Sentences with phrase «mark on the comedy»

After making her mark on Comedy Central as The Daily Show's longest - serving correspondent, Samantha Bee ventured to TBS this year to anchor her own show with all the fire she could muster.

Some were good, some were bad, but the guy has had perhaps the most indelible mark on the comedy landscape aside from Adam McKay in the last few years.

Not exact matches

After being told that he had one year to live, he decided to leave his mark on the world in the only way he knew how: stand - up comedy.

To put those deliveries in context, they mark the highest 18 - to - 49 turnout for an episode of an ABC comedy since the season four premiere of «Modern Family» scared up 14.4 overall million viewers and a 5.5 in the dollar demo on Sept. 26, 2012.

The notable exceptions are people like Mark Steel and Mark Thomas — acts who genuinely are using comedy to undermine the ground on which the high and mighty stand — and geniuses like Daniel Kitson, who shuns fame for the sake of beautiful art.

Dallas Mavericks» owner, Mark Cuban, took center stage Thursday night on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.

2000: Mark Thomas features Nestlé in two episodes of his investigative comedy programme on Channel 4 in the UK.

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.

A year later, still alive and kicking, Irwin celebrates life and laughter, bringing together some of his closest friends, including Mark Critch, Shaun Majumder, Bruce Clark, Peter Kelamis and Sam Easton for a night of stand - up comedy that will go down as one of the funniest on record.

You missed the mark on this movie, I'm afraid — it's highly subversive, tragedy masquerading as comedy... and one of Ferrell's best to date!

From Mark Wahlberg's controlled verbal outbursts to Martin Sheen's earnestness to Alec Baldwin's schizoid vulgarities to Leonardo Di Caprio's compassionate toughness to Ray Winstone's quasi immobile fierceness to Jack Nicholson's beautifully pure excess, The Departed is indeed an performance - driven, fast - paced comedy of expertly timed thrills (or comedic thriller, depending on your point of view) peppered with several instances of acrobatic verbal witticisms, and topped with enough generic clichés and predictable screw - turns to make it palatable for all audiences (yes, even those who paid money to see Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner's The Guardian).

Production is currently underway on Michael Bay's (relatively) small dark comedy Pain and Gain, and just the other day we got our first look at Rob Corddry and Mark Wahlberg on the set.

This review of kick - ass a 2010 superhero / action - comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr is awesome.

Director Green and screenwriters Christian Magalhaes and Robert Snow miss the mark on the aspects of comedy, drama, action, and romance they were aiming for.

Odds are you have seen Entourage, HBO's successful 2004 comedy - turned - drama, which is loosely based on Mark Wahlberg's experiences in Hollywood as depicted through the life of star actor Vincent Chase.

Thor: Ragnarok marks a huge tonal shift for the Thor franchise into full - on comedy territory, but we've just learned that the movie also features a potentially significant benchmark for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole: the first LGBTQI character in Marvel Studios history.

Its greatest crime isn't that its one joke is tiresome from the thirty - minute mark on, it's that at the end of the day the picture doesn't particularly convince as a romance, tickle as a comedy, or score as a satire of any kind.

Viewers would be forgiven for their hesitance to see another movie from the directors of the «Vacation» reboot, but John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, working from a pitch - perfect screenplay by Mark Perez («Accepted»), have crafted an ensemble comedy that lives up to its high - concept premise while giving a gang of talented actors — including the gifted Jason Bateman, so rarely employed to great effect on the big screen — fun characters and big, outrageous moments.

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Antonio Banderas has been tapped to star in the Simon West action comedy Salty based on the novel by Mark Haskell Smith.

Although Opal Dream marks a pleasing departure from the conventions of the British comedy — it's based on a children's book and set in the Australian outback — it's disappointingly small in scope.

Birdman marks Iñárritu's premiere on the American comedy stage, since much of his prior work is quite dramatic.

Bay seems to have no regrets about «Pain & Gain,» the Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie action - comedy about bodybuilders on a crime spree in Miami.

The spy comedy is being directed by Now You See Me's Louis Letterier, and it stars Cohen as an English football hooligan who must help his «James Bond type» brother (Mark Strong) go on the run.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle, a followup to the 2015 action comedy based on Mark Miller and Dave Gibbons's graphic novel, comes to theaters September 22, 2017.

The horror - comedy, which marks Lowe's feature directing debut, played a few festival gigs in late 2016, including a showing at the Chicago International Film Festival in November, and will receive a general release in the U.K. on February 10, 2017.

The spy comedy is being directed by Now You See Me's Louis Letterier, and it stars Cohen as an English football hooligan who must help his «James Bond type» brother (Mark Strong) go on...

The comedy has some of Jerry Seinfeld's imprint on it, but not to excess; fans will notice his mark (and might even see Elaine, George, and Newman in some of the parts), while those who aren't won't be shut out.

