Sentences with phrase «great comedy»

It's just a superior blend of great comedy timing, character chemistry, brilliant performances and solid writing.

This makes for great comedy for the rest of us, so please keep at it!

The Campaign works in some ways but fails in others keeping it from being a really great comedy.

He might not be the next great comedy star, but that doesn't mean we won't stop watching what he does next.

This set - piece is a testament to how the absurd is the common thread between great comedy and great horror.

There isn't a lot of great comedy here, which is disappointing considering the talent involved.

Manchester offers great comedy, festivals and world famous sporting arenas.

Its a ton of fun with alot of great comedy.

«Vacation,» a sequel, if you will, to a series that includes «National Lampoon's Vacation» (voted the 46th greatest comedy film of all time by Total Film magazine in 2000), features Ed Helms in the leading role of a pilot on a low - rent airline shuttling people from South Bend, Indiana to Chicago in eighteen minutes.

Good but not great comedy about an inoffensively self centered man who doesn't really seem to mind much the gradual downward spiral his life becomes once he strays from his stable family life.

SOA always wrenches great comedy from gross - out violence, and Logue masters that art.

A truly great comedy movie requires three things: pitch - perfect chemistry between its charismatic stars, a treasure trove of visual gags (preferably sans dongs, ball sacks, and / or fecal matter) and a waterfall of jokes that feel rightly organic; ad - libbed zingers that don't come across like sweat - shop products whittled down by mouth - breathing jurors in some distant focus - lab.

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events combine to show the film that topped the American Film Institute's list of 100 all - time greatest comedies in 24 Bay Area theaters on Sunday, June 11, and Wednesday, June 14.

And occasionally, in accordance with the rule that truly great comedy is always surprising, they manage to make victims of their bullies.

Final Verdict: It is good to see that clever writing trumps visual gags, especially coming from two of Britain's great comedy doubles.

In 1994, he starred in one of the all - time great Comedy Central Saturday afternoon movies, Airheads, about a group of hair metal rockers who take over a radio station with squirt guns in order to get their demo played.

You may enjoy seeing some of your favorite comedians portray some of your older favorite comedians in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, but David Wain, Jonathan Stern and Peter Principato really made the film to shine a light on Doug Kenney, the late great comedy writer who co-founded the National Lampoon magazine, and co-wrote the screenplays to Animal House and Caddyshack, then abruptly fell off a Hawaiian cliff and died at age 33.

The best bit on Key & Peele, the late, great Comedy Central sketch show, was Luther, President Obama's anger translator.

Alison Brie and Krysten Ritter are still looking for their characters to show up; its a tragedy to see such great comedy performers reduced to little more than eye - candy.

A cute and funny family film with two great comedy actors: Keaton and Garr.

2h of great comedy stuff.

The scene where Andy is getting his chest waxed will be remembered as an all time great comedy scene.

Great comedies keep peaking with bigger and bigger laughs while good ones like «Horrible Bosses» just provide decent ones throughout.

Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999) Great comedy almost always has a dark heart.

There's really not much more to talk about in the film, as it's pretty much a straightforwardly great comedy from this pack of actors in the vein of Pineapple Express, 21 Jump Street and so on.

McKay, who has been at the helm of some pretty great comedies starring his frequent collaborator Ferrell, has never made a funnier movie, nor in its own surprisingly subtle way a more trenchant criticism of American masculinity caught in arrested development.

Zootopia is a thrilling and eye - opening cinematic experience featuring great comedy (a scene at the DMV is one of the funniest scenes I've seen onscreen this year) and a tremendous script.

When: April 27th Why: There are a number of great comedy writing teams in Hollywood, but perhaps one of the most underrated is Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, who already have a pair of terrific films to their names in «Forgetting Sarah Marshall» and «The Muppets.»

Copley is keeping his streak of being great comedy relief with this and Hardcore Henry.

wow i cant believe you thought this cast was forgetablehole movie unforgetable and im glad they could pull it off with secondary characters from other d = great comedies.

What we are excited about: Ed Helms and Owen Wilson have plenty of great comedies on their resumes.

Compare him to other Saturday Night Live stars of his magnitude: Will Ferrell has made more great comedies (and it's hard to imagine that balance shifting), but has never made a «serious» movie nearly as good as Sandler's three best.

But it's not entirely a sapfest, as there are also great comedy ringers in the margins, including Kumail Nanjiani and Natasha Lyonne as co-workers and Tyne Daly as Doris» best friend.

Christmas Vacation is also notable because it might just be the last great comedy Chase ever made.

Lamorne Morris and Kylie Bunbury have a fun chemistry and conflict, and Kyle Chandler gets to flex his surprisingly great comedy chops as boorish big bro Brooks.

«I'm always more of the dramatic force, so I'm always like, «Let tragedy befall these people,» because I think that great comedy comes out of it, and great drama.

Game Night is a fun, energetic and relentless comedy that defies all of its own cliches, establishing it as the first great comedy of 2018.

Sons of the Deserts, How I Won The War, The Road To Wellville, Scrooged, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - there are so many great comedy movies...

It also allows for the actors to take part in some self - deprecating humor (there is a nerdy, never been kissed teenager stuck inside Dwayne Johnson's statuesque features, and it makes for great comedy).

Have your say on our critics» list of the 25 greatest comedy films of all time

The hard thing for me is that I look either my age or younger and I think right now the roles are for late twenties, early thirties for these really great comedies.»

Get some popcorn, an over-sized drink and some candy, and check out the latest and greatest comedy movie in theaters.

On television Gelbart got his start on the Red Buttons Show then went on to work with some of America's greatest comedy writers, including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody Allen on Your Show of Shows.

This probably marks the 50th time I've seen this same formula in the last decade alone (if not 50, it seems like it), and it's difficult to recall one that I'd consider a truly great comedy, and few worth the time to watch, never mind the money.