Sentences with phrase «joke lands with»

Critics Consensus: Fist Fight boasts a surplus of comedic muscle but flails lazily, and far too few of its jokes land with enough force to register.

And while more jokes land with a thud than you'd hope for, when it shines, it shines like the sweet diamond - crusted grills of Flava Flav.

Not exact matches

After that, my date prep sheet lands in my inbox, which has the results of a quick Internet / Facebook search of Lily's imprint, info on tonight's venue (a divey - but - not - too - divey bar that's just far enough away from my apartment that it doesn't look like I'm trying to get her to come home with me), and finally some conversation fodder and jokes.

I have it on good authority he said «My wife... is such a comedian, always cracking up the apostles with her naughty jokes... Like did you hear the one she told about the Priest the Rabbi and the Pastor who were discussing how they apporting their collections and the Priest says «We go into the parking lot and draw a circle on the ground and throw all the money up and any that lands in the circle we give to God» and the Pastor says «Yeah, we do almost the same thing but give God anything that falls outside the circle» and the Rabbi looks at them both and says «We do almost the same thing to, draw a circle and throw up the money high into the air and God keeps what God wants...»

After being drafted by the Lakers in 1989, he was cast as the Funny Yugoslav, joking around with Magic Johnson, charming La - La Land with his quick wit and gregarious nature.

It doesn't work well enough to recommend, but the joke - to - laugh ratio is higher than I would have thought, with about every one in five jokes landing, a few had me cracking up.

The jokes announce themselves with heavy footsteps, and almost none of them land, stranding a talented cast with terrible material that they're straining to sell.

With brilliant comedians like Hahn and new addition Christine Baranski on board, there are line readings that pop and jokes that land....

This one shows patience in setting up its jokes, ensuring that you don't see those punchlines coming and that they land with maximum impact.

The line lands with a thud — it's a preening joke, an «ain't I a stinker?»

It fits in with many of the recent comedies where many scenes are played through improv to see which insult comparison line or joke lands the best.

At its core there is a horribly written script with clichéd characters and many failed attempts at jokes that do not land.

Likewise, the current popularity of the superhero genre allows Birdman to be all the more relevant as social commentary - and allows it to land its punches with greater precision (see: the joke about Keaton's character refusing to do Birdman 4).

Aha, see, now you belong to that vast sea of potential seers - of - this - movie that just wants to bask in high adventure with space - hopping and plenty of jokes (there are more than you might think, and most land) and heroes striking poses and villains sneering and saying things like, I kid you not, «Insect!»

But while Fallon opened the show with a song and dance number riffing on La La Land, he made three Trump jokes in his technically challenged opening monologue.

Deprived of the Bolshoi's free accommodation and financial backing and with an ailing mother to support, Dominika is strong - armed by her uncle Vanya — the Chekhov joke never lands — to join one of the state schools which train «sparrows», a name given to the women who are ruthlessly drilled in techniques of seduction, blackmail and sexual entrapment in the service of the intelligence agencies.

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

The Buzz: This thing has been in the pipeline for awhile now, and were it not for the talent involved (Michael Ian Black cowrote the script with Pegg), it might be tempting to crack a few jokes at Schwimmer's expense and wait for it to land at DVD.

There are long stretches in «The Bronze» that are virtually laugh - free, with jokes that just don't quite land.

That joke always seemed to land with the audience.»

However, aside from a few jokes — which unfortunately don't always land where they're supposed to — and a handful of enticing action sequences — especially the ones surrounding Flash and Wonder Woman — the film, as a whole, feels simplistic in structure and lazy in execution, with the story lacking substance, ingenuity and enough heart to leave a lasting impression.

The jokes land harder at 3 a.m., it's a great movie to watch with friends, and there are scenes and even lines of dialogue meant for repeat viewing.

After that, Harmon «went off and wrote different things» for the movie, and though some of his jokes «might have stayed in there,» most of what he came up with was «too out in Dan Harmon - land» to really fit.

This is after all a comedy and if the jokes don't land, we are left with a empty character piece that would feel like a sequel that is no longer sure how to compete in the comedy genre.

Not every joke lands, and the movie begins to lose steam in the final act, but «Popstar» does just enough to keep you entertained with its cavalcade of musician cameos and a great lead performance by Samberg, who channels Derek Zoolander as the clueless, self - confident popstar.

While commercial enough to go the distance, Rauch's caustic character sketch feels similarly over-stretched, landing easy laughs over and over with the same joke: a twisted take on the sort of America's sweetheart even Tonya Harding couldn't tarnish.

The jokes come fast and furious, with almost all of them landing (except one gag involving an anthropomorphic penis that gets stale after two minutes).

First time screenwriters Brendan O'Brien and Andrew J. Cohen have been tangentially involved with the Rogen camp, and they understand the sensibility needed to make the jokes land.

The script was only sparsely peppered with jokes, and it's far more concerned with the story than landing a punchline every 30 seconds.

There is also a charming playfulness to the film in this opening act, with almost every joke landing.

I attended a panel at Pub U in Austin in April where one of the panelists joked that the guys packing up the pallets run over them with their forklifts for good measure, but the joke landed a little too bitterly.

Lucky Landing has also been a recent one, albeit with logical thinking and not April fool's jokes to go by, but we can't win them all.

Humor was present, but never really hit the tone that it was going for, with jokes landing flat sometimes.

English script is a little weak in some areas, with certain jokes and explanations failing to land

The judge just compared my client's discovery responses to «a standup comic who delivers the punch - lines of his jokes first» and «a plane with landing gear that deploys just after touchdown.»