Sentences with phrase «like sketch show»

The story of a modestly successful improv comedy troupe that is pulled apart when one of its members (Keegan - Michael Key) is offered a job on a big, SNL - like sketch show, the film is nicely structured, gently witty, and it boasts an excellent cast (also including Birbiglia, Gillian Jacobs, Chris Gethard, Kate Micucci, and Tami Sagher).
For the members of a popular New York improv troupe, teamwork is the key to crowd - pleasing success — that is, until two members (played by Keegan Michael - Key and Gillian Jacobs) get the golden call to audition for an iconic Saturday Night Live — like sketch show.

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Projecting devices: «Let me suggest that each person draw a sketch showing where he is «feeling-wise» right now... (Later) On the other side of the paper draw the way you'd like to be a month from now... Tell the group about both.»
Jay Frye, IndyCar's president of competition and operations, has unveiled a series of sketches that show what the cars might look like in 2018.
Preliminary sketches of the plan show possible features like rain gardens, a pedestrian bridge, seating areas and informational signs.
It's like a Fast Show sketch that never ends.
There's a particular problem with the polls being so close — writing the show, he explains, is like trying to sketch a very faint landscape.
In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there.
Conceptual sketches of the Hyperloop released in August's white paper show a small passenger area inside a sleek, cigarette - like car with DeLorean-esque doors.
For me, this looked like writing sketch comedy shows and putting them in theaters, even when I knew deep in my bones that I wished they were better, funnier or something else - er.
I show the fabric and sketch for my coat sewing project (here) and I thought I would stop and demonstrate how I like to flatten «puffy» seams in wool.
That would be impossible given that there are over 40 of them, and that the film is structured almost exactly like a»90s sketch - comedy show in which characters rarely share more than several minutes of screen time.
The police artist would do a composite sketch, and they'd show it on the news, and everyone would say, «Wow, that looks a lot like «Gladiator.»
If this sounds like a lot of unrelated sketch comedy bits stapled together in a desperate attempt to make thirty seconds of movie that will look great when shown in clip form on all the talk shows, pat yourself on the back and spend your money elsewhere.
Peter Atencio, who directs Key & Peele's sketch show and has also worked on The Last Man On Earth, is calling the shots on the story, which involves the comedy duo acting like gangstas to retrieve a stolen kitten.
There's a marvelous episode with a plantation owner who is played by Don Johnson and looks like Colonel Sanders, an episode that includes a lynch - mob scene that plays like a «Mr. Show» sketch.
The talk - show segments in particular play like a 10 - to - 1 Saturday Night Live sketch gone gloriously haywire.
«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
Stand - up comedian Richard Herring partnered up with Stewart Lee in the likes of TV sketch show «Fist of Fun», and sparked controversy with his 2009 routine «Hitler Moustache».
While there are moments where Bob and David host a show before a live audience, much like Mr. Show, this feels smaller and more streamlined to get to the first sketch and set up the thematic elemeshow before a live audience, much like Mr. Show, this feels smaller and more streamlined to get to the first sketch and set up the thematic elemeShow, this feels smaller and more streamlined to get to the first sketch and set up the thematic elements.
Emily and John, who is currently starring in Off - Broadway play Dry Powder opposite Claire Danes, briefly gave fans a preview of what a potential project would look like by making cameos in two comedy sketches for their friend and U.S. talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Stiller's cancelled sketch shows betray a mastery of aesthetic parody, so it's no surprise that the best parts of Reality Bites tend to zero in on a target, usually some facet of MTV programming; the closing credits of the film are interrupted by a burlesque of the typical Troy - Laney interaction that divines, with formidable accuracy, the network's fate as the Squaresville home of ostensibly trendsetting fare like «My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star» and a deplorable modernization of Wuthering Heights.
In Saturday Night Live sketches and early movies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Sandler certainly has something, but part of what's compelling about him as a comic presence is a kind of goofy, vamping sheepishness about being the center of attention — coupled with a secret desire to hold that attention, hence the stammer - to - roar dynamic of the old «Denise Show» bit on SNL or the righteously ill temper of Happy Gilmore.
Say what you will about stop - motion sketch - comedy show Robot Chicken, but there's nothing else like it on television.
