Sentences with phrase «by watching a comedy»

«In a 2008 study, nearly 120 students were induced to feel amused, neutral, or sad (by watching a comedy video, a nature documentary, or a film clip about cancer).

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Once a day, make time to care for yourself by doing yoga or running, walking, watching comedy or getting a massage.

Even Spotify is getting in on the action by allowing users to watch video and listen to podcasts from companies like Comedy Central, the BBC, and ESPN.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

CBS, for example, could help Viacom extract higher rates for its lesser - watched channels like MTV and Comedy Central by including them with its broadcast network, which is considered «must carry» given its highly rated programs and NFL games.

By dangerously labeling it a comedy, it allows racist people who actually watch it to dismiss its message instead of learning something from it.

So learn to find the humor in your everyday life by surrounding yourself with comedic friends, watching yet another cat video on YouTube, or even attending a comedy show!

Researchers have concluded that after watching a comedy film concentration of HGH has increased by 88 %.

Watching a comedy film can slash elevated cortisol by 50 %.

Watch In a Relationship by Sam Boyd on Short of the Week — a Comedy about Love in the short is less an examination of dating as a construct and is more In Ontario, the normal dating ultrasound is 8 - 10 weeks.

2018-04-08 12:18 Watch In a Relationship by Sam Boyd on Short of the Week — a Comedy about Love in the short is less an examination of dating as a construct and is more In Ontario, the normal dating ultrasound is 8 - 10 weeks.

«Game Night» isn't as painful to watch as some other «R» rated comedies I've sat through recently (like «CHIPS,» or «Baywatch»), and it eventually breezes by quickly enough.

I haven't watched the Simpsons since the evolution of cartoon comedy and boy was I surprised by how dull and stupid the show is.

Now that Danny McBride and Jody Hill ostensibly have the keys to the kingdom by way of their new production company, Rough House Pictures, the world of comedy better watch its stagnant ass.

Written and directed by actress Adrienne Shelly, who also has a bit part in this film, I»LL TAKE YOU THERE is an offbeat black comedy that has many bits and pieces that make it worth watching, but as a whole isn't quite substantial enough to remember long afterwards.

Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

Universal Pictures has released a new poster for Seth McFarlane's upcoming comedy sequel Ted 2, which sees the foul - mouthed bear joined by his thunder buddy John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg)... SEE ALSO: Watch the red band trailer for Ted 2 here Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and co-star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights -LSB-...]

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.

We saw a trailer back in March [watch it here], and now we have four character posters for director Jared Hess» (Napoleon Dynamite) upcoming action comedy Masterminds, featuring Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis... In this action comedy based on true events, directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite; Nacho Libre), David -LSB-...]

I was completely engrossed and entertained by Double Date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to watch a comedy that might actually make them laugh.

I give you «Old Dogs,» a comedy so by - the - numbers you'd have a harder time predicting what happens watching 90 minutes of Robin Williams doing dot - to - dot puzzles.

STX Entertainment has released a new U.S. trailer for the upcoming WWII romantic comedy Their Finest., which is directed by Lone Scherfig and stars Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, and Bill Nighy; watch it below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Read our review of Their Finest here 1940, London, the Blitz; with the country's morale at stake, Catrin -LSB-...]

I had a similar thought watching «Two Night Stand,» a slight but not - unengaging Young Person's Romantic Comedy, at a point when the two main characters, charmingly played by Annaleigh Tipton and Miles Teller, discuss The Female Orgasm.

I also grew up watching his comedies The Naked Gun series being my favorite followed by Dracula: Dead & Loving it.

Producer by Judd Apatow, the brains behind most of the American comedies worth watching, and directed by Paul Feig, usually the writer but now Apatow's main competitor in the comedy circuit, Bridesmaids is just what you would expect it would be.

You can still support female filmmakers by watching your favorite romantic comedies and dramas of past and present.

It may be written by women, with 85 percent of the dialogue being spoken by women, but the humor is often broad or raunchy enough to crack up even men who feign seizures to avoid watching romantic comedies.

The Bad News: With an average of 3.8 million and a 1.2, it is still ABC's least - watched and lowest - rated comedy — even getting beaten by the reviled Mixology, which inexplicably remains in the post-Modern Family berth far more suitable for Trophy Wife.

There are so many places I'd rather be than in a theatre watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, listening to the reaction elicited by three fleeting full - frontal shots of male nudity and trying for the life of me to understand how a comedy that clocks in at nearly two hours could elicit only one real laugh, maybe two.

There is an awkward sense that, much like the Carry On Films, you are watching a comedy that is driven by jokes and gags that impressed in another era.

Coogan is a fine comedy performer who on this evidence is following a path well trodden by Peter Sellars, but I found it difficult resisting the temptation to switch this off and watch some old Alan Partridge videos instead.

Even from its origins as a plucky indie web series (back when people were watching plucky indie web series), Broad City was smashing the Bechdel Test by offering the world a stoner comedy duo without testosterone or sexual tension.

