Sentences with phrase «with high comedy»

Like Elizabethan drama, they are so heterogeneous in form as practically to constitute a rebellion against classical restraints; they simply can not resist mixing intense pathos with high comedy, stateliness with farce, heroic magnificence with nursery fantasy.

In keeping with the high comedy of this whole business Trump had been assigned a pseudonym for the purpose: Trump is David Dennison and Daniels is Peggy Peterson.

Not exact matches

This John Hughes classic highlights almost every embarrassing moment that can happen in high school, but matched with incredible comedy, it's a must - watch.

Viacom, whose networks include Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon, has taken much criticism in recent years over its high executive pay even as it struggled with slipping ratings while more consumers ditched pricey cable television subscriptions.

With a hit summer movie, an Emmy nod for her show on Comedy Central, and an HBO special in the works, Amy Schumer's career is at an all - time high.

CBS, for example, could help Viacom extract higher rates for its lesser - watched channels like MTV and Comedy Central by including them with its broadcast network, which is considered «must carry» given its highly rated programs and NFL games.

When «Blue Collar Comedy Tour» premiered on Comedy Central, it was the highest rated movie in the channel's history and the soundtrack has been RIAA certified gold with more than 500,000 units sold.

Been doing high intensity training for cardio... Did accidentally hit myself in the helmet with a jump rope doing it today though... So there's your comedy for the day.

At the same time the programme's makers, who had a ball with the MPs» expenses, should recognise that there is enough dark comedy and high drama in politics at the moment without the need for them to contrive dangerous controversy.

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Find a «I, Tonya»: Tonya Harding biopic is black comedy, with a high degree of difficulty.

This romantic comedy revolves around an antisocial high school student named Hikigaya Hachiman with a distorted view on life and no Description: Summer job will be a dating sim game based on events while working at a Summer Resort.

A high - energy romantic comedy that follows three A schedule of the speed dating NYC singles have made famous, with events throughout New York, organizers of NYC singles events for over 9 years.

The third edition finds Shrek (Myers) ensconced in the land of Far Far Away with his bride, Princess Fiona (Diaz), and poised to inherit the crown from his ailing father - in - law, King Harold (John Cleese, whose protracted death scene as a frog croaking his last is a comedy high point).

It's your typical comedy about a loser high school guy in love with a hot girl, and it's mildly amusing, at best.

With director Mark Waters at the helm (no stranger to these high concept «comedies», with the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as well as crowning achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory nWith director Mark Waters at the helm (no stranger to these high concept «comedies», with the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as well as crowning achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory nwith the actually - pretty - decent «Freaky Friday» remake and «The Spiderwick Chronicles», as well as crowning achievement «Mean Girls» under his belt), «Penguins» barrels down to one of most asinine climaxes in recent memory, culminating with a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory nwith a press announcement that unites all the major and minor characters, and involves plot twists that ring of desperation to wrap up on a self - congratulatory note.

A fairly interminable teen comedy, American Pie follows four high school buddies (Jason Biggs» Jim, Chris Klein's Oz, Thomas Ian Nicholas» Kevin, and Eddie Kaye Thomas» Finch) as they vow to lose their respective virginities by prom night - with the film detailing the foursome's expectedly flamboyant and over-the-top efforts at accomplishing this feat.

The only way I think this movie could be enjoyed is watching it high or drunk with friends, and going into it with the idea that it's a comedy.

Fleming then co-wrote and directed the comedy Hamlet 2 (2008), with Steve Coogan as a high school drama professor who attempts to save his flagging theater department by mounting an onstage sequel to Shakespeare's famous tragedy.

I went in this movie expecting a cheap slasher horror film, but I was having high expectations, because it has been announced in development since 2009, what I got was way too more in depth than I was barging for, this movie can't be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is different dark comedy with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS MOVIE.

«Just Go with It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enWith Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enjoy.

This teen comedy from Savage Steve Holland stars Corey Parker as an underachieving high schooler who hatches a crazy plot with valedictorian Lara Flynn Boyle to gain acceptance into a prestigious university.

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The multihyphenate (who reportedly began authoring poetry and songs at the age of 14) moved with her mother to Southern California immediately after high school graduation to accommodate her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star and promptly landed both representation and a key role as a pop diva in the Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Music and Lyrics.

During its two years on MTV, the show garnered high ratings due to Green's penchant for pushing the limits of taste with such gags as shagging a dead moose and delivering animal parts to his parents» house, and for involving innocent bystanders in his «confrontational comedy.»

