Sentences with phrase «in a comedy like»

Christopher Guest is getting his band of improv» ing geniuses (featured in comedies like Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind) back together for another mocumentary, this time exploring the world of mascots.

When death is supposed to be a genuine factor in a comedy like this, the dour recognition of mortality ends up competing against the straightforwardness of a mirthful good time.

But in a comedy like this, I let go of that.

The Judd Apatow factory, which has refreshed the coming - of - age comedy (for all ages of adolescent men) in comedies like Knocked Up, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, has been stretching itself thin (that's my best explanation for Drillbit Taylor and Step Brothers).

Stone will also be showing up briefly this summer in comedies like Friends with Benefits and Crazy, Stupid, Love, and is headlining the pop literary adaptation, The Help.

While her early work in comedies like «Kuffs» and «Dazed and Confused» are hardly worthy of criticism due to the small roles she endured, her later work in Spike Lee's «He Got Game» and the as the fashionable villain, Katinka Ingabogovinanana, in the hilarious Ben Stiller supermodel spoof «Zoolander» is excellent.

No longer the cop or crook every few months, De Niro is now comfortable playing the old man in comedies like Last Vegas, Grudge Match, and next year's self - explanatory Dirty Grandpa.

After seeing him in comedies like The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, Anchorman, and This is 40, I would never have thought of him as a superhero, but he nailed it.

She gave us brilliant performances in Indi Movies like Junebug, in Dramas like Doubt in Comedies like Enchanted....

Because it always does in comedies like this.

He is manipulative and repulsive but oddly fascinating — far removed from the sympathetic goofs he so often plays in comedies like Meet the Parents and Night at the Smithsonian, yet clearly not far from his comfort zone.

The actor may have made his name in Disney's cheery High School Musical and since starred in comedies like Baywatch and musicals like The Greatest Showman, but he's finally ready to disturb us with a heavy role as notorious real - life serial killer Ted Bundy.

No longer the cop or crook every few months, De Niro is now comfortable playing the old man in comedies like Last Vegas, Grudge Match, and the self - explanatory, forthcoming Dirty Grandpa.

In the 1980s, Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy's wisecracking motormouths were a little less dangerous and subversive, but they kept the anti-hero tradition alive in comedies like Stripes, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, and Ghostbusters.

As for movies, he appeared in comedies like The Five Year Engagement, 21 Jump Street and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Not exact matches

Called «Seeso,» the service will launch widely in January, at which point members can pay $ 3.99 per month for ad - free access to a full library NBC comedy programming — from new episodes of Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to all past episodes of classic shows like The Office and 30 Rock — along with a slate of new original series and stand - up comedy specials.

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the arccomedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the arcComedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

In July 2013, Volk - Weiss became co-owner of New Wave Dynamics, subsequently renamed Comedy Dynamics, which has produced 20 to 30 standup specials per year and sold licenses not only to regular buyers like HBO and Showtime, but also, increasingly, to Netflix.

Even Spotify is getting in on the action by allowing users to watch video and listen to podcasts from companies like Comedy Central, the BBC, and ESPN.

And for every hit like «X-Men: Days of Future Past» there were flops like the raunchy western - comedy «A Million Ways to Die in the West» and Tom Cruise action film «Edge of Tomorrow.»

Even Viacom (VIAB) has seen better than expected results, despite being embroiled in a power struggle between CEO Philippe Dauman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone — and despite criticism for its lackluster stable of fading brands like Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.

Conversations like this don't happen often enough in teen - driven comedies.

The upshot: the EV shift might usher in the age of a bubble - or pod - shaped car like those popularised by the 1960s futuristic animated comedy series, The Jetsons.

The networks, as usual, axed plenty of shows (old and new) in 2017 as well, like the comedy «2 Broke Girls,» which faltered in ratings later into its run.

After large movie theater chains, like AMC (AMC.N) and Regal Entertainment (RGC.N), refused to screen the comedy following threats of violence from hackers who opposed the film, Sony stitched together a limited release in theaters and a $ 5.99 video - on - demand (VOD) rental and $ 14.99 purchase option on YouTube Movies, Google Play (GOOGL.O), Microsoft Xbox Video (MSFT.O) and a dedicated site starting Dec. 24.

Hulu revived The Mindy Project after Fox decided not to renew the comedy series in 2015, while Netflix has resuscitated freshly - cancelled series such as the western crime drama Longmire (previously on the A&E Network) while also bringing back fan - favorite shows like Arrested Development and Gilmore Girls following long absences.

