Sentences with phrase «set on comedy»

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Most crucially, Segura got an original - comedy - special deal with Netflix, which is the modern - day equivalent of being asked to sit on Johnny Carson's couch after your set — a guaranteed career maker.

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.

«This comedy of errors went on, without President Clinton's knowledge I'm sure, until it was finally time to collect the current set and replace them with the new edition,» Shelton writes.

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There are lessons on personal growth here, but it's still a goofy studio comedy, albeit one with wacky, convoluted set pieces (some of them mirror actual games — one of the best scenes in the movie is a mansion - wide bout of «hot - potato» with a Faberge egg).

my hubs is heading out of town for a few weeks in october... although i will miss him, i am looking forward to a few veggie meals (my fave but he is a big meat eater)... i am putting this on my list of comfort meals... a bowl of this, warm fire, and romantic comedy on tv and i will be set thank you for sharing with tuesday night supper club.

With the threat of financial meltdown just hours away, and the only hope of rescue resting on a morally dubious deal with the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan, the stage is set for a riotous comedy of sex, scandal and scheming.

Referred to by some as a dadaistic comedian, Andy Kaufman took comedy and performance art to the edges of irrationality and I knew within 45 seconds I was never going on a date with Andy Cohen, says Anderson Cooper on the set of the Tonight Show on Friday

First there was a public online vote involving 100 British... A sit - com or sitcom, a portmanteau of the full term situation comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from

Dalai Lama on Rohingya Muslims: If Buddha happened, he would protect those brothers and sisters Violence between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims in Four sets of siblings struggle to work out their differences in this episodic comedy - drama from writer and director Carl Bessai.

Based on the classic novel «Vile Bodies» by Evelyn Waugh, this satirical comedy and love story is set in 1930's London.

The»80s - set British comedy Starter for 10 follows university student Brian (The Last King of Scotland «s James McAvoy) as he tries to sort out his love life and score a spot on the school quiz team.

We chat with Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Baker, writer Chris Henchy, and director Jay Roach on the New Orleans set of this new political comedy.

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.

Great plan, except that Deanna insists on going to the same college where Maddie is enrolled, setting up an intergenerational, interfamilial odd - couple buddy - comedy scenario that the film never makes the most of.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

Synopsis: Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, «Woman on Top» is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music.

The sleeper is «High Season» (1988), a comedy set on a Greek island and involving romance, art, spies and a statue to the Unknown Tourist.

In 2009, the comedian released Aged and Confused, a comedy set detailing the pitfalls of middle age, and took on a hosting gig in 2011 for a re-launch of the gameshow Lingo.

Set in Cyprus and following the down - on - his - luck Yiannis as he tries to smuggle his dog Jimi across the buffer zone separating the Greek and Turkish sides of the island, the film is a «laidback charmer» with «droll comedy, understated political commentary and an adorable scene - stealing canine,» according to Allan Hunter of Screen Daily.

Though harmless and amusing, this Quebecois comedy set in an impoverished fishing village is a bit too festooned with provincial humor and a bit too short on memorable perfs or feel - good climaxes to break out commercially beyond French - speaking Canadian territories.

Solo, he wrote and directed «The Imposters» (1998), a period comedy about mistaken identities set on a cruise ship in 1930s.

He then sets off on a quest around the world in search of the perfect family in this parable - like comedy.

The comedy, and there's a bunch of it, comes from the support group members — as you can imagine, nobody believes their stories — and the aliens, who generate some very, very funny and spot - on workplace humor in a spaceship setting.

I'm wary of any comedy that sets out to be «outrageous,» as it often seems all other considerations are sacrificed in the pursuit of that goal... but The Hangover delivers on its promise.

Comedy Dynamics sat down with Sam Kinison's brother, Bill, to set the record straight on the stories surrounding this legendary comedian.

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob was one of two RKO Radio films produced by silent - screen great Harold Lloyd, who reportedly dropped in on the set from time to time to offer a bit of sage comedy advice (note the «handkerchief» bit utlized by Edmond O'Brien; it had previously done service in Lloyd's own Welcome Danger).

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.

Debut writer - director Chris Kelly, a writer on «SNL,» digs in rather than relying on contrived, movie - ready set pieces (as in the similar «The Hollars»), making this gay «Garden State» rich with naturalistic comedy as well as beautifully touching moments.

Surprise: Niecy Nash, «Getting On» Supporting Actress - Comedy The actress is the lone nomination for the critically acclaimed but low - buzz HBO sitcom, which is set in a hospital's geriatric care unit.

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.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Bumbling, overstuffed, and set in the middle - class fantasy world of Richard Curtis, Love Actually is an uneven ensemble romantic comedy that frequently appears on lists of the top Christmas movies.

Made on an iPhone for practically no money, Sean Baker's Hollywood - set trans comedy - drama was always too under - the - radar for the Academy, but what a funny and ultimately touching portrait of friendship he created with the help of non-professionals Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor.

STX Entertainment has announced that it is set to capitalise on the success of the hit comedy Bad Moms by launching a franchise of feature film spinoffs, digital shorts, and a reality series, beginning with a Bad Dads movie, which has been set for a July 14th 2017 release.

Heavily reliant on its cast and not especially cinematic, the typical contemporary studio comedy is based around on - set improvisation, with directors who sit back and let the cameras roll, then assemble the best lines in the editing room.

«The Goldbergs,» a family comedy set in the 1980s, is based on creator Adam Golderg's childhood, which he obsessively documented with the family video camera.

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.

The comedy stars Emma Stone and Steve Carell and is set in the 1970s, based on the true story of a wacky tennis match between these two individuals.

With Colossal set to arrives in cinemas next month, a new poster has debuted for Nacho Vigalondo's monster comedy featuring Anne Hathaway as Gloria, an ordinary woman who finds herself sharing a strange connection with a monster on the opposite side of the world; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Colossal here After Gloria -LSB-...]

In While We're Young, Baumbach's most accessible comedy yet, the Frances Ha film - maker sets his sights on the generation gap and gets to grips with ageing.

Although «Crowded,» a new situation comedy on NBC with Patrick Warburton and Carrie Preston, is still officially set to premiere on Sunday, it in fact slipped onto the air a few days early.

Penélope Cruz rescues this frequently silly comedy, set on a 1950s film set in Franco's Spain, as a larger - than - life actor in a part - entertaining, part - exasperating tale

Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning have joined the cast of 20TH Century Women, a comedy / drama from Annapurna Pictures set in Santa Barbara in 1979 written and directed by Mike Mills and based on people he knew growing up.

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.

It was a comedy called «Playing for Keeps,» featuring a not - yet - famous Marisa Tomei, and the mood on set was anxious...

Kaluuya was already a fan of Peele's comedy work — he and Emily Blunt spent their downtime watching «Key and Peele» in their trailers on the set of «Sicario,» he remembers — but found in Peele's script an urgency that reflected familiar trauma onto the screen.

This wistful domestic comedy, set in Greenwich Village, centers on Paul and Corie Bretter.

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.

A sex comedy set on a mechanically challenged airliner, this movie featuring an ensemble of Spanish heavyweights pushes the envelope of good taste on the premise alone because it's hard to make a doomed plane funny, especially without Leslie Nielsen.