Sentences with phrase «comedy classic show»

And this past Saturday they featured one of their most delightful screenings yet: a 16 mm print of King Vidor's comedy classic Show People (1928) preceded by Hal Roach's criminally unseen one - reeler Sure - Mike!

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The new streaming service will also be the exclusive streaming home to the full catalog of classic British sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which has been remastered in HD for the first time, along with Monty Python films.

Called «Seeso,» the service will launch widely in January, at which point members can pay $ 3.99 per month for ad - free access to a full library NBC comedy programming — from new episodes of Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to all past episodes of classic shows like The Office and 30 Rock — along with a slate of new original series and stand - up comedy specials.

Improv Playhouse Theatre transforms classic folk tales into a comedy musical show with Smilin» Saturday Stories that will entertain both children and adults.

Sugar Club is Dublin's most creative nightspot, where the very slick theatre - style venue hosts an array of events from music to comedy to classic film - themed nights and there's even some saucy cabaret and sexy burlesque dancing shows to heat up your evening.

During the scripting sessions for Show of Shows, Reiner became friends with a bombastic staff writer named Mel Brooks, with whom he improvised a number of wild stream - of - consciousness comedy bits which would eventually crystallize as the classic «2000 Year Old Man» routines.

Host David Steinberg interviews the show business legends, lifelong friends who got their start writing for television variety shows and became comedy motion picture directors, each with a string of classic box office blockbusters to his name.

However, it turns out that Green is now directing the majority of the show's six episodes, while Hill is wrapping up Observe and Report (pegged by me as the darkhorse classic comedy of spring» 09).

The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original intention.

The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original... Read

Up until this point, John Cusack had spent almost his entire cinematic career in teen comedies, from Class to The Sure Thing via cult classic Better Off Dead to the misfired Hot Pursuit, Cusack's unique and very human screen persona stole every show he was in - but by 1988, he'd become determined to move on into more serious and adult cinema.

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events combine to show the film that topped the American Film Institute's list of 100 all - time greatest comedies in 24 Bay Area theaters on Sunday, June 11, and Wednesday, June 14.

The show comes on the heels of Netflix's 2015 limited series prequel Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp, which was an eight - episode continuation of the cult classic 2001 comedy.

Even better, the film has been written and directed by a queer woman: Angela Robinson, who directed the lesbian action - comedy classic D.E.B.S., and who's since been a writer / director on TV shows like The L Word, Hung, True Blood, and How to Get Away With Murder.

«HOME IMPROVEMENT» Tim Allen's family comedy isn't necessarily a «classic», but his chemistry with TV wife Patricia Richardson and TV show co-host Richard Karn made each episode fun.

And it's no doubt, with just a casual perusal of the film fare planned, including opening night's gala offering of a 50th anniversary screening of In The Heat of the Night in the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX with Sidney Poitier, Lee Grant and director Norman Jewison in attendance — a special festival long showing of original nitrate prints of essential and little known classics — and a screening of one of the greatest comedies of all time — The Jerk — offering Steve Martin and Carl Reiner fans the opportunity to share in the excitement of new phone books arriving.

This week, we saddle up with The Next Picture Show «s Keith Phipps to look back at the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy classic Blazing Saddles!

Recent Blu - ray and DVD releases include the Italian sex comedy - drama La Seduzione, a Hannah Arendt documentary, the lost German classic Variete and Emmy - winning performances by Harvey Korman on «The Carol Burnett Show.»

Williams does deliver on energy, but he has never really possessed a true talent for broadly physical comedy, and as scene after scene roll by, you'll probably find it impossible not to scratch your head and wonder why the man that can ad - lib classic comedic moments on stage and on late night talk shows can't seem to inject even one laugh in nearly two hours of pure comedy that he has worked on for weeks.

Horror, science fiction, fantasy and comedy combine in this enjoyable series of stories that channel the tone of the classic»60s TV show — in part because three of the four tales are remakes of Twilight Zone episodes.

The show becomes, in a way, like Harry and the Hendersons, or Beethoven, one of those classic wholesome comedies about how this harried family unit is going to struggle through and ultimately embrace this strange creature that has come into their lives and upset their routine.

This Mad Men — like ambition — to explore the professional conflicts of a group of highly creative people, the sweeping changes in society they're reflecting and responding to, and the conflicted genius suffering from imposter syndrome at its center — might have been better fit for the length of a series, and indeed series like Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here and HBO's classic The Larry Sanders Show convey the combination of internal competitiveness and group cohesion that powers comedy scenes like the Lampooners» more effectively than AFASG's scattershot approach.

Where MacFarlane had an opportunity to make a western comedy along the same lines as the Mel Brooks classic Blazing Saddles or satire classic John Ford westerns, he instead tries so hard to show all his viewers that he is Funny!

The best scenes from Taylor Hackford's new movie, The Comedian, have the smart, punchy pace and content of a classic Hollywood screwball comedy: Robert De Niro's comedy club scenes have a fresh sparkle that suggests improv and show him in a...

Garry Shandling stars in this classic HBO comedy series that focuses on the on - and off - camera activities of a late - night TV talk - show host.

This is the kind of humor that I've come to expect from deplorable, direct - to - DVD teenage comedies — not from the man who brought us instant classics like «This Is Spinal Tap» and «Best in Show» — and while longtime fans may be willing to forgive Mr. Guest for such a serious misstep, I most certainly am not.

This is saying something when you consider that the first film that comes to many cinephiles» minds when asked to think of horror comedy musicals is that venerable «midnight movie» and cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, dir.

From skee ball and classic arcade games, to a kid's carousel and Ventura's hot spot for comedy shows, the Harbor Village embraces the laid back California lifestyle with year round festivals, live entertainment, whale watching, and outdoor happenings.

In this podcast, host Will Choi, creator of the Asian AF comedy show at UCB and host of the Drunk Monk podcast, invites some of his friends to join him each season to watch a different classic Korean Drama.