Sentences with phrase «successful at a comedy»

Here are a few tips that will help you be successful at a comedy traffic school and make the most of the educational experience.

Not exact matches

Sometimes its attempts at comedy might not always be successful, but at least they take some risks.

Like «The Squid and the Whale,» this character study pushes the definition of comedy to the breaking point, and unlike the far less successful «Margot at the Wedding,» it leaves us faintly smiling after the workout.

An intelligent, lovable robot known as «Number 5» escapes from a secret research facility and learns to interact with the world at large in this successful comedy.

Engvall acted in local productions as a child and adolescent, then launched a series of successful routines at the Dallas Comedy Corner.

At the same time, working with Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber, he developed hugely successful satirical news shows On the Hour and The Day Today, the latter leading to the creation of his most famous comedy alter - ego, Norwich - based radio host Alan Partridge.

Add to that several college friends, all of them wildly successful financially and socially (in corporate - capitalist America, nothing else really matters) and the result looks a lot like the blandly named Brad Sloan (Ben Stiller), a navel - gazing, 47 - turning -55-year-old facing the obligatory mid-life crisis with bitterness, resentment, and self - loathing in writer - director Mike White's (Beatriz at Dinner, Enlightened, Year of the Dog, School of Rock) uneven comedy - drama, Brad's Status.

If screwball comedies are about sex (previously without the actual sex) and about gender politics and power dynamics between men and women, Mike Nichols» The Fortune falls into this solid, if not always successful, attempt at reviving those little discourses under the guise of manic comedy.

That hugely successful comedy show was filmed at Boston's Wilbur Theater for a special, entitled «Bigger and Blackerer,» which premiered on EPIX in April 2010 before being released on CD and DVD by Sub Pop.

The Vitaphone studios were eager to establish a comedy team of their own, much like the Marx Brothers at Paramount, or Laurel & Hardy at Roach, but they were none too successful.

Multiple Sarcasms (R for profanity and sexual references) Midlife crisis comedy about a successful but unhappy architect (Timothy Hutton) who quits his job to write a semi-autobiographical play which becomes a hit, but at the expense of his marriage and other relationships.

Lately, Jordan Peele has taken a step back from the fun comedy acting roles we originally knew him for in favor of making wildly successful and award - winning films — or at least a single wildly successful and award - winning film, since Get Out just came out last year.

There a ton of cameos that are amusing, particularly Judd Apatow in one of the movie's more successful attempts at balancing comedy and drama.

Laurel and Hardy, probably the most successful movie comedy team of all time, made the transition from silent to sound quite effortlessly, as their personas»; so recognizable as the bullying and boorish Oliver Hardy, and his sweet man - child partner, Stan Laurel, had voices and speech that mirrored their skills at mime perfectly.

The comedy icon, currently starring in the new hit comedy Hot in Cleveland, was nominated for an Emmy Award earlier today for her wildly successful stint at host of Saturday Night Live.

Released way back in the summer of» 84, Ghostbusters raked in almost a quarter - billion dollars at the box office, making it the most successful comedy of the Eighties.

Those signature bits of wordplay are all but guaranteed to show up in this third installment in the surprisingly successful comedy series about all - female a cappella group the Barden Bellas, who reunite for a USO tour hoping to recapture some of their former glory after failing in their initial attempts at post-college life.

Her previous two directorial stints, the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and the smash hit, What Women Want, were very successful at the box office, and Meyers has shows a flair for handling crowd - pleasing comedy with relative comfort.

A few years ago, Superbad was extremely successful not just for being a goofy and raunchy comedy, but also for having a believable high school friendship at its core.

Take two dudes from the writing team of the «Scary Movie» franchise (successful films that have at least generated some genuine laughs spoofing horror movies) and have them write and direct a spoof on romantic comedy films.

A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage amongst modern day New Yorkers, Freundlich's fourth feature film centers on the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress (Freundlich's real - life significant other, Julianne Moore) and her stay - at - home husband (David Duchovny), and said actress» slacker younger brother (Billy Crudup) and his aspiring novelist girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

While the poignant, uproarious, and at times inappropriately funny comedy achieves a good balance of humor and heart, it's not always completely successful.

The jump would be similar to the one recently made by Cougar Town, another cult comedy that struggled at ABC before making the successful leap to TBS.

Pleasant enough romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two successful but romantically unhappy women who meet online at a home exchange website and agree to swap their homes in London and Los Angeles during the Christmas break.