Sentences with phrase «modern comedy»

We sat down with the writer / director recently to discuss some of the film's themes and get his thoughts on the state of modern comedy.

Many modern comedies focus too much on gross - out sexual humor.

It was a remake of one of the most critically acclaimed modern comedies.

That's something that's lacking in much of modern comedy, so it's good to see them try to find a place for it here.

There will be booze and then a screening of Paul Feig's modern comedy classic.

The New Guy is a great example of the new - type of modern comedy in which a fairly mundane, straight - forward plot is coupled with genuinely bizarre, unrealistic jokes.

Catastrophe is here and gone in six episodes, but it leaves you spent, satisfied and pleasantly skeeved out, the way the best modern comedy shows do.

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat») is of the well - executed physical variety.

«Catastrophe» is here and gone in six episodes, but it leaves you spent, satisfied and pleasantly skeeved, the way the best modern comedy shows do.

Those not quite in tune may miss out on some of the gags, but may still enjoy the more modern comedy styles in other capacities, which is to throw in as much envelope - pushing vulgarity, F - bombs, and pop culture references as possible.

Neil Simon's script, brought to the screen by Gene Saks, is still as razor - sharp as went it debuted on Broadway, and while not quite everything has translated smoothly to the big screen, it remains a yardstick against which modern comedies should be measured.

The film leans into modern comedy, but it also passes through moments of genuine longing and even existential crisis.

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There are the expected scenes of actors riffing all over each that populate most modern comedies, but also hints at a bigger budget and attention to aesthetics like nifty camera work, tilt - shift photography, and some decent action set pieces.

None of Nicole Holofcener's quietly affecting and well - observed modern comedies qualified?

It might be unfair to compare this aggressively average gross - out comedy — which sits in some depressing space between Trainwreck and Dirty Grandpa — to a classic modern comedy like Step Brothers.

Spy is the model for how modern comedy can bridge that increasingly perilous gulf between political correctness and wild courage.

Director: Michael Showalter Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano There aren't too many modern comedies with the chutzpah to pull off a 9/11 joke.

It has divided presidential opinion with its treatment of race, but Kenya Barris's series is redefining modern comedy by balancing issues and laughs

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan») is of the well - executed physical variety.

One of the film's most memorable aspects — and arguably the facet which helped to entrench itself within the annuls of modern comedy greats — is the work undertaken by the Max Fischer Players: Broadway - sized high school theatre reinterpretations of classic movies.

And, you know, we have kind of a very long tradition of strange slapstick comedy which probably manifests itself, and the dialogue in more modern comedy.

I think it's expected that for every decent - to - good modern comedy we get a handful of crap ones.

In 2014, Halpern — who the New York Times recently dubbed the «hidden architect of modern comedy» — built a $ 7 million comedy club that focuses on long - form improv.

Charna Halpern was recently heralded as the «hidden architect of modern comedy,» but she's faced many challenges in building a profitable theater business.

Of course, when you do something like this in a modern comedy, you don't call the cops.

But where Sightseers was merely incompetent, We're The Millers seems to take delight in human misery as an end or source of humour in itself; it doesn't use pain or suffering to deepen the characters, it simply offers it as a benchmark of modern comedy.

It's far more absurd and the characters have comfortably become a modern comedy duo.

One also could imagine the same material set against the typical aesthetic of modern comedies — with their overlit backgrounds and spotlighted actors.

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.

Star Kristen Wiig (and she really should be a Star with a capital S after this breakthrough performance) finds the humanity usually missing from not just the chick flick but the modern comedy in general.

We're likely never going to see an «Old School 2» (another modern comedy classic), but maybe this match - up of a Wilson (admittedly not Luke...), Vaughn and Ferrell will be as close as we'll get.

The new documentary «Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead» decisively corrects that error, serving as an oral history of the «National Lampoon» and identifying the magazine, and its various spin - offs, as the source for practically all modern comedy — not just «SNL,» but Spinal Tap, «The Simpsons,» John Hughes, and their ubiquitous descendants.

Scored with wit by a pointedly wry Seventies soundtrack that crucifies its older generation protagonists, The In - Laws is ultimately that rarest of beasts: a modern comedy that knows its strengths and exploits them.

And Baumbach subverts the false catharsis of his ending by refusing to let it play out exactly as expected; he's too smart to follow the modern comedy template too closely.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but the state of the modern comedy is pretty depressing.

That can be excruciating to watch, but it's also the stuff of modern comedy.

No modern comedy worth its salt misses the chance to keep you chortling as the end credits roll.

Two of modern comedy's heavyweights, Will Ferrell and Zak Galifianakis, will go head to head in the forthcoming satirical comedy, THE CAMPAIGN, and we now have two new promotional campaign posters to add to the trailer and film poster.

It's a modern comedy that allows its characters to fall in love naturally, without the pressure of sex, while also providing plenty of sex throughout the film (with other people).

Many people today don't realize it, but much of modern comedy was born at the National Lampoon.

Two of modern comedy's heavyweights, Will Ferrell and Zak Galifianakis, will go head to head in the forthcoming satirical comedy, THE CAMPAIGN, and we...

Not as well - written as her previous film, «Lovely and Amazing,» the modern comedy about adults in search of love, friendship and money was worth viewing if only for the performances of the four actresses.

The modern comedy landscape, heavily influenced by the success of Family Guy and the Adult Swim model, is all about fitting as many jokes as possible onto the screen in the shortest period of time.