Sentences with phrase «effacing comedy»

It's also frequently hilarious, mining humour in slapstick, true, but also in the sort of self - effacing comedy with which Carell is most conversant.

There's a scene near the conclusion of Woody Allen's latest trifle, Magic in the Moonlight, that recalls the filmmaker's finest work in its fusion of earnest philosophical inquiry and black, self - effacing comedy.

Flanked by his hapless sidekick (a hilariously thick Jeffrey Tambor) and a raging producer (Rip Torn), Larry interacts with celebrities on and off the stage in ways that push Shandling's self - effacing comedy into the realms of seminal squirm humor.

Not exact matches

Not many current actors who are known for self - effacing screen comedy can do this kind of thing well.

Then there's the comedy - good enough that non-comic book fans will likely go along for the self - effacing ride, assuming they aren't taken aback about how hard «R» Deadpool really is.

For this role, he loses the self - effacing humor of the charming tongue - in - cheek cockiness he brought to Romancing the Stone for the droll comedy of desperation in an once - celebrated businessman and happy husband and father who tossed in the towel of responsibility and commitment for a life of immediate gratification and paid the price: divorce, distrust and financial ruin.