Sentences with phrase «more scatological»

It's like When Harry Met Sally but more scatological, complete with the shopping scene and the orgasm conversation and the best friend (Natasha Lyonne) who talks frank and observes that men and women can't be platonic friends.

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Critics have remarked that Ginsberg's exit would have been more compelling if the character had been given more screen - time this season, instead of being called in sporadically to deliver the odd scatological joke.

Here's further proof that scatological humor is not a comic evil unto itself, and that it can work if the setup (a hypochondriac) and focus (said hypochondriac's reaction) serve something more than just grossing out the audience.

He's the love child of David Mamet and a thirteen - year - old virgin at the mercy of pals handsomer and more popular than he, always trying to impress with his blue toughness without the maturity to understand that what made him cool way back when with Clerks wasn't his scatological horniness, but his intelligence and flashes of observational sophistication.

If Candyman is a sociological horror film, it's also a scatological one steeped in shit and piss and, by the end, courageous enough to martyr its martyrs (educated women and defenseless children) and re-imagine its avatar as something more current in modern conversation than a black man murdered for love.

Reared on a diet of the genuinely affecting scatological slapsticks of the Farrelly Brothers and the still - fitfully - entertaining product out of Judd Apatow's exhausted factory, we're far more sophisticated in our fringe humour these days.

Worst - case scenario: The initial trailer for the film relies more on scatological humor — one prominent gag involves a music box being stuck in a supporting character's butt — than sparkling dialogue, raising the question of whether Fey and Poehler's chemistry is enough to overcome even the dumbest script.

Without falling into the trap of the usual scatological jokes involving bodily functions and fluids, screenwriters Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner, and Brent Goldberg depend more on the characters and the insinuation of ribald material instead of overly gross stereotypes and graphic crudeness.

The gag chicken becomes a grimy, forgotten toy, or, even more ominously, road kill; comedic sidekick Vicki Lawrence appears to be weeping; a girlish Goldie Hawn's lips are extended into a moist grimace; and even the whoopee cushion now evokes the usually repressed scatological.

Abandoning the oil on canvas, she chose gouache and ink on paper that allowed her to create more rapidly, making the «angry works, often scatological, manifestos against a senseless obscene war; a war my sons could have been called up for, though they were very young.

[26] The piece is more in line with the scatological aesthetics of Duchamp's friend and neighbour, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag - Loringhoven, than Duchamp's.

During the early 1960s, following his first showing at the New York gallery of Leo Castelli (1907 - 99), he began to include more colour in his painting, together with numerous classical references (Leda and the Swan, the Birth of Venus) and scatological imagery, a process which peaked in the «Ferragosto paintings», as well as his series entitled «Nine Discourses on Commodus» (1963), a portrait of the power - crazy Roman emperor created under the influence of works by Francis Bacon (1909 - 93).