Sentences with phrase «comedy lampoons»
This broad comedy lampoons both the music world and police hostage dramas as it depicts the musicians» quest for freedom and a record deal.
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This French comedy fondly lampoons both the popular French spy movies adapted from Jean Bruce's novels in the 1950s and»60s and the colonialist era they were set in.
From Robert Altman's The Company to Paul Haggis» In The Valley Of Elah, re-uniting with Apatow for a brief cameo in Knocked Up to earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a musical or comedy in Pineapple Express, lampooning his image to hilarious effect in TV's 30 Rock to re-teaming with Tina Fey as the highlight of Date Night, and perfecting the portrayal of Allen Ginsberg in Howl to never failing to surprise with his next project, Franco's resume boasts a wealth of gold from his fourteen years in the public eye.
During his first few decades as an actor, Bill Macy took whatever was readily available: poetry - reading jobs, movie bits, comedy - record gigs (he's the operatic cabdriver in the classical music lampoon The Wurst of PDQ Bach) and off - Broadway stage assignments.
Spoof movies have made fun of action movies, adventure movies, horror films, and science - fiction movies, so romantic comedies were certainly ripe for lampooning.
Comedienne Amy Schumer has drawn a lot of eyes (and sometimes ire) for her Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, which lampoons, subverts and raises the ground under many traditional American roles women find themselves pigeonholed in at work,...
The Cornetto Trilogy, as it has come to be known, works so well as comedy because of its caricatures and lampooning of traditional clichés; Cuban Fury on the other hand falls into these clichés almost consistently, playing out exactly as you'd expect.
Its tone is similar to that of the comedy series, W1A, which lampoons the bureaucrats, middle - managers and marketing consultants who haunt the corridors of the BBC.
These re-mixed scenes poke fun at the serious tone of the storyline but instead of appearing like a separate comedy entity like MAD TV doing a lampoon, it all seems like an organic outgrowth of the MGS universe.
Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are, simply put, some of the best genre comedies of the 21st century thus far; Edgar Wright's collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost always seem to result in incredibly hilarious, acerbic comedies that have the rare distinction of actually serving as fine examples of the genres they lampoon.
Sometimes she may have fallen for the passing comedy of newspaper lampoons.
The show also includes a six - minute sound installation titled «Spiderman,» in which Bradford delivers an off - color comedy routine that lampoons the often crass and macho language of stand - up.