Sentences with phrase «involved in comedy»

This allows me to talk and work with people who are involved in comedy and it's how I've been able to follow something that I love.

Not exact matches

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

West Germany's World Cup winning goalkeeper Sepp Maier played a kidnapper in the 1981 comedy C.O.D, which involved a rather odd plot revolving around a bumbling advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom.

The SMILE study involved the recruiting and teaching of an employee to act as a «LaughterBoss» who worked together with a humour specialist with improvisation and comedy skills, a bit like «Clown Doctors» made use of in hospitals to assist recovery and elevate mood in kids.

She became part of a superhero franchise when she took over the part of Gwen Stacy in 2012's The Amazing Spider - Man, and she took a part in the period crime film Gangster Squad that same year.Stone enjoyed a very busy 2014 that involved her returning to the part of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and being tapped to star in Woody Allen's period comedy Magic in the Moonlight.

With director Mark Waters at the helm (no stranger to these high concept «comedies», with the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as well as crowning achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory note.

The first thing in Todd Phillips's comedy's favour is the fact that Judd Apatow and his particular brand of puerile antics (The Hangover's still puerile, though) are not involved at all.

Tone: Back in the»30s and»40s, one plot in romantic comedies involved a divorced couple getting back together again.

During its two years on MTV, the show garnered high ratings due to Green's penchant for pushing the limits of taste with such gags as shagging a dead moose and delivering animal parts to his parents» house, and for involving innocent bystanders in his «confrontational comedy.»

If you're bothered by deliberate (but tongue - in - cheek) bad taste, raging political incorrectness, sexual innuendo or comedy involving large sexual toys, or if you just don't get satire, «The Office» may not be right for you.

Some of this involves quirky characters as you would expect to find in modern comedy, but even this aspect finds its natural groove early and never disappoints.

But even in the movie's most straightforward moments — some gentle comedy involving Mary and her great - aunt's housekeeper, or a visual joke in which a cat seems to change color — the delicate interplay of soft textures and painterly hues pulls you deeply into this story's world.

In this comedy, an inventor on his honeymoon creates problems for another couple when he gets involved in their troubleIn this comedy, an inventor on his honeymoon creates problems for another couple when he gets involved in their troublein their troubles.

Writer, director and star Tyler Perry returns to his signature role in this comedy - drama that finds family matriarch Madea juggling several romantic crises involving her nieces» relationships as well as the funeral of an older sister - all on the weekend that her entire clan is gathering for a reunion.

But when he gets involved in murder and mayhem after picking up a psychotic hitchhiker (Andrew J. West), his comedy act starts to improve.

In this lively made - for - TV espionage comedy, an off - the - wall CIA agent involves an interpreter in his hunt for a professional hit man assigned to murder the PresidenIn this lively made - for - TV espionage comedy, an off - the - wall CIA agent involves an interpreter in his hunt for a professional hit man assigned to murder the Presidenin his hunt for a professional hit man assigned to murder the President.

Another standout sequence in Public Enemies is more effective for comedy than suspense, and involves Dillinger's reaction in a movie theater to an on - screen announcement warning the audience to be on the lookout for him, America's «Public Enemy # 1.»

Thanks to a complicated series of events involving a corporate embezzlement scheme, the two are forced to convince the world their boss is still alive in this slapstick comedy.

Po is his coolest character and his most emotionally connected, which I think has something to do with his inability to ditch the crazy - eyes when he's involved in live - action comedy.

Instead, Atkinson chose to get involved in the internationally acclaimed comedy series Not the Nine O'Clock News as a writer and a performer.

From their first film to their newest, the Farrellys have shown a keen grasp of not only the subtle comedic principles involved in semen gags, but also the nuances of the traditional Hollywood romantic comedy.

Although there have been many films about pregnancy and the fears involved in having a baby, there are angles here not often taken before in comedy, including what goes through a man's mind when having sex with a pregnant woman («I don't want that to be the first thing the baby sees», etc.) that is funny (because it probably actually does go through a man's mind).

There are some clever digs at famous shows - «Cirque so lame» is mentioned, and there's a running gag involving a Bengal tiger that keeps mauling a Vegas showman, who always appears swathed in bandages - but the comedy never totally catches fire and it feels rather formulaic.

Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen have been involved in some of cinema's best recent comedies, and their first time behind the camera together — both in the director's chair — pokes fun at both Hollywood and the shallow versions of themselves.

This is the first part of Edward Copeland's extensive tribute to the show, including interviews with many of those involved in creating one of the best - loved comedies in television history.

This entertaining teen comedy is set in the effervescent 1950s and involves the friendship of the introverted, clumsy Jonathan (Doug McKeon) and the nonconformist, extroverted Gene (Chris Nash).

