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Born in Toronto, she grew up watching the Canadian sketch - comedy series SCTV and performed with an all - female improv group, the Atomic Fireballs.

Comedy «The Cosmopolitans,» written, produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Whit Stillman («The Last Days of Disco»), follows a group of young Americans searching for love in Paris.

A comedy about a group of Vermont state police officers engaged in a border dispute with Canadian «Mounties,» «Super Troopers 2» premiered to a solid opening over the weekend, raking in $ 14.7 million against the $ 5 million to $ 7 million it was projected to hit.

While they did not study this research question, [63] found that people smiled and laughed more and rated an audiotaped stand - up comedy routine more positively when they listened to canned laughter that they thought came from members of their in - group rather than their out - group.

Sherwood Schwartz writes and produces a number of popular television series, including «Gilligan «s Island,» a comedy originated in the l960s in which a zany group of castaways manage to survive not only shipwreck, but each other.

The joke, of course, is that the primate is Homo sapiens and the group hyperventilation is our laughing together at comedy clubs or in theaters — or with the virtual crowds of television laugh tracks.

Although Robinson says his field «has a large number of people who don't like computers,» and who are suspicious of the analysis, he says others are picking up the technique, including a group in Germany hoping to analyze 5000 copies of the Greek New Testament, and another group working on Dante's Divine Comedy.

In one study, older adults who watched either a Red Skelton comedy or a montage of America's Funniest Home Videos performed better on memory tasks than a control group who sat calmly for the same period of time.

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Looking is an American comedy - drama television series about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco.

Comedy Writing Blog About - Info on how to add humor to your communications — whether you're speaking in front of group or writing something for people to read, you can be funnier.

Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, and Angela Lansbury star in this comedy about a man who turns his growing group of penguins into a performance troupe.

In this comedy, a group of ex-husbands rally together to protest having to pay exorbitant amounts of alimony and wind up in «alimony - jail.&raquIn this comedy, a group of ex-husbands rally together to protest having to pay exorbitant amounts of alimony and wind up in «alimony - jail.&raquin «alimony - jail.»

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.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

In this wild comedy of errors, a group of London friends find themselves deep in debt to an unsavory underworld figurIn this wild comedy of errors, a group of London friends find themselves deep in debt to an unsavory underworld figurin debt to an unsavory underworld figure.

Game Night is primarily a manic, madcap comedy, in which a group of friends unwittingly or knowingly go on dangerous adventures and make a slew of errors in the process.

Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, and Brittany Snow star in this comedy about an all - girl a cappella group battling the reigning boys champions for singing superiority.

He and old friend Kevin McDonald helped to form the sketch comedy group and TV series The Kids in the Hall, so named after a Jack Benny joke.

In this all - star family comedy, a power outage traps six groups of New Yorkers in elevators on Christmas Eve where they find that laughter, romance and a little bit of faith might get them through — and change their lives in unexpected wayIn this all - star family comedy, a power outage traps six groups of New Yorkers in elevators on Christmas Eve where they find that laughter, romance and a little bit of faith might get them through — and change their lives in unexpected wayin elevators on Christmas Eve where they find that laughter, romance and a little bit of faith might get them through — and change their lives in unexpected wayin unexpected ways.

During an overnight grad night party, a group of high school graduates seek to complete their unfulfilled dreams before high school is over forever in this AwesomenessTV comedy series created by Jason Ubaldi.

is primarily a manic, madcap comedy, in which a group of friends unwittingly or knowingly go on dangerous adventures and make a slew of errors in the process.

In 1947, Morgan was teamed with Jack Carson for a group of musical comedies which Warners hoped would match the success of Paramount's Hope - Crosby «Road» pictures.

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.

Synopsis: A lowly Lego figure (voiced by Chris Pratt) joins a group intent on battling an evil force after a case of mistaken identity in this computer generated comedy from the filmmakers behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and co-director Chris McKay (Robot Chicken).

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.

In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it is inundated with groups of midgets, secret agents, and Nazi and Japanese spies.

In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders.

Honored by festivals and critics groups alike, WHERE TO INVADE NEXT is an expansive, hilarious, and subversive comedy in which the Academy Award ® - winning director confronts the most pressing issues facing America today and finds solutions in the most unlikely places.

Surrounding these lights are three of the funniest comedy actors in television: Dave Foley, of the Canadian comedy group Kids in the Hall; Rhys Darby, of Flight of the Conchords; and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who was a comedian for years before becoming 24's Chloe.

stars Joel McHale (center) in a comedy about a renowned adventure reporter for an outdoor magazine who must adapt to the times when the magazine's founder (Stephen Fry, second from left) assigns him to become the desk - bound boss to a group of millennials (Christine Ko, second from right; Shaun Brown, far right; and Christopher Mintz - Plasse, far left) in the digital department of the publication.

Instead, we are left with a group of caricatures that seem tiresome and lacking in originality, simply trying to regurgitate offensive comedy of the past under a new label.

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.

You're Next — A group of killers thinks they've got easy prey when they decide to attack the Davison family's wedding anniversary, but they get more than they bargained for in this horror / comedy / action film.

Sony low - budget division Screen Gems released his first feature in 2000, «The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy,» which followed the lives of a group of gay friends living in West Hollywood.

From It's Always Sunny's Charlie Day, The Cool Kids is a multi-camera comedy that follows a rag - tag group of friends living in a retirement community who are willing to break every rule in order to have fun.

Synopsis: Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins star in this comedy - drama about a group of people who are brought together when they join a support group to overcome their sex addictions.

The comedy from Haddish's Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee follows a group of misfits who are forced to attend adult classes in the longshot chance they'll pass the GED exam.

Adam McKay (of Anchorman 1 & 2, Step Brothers) directs Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Karen Gillan, Marisa Tomei, Melissa Leo, Rafe Spall and Brad Pitt in this comedy about a group of bankers that try to plan their way around the recession in 2008.

With echoes of The Big Chill, this epic - length French comedy - drama explores with raw honesty the relationships between a group of people in their 30s and 40s.

Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon - Covey star in this comedy about an unruly group of bridesmaids.

It's a bit of a weird group of performances no one talks about (Chief Dan George being the exception) in movies no one talks about, but includes a young Gene Hackman AND a Bea Arthur comedy!

If you're not in this group, expect only a fitfully amusing sitcom - caliber comedy that will mildly keep your interest, even if you aren't» exactly left in stitches.

The comedy from director Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip) follows a group of misfits who are forced to attend adult classes in the longshot chance they'll pass the GED exam.

Carell has given the world a giant group of characters, all memorable in their comedy but with a heart behind each one.

A tight - knit improv group fractures after one member gets a TV gig in Mike Birbiglia's bittersweet comedy

The comedy stars Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, and is about a group of troublemakers who are forced to attend night school in hopes that they'll pass the GED exam to finish high school.

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis» country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

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.