Their developing friendship then goes on to form the heart of the film, helping to ground the movie's ample comedy with some genuinely affecting emotion here and there as tempers run high during the making of «The Room.»

In 1995, Cube reunited with Singleton for the drama Higher Learning, and, later that year, expanded his repertoire by starring in Friday, a comedy he also wrote and produced.

What separates Strangers with Candy from other high school comedies, or from most mainstream comedies in general, is the cast's total dedication to their parts.

Like this summer's other slapstick cause célèbre, «Pineapple Express,» it's a comedy with as high or higher a body count as the movies it purports to be parodying, and the problem isn't the violence per se but rather the fact that neither movie ever finds a satisfactory balance between tongue - in - cheek and guts - in - hand.

This British black - comedy soars high with its wit and tragedy.

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.

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Doug Benson welcomes Anthony Jeselnik, host of the Comedy Central show «The Jeselnik Offensive» to «Getting Doug with High».

In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10 - year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,...

From the age of five on, Lewis occasionally performed in his parents» act, and later quit high school in order to travel with his own comedy routine, which consisted primarily of mocking famous entertainers while their records were played off - stage.

A stream of bellylaughs is lost here, with «Kung Fu Panda 2» a little creaky in the comedy department, save for one hysterical moment where Po threatens Shen from afar, a place of high ground where nobody can actually hear him.

Stuck between screwball comedy that allows Alex to emerge unscathed from a high - speed collision with a car and honest romance that features Alex and Juliette staring longingly into the sunset, Heartbreaker is a mixed bag that is charming and funny when it's good and insufferably sophomoric when it's bad.

The inbred lowlifes in this B - movie black comedy are members of the Smith family, a clan of troglodytes in a seedy Texas trailer park replete with vicious barking dogs on chains, who swing into ruthless high gear from the very first scene, when penny - ante drug dealer Chris Smith (a game turn by Emile Hirsch, who has grown from the appealing, open - faced kid in The Emperor's Club into a scabby, hirsute roughneck) arrives in a torrential rainstorm and is greeted at the screen door by his father's new wife Sharla with a female full - frontal.

True Blood will never be confused with the high - quality projects HBO has staked its reputation and brand on, but it can be an entertaining pop / pulp thriller with a fair amount of comedy sprinkled in.

Dahlbeck is most closely linked with the films of Ingmar Bergman, expertly etching characterizations ranging from low - life decadence to elegant high comedy.

Male bonding remains the highest value of the Animal House comedies: women are trashed with a fierceness out of Mickey Spillane.

The film's outcome hinges on a big race, with the circus» dancing horse as a contestant; this scene includes an unexpected moment of high comedy, at once relieving and compounding the tension!

Reputedly born, much like its predecessor, of Segel's real - life relationship with «Freaks and Geeks» costar Linda Cardellini, «The Five - Year Engagement» engenders lots of good will for the many things it does right — namely, at least aim at a target a bit higher and off - center from the normal, unchallenging objective of so many romantic comedies.

But Maggie's Plan is terrifically funny and enjoyable — a metropolitan comedy in the former high style of Woody Allen, directed with elegance and dash by Miller and co-scripted by her with publisher - turned - screenwriter Karen Rinaldi.

Mandate Pictures have signed a two - year first - look deal with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride to produce high concept comedies with their brand of humor under a new label — Rough House Pictures.

Homework is a high school comedy featuring a star studded cast including Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser with Rita Wilson and Blair Underwood.

However, underneath the high - concept themes of the film, Rumor Has It remains a routine romantic comedy with serious moments thrown in, and will likely only please viewers considered to be regulars of the genre.

John C. Reilly is an eccentric high school vice-principal in «Terri» (Fox), an indie comedy with Sundance credentials, Rhys Ifans plays «Mr. Nice» (MPI), based on the crazed true story of a wildly successful British marijuana smuggler, and «Beautiful Boy» (Anchor Bay) stars Maria Bello and Michael Sheen as separated parents who turn to each other in shared grief.

Also new on DVD this week: the high school «Scarlett Letter» comedy Easy A (Sony) with Emma Stone, the M. Night Shyamalan - produced Devil (Universal), Francois Ozon's Angel (IFC) with Romola Garai and Michael Fassbender, Amos Gitai's Disengagement (IFC) with Juliette Binoche, Isabel Coixet's Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (IFC) with Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez and dance dance devolution Step Up 3 (Touchstone)(formerly Step Up 3D).