Sentences with phrase «set at the comedy»

After inviting Louis CK to shadow him for two days, Mr. de Blasio will shadow the stand - up comic — doing a set at the Comedy Cellar where Gov. Cuomo shows up just to heckle him.

My Friend the Priest (21:07)(Originally aired August 26, 2015) To Jim's distress, the family's parish priest Father Nicholas (Tongayi Chirisa) attends Jim's sets at the comedy club and his appearance on «The Tonight Show.»

Not exact matches

Starring numerous actors who have gone on to become huge stars, this wacky 1980s - set comedy that looks at the last day of camp has become a cult classic.

In my case, I signed up for a stand - up comedy course at the Comedy Cellar and then did a couple of publiccomedy course at the Comedy Cellar and then did a couple of publicComedy Cellar and then did a couple of public sets.

Were it not so sad it would be a comedian's set at the local comedy club.

Wintour, meanwhile, slays the crowd at the Comedy Cellar, ending her set with a mic drop to raucous applause.

This past weekend I was asked to perform my stand - up comedy set at Connecticut Comiconn.

The set - up of DreamWorks» latest comedy animation is the best thing in it: two alien superbeings fall to earth, one lands on his feet at a happy family hearth, the other fetches up in prison where he learns some very artful dodges.

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

His survival instinct ended up serving him well; a fateful set at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival became the defining performance of his early career.

Paddington 2 is a sure - footed, sweet - natured family comedy which isn't set at Christmas, but which glows with so much warmth and fun that it might well be a staple of festive television for years to come.

Born in London and raised in Norwich, Norfolk, Harris studied at the Drama Centre in London and made his feature leading role debut in 2007's SAXON, a black comedy set in a London housing project.

«Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be clever,» says the young narrator at the beginning of «Starter for 10,» a cheeky comedy - drama set in England in the mid-1980s.

At first, Writer / Director Peter Stebbings seems intent on making this a darkly amusing comedy set in a real world where children grow up too fast, drug use, violence and murder are too casual and little seems hopeful.

Production is currently underway on Michael Bay's (relatively) small dark comedy Pain and Gain, and just the other day we got our first look at Rob Corddry and Mark Wahlberg on the set.

That's why the sports agent setting for «Maguire» dovetails so well with its romance and comedy — everyone's taking a risk as they trot onto the movie's fields of athletics, business, and love, and having Tom Cruise at its center makes the whole thing go.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

From Sweden comes a film titled Force Majeure, or also known as Turist (in French) at the festival, a dark comedy set in the French Alps following a family on a ski vacation.

With The Hippopotamus set to receive its North American premiere this weekend at the Palm Springs Film Festival, the first poster and trailer have arrived online for director John Jencks» upcoming adaptation of Stephen Fry's 1994 best - selling comedy novel of the same name; take a look below... A country manor mystery that's actually a deliciously -LSB-...]

Now Delpy has created a similar set of bookends with her screwball comedies 2 Days in Paris (2007) and 2 Days in New York (which opens Friday at Landmark's Century Centre).

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On Monday 30th April at Canberra, Newtown and Coorparoo locations, Dendy is set to host a screening of the iconic coming - of - age comedy The Breakfast Club starring Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson.

At first, the film unfolds like a comedy of 1962 manners, with a pair of sniggering room - service waiters setting out melon with a cherry on top, and disastrously overcooked roast beef.

The Women's Comedy Happy Hour at the Badlander lets you learn the skills for stand - up in a open and supportive setting.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

Ken Jeong thought he was being heckled in Phoenix on Saturday when a woman in the third row during his set at the Stand Up Live Comedy Club unmoored the comedian with a disturbance.

The hushed, claustrophobic ambience of high privilege and repressed feeling occasionally cracks, as this horror movie reveals itself also to be a rich, agonizing melodrama and a dry comedy of manners set in a fantasy Manhattan of crème caramel wainscoting and black - tie evenings at the opera.

well, considering that «sci - fi» is just a setting and not a genre, you're looking at either comedy, horror, drama, action, suspense... etc..

