to HBO and only gets released as a comedy album, I would be beyond overwhelmed with it.

Churches would rather do something safe like a barn dance or a pie - and - pea supper or another barn dance because the first one went so well, rather than risk something as socially volatile as a comedy night as part of their outreach.

You should probably just give up this moronic attention starved wannabe comedy troll routine as it has failed you, and go get a job at Penn State.

Manchester United skipper Wayne Rooney's testimonial match against his old club Everton ended in a rather boring goalless draw, but the match witnessed a moment of pure comedy gold when Rooney and his son Kai laughed at Memphis Depay, as the young dutch winger's ambitious overhead kick went absolutely gas.

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.

If you portray things too positively it's not going to work as a comedy.

I'd regard it as a copout to have someone else write my comedy routines, and I don't see why I should change my principles just because I'm going to be the leader of the country.

Whether it's going to see comedy or live music, or just meeting up with friends, he helps make sure my social calendar is organised with the same military precision as my work diary.

I thought, «Well, you know what, I guess I should go back to comedy, because maybe then I will only be accepted as like the fat, funny friend or whatever.»

You don't want to go too overboard as you can throw off your whole look and end up looking like a bit of a comedy act, and none of us want that.

I describe myself as... well to start weird as f# @k and well pretty out going iv got the whole «tragedy behind comedy» thing going on i like to try and keep others smileing and laughing... right upto the point someone talks s.h.i.t about skyrim or tenacious D thats when i bring the pain.

I like dumb comedies as far as movies go.

with a date at a Comedy Show in London on Tuesday night, Speed Dating with a group of girls who have been following the blog in Clapham on Wednesday, and a date with another POF guy I wouldn't normally have chatted to on Thursday (which is looking less and less appealing as the days go on!!)

Referred to by some as a dadaistic comedian, Andy Kaufman took comedy and performance art to the edges of irrationality and I knew within 45 seconds I was never going on a date with Andy Cohen, says Anderson Cooper on the set of the Tonight Show on Friday

I have recommended it to multiple people as a comedy and they loved it, so I am going to recommend it to y» all.

The graphics are great, as they should be since there's not a lot going on visually, the narration is funny and the mini-games allow for a ton of natural comedy.

The movie «Band Aid,» which Lister - Jones has written, directed, and stars in, is a clever and heartfelt comedy - drama that remains aloft as long as it retains its sense of humor; when the going gets serious, the dialogue turns therapeutic and heavy.

Few popular, mainstream actors have had as erratic a career as John Cusack, who has gone from darkly sardonic teen icon to romantic comedy leading man to action hero to whatever Martian Child was.

Instead, «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» is surprisingly insightful, as buddy comedies go, and it has a good heart and a lovable hero.

A team effort with longtime friend Romano would result in the straight - to - video comedy Grilled in 2006, with subsequent voice work in the animated family comedies Monster House and Barnyard arriving in theaters later that same year.James would maintain his position as a go - to guy for family friendly comedy over the coming years, appearing in films like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, and Zookeeper and providing a voice in Hotel Transylvania.

Even as dumb comedies go (which I enjoy)-- TOTALLY LAUGHLESS.

And it juggles genres just as deftly as it switches tones - Barry goes from being a hitman comedy to a farce and from farce to love story, often in the same scene.

«Just Go with It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enjoy.

As an actor, O'Hara was quite popular in comedy series such as FBO's The Go - Getters (1924 - 1925) and The Pacemakers (1925), the boxing series Fighting Blood (1926), and the action serials Casey of the Coast Guard (1926) and Pirates of the Pines (1928As an actor, O'Hara was quite popular in comedy series such as FBO's The Go - Getters (1924 - 1925) and The Pacemakers (1925), the boxing series Fighting Blood (1926), and the action serials Casey of the Coast Guard (1926) and Pirates of the Pines (1928as FBO's The Go - Getters (1924 - 1925) and The Pacemakers (1925), the boxing series Fighting Blood (1926), and the action serials Casey of the Coast Guard (1926) and Pirates of the Pines (1928).

But this is a comedy — or it's meant to be — and as much as I would have loved for the sense of the sinister inherent in this concept to turn into something deeply, blackly funny (I'm thinking of Very Bad Things as a possible precedent for this, but The Hangover is never so audacious), Lucas and Moore and director Todd Phillips (School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch) go for the easy, cheap laughs, things that will shock a juvenile mindset — a mother breastfeeding?

This could be described as a funny horror movie, but I'm going with a very dark comedy.

More supporting roles in Big Fat Liar and Solaris were quick to follow, and after rounding out the «American» trilogy in American Wedding, it was burger time for Cho as he played one of the titular characters (opposite Van Wilder's Kal Penn) in the 2004 comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

Reynolds» superb turn as unhinged central character goes a long way towards smoothing over The Voices» various faults, which finally does confirm the film's place as a distinctive black comedy that is, in essence, an instant cult classic.

The film - which follows a trio of friends (Bradley Cooper's Phil, Ed Helms» Stu, and Zach Galifianakis» Alan) as they attempt to piece together just what transpired during a pal's drunken bachelor party (where it inevitably becomes clear that said pal has mysteriously vanished)- strikes all of the wrong notes virtually from the get - go, as screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore offer up a series of broadly - portrayed caricatures that could only exist within just such a low - rent comedy (with Galifianakis» aggressively off - the - wall turn as Alan undoubtedly the most apt example of this).

Besides, if we're going to talk about double standards, at least men in comedies get treated as good - hearted fools who learn a lesson and Become Better People.

Made for only $ 9 million, and released in the summer of 2004 the week after The Bourne Supremacy, as rib - nudging counter-programming to the seriousness of both The Manchurian Candidate and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, New Line's raunchy, pot - driven teen comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle may be one of the more simultaneously unlikely and inspired movies to spawn a spin - off in the past decade - plus.

A year later, still alive and kicking, Irwin celebrates life and laughter, bringing together some of his closest friends, including Mark Critch, Shaun Majumder, Bruce Clark, Peter Kelamis and Sam Easton for a night of stand - up comedy that will go down as one of the funniest on record.

It started off as what I thought was going to be a screwball comedy but slowly shifted gears into a heartbreaking tale of beauty and political corruption.

The same goes for the various villains, who behave as if in a comedy; rather than scripting the film to lighten up on the seriousness, the characters must betray normalcy to better fit insincere resolutions.

A dweeby and unenchanting concoction as romantic comedies go, Mark Decena's debut feature also juggles enough storylines to fill five or six movies in barely 80 minutes of screen time, ending up with a whole distinctly less than the sum of its parts.

And that's another thing, as far as a comedy film goes, this isn't exactly that funny.

a great and funny plot with great acting and comedy, where can you go wrong with christopher walken as an exterminator