Sentences with phrase «set of skits»

Woza Albert, written and presented by two spectacularly energetic young black Africans, is a dazzling set of skits and mime that works off the single premise of Christ staging his Second Coming in South Africa; it is comic apocalyptic that sizzles with satire.

Not exact matches

So much so that it's the subject of a hilarious skit, The Celery Incident in the new season of Portlandia (fans, set up your DVR because it started this week).

About a half dozen NYPD officers began to follow the tour after participants passed the Midtown South Precinct around 6:30 p.m. Police continued to monitor the marchers as they performed skits in front of the Eighth Avenue post office and set up their sleep - in next to 411 - 413 Eighth Avenue, before departing the scene a bit after 8 p.m.

The script is little more than a string of excuses for various skits and slapstick set pieces but the laughs flow much more freely than in Singapore.

Portions of the film are laugh - out - loud funny, but in between, it's all merely a set - up for the next skit - like segment built on the same premise.

Perhaps it seems like over-thinking to quibble with the ideological talking points of a movie that mostly dawdles from one skit or cameo to another, interspersed with the occasional song - and - dance number, and which contains one of the best comic set pieces of the Coens» career: a director and his recently re-cast lead trying to work through a single awful line of dialogue («Would that it were so simple») while filming a turgid melodrama.

This is a set of cards for acting out a Winnie the Pooh poem as a short skit.