Sentences with phrase «school comedies go»

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Having been a videotape editor for the 1970s TV comedy show Barney Miller before going to graduate school, he applied for a AAAS Fellowship, was awarded one, and asked to work in television.

And then I came back and I thought I was going to go into comedy writing with a friend of mine, but he became very self - conscious and so I went to grad school.

I'm into old school car's, going to sporting events, comedy shows, dinning out, trips, shopping, movies, cooking, cudding etc..

But this is a comedy — or it's meant to be — and as much as I would have loved for the sense of the sinister inherent in this concept to turn into something deeply, blackly funny (I'm thinking of Very Bad Things as a possible precedent for this, but The Hangover is never so audacious), Lucas and Moore and director Todd Phillips (School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch) go for the easy, cheap laughs, things that will shock a juvenile mindset — a mother breastfeeding?

Melissa McCarthy goes back to school in this college comedy with a few surprises up its sleeve.

This comedy follows the exploits of Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson), a mature married man with two children who decides to go back to school for an undergraduate degree.

Fun Size is a teen comedy centered on a sarcastic high school senior, Wren, who is eager to distance herself from her dysfunctional family by going off to college.

Melissa McCarthy goes back to school with heart and humor in the new comedy Life of the Party, in theaters this weekend.

Wilson had already been a fan of the show's co-creator Mike White, impressed by his ability to go from writing the dark, psychological indie comedy «Chuck & Buck» to the mainstream Jack Black comedy «School of Rock.»

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Produced by its star, this aimiable high school comedy (there was one every week last year) features Drew Barrymore as a 27 - year - old blue - stocking big - city journalist making up for her sad schooldays when assigned to go undercover to report on teenage mores.

Taking on the part of a middle - aged mom who goes back to school, McCarthy revisits college comedy tropes with a seductive brand of physical comedy and an empathetic edge.

The hit kids» comedy YOGI BEAR saw him voice Boo Boo, then he went «against type» as a nerdy high school teacher in the comedy BAD TEACHER alongside Cameron Diaz.

Trying to describe this offbeat prep - school comedy is not easy, but here goes:

But there were also nominations for Mike Leigh's tale of an irrepressible primary school teacher, Happy - Go - Lucky, and Martin McDonagh's mobster comedy In Bruges, both in the best original screenplay category.

Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone go back to school in this charmingly off - kilter comedy - thriller from Woody Allen.

It then launched into its own world of existence, departing entirely from the nature of the series outside of the basic idea of two police officers going undercover in a high school and more or less became your routine action comedy that earned whatever success it had thanks to the surprisingly winning chemistry of its stars.

Baumbach and Gerwig go back to the roots of the old - school screwball comedies of the 1930s - 1950s with its jokes.

The DreamWorks comedy, based on Dav Pilkey's extremely popularized children's book series, marvelously boasts crisp and energizing CG animation to go along with a roguish tale of grade school pranksters as they challenge the patience of the bothersome authority figures that oversee their academic misery.

Life of the Party (PG - 13 for sexuality, partying and drug use) Midlife crisis comedy about a just - dumped housewife (Melissa McCarthy) who decides to go back to college to complete her degree at the same school as her mortified daughter (Molly Gordon).

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From the director of «Old School» comes a new comedy about a bachelor party gone horribly wrong.

Driving this silly, raunchy comedy is a truly interesting story about popularity and friendship in high school, and about how you might act differently if you could go back as an adult.

A version of this review appears in print on July 31, 2013, on Page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: When Comedy Went to School.

«When Comedy Went to School» mines the rich history of borscht belt entertainment, revisiting those who honed their acts in that upstate New York vacation destination for Jewish families in the mid-20th century.

I was hoping this was going to show aspects of that but unfortunately this is really masked as a cheesy teen - high school comedy / drama.

The actor has shown comedic promise in films like 17 Again and That Awkward Moment (even if the latter was a bit of a disappointment as a whole), but the former High School Musical star goes full tilt in this flick, showing he can run with the comedy bull that is Seth Rogen.

108 Stitches (R for profanity and sexual references) Ensemble comedy about a lousy college baseball team that schemes to go out on a high note after learning that the school president (Kate Vernon) plans to disband the program at the end of the season.

But an upcoming film called Little Bitches proves that if you have a solid script and a talented young cast, the teen high school comedy will never go out of style.

About a small town that goes to hell when someone starts publicly posting private social - media exchanges and search histories, Assassination Nation looks like an arch, bloody high - school horror - comedy that, sure, could be a Heathers for our age.

Filmed live, Mr. Peepers feels like a vaudeville comedy routine, with Peepers going on dull «adventures» (his words) such as a surprise birthday party put on by his girlfriend Nancy, the school nurse, and a comic save - the - day sewing job on a costume for the school play.

Nimbly weaving together fact and fiction, comedy and tragedy, the story switches among the perspectives of Dan, a young IRA explosives expert; Moose, a former star athlete gone to seed, who is now the deputy hotel manager; and Freya, his teenage daughter, trying to decide what comes after high school.

If you're someone who can tolerate, accept, or even welcome the moans of Japanese school girls and their various scantily clad, tentacle monster antics, you're going to find a game filled to the brim with content, comedy, and replayability.

My preferred course for those who actually want to go through the entire thing is the Improv Comedy Club online traffic school course.

The paper goes on to quote a Sam Houston State University Psychology professor as saying «well - planned appropriate contextual humor can help students ingrain information...»; and that is exactly what comedy traffic school instructors endeavor to do.

If you picture yourself falling asleep through the mundane information that traffic schools need to give you, then consider comedy traffic school to keep you going.

So, go make some memories worth remembering at a traffic school that specializes in comedy.

Comedy traffic school is a fun way to avoid points on your driver's license as well as preventing your insurance premiums from going up.

The last time I got a traffic ticket was 10 years ago and I went to a so - called comedy traffic school for two entire days, which was neither funny or really educational in any way - plus it took up an entire weekend.

Therefore, by going to a comedy traffic school, not only will you be able to keep your insurance premium affordable, but you will also be able to keep your driver's license.

Good thing YELP had so many great reviews for your site, otherwise I was going to pick another comedy driving school.