Sentences with phrase «comedy group as»

Courses in data analysis and statistics, president of the Anime club, 4 semesters in Japanese, and member of The FNL (Friday Night Live) comedy group as a writer and actor.

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With activities for all ages such as a casino, art gallery and Nickelodeon - themed events as well as entertainment including Blue Man Group, comedy troupe Second City and a Cirque Show, Norwegian Epic's goal is simple — be all things to all people.

A federal court on Wednesday compelled the MTA to allow on its property ads for a film by an Islamic comedy group — saying that such slogans as «Muslims have...

As it turned out, the participants who had a good laugh at the comedy routine shared much more intimate information with their peers than the groups who watched the other videos.

with a date at a Comedy Show in London on Tuesday night, Speed Dating with a group of girls who have been following the blog in Clapham on Wednesday, and a date with another POF guy I wouldn't normally have chatted to on Thursday (which is looking less and less appealing as the days go on!!)

He understands what makes comedy not just laughs as in junk like Third Rock from the Sun where every line is focus grouped for laughs.

So many comedies today feel as if they've been made by tribunal, groups of elders who know what's best for us and who pretend to think they know what we'll find funny.

A theatrical release for 2012 should be announced soon for the unconventional comedy, which adds song and dance to Stillman's usual smart, stylized dialogue as it explores the lives of a group of college girls led by Greta Gerwig.

The comedy, and there's a bunch of it, comes from the support group members — as you can imagine, nobody believes their stories — and the aliens, who generate some very, very funny and spot - on workplace humor in a spaceship setting.

It's just that a group of fifty - year - old dudes behaving like children can come across as past its prime comedy without further characterization.

Following his tenure with the Gas Board, he went on to work with an experimental British comedy / variety group known as The People Show.

Some of the biggest and brightest stars in British comedy appear in this performance film, which documents a revue staged by John Cleese of Monty Python as a benefit for the human rights group Amnesty International.

Born in 1999, «American Pie» conceived by Adam Herz and starring a group of newcomers (including Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Alyson Hannigan, Natasha Lyonne and Tara Reid, as well as Mena Suvari — who had made a big splash in «American Beauty» the year before) burst onto the scene and ushered in a wave of raunchy but hilarious «R» rated comedies.

It's rare for a mainstream Hollywood comedy to emerge now which hasn't got Frat Pack fingerprints all over it - although the group evolved through such esoteric, critically lauded hits as The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, and Rushmore.

This 1980s - set Los Angeles comedy series stars Alison Brie (Mad Men, Community) as Ruth Wilder, an out - of - work actress who finds herself with the unexpected role of a lifetime after being invited to audition with a group of eccentric women for the first - ever women's wrestling TV show — GLOW.

All three of the critics» groups named her Best Actress (though the L.A. critics ended up with a tie; see below), and she won the dramatic Golden Globe as well, with Tandy taking Comedy / Musical.

However, the writers use this premise as a tool to introduce its audience to several wacky characters and five episodes in, it becomes a comedy about a group of people living in a cul - de-sac, rather than cougars preying on young men.

This ensemble comedy follows a group of single parents as they lean on each other to help raise their 7 - year - old kids and maintain some kind of personal lives outside of parenthood.

As it recounts Jan's wild business ideas, such as when Jan and his clarinetist bribe someone at the Vatican so that Jan's European tour group can met the pope, the broad comedy becomes a weaker substitute for the more lively curiosities behind this bizarre storAs it recounts Jan's wild business ideas, such as when Jan and his clarinetist bribe someone at the Vatican so that Jan's European tour group can met the pope, the broad comedy becomes a weaker substitute for the more lively curiosities behind this bizarre storas when Jan and his clarinetist bribe someone at the Vatican so that Jan's European tour group can met the pope, the broad comedy becomes a weaker substitute for the more lively curiosities behind this bizarre story.

20th CENTURY WOMEN Mike Mills 2016 USA 118 minutes Mike Mills's texturally and behaviorally rich new comedy seems to keep redefining itself as it goes along, creating a moving group Read More →

A great comedy with A great cast.the Broken Lizard group is too good and funny, as always.this would definetaly be one of the funniest films i have ever seen.Broken Lizard delievers again with this super comedy.many people don't like dumb comedy, but you'll love this dub comedy.not only can this film do new things to the genre, but it creates something better: A comedy with actually lovabe characters.

Mills's texturally and behaviorally rich new comedy keeps redefining itself as it goes along, creating a moving group portrait of particular people in a particular place (Santa Barbara) at a particular moment in the 20th century (1979), one lovingly attended detail at a time.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

«And we were just lucky to put together a group of actors who got that and understood it wasn't to be made into a comedy, but their experience as comedic actors gives them a take [on the material].»

The Long Dumb Road Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group has purchased North American rights to Hannah Fidell's road trip comedy «The Long Dumb Road» starring Jason Mantzoukas and Tony Revolori as an itinerant 30 - something mechanic and a college - bound teenager respectively who set out on a cross-country road trip.