Nagasu says that while in general she turns to comedy and laughter to reduce pressure at big events like the Olympics, overcoming the heartbreak of missing the Sochi team was tough.

Comedians like Louis CK, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle are able to host compelling 90 - minute comedy shows, in part because they have mastered the art of timing.

On the earnings call, Viacom's CEO called out viewership share growth in all of Viacom's flagship assets like Comedy Central, BET and MTV.

FN: With exposure in the mass media, including traditional news outlets and comedy shows like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, tell us how the Rule has made consumers more aware of the importance of financial advisers acting in their best interests.

Show to Watch for: Cable news provider CNN and Internet comedy / meme site BuzzFeed are investing heavily in a collaborative channel, which will feature future programs like «10 Clips of Anderson Cooper that Will Make You Want Gray Hair.»

Like Daniel in Nebuchadnezzar's court, where are the Christians in comedy to meet the challenge laid down by the Jim Jefferies and the George Carlins of this worldly world?

But, like Chris Rock says in his latest comedy routine, Kill the Messenger, one day the phone companies are going to buy the ringtone companies and make us pay...

The plot sounds like pretty typical comedy fare: Two estranged sisters decide to throw a house party in their childhood home that their parents are selling soon.

As You Like It would not be an authentic Shakespearean comedy without the element of identity confusion, in this case created by Rosalind's decision to dress up as a boy in order to protect herself and Celia.

Like Elizabethan drama, they are so heterogeneous in form as practically to constitute a rebellion against classical restraints; they simply can not resist mixing intense pathos with high comedy, stateliness with farce, heroic magnificence with nursery fantasy.

Maybe you even feel a little lost, like Dory Stewart in the new TBS show Search Party, a new dark comedy about a girl who finds meaning in someone else's story.

Molly Shannon's been goofing around in niche comedy lanes like Wet Hot American Summer and Children's Hospital for several years now, and placing her atop the reboot of The Office would be a long overdue return to prominence after her run on SNL.

Like him, I had a supportive and sensible wife, had dabbled in doing stand - up comedy and had enjoyed and developed a hobby.

For many film goers, Zach Galifianakis is known for his roles in blockbuster comedies like the Hangover, Masterminds and The Campaign.

Alternative media like art, or TV shows, or comedy, have long been vehicles to examine society and religion and all sorts of things in a more effective way that head - on debate can provide — look at Stephen Colbert for one example — any, any restraint on those media is a direct assault on freedom itself.

In 1959, Billy Wilder's risqué comedy Some Like It Hot was released without a certificate of approval.

For those of us from the older generation, we are shocked and amazed at the increase in sexual content in commercials, movies, TV shows, comedy, talk shows, general conversation, and the like.

There is a show that is supposed to be funny... about home videos where people have «accidents» or strange things happen to them and often I believe someone must have gotten hurt when they fall or slam into something... and people just roar and think it is so funny, but stuff like that does not make me laugh as I think about how that must have hurt... so I guess humor is in one's funny bone, and that is about all I can say about comedy!

Writing Christian music in some ways is like cussing while doing standup comedy.

Not a lot of romantic comedies and historical fiction in the DVR queue — of all the guy movies we watch, I like the superhero stuff best — that's why I'm pretty pumped to have just watched the 2005 version of «Fantastic Four» in preparations for the reboot coming to theaters.

You simply couldn't script this whole mess, its like an Ealing comedy of a bygone age, where a bureaucratic nightmare of such proportions should surely only exist in fiction unfortunately the African continent has to contend with as a nightmare of a reality.

In an otherwise dull half, comedy and constant distress for the fans were provided by Almunia in goal, who almost spilled a tame effort into the net, and flapped around his box in the face of the aerial bombardment like a bridesmaid trying to catch the bouquet at a weddinIn an otherwise dull half, comedy and constant distress for the fans were provided by Almunia in goal, who almost spilled a tame effort into the net, and flapped around his box in the face of the aerial bombardment like a bridesmaid trying to catch the bouquet at a weddinin goal, who almost spilled a tame effort into the net, and flapped around his box in the face of the aerial bombardment like a bridesmaid trying to catch the bouquet at a weddinin the face of the aerial bombardment like a bridesmaid trying to catch the bouquet at a wedding.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

Like serious, the kid has a future in comedy.