Sentences with phrase «known for comedy»

The 31 - year - old star - who is best known for his comedy roles in movies including «Knocked Up» and «Forgetting Sarah Marshall» - is keen to show a different side of his acting skills and wants to portray an evil character in the near future.

The actor is best known for comedy, so we fully expected that McBride's character would at least bring some gallows humor to what will surely be a dangerous and deadly affair.

In other moments, Plaza, best known for comedy, goes broader; her Batman - themed sex scene with Jackson isn't exactly a ready - made Oscar clip, even though it's wildly funny and strange in a way that helps to define both her character and the areas where Ingrid's identity becomes slippery and confused.

It's always fascinating to watch an actor known for comedy explore their darker, more serious side in a drama.

«The End of the Tour» lacks the melodrama we expect from the movies, but for the right audience, it deserves status as an eye - opener and a look at the way an actor who is known for comedy does an effective about face in a serious, somber role.

McKittrick is known for his comedy script «Waiting,» which starred Ryan Reynolds.

Bell is best known for comedy, including her excellent work on the TV series «Children's Hospital» and the delightful indie «In a World...,» set in the world of voiceover artists, which she starred in, wrote and directed.

Paul Rudd is mainly known for comedy, but I think he'll do a good job with the action and more dramatic parts here.

But that is exactly what Jordan Peele, the 38 - year - old sketch star best known for Comedy Central's Key and Peele, has accomplished with his directorial debut.

Peele is best known for his comedy collaborations, which often comment on issues of race in America — and in that light, Get Out makes sense, though it's a much more ambitious and polished project than any of his previous work.

Peele — better known for his comedy work in Comedy Central's Key & Peele — astutely taps into systemic racism that persists in America through the eyes of a young black man (played by Daniel Kaluuya) whose visit to the family home of his girlfriend (Allison Williams) turns tragic.

Jason Segal wants to play a bad guy.The 31 - year - old star - who is best known for his comedy roles in movies including «Knocked Up» and «Forgetting Sarah Marshall» - is keen to show a different...

The nation of Germany isn't known for comedy, but that could change, thanks to Maren Ade's magical film.

Forbidden Planet is also notable for starring Leslie Nielsen before he was known for comedy.

Reggie Watts is a multifaceted performer best known for his comedy collaborations and improvisational music sets.

Judy Greer, another talent more known for her comedy, is fabulous as Donna... walking that fine line between horrible parent and naive with an ease I haven't seen before.

With The Nice Guys, Black returns to the sub-genre but this time the emphasis is on the comedy rather than the action, and where better to start than hiring two actors not exactly known for their comedy chops.

Sees a different side of actors — Both Adrien Brody and Ralph Fiennes are not typically known for comedy.

Martin Scorsese isn't exactly known for his comedy, although his 2013 hit «The Wolf of Wall Street» was perhaps the most out - and - out funny film he's made so far.

It comes to us from director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — known for his comedy before this — and screenwriters Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly and John Gatins.

Another hurdle here with Game Night is in its packaging: The larger cast of Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons, and Billy Magnussen aren't known for their comedy chops, not to mention Jason Bateman typically plays the straight man to someone crazier in his comedies, i.e. Charlie Day in Horrible Bosses and Melissa McCarthy in Identify Thief; even Tony Hale and Will Arnett on Arrested Development.

Another actor known for his comedy roles, John Krasinski, breaks away and gives his shot at the horror genre.

Turning into an action movie star was a new thing for Bryce Dallas Howard, the actress better known for comedy - dramas like «The Help» and» 50/50».

As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.

Even if the casting choices in portraying some of iconic talents in Kenney's orbit are occasionally questionable — a detail the film gleefully acknowledges — there's something delightful about watching actors known for comedy now try to capture the sound or energy of the performers who inspired them.

Adam McKay, better known for comedies like Step Brothers and Anchorman, will be keeping the director's chair warm.

For a director known for comedies — namely The Hangover trilogy, but also Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, among others — Phillips doesn't seem to like directing comedies.

His casting in the film was controversial since, except for Point Break, he was primarily known for comedies and indie dramas.

Jaleel White, Tony Hale and Thomas Lennon — best known for comedies — have very limited roles as prominent figures at the boys» grade school.

Meanwhile, screenwriter John Francis Daley is best known for comedies like Horrible Bosses (2011) and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013).

Not exact matches

Director Adam McKay is best known for his outrageous comedy work with Will Ferrell, but here he takes a sobering look at when the housing bubble burst.

Amy Schumer is known for turning difficult topics into moments of bluntness and comedy — so fans won't be surprised that she handled a serious kidney infection with the same honesty and humor.

Paul was mostly known for his slapstick style of comedy, sharing footage of himself doing stunts, telling jokes, and playing pranks.

Smosh, started by comedy duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, was one of the first YouTube sensations, becoming well known for the duo's slapstick comedy videos that parodied video games and pop culture.

So when the challenge gets too tough, Logan falls back on what he knows: big, broad comedy — which works well for six - second Vines but not so well for the part of a man who just found out his girlfriend is getting an abortion.

In this case, it's impossible to know what CK intended, but it's much easier — for fans of comedy and fans of charity — to praise the outcome.

No matter what kind of content you create in your business or to promote your business, it's normal, when faced with a blank page, for your brain to try to pull a Sergeant Schultz from the old comedy, Hogan's Heroes;

Funny or Die, the Will Ferrell - founded comedy site known for bold - faced cameos from President Obama, James Franco and more, may be the next hot property on the online video auction block.

Research and Development: Though engineers are not known for their wit, a little comedy opens the door to creativity, facilitating product innovation and problem - solving.

Canadians are known around the world for a lot of things, among them hockey, comedy and the ability to successfully sport double denim.

But after the horrific reviews for the 2015 holiday comedy he penned, «Love the Coopers,» he knew he couldn't go on much longer working like this.

When I trained with The Second City (the famed comedy and improvisational school that is known as the breeding ground for SNL, etc.), I had a few options.

Known for her hit HBO comedy Insecure, Issa Rae of Issa Rae productions is the first black woman to create and star in a premium cable series.

Perry — you know if you simply transposed the word comedies for «Catholics».

The queen of romantic comedies is best known for penning the classic When Harry Met Sally, and then writing and directing Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, among others.

The comedy actress known for her roles in Miranda and Bridget Jones talks about her Christian conversion and her campaign for Down's syndrome... More

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If his life seems fairly unremarkable except for the bitterness of the exile and of his unfulfilled political hopes, it resulted in an overpowering single work, the Comedy (which was not known as The Divine Comedy until 1555, an apt editorial intervention that has remained with the poem to this day).

According to the site TVLine, Vince Vaughn — an actor probably best known for co-starring in a series of buddy comedies — is currently in talks to star in season two of HBO's gritty crime series True Detective.

Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social justice issues, for much of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work with him when he was an MTV VJ.).