Sentences with phrase «sketch writers like»

Not exact matches

Their weekly spat has had Quentin Letts, the Mail's sketch writer, praising Bryant for performing like «Julian Clary playing Buttons at the Birmingham Hippodrome», and Bryant seems pleased with the comparison.

After over a decade of being The Times» Parliamentary sketch writer, Ann Treneman — like John Major — decided to run away from the circus.

After over a decade of being The Times» Parliamentary sketch writer, Ann Treneman — like John Major...

This collaboration between director Mark Pellington (Arlington Road) and writer Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip) unfortunately feels like cocktail - napkin sketch writ large (well, writ medium, anyway).

Expertly sketched by writer - director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) this memoir - like portrait of lives half - lived is the kind of bittersweet, dimensional character comedy we're now used to seeing told in three seasons of prestige television.

Writer - director Rawson Marshall Thurber's gleefully silly Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story follows this rule in what plays like an extension of a Ben Stiller Show sketch (but a pretty good one, at that).

Okay, so writers Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong have had to dream up a ridiculously contrived scenario in order to get things going, and the whole thing is really just an excuse to place four blokes in a series of sketch - like scrapes — but it really would be a miserable old world if we couldn't all appreciate such mindless giggles from time - to - time.