Sentences with phrase «asked in a sitcom»

Not exact matches

Abandoning the screen for a career as a legal secretary the same year that Zelig was released, fate guided Jeter back into his true calling when a producer, recalling his role in television's Designing Women, asked that he take a supporting role on the Burt Reynolds» sitcom Evening Shade.

I admire Carrey for taking on a grim and sobering project made in Krakow, Poland, that requires a range he would never be asked to show in any American sitcom, but Dark Crimes is so lurid, irrelevant and unwatchable it makes you wonder if he ever read the script.

The character is something of a cliche in black sitcoms, but Bowen makes her work, constantly tossing off overly familiar slang («Girrrrrl...») and asking inappropriate questions about hair weaves, skin shadings, chicken as a dinner staple and the necessity of «The Electric Slide.»