Sentences with phrase «at comedy off»

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He's coming off the sixth season of Veep, HBO's astonishingly funny comedy that started out as a look at the vice-presidential career of Selina Meyer (as played by Julia Louis - Dreyfus) but has morphed into something more complex and, ultimately, more satisfying.

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The beloved Legislative Revue performance, held every other year at Queens Theatre in the Park and starring the borough's elected officials, has been postponed from Nov. 20, much to the disappointment of its organizers and those who planned to participate.The off - beat musical comedy has been a centerpiece of the nonprofit's fund - raising calendar since 1997, when Jeffrey Rosenstock, the theater's executive director, created and first produced the show.

Above all though, leave your comedy slogan t - shirt at home: «funny» shirts are considered the biggest first date outfit no - no there is, putting off 63 % of Canadian singles.3

Above all though, leave your comedy slogan t - shirt at home: «funny» shirts are considered the ultimate date fashion faux - pas there is, putting off 57 % of NZ singles.4

Take the pressure off your one - liners and let someone else provide the laughs with a first date at The Stand Comedy Club.

When their first date at a comedy club rolled around, they hit it off effortlessly, and an online spark immediately turned into a real - life connection.

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The last of the series, this British comedy finds the girls of St. Trinian's boarding school fighting off a group of criminals who are determined to reclaim the $ 7 million they hid at the school years earlier.

Additionally, the casting is keen (everyone plays well off their counterparts and there are no annoying roles — at least with the leads) and several juxtapositions or precisely edited sequences bolster the comedy.

The brazenly off - kilter comedy offers a blistering look at how an industry rat race can decimate a man's self - worth.

Daley and Goldstein, who started off as actors, have co-directed one previous feature, the 2015 holiday - road reboot «Vacation,» but the sign that they're instinctive filmmakers, with a bold sense of comedy structure, comes in the sequence they stage, with serpentine ingenuity, at the home of a crime boss (Danny Huston) who has the film's MacGuffin — a Fabergé egg — locked in his safe.

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

Doubling as a fascinating look at a subculture that is normally sealed off from the rest of us and a gently amusing comedy of manners, this manages to say an awful lot by, paradoxically, saying it endearingly gently.

Reputedly born, much like its predecessor, of Segel's real - life relationship with «Freaks and Geeks» costar Linda Cardellini, «The Five - Year Engagement» engenders lots of good will for the many things it does right — namely, at least aim at a target a bit higher and off - center from the normal, unchallenging objective of so many romantic comedies.

But prior to Girls Trip, the last raunchy comedy that did succeed at the box office was roughly sixteen months ago, that being STXfilms» Bad Moms which opened to $ 23.8 M, legged out to a 4.8 x multiple of $ 113.2 M while ultimately clearing a $ 50M - plus profit off a $ 2oM production cost.

Still, it does at least support an interesting premise for a family comedy, although it does come off as a second - rate rekindling of the Jumanji (rampant animal madness) and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure formulas (a motley ensemble of historical figures coming together to help the people of the present).

Vulgarity will only take you so far in comedy — at some point the novelty wears off and the audience realizes there's not much talent there.

In all honesty, Poehler and Fey have such a easy - going chemistry together - whether playing an odd couple in Baby Mama or playing off one another as the Golden Globes hosts - that it's difficult to imagine that The Nest won't be - at the least - decent comedy entertainment for their fans, no matter the script / directing quality.

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.

Will this movie, playing to young viewers who don't know the Stooges at all, look off - puttingly old - fashioned or so bizarrely slapstick - intense that it seems as up - to - the - minute in its comedy as anything from Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell?

Romantic comedies are seldom pulled off without at least a faint glimmer of cheesiness.

The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that «satire is what closes Saturday night» might well be that indie black comedies — which almost never make money but continue to attract name actors — are what play contractually mandated one - week runs at the Village East before heading off to DVD.

Wayne Wang continues his more recent string of pat and predictably cute comedies, coming off of Maid in Manhattan and Because of Winn - Dixie, all of which are innocuous fare for those that just want a smile at the end of a film, willing to overlook overcooked shenanigans, egregious product placements, and inherent predictability.

The fifth season of «Silicon Valley» kicks off on HBO at 10 p.m., followed by the 10:30 premiere of «Barry,» a terrific comedy starring Bill Hader as a hit man who gets involved with an acting class taught by Henry Winkler.

For example, Bill Murray is a riot in Zombieland, but did you know there's one more tidbit with the Ghostbusters star spouting off a classic line from Caddyshack at the end of the credits of the horror comedy?