After watching «Super Troopers,» it's evident that the men of Broken Lizard are brimming with comic talent, but they still have a long way to gobefore reaching the high standards set by past comedy troupes like Monty Python.

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.

**** Zachary F November 29, 2012 this movie is sooo funny Jon C November 29, 2012 a fun, crude, and hilarious comedy two girl roomates formulate a plan to make their own sex hotline in order to make ends meet hijinks and raw laughs ensue between two very different people who embrace their sexuality via telephone the performances from both Graynor and Miller are pretty damn fun to watch the dialogue is insanely funny and gratuitous there's a very strange cameo in here too by Nia Vardalos Justin Long adds a nice touch being the supporting gay best friend mentoring these two girls it's just very awkwardly humorous listening to these people talk in this kind of film, there's interestingly no actual sex happening on screen, no boobs, no ass, no exposed body parts the plot mainly focuses on the bonding relationship bewteen the two leads which is a good break from the usual norm we're used to I can't help but feel though that the filmmakers didn't have anything left at the end, some of it felt unfinished and unresolved for all those problems, «For A Good Time, Call..»

Directed by: Peter Stebbings Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh Rating: R Release Date: February 26, 2010 (limited) TRAILER SCORE: 10/10 MY THOUGHTS: My bias as a comic book fan is beginning to show, but in all actuality, Harrelson as a deluded do - gooder seems like a comedy well worth watching.

Part of the reason I took a chance on watching this despite the vicious reviews is because it's directed by David Zucker, responsible for many funny comedies, including Airplane!

They may be less enthralled by the strange cocktail offered up here by director David Leitch (the two John Wick movies), which plays at being be an ambitious espionage thriller — it's set in 1989 Berlin as the wall is about to fall — but is happy to drop everything to watch Theron indulge in the brutal black comedy of violent beat - downs.

Rather than spending your time scrolling through categories, trying to track down the perfect film to watch, we've done our best to make it easy for you at Paste by updating our Best Movies to watch on Netflix list each month with new additions and overlooked gems alike, bringing you our favorites from across genres: Oscar - winning dramas, independent and art - house films, action blockbusters, documentaries, comedies, sci - fi flicks and animated movies for both kids and adults.

Blu - ray Review by Kam Williams Unlikely - Buddies Action Comedy Available on Home Video World - class bodyguard Michael Bryce's (Ryan Reynolds) services were in great demand when a Japanese tycoon (Tsuwayuki Saotome) was executed on his watch.

A new trailer has arrived online for the upcoming comedy drama Night Owls, which is directed by Charles Hood and stars Adam Pally and Rosa Salazar; watch it below after the official synopsis... Workaholic Kevin (Adam Pally) goes home with the beautiful trainwreck Madeline (Rosa Salazar) for a drunken one night stand, but he's horrified to discover -LSB-...]

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Eventually, things kicked up to a higher gear as we watched Justin Chon perform one of the film's many physical comedy lowlights while being filmed by Terry Stacey, a top - drawer cinematographer who has proven that comedies needn't be visually flat with «50/50,» «Adventureland,» and 2003's «American Splendor,» one of the best movies of the 21st century so far.

Watch three brand new TV spots for the upcoming comedy «The Hangover Part II» by director Todd Phillips (Due Date, The Hangover, School for Scoundrels) and starring Zach Galifianakis (Bored to Death, Dinner for Schmucks, American Dad!)

You may watch below a preview clip of of Killing Gunther, the latest action comedy movie written and directed by Taran Killam and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan, Hannah Simone, Cobie Smulders, Paul Brittain, Allison Tolman, Amir Talai, Peter Kelamis, Aaron Yoo, and Steve Bacic

Starrbury broke through with his Black Listed script «Watch Roger Do His Thing,» about a retired hitman, and after that, penned a Comedy Central pilot called «Black Jack,» which starred Ving Rhames, and was directed by David Gordon Green, and yet somehow failed to get picked up (we'd give our left arm to see that one...), while a half - hour comedy for ABC produced by Peter Tolan («Rescue Me «-RRB- also failed to proComedy Central pilot called «Black Jack,» which starred Ving Rhames, and was directed by David Gordon Green, and yet somehow failed to get picked up (we'd give our left arm to see that one...), while a half - hour comedy for ABC produced by Peter Tolan («Rescue Me «-RRB- also failed to procomedy for ABC produced by Peter Tolan («Rescue Me «-RRB- also failed to progress.

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In truth, there really aren't many scenes where the Count — played by the one and only Bela Lugosi — is the one making with the jokes, but watching Chick's skepticism at Wilbur's stammering assurances about the monsters he's seen are enough to make this a full - fledged comedy classic.

You get the impression by watching the jokes told by Jerry Burke (Robert De Niro) that comedy clubs need grossness to bring in a young audience.

Directed by Lone Scherfig, the romantic comedy stars Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy; watch it below after the official synopsis...