Sentences with phrase «of modern comedy»

But this movie never aims for classical farce; it involves, instead, lots of fast talking, references to outrageous moments from the characters» pasts, and micro-riffs, in the vein of a modern comedy aiming for first - tier Rogen / Goldberg but happy to settle for a second - tier episode of New Girl.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

With only two feature films and one TV show to his name, writer / director Jody Hill, is now synonymous with ignoring the boundaries and «genre rules» of modern comedy and creating anti-heroes that laughably burble with nihilistic rage, scary faux pas and hot - air egos.

Ben Stiller / Owen Wilson Shared Filmography: «The Cable Guy» (1996), «Permanent Midnight» (1998), «Meet The Parents» (2000), «Zoolander» (2001), «The Royal Tenenbaums» (2001), «Starsky & Hutch» (2004), «Meet The Fockers» (2004), «Night At The Museum» (2006), «Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian» (2009), «Little Fockers» (2010), «Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb» (2010) «Zoolander 2» (2016) Given the incestuous nature of the modern comedy scene, with everybody cropping up for cameos in each other's movies, it's easy to overlook that Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson have appeared in eleven movies together (with a twelfth on the way).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

Most crucially, Segura got an original - comedy - special deal with Netflix, which is the modern - day equivalent of being asked to sit on Johnny Carson's couch after your set — a guaranteed career maker.

Singer / songwriter Jack Antonoff of the Bleachers offered to match up to $ 10,000 as did Jessie Tyler Ferguson, co-star of ABC (dis) comedy Modern Family.

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.

Vince Vaughn — America's Crown Prince of Comedy — has announced that he's developing a new Brady Bunch for CBS and it does sound very modern.

According to Deadline, filmmaker Jared Hess (the director of comedies including Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) will direct NickToons, an adventure comedy featuring characters from «90s and early 2000s Nick shows including Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, The Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, Aaahh!

It's not the first modern reboot of the retro comedy: Along with two really bad live action movie adaptations, even animators like Seth McFarlane have (unsuccessfully) tried their hand at bringing the series back.

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SNL is still the modern King of Political Satire, but the state of the country and its politicians in the face of a new presidency have shifted the open nature of comedy, for better or worse.

The Croods is a 3D comedy adventure that follows the world's first modern family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always been their home is destroyed.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Contrasting character archetypes between Stu (a downtrodden, nerdy dentist with a mysteriously missing tooth), Phil (the implacable playboy) and Zach (an unpredictable jester) give the comedy a modern take on a Marx Brothers form where outrageous sequences merely serve to frame the mental gymnastics and tortured physical condition of the comedians.

Critic Consensus: A modern update on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway is an audacious black comedy with a star - making performance from the young Reese Witherspoon.

Confidently cinematic in classical and modern terms, layered with subtleties but also a straight - ahead, crowd - pleasing comedy, with more witty lines and bits of visual imagination than a dozen regular movies, O Brother is where thou shouldst be.

It'd be unlike Denis — whose far - flung features over the last 30 years have ranged from the luridly modern vampirism of 2001's Trouble Every Day to films tackling war, colonialism, French modernity, and so on — to make a straightforward romantic comedy.

Applegate returned to movie comedy co-starring with Jean Reno as a princess and modern gal in the ill - received remake of a French time - travel yarn Just Visiting (2001).

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.

«Permanent Midnight,» the story of real - life TV comedy writer Jerry Stahl's addiction to (and eventual «victory» over) heroin is certainly modern - day in its approach.

Set in the city of Montreal, Alan Rudolph's romantic comedy - drama Afterglow paints a wryly comic portrait of two modern marriages drifting toward the rocks.

It's clear right from the get - go that director Alan Poul and screenwriter Kate Angelo aren't looking to reinvent the wheel here, as the movie initially comes off as an almost prototypical example of a modern romantic comedy - with the less - than - innovative atmosphere cemented by the proliferation of wisecracking characters and the protagonists» initial encounter (which essentially defines the term «meet - cute»).

It is comparable to modern romantic comedies like (500) Days of Summer, although more mature smart.

That it works both as a comedy and a good - natured meditation on religion, tradition and their persistence in the modern world is a very thick layer of icing on the top.

Followers of Alan Rudolph's career will rejoice at his latest effort, Afterglow, an incredibly and incurably romantic comedy - drama that most perceptively dissects the delicate imbalances of two very modern but very different marriages.

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

Snub: Jesse Tyler Ferguson (pictured right) and Eric Stonestreet (left), «Modern Family» Supporting Actor - Comedy Though «Modern Family» scored its sixth straight nom for Best Comedy, several members of its much - honored cast got the could shoulder, including five - time nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson and three - time nominee (and two - time winner) Eric Stonestreet.

Adam Sandler has made some of the rankest comedies in modern movies, and in a miserably divided world, that's one thing on which we can all agree.

Kudos to Roos for giving Lisa Kudrow the best screen role of her career as Lucia, the sister of Bill's deceased partner, and the acerbic conscience of a perfectly dysfunctional modern anti-romantic comedy.

While it's not as zany, if you love crazy fun ski movies like Hot Dog or Ski Patrol, Force Majeure is a brilliant modern take on that kind of ski movie comedy, but with added depth to the characters.

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Other than that, Modern Family won almost everything else in the comedy category (including Best Direction, even though the majority of those nominees were women, one of them having directed an episode of Modern Family, but whatever).

At first glance, the title alone made me think of a modern day comedy, but it's, in fact the very opposite.

But the concept of the movie felt like it lent itself to lots of comedy, this movie plays a game, its fun, its funny, the idea of modern kids stuck with Reagan era sex bomb idiot counselors was just too funny to not plum...

Smart and dumb, scary and silly, and never less than entertaining, Scream one of the best horror comedies of the modern era.

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

A revival of «Murphy Brown,» from original series creator Diane English and starring Candice Bergen, is coming to Thursday's comedy block, and a modern retelling of «Magnum P.I.,» with Jay Hernandez in the role of the private investigator made famous by Tom Selleck, is headed to Mondays.