Sentences with word «ribald»

In this uproariously funny debut, West, GQ writer and fat - acceptance activist, blends memoir, social commentary, and ribald comedy in a biting manifesto.
Apparently loosely based on The Decameron, Giovanni's Boccaccio's 14th - century collection of ribald tales (which I have never read), The Little Hours is set in an isolated convent filled with lusty, foul - mouthed nuns who spout obscenities as eagerly as they seek sexual gratification.
But as ribald and rambunctious as Game Night gets, Perez's script and much of its comedy comes from a place of love rather than spite.
She is known for her alter ego «Fatebe» who she regularly depicts in ribald, often anxiety - ridden situations.
As perhaps the most famous Dutch auteur, he's gone from ribald little European films to the biggest of Hollywood bangs, incorporating his unique wit, visual sense and narrative acuity to all his projects.
The Menil Collection is proud to present the first retrospective in any U.S. museum devoted to the work of the American artist William N. Copley (1919 - 1996), creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings, and installations in playful, ribald styles of his own invention.
They became the go - to guys for ribald, classless, and gross comedy, but since then, they've been out - done by so many other envelope - pushing comedies that their newest movie The Heartbreak Kid feels old hat.
Religion, along with highlighted excerpts from the more ribald parts of the Table Talk, have tended to make a caricature of Luther, as though he might be some kind of a foul - mouthed Billy Graham.
Ribald exploration of men's darkest instincts left unhampered by societal norms, Men & Chicken is a hybrid of dark Danish comedy and twisted social science experiment.
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.
He shows he is definitely no Mel Brooks when it comes to ribald satires, as his attempt to stage the comedy is as futile as his previous effort, The Pineapple Express (which featured both Franco as and McBride in a supporting role), and the result appears ugly, with bright textures, phony - looking backdrops, and wounds that look every bit of the CG quality they are.
It is some time since I have been on the internet in this alter ego, but there was a time when I was a regular poster on RollonFriday; wasting industrial amounts of time along with City lawyers, many of whom were senior associates (with a sprinkling of partners)-- and generally enjoying the pleasures of ribald commentary, drunken RoF drinks and meeting some very amusing people.
When he began discussing one part of the work Livin and Dyin — specifically the nude self - portrait, and specifically a certain part of that nude self - portrait — it became perhaps one of the more ribald speeches ever given by a Venice Biennale director.
This is a yell in itself and even the quietest of women has been known to complete the most ribald of feedback.
Naturally, Dodge is too much of a prude to even consider such ribald activity.
If I had to recommend the film, it might be to those who enjoy ribald sex comedies like There's Something About Mary, in which we laugh more at their foibles than care about them finding love.
Their lunchtime repartee was executed in high - speed hilarity with no holds barred, and the range of subjects that they covered was vast and frequently more than a little bit ribald.
★ William Baziotes: «A Centennial Exhibition: Surrealist Drawings of the 1930s» (through Dec. 29) More low than high, these raucous sometimes ribald figurative images in watercolor and gouache reveal quite a different side of the well - respected second - tier Abstract Expressionist painter best known for the tasteful restraint, diaphanous colors and blurry organic shapes of his mature style.
Look for paintings that filter Abstract Expressionism through SoCal atmospherics and for drawings in which ribald phantasmagorias emerge from the liveliest of lines.
It is broad rather than witty, obvious and ribald rather than delicate and sly.
Electronics, chemistry, physics, auto mechanic, wood worker, artist, inventor, business man, ribald comedian, husband, brother, son, cat lover, cynic.
The soundtrack is cool and the script is filled with plenty of hijinks and ribald humour throughout along with a few hilariously cringeworthy moments.
The king is devastated to learn of his beloved queen's ribald past and present affairs, and banishes her from court, even as the investigation rounds up and tortures suspects.
So, too, will the fact that he was surpassingly funny, continuously regaling colleagues, private secretaries, telegraph operators, constituents — indeed, anyone who would listen — with witty, occasionally ribald, yarns.
The film team review Sacha Baron Cohen's ribald new comedy about a man who discovers his brother is a secret agent
The fiery, scatological brilliance of the New England comedy icons» earliest efforts — the beloved troika of «Dumb & Dumber,» «Kingpin» and «There's Something About Mary» — has given way to works imbued with a mildly ribald spirit tempered by a strong dose of morality.
The Brothers Grimsby is a vulgar, ribald action - comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong.
Smith is also a more seasoned director and editor, and even manages to put in a few poignant moments of drama within the framework of this otherwise ribald comedy.
The movie's pirate crew is a goony, ribald bunch, well played by, among others, Philip Seymour Hoffman (the sole American), Nick Frost, and Bill Nighy.
Mardi Gras (R for crude humor, graphic sexuality, frontal nudity and pervasive profanity) Ribald road romp about three college buddies (Nicholas D'Agosto, Josh Gad and Bret Harrison) headed to New Orleans to sow their wild oats over Spring Break.
The comedian provocateur behind Borat, Ali G, and Bruno, is back in glorious ribald form.
Ribald sexual humor, a few gross - out moments, a bunch of misunderstandings, patriarchal emasculations, and sitcom - inspired antics are all on the menu, serving up a dish that's like meatloaf: familiar enough to appeal to a broad range of consumers who aren't expecting it to be much more than edible.
Last Time We Left 007...: Bond (Pierce Brosnan) was in bed with improbable nuclear physicist Christmas Jones (the awful Denise Richards) and uttered a particularly ribald one - liner, which, along with a killer opening and a deliciously villainous turn by Sophie Marceau, was one of the very few memorable aspects of 1999's otherwise messy and disappointing The World Is Not Enough.
The upshot of this loopy masquerade is more predictable than it is progressive, but considerably pleasurable thanks to Morris's generous supply of pithy one - liners and the resourceful, ribald skills of Bell, as engaging and elastic a comic everywoman here as she was in her impressive directorial debut «In a World...» (Her styling, meanwhile, calls to mind Sally Hawkins, who could well have put a sweeter spin on the same role.)
The joke is that the women in the office are stonily happy that their creep boss (Franco) is getting canned under the company's new zero tolerance rules, but that they're sad to lose the affectionately ribald attentions of friendly elderly security guard Kenan Thompson.
For a go - for - broke ribald low budget independent comedy revolving around two transgender prostitutes traipsing around the streets of Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, it's a little surprising just how tender, sensitive and dare I say sweet the heart beating at the center of writer / director Sean Baker's (Starlet) latest Tangerine ends up being.
It is narrated in proper English lit style by Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I), giving the feeling of one of those olden literary adaptations, promising happily - ever - after romance, ribald pith, and fairy - tale whimsy.
You get the sense all involved hoped to offer some sort of ribald spin on a Bing Crosby - Bob Hope movie.
With its pregnancy scare subplot and ribald gags, it still earned the TV - 14 rating that Fox assigned it.
The overall lunacy is absolutely ribald as Baena and his committed performers joyously stick their tongues out at everything piety with subversive force.
The rivalry between Reese Witherspoon's Madeline and Laura Dern's Renata in the first season of Big Little Lies can only be described as epic, resulting in rival birthday - party and ice - skating events and public debates over ribald puppetry.
At the moment of writing, the poem is full of inside jokes and ribald double - entendres related to Cecil's trysts with George.
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