Sentences with phrase «first big comedy»

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Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation incomedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation inComedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

Bitter by - election battles, gaffe - prone juniors, devious whips and one big game of «coalition chess» sounds more like the sober politics pages of a national broadsheet than a fun evening out, but first - time playwrights Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky remarkably manage to marry the two in their new political comedy, Coalition.

Dwayne Johnson, who placed first in 2016, is in second place with $ 65 million, after starring in the big screen reboot of lifeguard action - comedy «Baywatch» and starring in HBO comedy «Ballers.»

Above all though, leave your comedy slogan t - shirt at home: «funny» shirts are considered the biggest first date outfit no - no there is, putting off 63 % of Canadian singles.3

8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally Being a dad is a BIG deal!

It was also in 1994 that he had his first big - screen role, as — wait for it — a talk show host in the Damon Wayans comedy Blankman.

Satirical comedian Ben Gleib, dubbed the «next big thing» on Esquire's comedian list, performs his first one - hour comedy special where he tackles social media, singledom, vegetarians and everything in between.

Another Saturday Night Live alumnus to make a bid for big screen stardom, Rob Schneider got his first chance to carry a film with Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (2000), a mistaken identity comedy that was as commercially popular as it was critically eviscerated.

As one of the first big romantic comedies of the US summer silly season — Ghosts of Girlfriends Past doesn't count as it stars Matthew McConaughey — The Proposal bears the burden of expectation built up within fans of the genre during a very serious January and February as well as the commencement of the blockbuster releases in March and April.

Is there another Big Sick, the comedy whose whopping first - weekend bidding battle whetted the appetite for a multitude of other deals last Sundance?

Rawson Marshall Thurber may be a first - time big screen writer - director, but he had already made a splash in sports comedy with a series of television commercials for Reebok called, «Terry Tate: Office Linebacker».

As the shows producer and writer, it's where Apatow first began working with his cast of regular actors - Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and James Franco - and formulated his brand of melancholic, big - hearted suburban comedy.

His name is Richard E. Grant, and his first big movie role was last year in the bleak, knife - edged comedy «Withnail and I.» He played a dark - eyed, lantern - faced, intense loner with spite for everybody.

Goldie Hawn, «The First Wives Club» Perhaps the biggest injustice on this list is that Hawn, a triple threat wildly gifted in the slapstick department, did not win any of the awards her character Elise owns in this classic 1996 comedy.

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie: The madcap children's books by Dav Pilkey hit the big screen in this animated comedy.

First - timers to be nominated for lead performance in a comedy series included: Linney for «The Big C,» Martha Plimpton for «Raising Hope,» Galecki for «The Big Bang Theory» and McCarthy of «Mike & Molly.»

The hand - drawn feature animation is the first feature from animation house Titmouse, Inc., a smooth transition to the big screen that borrows animated TV comedies» fast - paced style.

This animated comedy adventure is based on the beloved children's book, which was published in 1936 and first adapted for the big screen by Walt Disney in an Oscar - winning 1938 short.

(This is his second film; his first was a wonderfully corny little romantic comedy called «Big Eden,» which came out in 2000.)

Other than that, everything else went as expected, including Jordan Peele winning the «First - Timer» award for «Get Out,» «Veep» winning Comedy Series, and «Big Little Lies» winning for Movies for Television and Miniseries.

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If you can get through the first two puerile episodes — and that's a big if — of Danny McBride and Jody Hill's mean - spirited school comedy Vice Principals, you'll probably notice a much better and possibly smarter work of satire lurking just out of reach.

In the opening minutes of Alexander Payne's wonderful road comedy Sideways, Paul Giamatti gives the first impression of an unkempt California layabout of Big Lebowski proportions.

Like a romantic - comedy in which the female lead is forced to choose between a lifeless dolt and the man of her dreams, «First Match» is hurt by how it effectively makes Monique's biggest decision for her.

It's not that long ago — certainly not eons — that we saw the first poster for The Croods, DreamWorks Animation's big family comedy hope for early 2013.

Sony Pictures has released the first red band trailer for Bryan Buckley's upcoming comedy The Bronze which stars The Big Bang Theory's Melissa Rauch.