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

His attempt at comedy was a bit jarring at first when I was questioning is acting abilities, but it turned out to be a character choice as Bob Stone isn't quite the man he's set up to be.

Daniel Mecca, The Film Stage Too often the filmmakers rely on lowest - common - denominator prison rape jokes and lazy plotting to allow for action - comedy set pieces, resulting in a poorly - constructed scene at a White Supremacist stronghold and a sloppy third act that feels like an afterthought.

Studiocanal has debuted a new poster and trailer for Aardman Animation and Nick Park's prehistoric animated comedy Early Man which features a voice cast that includes Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Richard Ayoade, Selena Griffiths, Mark Williams, Timothy Spall, Johnny Vegas, Gina Yashere, and Simon Greenall; check them out below... Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric -LSB-...]

There aren't exactly rules set in stone for comedy, but someone should break out a chisel for the topic of laughing at your movie's own jokes while the camera's running.

He's back at the centre of this acidic comedy set in the financial services around the time of the 2008 crash, with a strong supporting cast that includes Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Brad Pitt.

A major set piece at the Friars Club and assorted scenes at the Comedy Cellar never feel genuine, even though they were shot on location and are populated by real - life comics.

The documentary includes clips from many of their major films and interviews with both Powell and Pressburger, separately and together, as well as rare clips with Michael Powell and director Francis Ford Coppola at Zoetrope Studios while he was making One From the Heart and Martin Scorsese, Jerry Lewis and Robert De Niro on the set of King of Comedy.

Crackle revealed a new trailer and piece of key art today at WonderCon for the third season of its stop motion superhero comedy series SuperMansion which sees the return of voice cast members Bryan Cranston, Keegan - Michael Key, Chris Pine, Jillian Bell, Yvette Nicole Brown, Heidi Gardner, Tucker Gilmore and Zeb Wells and is set to -LSB-...]

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

It's not often you hear an audience of movie critics gasp out loud at something on - screen, but Toni Erdmann, the new comedy of forced familial closeness from German director Maren Ade, has a comic moment so perfectly timed that it got the civilized cinema - set of New York City to jump out of their seats like this was an Evil Dead movie in 3D.

Sony's press release describes the project as «a comedy that follows a trio of beautiful girls who set out to revolutionize life at a grungy East Coast university.

Now that the acquisitions floodgates are open, the buys keep piling up like it's Black Friday in studio shopping baskets, and this afternoon has brought news of the biggest deal yet at the festival, with Variety the first trade to report that Relativity Media are set to put down what may be a record - breaking sum for «Don Jon's Addiction,» the raunchy comedy that marks the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

Following the screening of the pilot episode of Netflix's new series GLOW at the Austin Television Festival, co-stars Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin discussed how things have or have not improved for actresses since the 1980s when the wrestling comedy drama is set.

At the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Yari Film Group premiered Brett Simon «s Assassination of a High School President, a film noir mystery set inside the world of a John Hughes - style High School comedy.

Set in a grand Vaudeville theatre, each episode is hosted by Kermit the Frog and comprised of at least a dozen segments which together offer a blend of comedy, music, and a bit of the absurd.

Actually, as I point out right in the beginning of our conversation, Odenkirk didn't set out to be an actor at all, but instead was smitten at a young age with comedy writing.

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OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

It's an even - handed and accurate assumption that today, in 2015, the idea of a meta, self - aware horror comedy set largely at a summer camp sounds about as fresh and flavorful as an uneaten ambrosia salad from last month's Rotary Club potluck.

Before that, he's sporting a Ron Burgundy - ish handlebar moustache in the hilariously funny 1970s - set buddy comedy «The Nice Guys», playing a crap private detective whose precocious daughter might be better at solving crimes than he is.

The popular hyphenate follows up his 2016 horror comedy with a fright romp set at a haunted campground.