The first episode of Togetherness, HBO's terrific new half - hour comedy - drama from indie filmmaking brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, introduces us to 4 people in different places on that dream continuum.

Following on from last week's clip [watch it here], Paramount Pictures has debuted a new TV spot for the upcoming comedy Daddy's Home, which reunites The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.

The reviews may not have been kind, and it didn't exactly meet the original film's box office, but clearly Mark Wahlberg was happy enough with Daddy's Home 2 filmmakers Sean Anders and John Morris to keep working with them on a new comedy.

The romantic time travel comedy, which stars Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass and Jake Johnson, was produced on a $ 750,000 budget.

Following the arrival of the first trailer [see here], Universal showcased Seth MacFarlane's comedy sequel Ted 2 during the Super Bowl last night, and you can watch it right here... Ted 2 is set for release on June 26th in the States and July 10th in the UK, with Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Jessica Barth, -LSB-...]

Harry Potter helmer Chris Columbus has signed on to direct Kim Young - tak «s Hello Ghost, while Mean Girls director Mark Waters is set to remake Lee Hae - jun «s off - beat comedy Castaway on the Moon, about a man who attempts to commit suicide but winds up stranded on an island in the Han River instead.

TAXI - 22 (single camera) PUSHED STUDIO: CBS TV Studios TEAM: Dennis Erdman (ep), Clark Peterson (ep), Patrick Huard (ep), François Flamand (ep), Nancy Sanders (ep), Mark Armstrong (ep), Tad Quill (w, ep) LOGLINE: Based on the hit French comedy, it follows a misanthropic NYC cab driver who is politically incorrect in the vein of Archie Bunker.

We've also got all the low - down on the week's big cinematic releases, including Mark Wahlberg thriller Contraband, Cameron Crowe's return to feature filmmaking We Bought A Zoo, and action - comedy mash 21 Jump Street.

The film looks to be a female party comedy and a thoughtful treatise on self - definition when the rest of world wants to reduce you to just one thing and marks the feature debuts for both director Jones and screenwriter Julie Rudd.

No word yet on whether Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, Alan Rickman or Sam Rockwell will reprise their sci - fi comedy roles, but director Dean Parisot, co-writer Robert Gordon, and executive producers Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein are set to return in their respective creative duties.

When: October 14th Why: Based on the book of the same name by Mark Obmasick, «The Big Year» has the kind of cast that, up until a few years ago, would have sounded like a comedy dream team.

The best are marked by smooth sophistication and witty dialogue on top of plain old physical comedy.

There are many things to admire about «The Big Short» — a tight & well written script based on true events, several perfectly sound - tracked montages that mark the passing of time, Ryan Gosling's inexplicable love affair with both St. Tropez fake tan & mid 90's perming solution — but for the me, the biggest was that this film turns out to be very definitely and very confidently both a comedy & a horror.

Directed by Richard Benjamin, the 1982 comedy centers on the relationship between up - and - coming TV writer Benjy Stone (Mark - Linn Baker) and aging alcoholic actor Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole).

That latter point shows how the infusion of Hollywood cash admirably didn't dilute the Indian popular film conventions, which are in full force here: in addition to the common device of a dual role for one of the principals, the very broad comedy, and musical interludes, there is also the constant referencing of other Hindi films (including, of course, Advani's own Kal Ho Naa Ho and Salaam - e-Ishq (Love's Sweet Salute)-RRB-, copious use of flashbacks, and the more serious tonal shift at the intermission mark (which, unlike most Indian films, is not noted by an on - screen card).

Mark Rylance's nonpareil turn as Olivia in the Shakespeare's Globe all - male production of «Twelfth Night» on Broadway proved to this doubter that Shakespeare's festive comedy really can make people laugh.

The first image from Seth MacFarlane's upcoming comedy sequel Ted 2 has arrived online, which shows Ted (MacFarlane) and John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) about to go scuba - diving — although quite why Ted has a shovel is anyone's guess... Ted 2 is set for release on April 3rd 2015, with a cast that also includes the -LSB-...]

Based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s miniseries and the Hit - Girl spinoff, Kick - Ass 2 picks up months after the 2010 action comedy.

Making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, The Void marked a departure in style for two members of Astron - 6, Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, a group known for lower budget horror comedies.

Based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s miniseries and the Hit - Girl spinoff, Kick - Ass 2 picks up months after its 2010 action comedy prequel.

Soderbergh's «Logan Lucky,» a Southern heist comedy starring Adam Driver and Channing Tatum, might have been expected to nab a slot in Cannes, especially since it marks the director's return to feature film helming after a much - ballyhooed retirement — not to mention that Soderbergh is a Palme d'Or winner who had debuted several films on the Croisette.

Mark Feuerstein in a family comedy loosely based on Feuerstein's life when he lived in between his intrusive parents and his brother and sister - in - law in the same apartment building.