Digital Spy reports that the launch of the first full trailer for the movie last week was the biggest ever for a comedy, racking up 52 million watches.

Fox's horror comedy series Scream Queens aired its first season finale this week, but the big news today is that

His other credits include the Netflix comedy Pee Wee's Big Holiday, David Ayer's action drama Sabotage, and he appeared in Sam Raimi's first Spider - Man pic.

The warning «Beware the dog killer» scrawled on a coffee shop window in big red letters is the first indication of the paranoia that permeates this glib, weird hybrid comedy rife with conspiracy theories.

In 1978, Douglas Adams penned the script for British radio an eccentric SF comedy entitled «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» (or H2G2), and its success led to a run of five best - selling books (the first appearing in 1979), a BBC television series (1981), a computer game (1998), and now, over a quarter of a century after its first radio outing, a big - screen feature film.

H. Jon Benjamin on his uniquely loose style of voice acting, and it's roots on his first big voiceover gig on the late 1990s comedy classic, «Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist.»

And though this is his first one - hander in quite a while, De Niro has an appealing supporting cast assembled around him, giving us a chance to see him share the big screen with Harvey Keitel yet again and to reunite with Charles Grodin for the first time since the classic 1988 buddy comedy Midnight Run.

The first trailer has debuted for writer - director Adriana Trigiani's upcoming romantic comedy Big Stone Gap which stars Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg.Watch it below after the official synopsis... Based on her best - selling novel of the same name, writer / director Adriana Trigiani brings the story of a coal mining town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains -LSB-...]

So, it's not surprising that an impressive number of powerful women were also honored for their work both on the small screen, with Big Little Lies and The Handmaid's Tale, and on the big screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning Best Motion Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, ComeBig Little Lies and The Handmaid's Tale, and on the big screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning Best Motion Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comebig screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning Best Motion Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy.

The first trailer has debuted for writer - director Adriana Trigiani's upcoming romantic comedy Big Stone Gap which stars Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg.Watch it below after the official synopsis...

The WEDDING CRASHERS return to the big - screen together for the first - time since the 2005 hit with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn leading Shawn Levy's fish - out - of - water workplace comedy THE INTERNSHIP.

It was big news when it was first announced that Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz would be co-starring in this highly anticipated summer action comedy.

Warner Bros. is understandably worried about sending out a big budget film with unproven talent, helmed by gross - out comedy director like Dobkin making his first action movie.

Though far from the big - budget extravaganza of the first two «Iron Man» films, what the indie comedy lacks in spectacle it makes up for with a great cast, a warm and funny script, and some mouth - watering food porn.

Now that the acquisitions floodgates are open, the buys keep piling up like it's Black Friday in studio shopping baskets, and this afternoon has brought news of the biggest deal yet at the festival, with Variety the first trade to report that Relativity Media are set to put down what may be a record - breaking sum for «Don Jon's Addiction,» the raunchy comedy that marks the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

First up, Glee star Chris Colfer is set to make his big screen debut in the indie coming - of - age comedy Struck by Lightning.

Rob Corddry has landed his first starring role, a part in «Project A,» an action comedy from Ben Stiller's production company about a man trained by the U.S. government as a Cold War experiment to become the world's biggest jerk.

Bajillion Dollar Properties was the first big hit on NBC's comedy - based streaming service Seeso, which is why it got Seeso's first - ever second - season renewal back in April.

According to the actress — who had one of her first big breaks as the slightly unhinged object of Vince Vaughn's affections in the 2005 comedy — Vaughn recently told her at a party that «apparently we're going to be making a sequel.»

While we were filming they finished «Wedding Crashers,» which was the first big R - rated comedy of that wave.

Hitch is a date movie, released in time for St. Valentine's day in the US, which probably explains its massive first weekend box office — US$ 43.1 million — the biggest romantic comedy opening ever!

The first Neighbors grossed $ 150 million in the US and almost $ 270 worldwide, making it the biggest original comedy of 2014.

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Adam Reed's thoughtful, detail - heavy send - up of all things spy - related may not be as out - and - out hysterical as its classic first three seasons, but the laughs remain big and consistent in the seventh season of FX's most iconic comedy series.