Sentences with phrase «do sketch comedy»

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I recently watched a really funny comedy sketch online about a girl who's new boyfriend didn't use social media.

So, naturally, you would do anything that some cross - dressing comedic actor says to do in a comedy sketch... okay.

Side note: If you aren't big into the sketch comedy scene and don't know what «Mr. Show» is, it's worth your while to look up some sketches on YouTube.

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein did a fantastic job creating a sketch comedy show based in Portland, Oregon.

The cast of the popular BBC sketch - comedy series reunites for a feature - length comedy, but the concept doesn't translate well to the longer form.

With the recent casting announcements for the live - action adaptation of Disney's The Lion King, NBC's premier sketch comedy show did some reimagining.

No prizes for that observation, but as we all know from countless comedy sketches (and not the porn itself because we don't watch that), porn isn't below adding a plot itself.

He did it for sports with Sports Night, for sketch comedy with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and for news with The Newsroom.

Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.

«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Amy Schumer can do no wrong, and if Trainwreck is half as funny as her sketches on Inside Amy Schumer, this will be the comedy of the summer.

That approach doesn't seem to accommodate the style of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, who made a fairly funny comedy with the individual comic sketches within Super Troopers but let the plot take over just a bit too much.

The Artist wins three Golden Globes: actor, score and best motion picture musical or comedy and countless more Oscars, but the absence of a script that does more than sketch faintly Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's 1952 Singin» in the Rain pushes Jean Dujardin's performance as George Valentin to centre stage to fill the void.

I don't know if you guys got the kids comedy sketch show over there (I forget the name of it) but Will Poulter started out in it.

Judging the film's log line — a bored Silverlake couple hires a stripper to be their nanny — you would think you might be in for a broadly sketched comedy, as we did when we sat down for the film's Sundance premiere.

For a time, scraping by in a big city doing improvisational sketch comedy seemed like the new scraping by in a big city playing in an indie rock band.

It's the type of half - assed, sketch - style comedy that only those who are already inclined to get a few laughs out of the film based solely on its premise — and aren't terribly demanding of films that don't demand terribly of themselves — are likely to truly enjoy it for what it is.

However, McKinnon didn't just transform into a movie star this year; She became our best sketch comedy performer.

The comedy sketch show Key and Peele did a lot of interesting and hilarious things, one of them being race relations and the minuteness of matters, especially from the perspective of black men.

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.

He left the show in 2008 and did a variety of other roles, but the duo eventually landed their own show on Comedy Central, the sketch comedy show Key & Comedy Central, the sketch comedy show Key & comedy show Key & Peele.

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Where a lot of films of this type feel like a comedy sketch drawn out long past being funny, «Talladega Nights» keeps working all the way up the end without dropping its ironic and absurdist tone, and ends up being not just a good comedy but a fairly satisfying sports film as well, neither of which is that easy to do.

But it does remain true to Ramis» affection for sketch comedy.

The red - band trailer has turned into an essential component in marketing the R - rated comedy, and when the comedy is promised as a collection of particularly dirty, foul - mouthed sketches, nothing but the red - band will do.

WHY: «What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

So how did Brown fare for this first time on the live sketch comedy scene?

We wanted to do more of that with sketches and that culminated a few years ago with a Comedy Central special.

Known for his work with the sketch comedy team Human Giant and his role on the FX sitcom The League, Scheer also co-hosts the podcast How Did This Get Made?

Essentially a bunch of sketches tied to the narrative thread of the road trip to end all road trips (until they all did it again in National Lampoon's European Vacation two years later), Vacation provided Chase with the perfect comedy vehicle.

For teenagers to work on in workshops or as a one act performance piece THIS OPTION DOES NOT INCLUDE A PERFORMING LICENCE but DOES include a licence to photocopy These are: Dark, twisted cautionary tales With diverse and strange characters They require a very versatile set and costumes Also a lot of physical theatre / comedy Very challenging and demanding for a ensemble company Mask work Four somewhat dark and slightly twisted sketches (can be bought separately as sketches as well) linked together to provide four cautionary tales in a one act storytelling experience.

The emote replicated the incredibly funny and famous walk that is performed as part of this comedy sketch, but they've given no official reason for doing so.

In an effort to get noticed by Lorne Michaels and other SNL recruiters, many Chicago comedy performers are no longer working their way up the iO and Second City ranks, and instead doing their own solo sketch shows at smaller venues like the Upstairs Gallery.

I don't know if Slawyers ever heard the wonderful comedy sketch by the» 60's English group Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller) in which a coal miner bemoans his fate, and opines: «Yes, I could have been a Judge but I never had the Latin.