Sentences with phrase «by sketch comedy»

Not exact matches

NBC is already leaning on its stable of TV stars to create some of Seeso's original content, including a variety sketch show produced and hosted by Parks star Amy Poehler and a «fantasy roleplaying» comedy show hosted by Community creator Dan Harmon.

As in the classic British comedy sketch by Rowan Atkinson playing the Devil at the Gates to Hell:» Welcome to Hell.

The breakthrough in Sally's own TV career began as corpsing Travel Tavern receptionist Sophie opposite Steve Coogan in I'm Alan Partridge, later followed by her all - female comedy sketch show Smack the Pony with Fiona Allen and Doon Mackichan.

Mixed into the wrestling are silly rapping sequences and sketch comedy that wouldn't be out of place in vintage Saved By the Bell episodes.

Trump was not amused by the latest sketches about the presidential election on «Saturday Night Live,» taking to Twitter early this morning to attack the NBC comedy show, which he called «boring and unfunny.»

If you've ever been snubbed by a rude salesperson, or struggled to find clothes that actually fit, you'll relate to Amy Schumer's latest viral sketch (below), which aired Thursday on her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer.

Since she started making comedy sketches on social media in 2015, the comedian has racked up over one million followers on Instagram alone — plus two million more on Facebook — by writing, performing, shooting, and editing all of her own original content.

It's not that Americans can't master the outlandish sketch comedy exemplified by Little Britain USA.

Written and directed by comedian Jordan Peele, who is best known for his sketch comedy show, Key & Peele, Get Out is a very impressive debut film.

Among the great events lined up is a little, short comedy sketch «To Have or To Hold», already written By Katie, and to be performed by herself and fellow local thesp James Fogerty as part of the Variety Concert in the Marian Hall on the Sunday nighBy Katie, and to be performed by herself and fellow local thesp James Fogerty as part of the Variety Concert in the Marian Hall on the Sunday nighby herself and fellow local thesp James Fogerty as part of the Variety Concert in the Marian Hall on the Sunday night.

Expertly sketched by Baumbach, this memoir - like portrait of lives half - lived is the kind of bittersweet, dimensional character comedy we're now used to seeing told in three seasons of prestige television.

For a time, scraping by in a big city doing improvisational sketch comedy seemed like the new scraping by in a big city playing in an indie rock band.

Emily and John, who is currently starring in Off - Broadway play Dry Powder opposite Claire Danes, briefly gave fans a preview of what a potential project would look like by making cameos in two comedy sketches for their friend and U.S. talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

It's been three years since the final episode of Key and Peele aired, but we still feel the hole left by the near - perfect sketch comedy series.

By turns needy and belligerent, repulsive and almost sweet, Jerri is one of those sketch - comedy creations, like Martin Short's Ed Grimley or Gilda Radner's Lisa Loopner, that somehow transcends caricature to become — well, human might be overstating it, but you know what I mean.

He'd watched his father fill in downtime by writing, so that's what he did, coming up with his two shorts and sketches for an Irish TV comedy called Your Bad Self.

Her 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility was prompted by her television comedy sketch about an ignorant Victorian newlywed disgusted by the sight of the lifeless «mouse» attached to her husband's lap.

Expertly sketched by writer - director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) this memoir - like portrait of lives half - lived is the kind of bittersweet, dimensional character comedy we're now used to seeing told in three seasons of prestige television.

Actress - writer - director Lake Bell's second feature behind the camera is more sketch - driven comedy than resonant study of failing marriages, but by the third act a more open, warmer voice emerges.

Inspired by the adventures of Doyle's brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, and based on Eve Titus» engaging book Basil of Baker Street, The Great Mouse Detective is a smartly sketched blend of comedy, action, adolescent drama and mystery which marks the directing debut of now legendary filmmakers Ron Clements and John Musker, important creative forces behind such Disney animated blockbusters as The Princess and the Frog, as well as the aforementioned The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

But then there is the rest of the movie — two whole hours of it, this being a co-production with Judd Apatow, and all — which would seem sketchy even by the standards of sketch comedy.

«Her» The premise of this film — a romantic comedy - drama in which the lovers in question are a lonely and withdrawn man (Joaquin Phoenix) and his computer's new and highly advanced operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson)-- was so inherently odd that it seemed impossible that it could ever work as anything other than an exceptionally absurd «SNL» sketch.

Wayans was a member of the 1993 cast of In Living Color, a comedy sketch program created by his brother Keenen Ivory Wayans.

Was an original ensemble member of the sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh - In; best known for clutching a daisy and reciting a brief verse beginning with his trademark, «A poem, by Henry Gibson.»

No one would argue for this film's comedic greatness, even by R - rated comedy standards: it's a mishmash of action - comedy parody and Key and Peele sketch work.

There's also a fairly needless subplot involving a TSA agent, played by LilRel Howery, who dual - functions as an exposition delivery system and a tension - breaking comic - relief sidekick; it's the only part of the movie that betrays Peele's sketch - comedy roots, plainly visible in his script for last year's Keanu.

The Nest script was penned by Paula Pell, who was a writer at Saturday Night Live during the comediennes» tenure on the U.S. sketch comedy show.

Fey's character Kim is a single New York City media worker (a writer of news copy rather than comedy sketches) who eventually acquires an irksome and persistent love interest played by Martin Freeman, in a film written by 30 Rock mainstay Robert Carlock, and produced by Fey and Lorne Michaels.

Award - winning writer / director John Butler (RTE's award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship — developed and co-written with actor / writer Peter McDonald (I Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O'Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good Man).

There were beautiful harmonies by the singing group (curated by singer / songwriter Abbie Lathe), comedy sketches, pieces of writing inspired by attendees of the writing class given by novelist Amanda Smyth of Black Rock fame (the book she penned), poetry and of course, trapeze.

The book features photographs of each artist's performance by acclaimed photographer Paula Court, storyboards, sketches and scripts documenting the artists» creative processes, and ten newly commissioned essays on different themes from the biennial, including language, Russian Constructivism, Fluxus, comedy and the relationship between visual art and theater.

The exhibition takes its name from a line in a comedy sketch about Rick James by the great comedian Dave Chappelle.

In an effort to get noticed by Lorne Michaels and other SNL recruiters, many Chicago comedy performers are no longer working their way up the iO and Second City ranks, and instead doing their own solo sketch shows at smaller venues like the Upstairs Gallery.

BHQFU offered courses on drawing, painting, theory, color, sexuality, and sketch comedy, among other subjects, taught by a variety of artists, including Juliana Huxtable, Gabrielle Merz, Elizabeth Jaeger, Joe Riley, Rashid Johnson, Sean J. Patrick Carney, and Dana Schutz.

I don't know if Slawyers ever heard the wonderful comedy sketch by the» 60's English group Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller) in which a coal miner bemoans his fate, and opines: «Yes, I could have been a Judge but I never had the Latin.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook also said Wednesday that Apple Music would be broadcasting episodes of «Carpool Karaoke,» a recurring comedy sketch by late - night talk show host James Corden early next year.