Sentences with phrase «short on comedy»

Short on comedy, but still a romance, I suppose.

Not exact matches

After stints on «Breaking Bad,» a short - lived ABC series «Don't Trust the B — in Apartment 23,» and a canceled space comedy «Mission Control» before it even launched, this is Ritter's biggest role yet.

It's an ideal platform for short, viral comedy videos, which is a huge category on YouTube.

Renee Rock, director of operations at ComedySportz Chicago, says comedy teams will be playing lots of interactive games as well as doing a short exhibition match on the stage.

In the latest Vogue Original Short, Anna Wintour takes on — and, of course, conquers — the comedy world.

This year, I'm working on a series of eight short films, one of which is a romantic comedy in pre-production as we speak.

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Gayby is a 2012 American romantic comedy - drama film based on the 2010 short film of the same name.

In the meantime, when he wasn't earning Emmy nominations for South Park or teaming with longtime partner Parker for the mock - patriotic puppet comedy Team America: World Police (2004), Stone was racking up producer credits on projects like How's Your News — a documentary series featuring disabled reporters exploring various topics — the short - lived political satire That's My Bush, and Kenny Vs. Spenny, which featured two hyper - competitive best friends taking part in a series of outlandish challenges.

The movie's title is lifted from Preston Sturges» 1941 comedy «Sullivan's Travels» (it was the uplifting movie the hero wanted to make to redeem himself), and from Homer we get a Cyclops, sirens bathing on rocks, a hero named Ulysses, and his wife Penny, which is no doubt short for Penelope.

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.

Opening with a postmodern preamble explaining that this version of events is based on «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews» with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone), the chatty, fourth wall — breaking black comedy — think The Big Short on ice — conveys much of its humor and humanity through fictionalized talking - head interviews with Tonya, Jeff (Sebastian Stan), and her mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

Her television career continued with roles on Joan of Arcadia (as Sister Lilly Waters), the showbiz comedy Entourage (as studio exec Dana Gordon), and the short - lived drama In Justice.

After his stint with SNL, he had recurring roles on The Jeff Foxworthy Show and the short - lived FOX comedy Local Heroes.

Bit parts on the syndicated sitcom Big Brother Jake (as Cassie) and the (very) short - lived, sports - oriented situation comedy Phenom (starring Judith Light and Angela Goethals) followed, as did stints in such forgettable telemovies as Children of the Bride (1990), Baby of the Bride (1991), and Killing Obsession (1994).

On the small screen, she recently starred on the network's short - lived comedy Up All NighOn the small screen, she recently starred on the network's short - lived comedy Up All Nighon the network's short - lived comedy Up All Night.

The show was patterned on the Laugh - In style of comedy with loads of quick cuts and short jokes.

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.

After five solid years on Comedy Central's Key & Peele, Keanu is the feature team up for Keegan - Michael Key and Jordan Peele, who display a keen self - awareness about how to pivot from short sketches to ninety minutes of solid laughs.

And David Cross plays a comedy writer who appears merely as a five - minute, add - on distraction to bump - up a relatively short runtime of only 85 minutes.

Nick Frost, on the more challenging aspects of making an elaborate science fiction action - comedy on a relatively short 12 - week schedule.

Among the great events lined up is a little, short comedy sketch «To Have or To Hold», already written By Katie, and to be performed by herself and fellow local thesp James Fogerty as part of the Variety Concert in the Marian Hall on the Sunday night.

This animated comedy adventure is based on the beloved children's book, which was published in 1936 and first adapted for the big screen by Walt Disney in an Oscar - winning 1938 short.

Those stories are long on action mixed with comedy and short on story.

It's as if show writer / executive producer Iain Hollands, whose most notable previous work was the short lived British comedy «Beaver Falls,» couldn't make up his mind on exactly what kind of series he wanted to create.

As you can see in this short special feature from Criterion's release of The Great Dictator (out next week on Blu - ray and DVD), which compares Charles Chaplin's 1940 masterpiece with his brother Syd Chaplin's 1921 silent comedy King, Queen, Jo...

This is true; she won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the esteemed but short - lived «Pushing Daisies.»

At least the version of Superman in this comedy short from Gasm Media, who needs to work on his victim identification skills.

Leonard Maltin — a hell of a historian, if only a mediocre critic — gives background to the standard «Night at the Movies» simulation that includes in this instance the trailer for Bogart and Huston's Key Largo, a newsreel, the comedy short So You Want to Be a Detective, and the Looney Tunes cartoon Hot Cross Bunny (featuring an ape on Lionel Barrymore, whom audiences would have just seen in the Key Largo trailer).

