Sentences with phrase «on the comedy side»

On the comedy side I think Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent) takes this in a walk.

On the comedy side, Donald Glover and his creative team had a great night as well as the critically - acclaimed FX series, Atlanta, took home three awards, including the inaugural Black Reel Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

Zombieland leans heavily on the comedy side of the horror - comedy equation.

On the comedy side, Fox has ordered «Brooklyn Nine - Nine,» a single - camera comedy from producers Dan Goor...

On the comedy side, 9JKL (formerly the excruciating 9J & 9K & 9L) stars Royal Pains» (and Prison Break's!)

Despite considerable backlash, Get Out ended up on the comedy side of the Globes.

On the comedy side, there is a look at modern womanhood with «I Feel Bad» and a tale of a makeshift, backyard bar, its colorful proprietor and regular customers with «Abby's.»

For family, coming from executive producer Eva Longoria is «Grand Hotel,» a family drama set in the world of hospitality and starring Demian Bechir and Roselyn Sanchez, while on the comedy side is «The Kids Are Alright,» a period piece set in the 1970s and inspired by the real life of creator Tim Doyle.

On the comedy side, there were six nominees due to a tie: «30 Rock,» «The Big Bang Theory,» «Glee,» «Modern Family,» «Nurse Jackie» and «The Office.»

In this horror - comedy mash - up, the focus seems to be more on the comedy side of things.

Not exact matches

Inspired by the gutsy comedy of Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky) went on to become a bold, brassy fixture on American TV, evolving from a side show act to eventually headlining her own late night show and gracing every imaginable red carpet event in between.

FEB. 3: Visits Jon Stewart's The Daily Show on Comedy Central and jokes he plans to send a plague of locusts to New York's ritzy Upper East Side, whose residents complained of slow snow removal.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

On the movie side, Birdman, St. Vincent, Into the Woods, Pride and The Grand Budapest Hotel were all nominated in the best comedy category, with Boyhood, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything and Foxcatcher all snagging nominations for best drama.

One of the slyest, funniest, most subversive and thoughtful comedies on television will continue to upend expectations, make you laugh'til your sides hurt and explore morality and the afterlife for another season.

I can always count on fans like you to cheer me up, not with hope but with side splitting comedy.

Now on «the wrong side of 35» and diagnosed with a chronic case of fatherhood, the trio offer up raucous comedy for grown - ups of all ages and parenting statuses.

It was a comedy of errors — we went on the wrong train after many failed attempts to hail a cab, missed empty cabs on the other side of the street, and ended up walking back to the hotel an hour and a half later only to catch a cab a few blocks away.

Side note: If you aren't big into the sketch comedy scene and don't know what «Mr. Show» is, it's worth your while to look up some sketches on YouTube.

I'm a tall guy with a slightly shy side and love talking on the phone and watching comedy movies.

8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally A teenage boy has died in hospital after being found unconscious on the side of a motorway.

On the lighter side of things we have the sunny and effortlessly enjoyable romantic comedy The Five - Year Engagement, the latest collaboration from director Nicholas Stoller and his Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel (they wrote the script together).

Their comedy is, admittedly, rather hit - and - miss, ranging from welcome relief to being a bit too much on the slapstick side but it ultimately lends the film the more light - hearted nature it needs in comparison to the far more serious Lord of the Rings stories.

A blue chip cast is wasted in the painfully unfunny ensemble comedy Niagara Motel, about a gaggle of self - absorbed nitwits struggling to make ends meet on the Canadian side of the tourist mecca.

Set in Cyprus and following the down - on - his - luck Yiannis as he tries to smuggle his dog Jimi across the buffer zone separating the Greek and Turkish sides of the island, the film is a «laidback charmer» with «droll comedy, understated political commentary and an adorable scene - stealing canine,» according to Allan Hunter of Screen Daily.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

If that's all Game Night was, it'd fall dutifully in line with countless other comedies in which buttoned - up suburbanites take a walk on the wild side that, by the third reel, breaks out into a flailing, headlong sprint.

On the plus side, a great deal of the comedy works, which does much to gloss over its unevenness.

