Sentences with phrase «than comedy genius»

Not exact matches

Popper's assistant Pippi (Lovibond) speaks almost entirely using words beginning with «p» which is precisely as preposterous, pretentious and pitiful as it sounds and isn't the comedy genius it wants to be but other than that it's not at all bad.

Gag after gag, line after line, there's no more unhinged comedy in the whole of American movies than this genius invention, crafted by director - screenwriters Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker.

Not that I'd want to help the «creative geniuses» that came up with an idea this foul, but having the events of the film take place on a Wednesday would have been far better than a weekend, since they could have properly called this crass sex comedy, Hump Day.

This Mad Men — like ambition — to explore the professional conflicts of a group of highly creative people, the sweeping changes in society they're reflecting and responding to, and the conflicted genius suffering from imposter syndrome at its center — might have been better fit for the length of a series, and indeed series like Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here and HBO's classic The Larry Sanders Show convey the combination of internal competitiveness and group cohesion that powers comedy scenes like the Lampooners» more effectively than AFASG's scattershot approach.

Perhaps no individual embodies this underappreciation more than Doug Kenney, one of the comedy geniuses who co-founded the magazine.

The Men Who Stare at Goats, adapted from Jon Ronson's excellent book, is a woefully unfunny conspiracy comedy where a gamey George Clooney — trying to channel the genius of Cary Grant, but coming across more like the spawn of Norman Wisdom and Jennifer Lopez — manages to illicit defeated groans rather than hearty guffaws.