Sentences with phrase «plays as a comedy»

It's played as a comedy, with director Taika Waititi reveling in awkward pauses, uncomfortable exchanges, some physical comedy, and other things that seem quite unlike what we might expect from a movie starring Thor.

This leads to the dancing kid — somehow — and a date scene that could play as comedy or heartbreak, if not for how forcibly awkward it turns.

It plays as comedy but the characters are horribly misogynist.»

The story could easily have been played as a comedy — Winters, author of the mash - up Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, would have had no trouble there — but, instead, it's a solidly plotted whodunit with strong characters and excellent dialogue.

Not exact matches

The brothers eventually turned to what they saw as an untapped opportunity, playing on a strength of the East Coast: comedy.

But what is clear is while the host no longer plays the ultra-conservative blowhard as he did on the popular Comedy Central show, «The Colbert Report,» he still favor booking guests outside traditional Hollywood circles.

In a statement, Univision's chief news and digital officer Isaac Lee said comedy is «playing an expanding role in our culture as a vehicle for audiences to explore, debate, and understand the important ideas of our time.»

The bad news is that human society is a never - ending comedy of errors in which our hopes and dreams play out as farce.

As in the classic British comedy sketch by Rowan Atkinson playing the Devil at the Gates to Hell:» Welcome to Hell.

It's nice to put on a Passion play every other Easter (using volunteers from the congregation) or to stage a comedy night as «something a bit different».

He's coming off the sixth season of Veep, HBO's astonishingly funny comedy that started out as a look at the vice-presidential career of Selina Meyer (as played by Julia Louis - Dreyfus) but has morphed into something more complex and, ultimately, more satisfying.

Straying from the standard, modern superhero formula it helped to pioneer in 2002, Homecoming is more teen comedy than it is a «good vs. evil» tale, highlighting a distinctive setting in Queens as the battleground for crushes, parties and yes, actual super villains — this one played by Michael Keaton in a scene - stealing performance.

Few actors have been able to convey so much comedy in a single facial expression as Rowan Atkinson does when he plays Mr. Bean.

Renee Rock, director of operations at ComedySportz Chicago, says comedy teams will be playing lots of interactive games as well as doing a short exhibition match on the stage.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

The cast is superb: Malkovich as the analyst Cox shows a true flair for comedy, Clooney is on top form here as the sleaze whose life intersects with Litzke almost by accident and Brad Pitt, playing a much younger man than his true age, is brilliantly idiotic and brainless.

As he features in a stage play dubbed «the ladder», organized by the National Theater and the Nyansapo Productions, as part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scenAs he features in a stage play dubbed «the ladder», organized by the National Theater and the Nyansapo Productions, as part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scenas part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scenas a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scene.

In short, everyone in the stalls and circle thought they were turning up to the politics show but instead found themselves rolling in the aisles as the comedy sketch played out.

Dan Falk: Well, I read — I pretty much read all the plays and I mean I haven't — I do get confused sometimes with the comedies and everybody's dressed as the other person's long - lost brother -

comedies, as well satires, as well as action films and or plays.

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i like thick woman im a down to earth guy who do nt like drama i was in a long term relationship and i know that drama brings more drama so as long as we can get to chill and have some funhit me up if thats what your looking for i like playing pool cards cooking watching action movies comedy up...

At least in the English - speaking world, William Davenant's 1635 comedy The Platonic Lovers — a play that reinterprets Plato's concept and posits it as a connection based on virtuosity and truthfulness — is cited as the origin of our current definition.

It can be as simple as in - room - dining by candlelight, to finding events to attend such as comedy shows, movies, plays, or free concerts.

The still strkingly beautiful Julie Christie renders such as glowing performance that she alone justifies viewing this incurable, frivolous romantic serio - comedy in which she plays B - Movie actress!

Described by one prominent critic as Revenge of the Nerds with an increased fart quotient and added projectile vomiting, this dumb - dumb frat comedy cast Heder, Spade and Schneider as a trio of losers who form a baseball team to thwart a bunch of elementary - school bullies; Heder played a booger - eating dork with an unhealthy degree of maternal attachment.

In 2000, Hayek could be seen in smaller, edgier ventures, including the independent comedy Chain of Fools, in which she played a centerfold - turned - cop, and Mike Figgis» experimental Time Code, which cast her as Jeanne Tripplehorn's lover.

The next year, Garity appeared in Barry Levinson's crime comedy Bandits as a getaway driver for eccentric bank robbers played by Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton.

Even as it administered a patchouli - scented dose of fan service to James's hungry readership, 2016's «Fifty Shades of Grey» was a brittle, brisk surprise, refashioning the book's lilac prose into a warped romantic comedy of personal boundaries, with S&M as the bargaining currency between Anastasia and Christian — played by Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan with a wary, push - pull dynamic.

In this superlative comedy of the Eighties, Hoffman plays a fussy, underemployed actor who finds work only when he disguises himself (superbly) as a woman.

These are simple things that a more farcical comedy might play as visual gags, like how each arriving luxury vehicle has to park around Beatriz's dumpy»90s Volkswagen.

There are elements of tragedy and comedy in this character and in this performance, and in that regard, Mendelsohn and Gerry are the heart of this film, which plays out as a tragic comedy in one moment and comic tragedy in the next.

More supporting roles in Big Fat Liar and Solaris were quick to follow, and after rounding out the «American» trilogy in American Wedding, it was burger time for Cho as he played one of the titular characters (opposite Van Wilder's Kal Penn) in the 2004 comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

Christopher's won three Emmy awards — two for Outstanding Supporting actor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar».

He first played Jimmy Kelly in the ABC comedy hit GRACE UNDER FIRE, and then starred for five seasons as Jack Molloy in the WB's riotous comedy UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER.

A private school - educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in 2001.

What a brilliant Film i am not sure which one of the three main stars you would say steels the show they are all equally as good as each other and play there parts excellently there are some very funny bits but I would not necessarily call it a typical comedy if you like The Best Marigold

Specializing in playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, Walter Matthau, with his jowly features, slightly stooped posture, and seedy, rumpled demeanor, looked as if he would be more at home as a laborer or small - time insurance salesman than as a popular movie star equally adept at drama and comedy.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

Murphy is phenomenal playing witty, fast talking smart arses but slowing down his pace here it still works amazingly as a comedy.

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

As played by Mackenzie Davis (AMC's «Halt and Catch Fire»), Tully's a romantic - comedy free spirit remade for a fable on sisterhood.

The Heat plays with clichés from a long line of mismatched buddy cop comedies, and it's as good as any in the genre's pantheon.

One of his better roles in this vein was as Unger, the vengeful football playing «screw» in the Burt Reynolds prison comedy The Longest Yard (1974).

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.

What a brilliant Film i am not sure which one of the three main stars you would say steels the show they are all equally as good as each other and play there parts excellently there are some very funny bits but I would not necessarily call it a typical comedy if you like The Best Marigold Hotel and Beginners you will love this if not keep away its not for you.

As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.

Lawson is currently developing a new comedy series, as well as a play for the acclaimed Belvoir Theatre in Sydney.

In 1998, Northam played another married man when he starred as Parker Posey's husband in the romantic comedy The Misadventures of Margaret.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).