Needless to say, nothing goes as the group plans in director Jordan Vogt - Roberts» Kong: Skull Island, a visually phantasmagoric action - fantasy - comedy hybrid that plays out as something of an unhinged, shaggy - eared prequel to Gareth Edwards» excellent 2014 reinterpretation of Toho Studio's legendary Godzilla.

With his comedy group, Broken Lizard, he has produced and directed beloved movies such as Super Troopers, Beerfest, and Club Dread.

As far as British comedy groups, the landscape was forever changed by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, and Monty PythoAs far as British comedy groups, the landscape was forever changed by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, and Monty Pythoas British comedy groups, the landscape was forever changed by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, and Monty Python.

Tag is a comedy based on a «true story» about a group of friends who have been playing a 30 - year game of tag — one that has only escalated as they've entered their 30s and 40s.

Elizabeth Banks makes her impressive feature directorial debut in «Pitch Perfect 2» as well as produces and reprises her role as an A Capella judge in the sequel to 2012's hit musical comedy about the Barden Bellas, the first all - female group to win a national title.

Sande Alessi Casting is casting extras for «Grown Ups 2,» a sequel to the 2010 comedy starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, David Spade, Rob Schneider, and Salma Hayek as a group of childhood friends who reunite years later.

Dad's Army is an adaptation of the comedy series of the same name from the 1960s and 1970s, following a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers as they prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.

Bright and breezy action comedy based on the hit 1980s TV show and starring Liam Neeson as Hannibal Smith, the leader of a group of former Special Forces commandoes who go on the run after being double - crossed.

Release date: June 15 Cast: Ed Helms, Jeremy Renner, Hannibal Buress, Jake Johnson, Jon Hamm Directed by: Jeff Tomsic (The Detour) Why we're excited: As the trailer points out, this tale of an adult friend group obsessed with playing an elaborate game of tag is based on a true story, which should help ground what looks like a pretty goofy, broad studio comedy.

White liberal journalists, knowing that Peele got his start in comedy, have tagged Get Out as a satire on the racism that persists among their own groups.

It says a lot about the state of women and other marginalized groups in film that Trainwreck is being marketed (and praised) as «not your mother's romantic comedy.»

The third installment in the popular comedy franchise about an all - female vocal group begins with an explosion aboard a yacht, as Beca and Fat Amy (Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson) are shown running for their lives while flames threaten — as if the duo were stuck in an off - brand 1980s cable action flick.

Absolutely Anything The Pythons reunited for this achingly misguided sci - fi comedy starring Simon Pegg as an idiot given ultimate power by a group of smug aliens.

There are plenty of mainstream comedies that could be called instructional — intentionally or not, they come to serve as a reference point for how to be a funny friend, or a funny group of friends, or a funny workplace.

Centerpiece 20th Century Women Directed by Mike Mills USA, 2016 World Premiere Mike Mills's texturally and behaviorally rich new comedy seems to keep redefining itself as it goes along, creating a moving group portrait of particular people in a particular place (Santa Barbara) at a particular moment in the 20th century (1979), one lovingly attended detail at a time.

12:00 N — TCM — The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Preston Sturges» zaniest and most irreverent comedy gives Betty Hutton her best role as Trudy Kockenlocker, who goes out for a night on the town with a group of soldiers about to ship out.

Chris Hemsworth and company star as an ill - fated group of friends in the genre - tweaking horror comedy «The Cabin in the Woods».

His comedy manifesto has always tilted at harvesting truth over triviality and his framing of lifelong relationships splintering and fraternal bonds fracturing creates a heartrending account of the invoice of self - interest as a group of comic friends / collegaues infight to land a gig on an intellectually - bankrupt SNL - type sketch show.

Justin Lin's comedy of manners onsiders a group of affluent Asian - American kids in high school, who get straight As and supplement their incomes by selling term papers and eventually escalating to drugs and murder.

These include ordering a cultivated director (Ralph Fiennes) to accept a cowboy star (Alden Ehrenreich) as the lead in a drawing - room comedy and asking a multi-faith group of religious leaders to sign off on the script for Hail, Caesar!

Scarlett Johansson is no stranger to the world of comedy — she is a member of the so - called Five - Timers Club, an enviable group of stars who have hosted «Saturday Night Live» at least five times — and she's managed to emerge as an unexpected comedic MVP without ever toplining an outright comedy.

An ensemble comedy about a group of wronged employees who attempt to rob the boss who took the money from their pension plans under the false pretense of investing, the movie does several things right — a talented cast, a deplorably matter - of - fact sociopath as a villain, and, above all, a dizzying setpiece of a robbery that features a 2,000 - pound car and three people dangling hundreds of feet in the air among them.

Led by Olivia DeJonge (The Visit) as the responsible babysitter Ashley and Levi Miller (Pan) as the 12 - year - old in love with his babysitter, this group of teenaged actors masterfully deliver a very, very dark comedy full of bite and blood.

McCarthy started her career as a stand - up comic but quickly found more of her footing as a member of The Groundlings, the sketch - comedy improvisation group in L.A.. There, she worked with the likes of Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph, and as we know, the three found themselves launched into comedic stratosphere with their 2011 massive hit Bridesmaids — but more on that in a minute.

SL: Broken Lizard started off as a stand - up comedy group.