Sentences with phrase «subject for comedy»

And there's no more ripe subject for comedy than vanity.

There is a George Carlin routine in which he states that given the right context, there really is no taboo subject for comedy.

This hardly seems the subject for comedy, but in practice, that very thing presents an ideal comic opportunity, both because of the sheer perversity of these brutal figures and the bizarreness of looking at them in a comedy context.

That is not a scientific statement, that is a subject for a comedy sketch

Louis C.K. has long made his life as a parent — and the struggles to impart good values to his two daughters — among the most important subjects for his comedy.

Not exact matches

There is some comedy involved, but for the most part, it's really not a funny subject.

A stellar cast and strong action and comedy elements will attract a good - sized audience internationally, though distaste for the subject matter and the irreverent take on a tragic subject might make some prospective viewers hesitate.

Though the movie could have easily crossed the line into purely mocking its subjects, Franco and company maintain an underlying empathy for the film's characters, offering key breaks from the comedy that force viewers to question what they've been chuckling at all along, allowing the film and Wiseau himself to ultimately channel sarcastic laughter into genuine love.

For once a comedy in the Animal House school that knows what it's was about: the vulgarity of the gags matches the vulgarity of the subject, and this 1980 film becomes a fierce, cathartically funny celebration of the low, the cheap, the venal — in short, America.

«Starter for Ten,» an amiable, nostalgic British comedy from the director Tom Vaughan, tackles a lofty subject — the allure of knowledge — with down - to - earth charm.

An attempt to steal store merchandise and an unintended overdose of aspirin are other serious subjects played for comedy.

The subject matter was obviously ripe for comedy and is still to this day one of my favorite comedy films of the 90s.

But the comedy suffers for the egotism or love of the subject, depending on whether you believe McCarthy or Falcone is the driving creative influence on the film.

Sometimes, it's just a simple overlap in theme, subject matter, or setting — the way, for example, that a screwball comedy like Mistress America can faintly resemble an earnest melodrama like Ten Thousand Saints, if only by virtue of both being about surrogate siblings.

He's a fascinating, a great subject for a doc, and Goldthwait adds another piece of evidence to the case that sometimes our wittiest, most cynical comedians are angry for a reason — they're using comedy to raise consciousness.

In its climax, the film happily adds «violence against women» (albeit of the self - defense variety) to the list of taboo subjects it tries to mine for comedy.

Jordan Peele's horror sensation is again the subject of debate after it was reported that Universal Pictures submitted the film for Golden Globe Awards consideration as a comedy, rather than a drama.

Kudos to the debut directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, as well as writers Leigh Whannell (Saw, 2004) and Ian Brennan (co-creator of horror comedy television series Scream Queens, 2015), for not handling the subject matter with kid gloves.

Hader's character is more allowed to embrace comedy (the subject material is so dark and bleak that the script does need the actors to tell jokes just for the audience's survival), his character using dry sarcasm as a shield against the gritty reality of life.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

David Frankel's «The Big Year» is as harmless as comedies come; it's not particularly funny or memorable, but it has a surprisingly sweet story at its core that makes up for the fact that, no matter how hard the film tries, the sport of birding just isn't a very exciting subject to base a movie around.

This isn't a humiliation comedy, or at least not one in which we're invited to laugh at the characters as they're being humiliated merely because they're hapless saps who don't deserve abuse yet who are nevertheless subjected to it for our ostensible amusement.

«War Dogs» could be the subject of a documentary, one which Michael Moore could do a job with, but prospers as a comedy - drama from direction by Todd Phillips, well - known to mostly youthful movie fans for «Hangover» (three buddies at a bachelor party try to locate a missing bachelor in time for the wedding).

Often effective if inevitably erratic, the result finds room for everything from broad comedy to moments that strive for the darkness of «Shame,» Steve McQueen's far more severe take on the same subject.

It's broad comedy, but the film's eye for its subject is precise.

The inspiration for Bowen's research, which examined the value of «non-core» subjects and school - sponsored, culturally - enriching activities, stemmed from his ACE experience as a tennis coach, supervisor for the youth and government program, and coach of an improv comedy club.

In November, we told you about Kristin Gore's Sweet Jiminy — a departure from her comedies about life in D.C. politics (a subject for which she was uniquely situated to poke fun at, given her experiences as Al Gore's daughter).

Within the art world, meanwhile, she is also admired for her queer and feminist activism, for planting her subjects in Brooklyn beer gardens and other proletarian settings where artists congregate, and for the hints of physical comedy in her work (also apparent in this print).

Meanwhile the subject of colony collapse disorder receives ample media attention — with even Comedy Central's Colbert Report inviting a bee specialist for their 3rd of March episode.