Sentences with phrase «slapstick comedians»

Obviously, casting slapstick comedian Martin Short should send a signal that Innerspace is going to be a comedy, but in this case, the comedy gets in the way, and causes the science fiction elements to lose credibility.

In fact Faber said of Dickens: «Every critic creates their own Dickens — fearless reformer, craven reactionary, anarchic force of nature, cosy sentimentalist, fierce intellect, self - educated bore, social realist, grand tragedian, slapstick comedian, etc..

Like a slapstick comedian, he strikes emotional notes of humor and pathos in equal measures, alternating between moments of antic joy and Sisyphean futility.

Not exact matches

Instead, we get plenty of opportunities for fast - paced slapstick, and Gleeson — a fine actor who in recent years has ably demonstrated his versatility in everything from The Last Jedi to Ex Machina to Brooklyn to The Revenant — turns out to be an inspired physical comedian as well.

Indeed, the comedian's favoured director Larry Charles (TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm) returns, as does his uneasy combination of slapstick silliness, gross - out gags, juvenile jests, celebrity cameos and political parody, in a film that effortlessly resembles the unruly ridiculousness of his preceding pieces.

If this last piece demonstrated the charming, if rather dead - end, slapstick to which Wurm can always turn in a pinch, Tell, 2007 - 2008, provided evidence that the artist, like all comedians, is most effective when his clowning opens up onto larger existential questions.