Sentences with phrase «writes about comedy»

CNN: Dolan, Colbert reflect on humor, joy and faith What do you get when you mix the highest profile American Catholic bishop, an icon of American comedy, a priest who regularly writes about comedy and a media blackout?

(CNN)-- What do you get when you mix the highest profile American Catholic bishop, an icon of American comedy, a priest who regularly writes about comedy and a media blackout?

Not exact matches

It was his love for comedy which brought him to write a book called Get Rich Cheating, about how money makes us do unethical things.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

The thing about Tim, leaving aside his comedy, he's also the most stunningly talented musician in terms of song writing.

I sometimes imagine there is a «Comedy Hour» in heaven where God and the angels read through all the things we Christian theologians preach and teach and write about.

The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

talk about a comedy of errors, only wenger could have written this mess.

He said: «I've written an NBC comedy about a family guy who moves back with his parents.»

It doesn't interest me to just write about a character's relationship or a comedy for the sake of doing a comedy.

Now, Willis is a graduate of the Second City improv school in Hollywood and has helped write, produce, and star in a sketch comedy for kids about climate change called «The Lollygaggers.»

► Science comedian Brian Malow «was one of three presenters... who entertained the crowd with a mixture of jokes and serious insights about how comedy can educate the public and help scientists become better communicators» at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jon Cohen wrote last Friday from the meeting.

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She is also a regular relationship / lifestyle columnist for LA Weekly, Playboy Magazine, Women's Health, MSN and the LA Times and has written about sex and relationships for Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, Showtime, ABC, and Soapnet.

I write romantic comedies about my life, 65 % is awkward and the other 35 % is funny.

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In this case, director Clare Peploe who wrote «Zabriskie Point» in 1970 and «Besieged» in 1998 and husband - producer Bernardo Bertolluci came up with a movie version of an 18th century comedy by Pierre Marivaux (talk about public domain).

Like its a good movie if you base it on Spaceys an Devitos acting and the fact it is wel written in the comedy part wth a few really good laugh out loud moments and the story is ok i understand there after a big sale but i do nt understand why a guy whose really religious would ignore his job and talk about religion?

Someday in film - history textbooks, they'll write about the arc that began with the mid-aughts shedding of the «alt -» from alt - comedy.

In a Rube Goldberg caper like this one, with its roots in glide - through - the - dark - side comedies like «After Hours,» it's all about the execution — about how writing, directing, and acting fuse with a timing just nimble enough to be funny and implausibly convincing.

In 2017, I wrote what felt like many words about the fall of the mainstream comedy, from the workshopped - into - anonymity flops (Rough Night) to the dead - on - arrival studio unloadings (The House).

Solo, he wrote and directed «The Imposters» (1998), a period comedy about mistaken identities set on a cruise ship in 1930s.

If you weren't lucky enough to see his offbeat writing - directing work in 2014's hilarious vampire mockumentary «What We Do in the Shadows» or HBO's comedy series «Flight of the Conchords» about the Kiwis» fourth most popular folk duo, you might have missed him.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell were both nominated, at last, for their roles in «The Americans,» but the fact they didn't win says a lot about that show feeling like «the old guard» in comparison with series like «Baskets,» for which Louie Anderson won best supporting actor, «Mr. Robot» and «Master of None,» for which Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang won the best comedy writing award.

John Turturro writes, directs and stars in Fading Gigolo a tender comedy about lonely people in a big city.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

More importantly, there's nothing nearly so mirthful about the trailer, or the general thought of director Chris Columbus teaming up with Sandler's Happy Madison production company; unless the Columbus who wrote Gremlins shows up, this is likely to be another Sandler comedy where only the most wan jokes make the cut.

Clumsy comedy about love - starved ladies seeking a real - life Mr. Darcy squanders its promising premise with lazy writing and haphazard direction

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini Actors: Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Earl Billings Plot: A file clerk finds success writing comics about an everyday man that people seem to enjoy reading about because of the real people he creates.

We talk about Avedisian's dual roles as actor and director, the aesthetic of the film, the difficulties of making comedies, and his writing process.

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (Unrated) Jeff Garlin wrote, directed and stars in this romantic comedy, set in Chicago, about a just - dumped, overweight, unemployed actor who wants three things: a lifemate, a lead role and to lose weight.

We're talking about Seth Rogen «s directorial debut (he shares the chair with longtime writing collaborator Evan Goldberg, and yes, they both penned the script), the apocalypse comedy that's now called «This Is The End.»

Downsizing starts out as this whimsical, sarcastic comedy, on par with Payne's writing style from Sideways or About Schmidt.

Written and directed by Rose Troche («Go Fish»), is a romantic comedy about two gay flatmates in search of love.

Dirty Weekend Directed and written by Neil LaBute (USA)-- World Premiere, Narrative Neil LaBute returns to Tribeca with this sharp - edged comedy treat about the ripple effects of desire, whether it's followed or left unredeemed.

While his background is in writing coffee table books like Classics: The Best The World Has To Offer,» babbling about Barbie dolls does not necessarily give one the chops to write comedy.

«The Intervention» Lowdown: Clea DuVall writes and directs this comedy about a weekend trip that turns into an intervention over their marriages.

Intramural is a sports comedy written by Jackson in his sophomore year of college about a boy named Caleb (played by Jake Lacey) who is a fifth year college senior in denial about life after school.

Men wrote 57 % and women 43 % of reviews about romantic comedies and dramas (see Figure 2).

Sixteen percent (16 %) of the reviews written by women but only 9 % of the reviews written by men were about romantic comedies and romantic dramas.

Written by Michael Powell (who went on to direct The Red Shoes), Perfect Understanding is a sophisticated romantic comedy - drama about marriage and infidelity, sexual harmony and discord, in a posh setting of cocktail parties and weekends in the country.

I'm a lot less snobby about comedy than some of my fellow critics and won't write something off for being immature or crude (Due Date and Horrible Bosses cracked my recent list of the top 100 films of the half - decade).

It was a dark comedy about a writer who couldn't write.

In 1987, John Boorman wrote and directed «Hope and Glory,» a semiautobiographical comedy about a 9 - year - old boy and his family surviving the London Blitz.

WHY: «Sausage Party» isn't a very subtle movie (the dialogue is laced with so much profanity that it feels like it was written by a bunch of prepubescent boys who just learned about swear words), but what the comedy lacks in maturity it makes up for with some clever commentary on faith, sexual temptation and the Palestine / Israel conflict.

Get Out: The most astonishing writing - directing debut in years, Peele's mash - up of horror and comedy and social satire is, also, flabbergastingly, the most trenchant new movie about American race relations.

Written, directed by, and starring actress - turned - filmmaker Noël Wells, this indie romantic comedy is about a woman who returns to her hometown of Austin, TX and encounters her ex-boyfriend, who is now living with his new girlfriend in their old house.