Sentences with phrase «than comedy sketches»

Fey's character Kim is a single New York City media worker (a writer of news copy rather than comedy sketches) who eventually acquires an irksome and persistent love interest played by Martin Freeman, in a film written by 30 Rock mainstay Robert Carlock, and produced by Fey and Lorne Michaels.

Not exact matches

Speaking to Business Insider, Alper spoke about the viral success of the app, which started as an idea for a comedy sketch and became serious after the entrepreneur discovered a study that said people «bond over the things they hate more strongly than over the things they love».

That would be impossible given that there are over 40 of them, and that the film is structured almost exactly like a»90s sketch - comedy show in which characters rarely share more than several minutes of screen time.

Critic Consensus: PTSD and comedy make strangely endearing bedfellows in Barry, which proves more poignant than its sketch show premise.

Sadly, these are the only highlights in «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,» a slow, humdrum comedy that would have worked better as a 10 - minute sketch than a feature film.

Never much more than an extended sketch comedy whose longer segments tend to wear out their welcome.

The Artist wins three Golden Globes: actor, score and best motion picture musical or comedy and countless more Oscars, but the absence of a script that does more than sketch faintly Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's 1952 Singin» in the Rain pushes Jean Dujardin's performance as George Valentin to centre stage to fill the void.

Where Keegan - Michael Key mostly seems comfortable remaining in the goofy comedy / light drama world, Peele is aiming to become a razor sharp satirist who's unafraid to delve into social ills with sharper teeth than sketch humor allows.

One notable subtle shift in 2017: There seems to be a little more sketch and improv than in recent years, a nod to the roots of SF Sketchfest, which began in the early 2000s as an outlet to showcase those forms of comedy.

Despite all that, and the inherent hit - and - miss quality of sketch comedy, Robot Chicken is often funny and rarely less than amusing.

Actress - writer - director Lake Bell's second feature behind the camera is more sketch - driven comedy than resonant study of failing marriages, but by the third act a more open, warmer voice emerges.

«Her» The premise of this film — a romantic comedy - drama in which the lovers in question are a lonely and withdrawn man (Joaquin Phoenix) and his computer's new and highly advanced operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson)-- was so inherently odd that it seemed impossible that it could ever work as anything other than an exceptionally absurd «SNL» sketch.

inAPPropriate Comedy takes its awful title from its equally idiotic framing device, which finds Offer and his creepy, wolfish grin punching buttons on a computer, each of which activates a separate sketch, each more jaw - droppingly awful than the last.