Sentences with phrase «spoken kind of comedy»

The series, based on a British sitcom of the same name, traffics in a soft - spoken kind of comedy that I'm tempted to call «gentle,» but that would belie the series's finely honed edge.

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It does remind me of a public lecture in which Harvard biblical scholar Jon Levenson, who is Jewish, once defined anti-Semitism as «hating Jews more than is necessary», obviously the kind of remark whose success as comedy turns on the context in which it is spoken and the one who speaks it.
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