Critics Consensus: While definitely on the fluffier side of French comedy, Heartbreaker benefits from never taking itself too seriously — and from the performance of the ever - charming Romain Duris.

In this comedy, Russell P. Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner) are two former U.S. Presidents who sit on opposite sides of the political fence.

Critic Consensus: While definitely on the fluffier side of French comedy, Heartbreaker benefits from never taking itself too seriously — and from the performance of the ever - charming Romain Duris.

Timothy Spall («Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows»), Imelda Staunton («Maleficent») and Joanna Lumley («Absolutely Fabulous») star in this romantic comedy about an elitist snob forced to live with her bohemian sister on the «bad» side of town.

Once the Furious movies slipped the realism leash, they went from being pulpy B movies to something like blockbuster superstores — a one - stop - shopping center where you can sample Mission: Impossible - style assignments, MMA bouts (see Furious 7's Michelle Rodriguez and Ronda Rousey's formalwear tussle for a combo of both), A-list action heroes, gunfights, analog stunts, CGI spectacle, capeless superhero movies and a bit of broad comedy on the side.

On the TV side, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale won twice — in the Best Drama category and for New Series, joining drama series wins for the Emmys and the Globes, while HBO's Veep won Best Comedy.

With Colossal set to arrives in cinemas next month, a new poster has debuted for Nacho Vigalondo's monster comedy featuring Anne Hathaway as Gloria, an ordinary woman who finds herself sharing a strange connection with a monster on the opposite side of the world; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Colossal here After Gloria -LSB-...]

Waiting... still remains modestly appealing because we like these sorts of occupational comedies with kooky characters, but the comedy just isn't sharp or clever enough to really get you fully on its side and take you for a ride.

This dark comedy from writer / director Martin McDonagh, the Englishman who made «In Bruges,» is a bitingly told character study that goes beyond Southern stereotypes to delve into rape culture, cover - ups, grief and criminality on all sides.

Steve Carell makes the move from the light comedy of the American workplace to the dark side of that country as delusional blue - blood John Eleuthère du Pont in a transformative and creepy performance that borders on the grotesque.Foxcatcher is based...

On the Other Side of the Tracks (R for profanity, sexuality, nudity and violence) Buddy cop comedy about a couple of mismatched partners (Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte) assigned to crack a murder case.

On the film side, Baccarin will appear in Paul Feig's upcoming action - comedy «Spy», opposite Melissa McCarthy.

The British comedy won over moviegoers on both sides of the Atlantic and earned a worldwide gross of $ 364 million.

Cast of new indie comedy on their harshest rejections, apartment horror stories and unusual side gigs

On the video side, where everything is encoded in HD, we start with «It's Never Just a Movie: Chris Rock and Top Five» (20:08) considers the star - filmmaker's parallels to his character and his history in comedy, with looks at his comedy bits and home movies, as well as interviews of other influential figures, from over the years.

DeRay Davis The «21 Jump Street» Interview with Kam Williams DeRay Vision A born hustler from Chicago's South Side, DeRay Davis began his career on the comedy club circuit and was first noticed by Hollywood while onstage at Atlanta's Laffapalooza Festival.

Effortlessly moving from comedy to serious social comment, eliciting excellent performances from a large and perfectly selected cast, and making superb use of music both to create mood and comment on the action, Lee contrives to see both sides of each conflict without falling prey to simplistic sentimentality.

His producer credits include Seeso's Debate Wars and FS1's Crowd Goes Wild and on the writing side IFC's The Onion News Network and Comedy Central's Onion SportsDome.

Over on the TV side, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association once again proved its fondness for new series, recognizing virtually every major new 2016 premiere: Atlanta, American Crime Story, This Is Us, Westworld, Insecure, The Night Of, The Night Manager, Stranger Things, The Crown, Divorce, Goliath, and even Epix's political comedy Graves.

On the dramatic film side, I could have lived without Jerusha Hess's «Austenland,» a feather - light dingbat comedy about a Jane Austen - themed resort in England.

Personally I don't have any problem watching repellent characters do repellent things, especially in comedies — but this one lays it on too thick and never quite gets the audience on Hope's side.

This solid concert film also focuses on the fun - loving and kind - hearted side of Dave Chappelle, which hasn't always come across in his comedy.