Writer - director Rawson Marshall Thurber's gleefully silly Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story follows this rule in what plays like an extension of a Ben Stiller Show sketch (but a pretty good one, at that).
WHY: «What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
As it is, there are snatches of brilliance embedded in the margins of what resolves itself as a disturbed twenty - something man working out issues using other people's money; Freddy Got Fingered is, like Green's short - lived Canadian cable access and MTV sketch shows, emotionally raw and unbearably autobiographical.
The Comedy Central sketch show was full of dark humor, Peele notes; for proof, just look at early sketches like «Cute Puppies» and «Weird Playlist.»
Second - grade students draw sketches of their ideas showing what each TinkerYard station could look like.
Mazda is planning to unveil a new crossover concept called the Koeru at the Frankfurt auto show next month, and this teaser sketch gives us an idea of what this dramatic SUV design will look like.
The sketch shows a coupe - like roof profile and a very shallow glassline.
Yesterday, Volkswagen gave us a glimpse at what the next - generation Jetta will look like with a sketch showing the side of the car, and now the world's largest carmaker has released a few more renderings -LSB-...]
There's also a sketch of the Defender's silhouette shown on a flat - screen TV that shows the vehicle with a flat roof and squared - off front end, like the original version.
The sketches show that the car will have sharper lines, as well as a front end that looks very much like it is based on the Kubang concept.
Sure, it's just a sketch right now, but at next month's Geneva Motor Show the Honda Civic Type R will be a real - life thinly veiled version of what the production Type R will look like when it goes on sale in Europe next year.
The new design, which took just 10 weeks to make it from sketch to production prototype, turned out to look really nothing at all like an Aston Martin when VLF removed the covers at the Detroit show.
Some sketches revealed by the company show how the RapidE will look - very much like a standard Rapide S, but with some design elements in blue to denote that it's as EV version.
The company recently showed concept cars and sketches at the Geneva auto show that demonstrated its current thinking on the design of its smallest cars.Rover denied the cars being showed belonged to the same design family that will replace its classic Mini, the snub - nosed, square - topped city car still in production after 30 years.Rover described its concept car, called Spiritual, as an «unashamedly forward - looking vehicle,» a statement that contrasts with its views of the current Mini, a vehicle it says has become a classic in Britain and places like Japan.
The sketch does not show the front of the MCV, and Mr. van Hooydonk was elusive when asked if it would wear BMW's signature kidney grille or another face, like the Mini.
Tell us about what happened: Upon returning home from the 2005 SCBWI Winter Conference (which Tomie dePaola had told me I HAD to go to) and feeling like a failure (because no publisher showed an interest in me), I uploaded the 180 pages of sketches onto my website, http://ruthexpress.com/ (Note from Darcy: The site has undergone a major remake and she haven't reposted all of her sketchbooks.
It's kind of like a recent apps list that shows everything from recently read titles to extra features like the web browser and sketch pad.
Just like a sketch on real paper, an electronic paper display will hold a static image, even without electricity — when there is no change in image or text, an EPD will simply show the last content uploaded and will hold it in perpetuity.
The sketch shows what the distribution would look like.
They already showed a sketch of what elie may look like.
There's an «it's three AM and Adult Swim is on and I have no idea what's going on onscreen anymore» vibe to the whole thing, like you walked in on an undergrad's amateur sketch comedy show after taking too many edibles.
Alongside original sketches, drawings and manuscripts, the exhibition also showcase artefacts like a Christopher Robin nursery set that was presented to Princess Elizabeth in 1928 and lent to the show by the Queen, as well as photographs, cartoons, ceramics and fashion items.
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The goofy 1975 concept sketches for «B - Car» aren't really anything to write home about (they look like a tween's Logan's Run fan art) but point to Burden's obsession with engineering that binds the show together.
He moved on to C ¿ zanne - like sketches (a 1932 drawing) and biomorphic art; a 1932 drawing shows his notations on light, shade, texture, scale and color above an image of interconnected bones.
KLIMT AND SCHIELE: DRAWN The sketches Gustav Klimt used to prepare his dense, mosaic - like paintings are juxtaposed with Egon Schiele's wiry, powerful drawings in this show of work borrowed from Vienna's Albertina.
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