This is the third and final part of Edward Copeland's extensive tribute to the show, including interviews with many of those involved in creating one of the best - loved comedies in television history.

This is Part 2 of Edward Copeland's extensive tribute to the show, including interviews with many of those involved in creating one of the best - loved comedies in television history.

When the funniest scene in a comedy is a sight gag involving Kevin Smith, you might be in dangerous waters.

All of this seems like the setup for a campus comedy, but not in the world of Neil LaBute, where the sexes have arrived at Armageddon, and the last act involves pain and humiliation.

This time around, his comedy — the Palme d'Or winner that explores the dictatorship of political correctness — introduces us to an experimental artist who curates a social experiment involving an enclosed space in which people are told to behave responsibly.

The Farrelly brothers once again combine raucous humour, outrageous vulgarity and genuinely heartfelt comedy for this surprisingly involving story about rediscovering the spark in marriage.Rick and Fred (Wilson and Sudeikis) are best pals who have...

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

The comedy gets placed mostly on hold while Segal attempts to dazzle us with CGI - laden sequences that somehow never involve us in the process, as we know it's a comedy where the players never are in any danger of getting maimed or killed.

(In Indonesian with subtitles) The Trouble with Bliss (Unrated) Midlife crisis comedy about an unemployed slacker (Michael C. Hall), living at home with his widowed father (Peter Fonda), whose life starts to unravel when he becomes involved with the 18 year - old daughter (Brie Larson) of a high school classmate (Brad William Henke).

He doesn't show a knack for action sequences, and he frequently stumbles in the comedy as well, which is more an indication of a script in need of tweaking than an indictment of talent involved.

Luckily, everyone that was involved oscillates between comedy and drama in their careers.

Surprisingly dull and unfunny for the talent involved, «Life After Beth» is a dead - on - arrival comedy that's just as much in need of some brains as its title character.

It seems like every summer we get this kind of comedy where the innocent and naïve central characters think they're off for some fun and wind up in a whirl of trouble involving strange guns and drugs.

Finally, rounding off the top five this week and falling two places from last week is the action / comedy Knight and Day about an ordinary girl who unintentionally gets involved with a secret agent, featuring super star actors Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the leading roles.

With a gentle current of comedy, this relaxed British drama finds some cleverly involving ways of approaching the concept of grief, specifically how various people need to deal with their inner pain in their own...

And that it takes a quirky, romantic - comedy involving an undead girl and her living boyfriend to remind us there are no redos in life and to not put off until tomorrow what can be done today is proof of that.

He heads an ensemble of crack actors, each with a gift for finding pathos in comedy, and the absurd in the tragic, starting with Shirley Knight as Ned's equally compassionate, equally «idiot» mother, and working through Elizabeth Banks as the sister desperately trying to sell out to make good at the magazine where she toils while missing the cues from the neighbor (Adam Scott) who is willing to literally drop anything to do her household chores; Zooey Deschanel as the pan-sexual sister with truth issues that involve both her girlfriend (Rashida Jones) and the artist (Hugh Dancy) for whom she both poses and poses a problem; and Emily Mortimer, as the earth mother who lost track of what makes her happy and why she wanted to be married to a smug and profoundly disinterested husband (Steve Coogan).

Kristen Bell fares just as poorly as the repressed stay - at - home mom who struggles to find her voice in her marriage, trying to drum up laughs in a bra - shaming sequence that is almost identical to the one she was involved in just in the last year in her role in the Melissa McCarthy vehicle, The Boss — that it's Kunis's character, the most fashionable of the three moms (the one with perfect hair, make - up and 5 - inch designer heels) who wears doesn't know her bra isn't sexy only speaks to the film's laboring to force comedy without build - up.

It's also the least admired by critics, and the team's only comedy, with Alec Guinness playing a British vacuum cleaner salesman in Cuba inexplicably involved in a batty spy intrigue.

The time travel comedy from creators Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter of Sausage Party fame followed the hapless janitor, Josh Futturman (Josh Hutcherson), as he attempted to fulfull his destiny as the savior of the future in a surprisingly complex mission that involves changing the past.

The visual effects so vital to this sort of thing are variable in quality and the ridiculous goings - on are underpinned by a vein of comedy that is clearly meant to signal that everyone involved knows it has been made with tongue in cheek.

Long before the end of the film, you come to the realization that, unlike the similar ensemble - driven comedy, Barbershop, this movie has no real inspiration involved in its conception, and the creators didn't know where to go with it.

-- while scenes involving grandpa crashing in a closet are straight out of the TV comedy playbook.

Jim Parsons costars with Morgan Freeman in «10 Items or Less,» a comedy about an actor preparing for a role involving a grocery store.