Sentences with phrase «situations for comedy»

He is a master of mining awkward situations for comedy.

Instead of developing the characters or situations for comedy gold, the filmmakers instead just crank...

Not exact matches

She trades in observation comedy, sometimes about situations she's far removed from («Types of Kids at School,» for example).

To uncover the media's worldview, we have to look for the symbolic meanings behind the news stories, the situation comedies, the movies and commercials.

One does not need to watch for long to note the similarity of formats used and the development of identifiable sub-rituals: news, current affairs, sports, soap operas, situation comedies, drama, and the mini series.

It's something of a comedy of errors all around, but another LMP2 driver, Roman Rusinov, explained how easy it would be for Kobayashi to make the mistake having been penalised himself following a similar situation in qualifying.

Now, new research concludes that one key to comedy is for a situation to violate a moral standard, but in a gentle way.

Him & Her is most often described as an anti-romantic comedy, but for those who see the romance in everyday situations (and those with a taste for awkward - yet - raunchy British humor), the love is real.

The following is a list of episodes for The WB situation comedy Smart Guy.

«Lethal Weapon» went for the comedy in the situation.

In 1999, Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez, cast him as real - life adult filmmaker Artie Mitchell in the made - for - cable feature Rated X — a daring role, given Mitchell's drug abuse and sexual promiscuity — and the following year, Sheen became Hollywood's comeback kid when he was cast in the leading role of the popular situation comedy Spin City after the departure of actor Michael J.

I have watched two episodes and that should be enough to get a «feel» for a situation comedy.

Blue collar comedy rules the roost with this hilarious farce starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls as buddies who are mistaken for Army Reservists and sent to the Middle East - but when they are accidentally dropped into Mexico, they misread the situation and set about trying to «liberate» a besieged village from a demented drug lord.

In the early»60s, he turned to directing, first for the Nelson Family series, and then for several other TV situation comedies.

It's nice to see Arnett playing something other than an emotionally stunted man - child, and if the pilot for Up All Night didn't make me guffaw all that much, it passed by pleasantly and it was good to see that creator Emily Spivey was able to wring comedy from the new - parent situation without using the same dozen baby jokes we've all seen 200 times before.

Sure, a romantic comedy about people searching for something real is old hat, but writer / director Bujalski (Computer Chess) gives us interesting characters in unique situations to breathe some fun new life into the genre.

The Rachel Papers (1989) / Comedy - Romance MPAA Rated: R for strong sexual situations, nudity, and language

Why am I always searching for the seemingly most elusive item on Earth, not a holy grail or world peace, but a decently funny comedy that can a) make me laugh consistently and, b) not devolve into a juvenile series of f - words, toilet humor and disgusting situations....

For a comedy whose humor arises almost entirely from character - based situations, «Our Idiot Brother» features a plethora of characters who are incompletely drawn.

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour), and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard's brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London.

This touching and funny romantic comedy is full of charming characters and situations, and shows the futility of seeking a «cure» for someone that isn't ill in the first place.

It's too much to say that this is what television was made for — since it was also made for professional wrestling and situation comedies — but it is part of its original promise and compact, that ennobling great works of art (ennobling in their greatness, that is, not in any didactic way) be made available to all, in the comfort of our own homes.

Babbit attempts to make a sort of madcap, screwball comedy out of the entire situation, with Shannon and Martha carting their corpse around the city in a bin while resorting to desperate measures for cash.

She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown (1988 — 1998), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy - drama Boston Legal (2004 — 2008), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Named for a physics - defying baseball pitch, screwball comedies put likable characters in ridiculous situations, where they behave like screwballs: erratic and unpredictable.

It is sometimes downbeat and verbose, so those who watch romantic comedies for big laughs or contrived situations of embarrassment will want to give this a pass.

As with most comedies these days, the trailer gives away much more than it should; but, unlike most, it leaves plenty of laughs and situations for the film.

He again shows his talent for interesting characters in unusual situations, and an extraordinary blend of black comedy, violence and personal struggles with morality.

The hapless - hero subgenre of comedy has been around for decades, serving as a springboard of funny situations for actors such as Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, Bob Hope and Danny Kaye.

The lazy script substitutes goofy situations for actual gags, much of which falls flat under Rob Pritts» plodding direction, and the comedy sours with a contempt for the audience.

Half - formed and not really resembling the adult version of itself, Tadpole recasts better movies as situation comedies and in so doing locates itself as a pretty nice (unoriginal) idea with few aspirations beyond inspiring a bidding war at Sundance for its furtive parsing.

Just for the sheer quantity of laughs in its wild comic situations and outrageously extreme characters, Black Adder is one of the great British TV comedies.

Yes Man marks a return for Jim Carrey back to his roots of gimmicky high - concept comedy ideas that ride on his charmingly goofy personality reacting to a variety of situations based on some metamorphosis to his initial average - guy persona (see Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty).

In an era in which hashtag protests can quickly spread like wildfire on social media, the academy avoided a potentially thorny situation when James Franco — who has recently faced accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior from several women — failed to score a lead actor nod for his performance in «The Disaster Artist,» which earned him a Golden Globe award for best actor in a musical or comedy just weeks ago.

A League of Their Own Rated PG for adult situations / language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77 % Celebrating its 25th Anniversary is this classic comedy about a group of women who join an all - female baseball league while the men of the country are off fighting during WWII.

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy served as an inspiration for few names and situations (Dite, the world the game is set in; Charon Corps, the game tasked with the exploration of this world; the AI named after Vergil, and so on), which as an Italian I particularly enjoyed, but isn't as deep as hinted at during the first hour or so of gameplay.

Nickelodeon, the cable - television station that features reruns of old situation comedies and shows for children and teenagers, was to air a program this week that includes an appearance by President Clinton.

Are you looking for an anime that's full of suspense, drama, comedy, dark humour as well as life or death situations?

Like many situation comedies, Strawberry Vinegar's tranquil suburban setting offers a context for the peculiar.

Laughing Gas is the pilot episode of a situation comedy titled SHE MAD, a television series that Syms initiated in 2015 with the work Pilot for a Show about Nowhere, which in its early stages took the form of an installation of documents, images, and research materials filtered through a semiautobiographical account of Syms's life as a young black woman trying to «make it» as an artist in Los Angeles.

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