Writer - director - star Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer) attempts to turn the romantic comedy formula on its ear with The Baxter, a film that tells the story from the point of view of the poor schlep that typical romantic comedies usually leave stranded at the altar, while the bride - to - be runs off with the handsome leading male.

Give or take a couple of years, Richard Armitage goes from 20 to 40 to 60 in the course of Mike Bartlett's new three - act comedy, «Love, Love, Love,» which opened Wednesday at Roundabout's Off Broadway Laura Pels Theatre.

Jeremy Thomas is also related to two highly commercial English directors of a previous generation: he's the son of Ralph Thomas, who directed the popular Doctor at Large and its countless spin - offs, and the nephew of Gerald Thomas, who specialized in Carry On comedies.)

The man looks downright igneous, more rock formation than human man; at first, this is played off as a source of expected comedy.

Neon and 30West tag teamed in Toronto to pick up Craig Gillespie's dark comedy I, Tonya in what Deadline reported at the time was a deal reaching the $ 5M range, fending off competition from the likes of Netflix and other heavyweights.

Likewise, how many teen comedies address money problems at all, let alone make class insecurity — and what it's like to grow up poor, especially when surrounded by well - off classmates — a central focus?

The winners of the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced last night at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with The Revenant pulling off a sweep of top three categories including best drama film, and The Martian hilariously picking up best comedy, while Amazon's «Mozart in the Jungle» and USA's «Mr. Robot» overcame intense competition to nab the highest television honors.

After Franco won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for the film at the 75th Golden Globes Sunday, several women accused him of sexual misconduct on Twitter, including a cryptic tweet by Ally Sheedy, who appeared in a 2014 Off Broadway production that Franco directed.

Throw in enough half - hearted and rushed jokes to get you booed off the stage at an open mike night, and you've got the makings for one of the lamest comedies of the year.

It's an allegorical painterly Kabuki comedy that makes you laugh as you're gasping at the visual brilliance, each frame a new surprise while moved by the plight of canine exiles on an island garbage dump off the coast of Japan.

Starting off with a very self - aware speech by their captain, played by Nick Offerman, which winks at the audience, as if to say, «We know comedy sequels are a little ridiculous,» the trailer explains the arbitrary reason for the new title.

Plus this sort of horror / comedy / romance has a tone that's tricky to pull off, and while Jonathan Levine has been relatively adept at juggling that sort of thing in the past, this is his trickiest gig yet.

If you have a soft - spot for raunchy comedies, but are usually dismayed by their lack of intelligence, The 40 Year - Old Virgin is one of the rare ones that won't make you feel guilty for laughing your ass off at its attempts at gross humor.

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming - of - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

Before she was rushed off the stage by the ticking clock, Greta Gerwig still managed to be profound and touching when accepting the award for Best Film Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.

Ron Shelton comedy about an old timer (Morgan Freeman) in the witness protection program at a retirement home, fending off bad guys with the help of a gung - ho fellow resident (Tommy Lee Jones).

The best I managed were a couple of smirks, mostly based on situational comedy rather than actual attempts at jokes - but the young couple of 16/17 were laughing their asses off at every fart joke - line, so I guess we know which audience is really captured by the film.

Steadily paced and bursting at the seams with humor (shout - out to Groot's «finding Yondu's fin» montage), the film works on nearly every conceivable level, from special effects sizzle reel to big studio comedy to the aforementioned family drama that Marvel hasn't yet pulled off with its Avengers films.

If Chelsea Does were less turned off by the conceptual limitations of being a star vehicle with a very funny, innately cynical person at its helm, it could be either a groundbreaking examination of comedy or a very funny, innately cynical reality show that ran out of material after two episodes.

The cast of Death at a Funeral should be commended for nearly pulling off a seemingly impossible task: They make a rehash of an only three - year - old comedy funny in its own ways.

The film has happy endings for all involved, but I still felt my stomach twist at the white - washed cluster of women in comedy, and how a man's portrayal of them resulted in shell - shocked, nervous, and unmotivated characters (despite the constant hints at the hard work they do off screen).

Following its release back in 2004, Anchorman: The Legendary of Ron Burgundy became an unexpected comedy smash, grossing just under $ 91 million at the worldwide box office off a budget of $ 26 million.

At times, this honestly does come off as more of a romance with some comedy thrown in than an actual mystery / thriller, and the editing does it no favors.

One of the most talked about films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Results has been praised by some as an off - beat romantic comedy, injected with Bujalski's low - fi sensibilities.