Director Alethea Jones and writer Julie Rudd have some formal finessing to do, but could prove a valuable team in a mainstream comedy landscape still short on loud, proud female voices.

Now that streaming media and digital devices have made every subway ride the potential equivalent of a 1917 trip to the Rialto — without the preceding comedy short or the velvet curtain, sure, but you can carry a movie in your pocket — it's easy to see that, whether the needle ticks up or down on box - office sales in 2018, our relationship to the movie theater as a social space has changed for good.

Until Atlanta, Donald Glover received a television outlet in comedies that never really seemed to fit him creatively from his breakout role on Community to his short stint on Girls to offset the show's white Brooklyn problem.

Goldstein's most recent filmmaking credits include Les Rues de Mean Streets, a short documentary on the New York neighborhoood where director Martin Scorsese grew up, created for the French Blu - ray release of Mean Streets; and In the Footsteps of Speedy, a critically - acclaimed 30 - minute documentary on the making of Harold Lloyd's 1928 silent comedy Speedy, commissioned by the Criterion Collection.

But on each of the six featured shorts, I found my mind wandering, unmoved by the pastoral comedy.

Angela is currently in post-production on the fiction short The Row, commissioned by Indigenous Media through their Project Her Incubator and in development on fiction feature projects The Space Between, about a woman obsessed with becoming a professional bodybuilder, and Sparkle Panthers, a comedy set in the arena of eSports and multi-player online gaming.

You may recognize Faxon and Rash from television, as Faxon is the star of Fox's short - lived sitcom, Ben and Kate, and Rash plays Dean Pelton on NBC's cult comedy Community.

Based on the Neil Gaiman short story, the film is billed as a sci - fi romantic comedy and follows an alien (Elle Fanning, in her second appearance on this month's list) who gets sidetracked while exploring Earth during a visit to a London suburb.

When it comes to this crop of nominees, there seems to be a movement towards bigger, stronger, more popular casting and films like Adam McKay's The Big Short and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant — the former a dramatic comedy centered around the collapse of the housing and credit bubble of 2008, the latter a brooding take on life on the frontier in 19th century America — epitomize star - studded casts.

Feature: Aaron J. Wiederspahn, The Sensation of Sight Documentary: Luke Wolbach, Row Hard, No Excuses Short Drama: Harry Kellerman, The Little Gorilla Short Comedy: Jonathan Browning, The Job Animation: Alex Weil, One Rat Short Student: Robert Scott Wildes, Neptunus Rex Screenplay: Voices, Susan Klos Grand Jury: Dave McLaughlin, On Broadway New Hampshire Jury: Stephen Croke, The Busker

Everybody Wants Some looks like a short and sweet light - hearted and entertaining comedy, which is a nice change of pace from watching a boy grow up on - screen for 3 hours.

In 1931, with a handful of silent shorts and features under his belt, director Jean Renoir made a tentative transition to sound cinema with «On Purge Bébé,» a broad comedy about an upper - class household put on edge by a constipated chilOn Purge Bébé,» a broad comedy about an upper - class household put on edge by a constipated chilon edge by a constipated child.

He trained with the Second City improvisational troupe in Toronto and in the mid -»70s earned a cult following on «SCTV,» an ensemble sketch - comedy TV series that also featured Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis and the late John Candy.

Then there's a short play called «Toe Pick» by Zachary Grady, a song to the tune of George Michael's «Faith» performed by vowel - averse comedy duo SRSLY, a long anecdote by former Harding impersonator Lynn Harris, and three people who call themselves I AM A BOYS CHOIR, who jump on trampolines wearing sequined skating dresses for an interminable aerobic performance.

«The Big Short,» a comedy / drama about a Wall Street wild man who cashed in on the housing market and defaulting subprime home loans.

Like an eerie riff on a buddy cop comedy, the pair are almost helplessly pulled from that short - lived retirement for one last job.

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(1988); the Holy Grail of silent comedy shorts, a previously - thought - lost Laurel and Hardy THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (1927), and Luchino Visconti's fully restored masterpiece ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960), starring Alain Delon in a grand emotional opus on imploding fraternal tensions.

More than 30 years after they appeared in the 1986 big - screen comedy «Three Amigos,» the two performers are on the road in a freewheeling performance of music and comedy titled «Steve Martin and Martin Short in an Evening You...

The 29 - year - old Wayans appeared in a plenty of his father's work as a younger man: he played the younger version of David Alan Grier in his father's film «Blankman,» and would later appear in a recurring role in his sitcom «My Wife And Kids,» as well as being a regular on his short - lived Showtime sketch comedy series «The Underground.»