Not only is postmodern comedy radically different in tone, but it makes no sense for most of the characters in a serious comedy like "Lost in Yonkers" to be frothing at the mouth with one-liners.
Sure, serious, tiny, angsty films are great, but in a best-case scenario, an appreciation for comedy bleeds into the rest of voting, and the academy nominates Bill Murray for a performance where he doesn't just stand around looking sullen.
Krasinski is winning as the straight, clean-cut young athlete -- he's the only one who doesn't seem to be acting in quotation marks, and he's got a talent for physical comedy -- but when it comes to the crunch, when he should be wrestling with his conscience or fighting for his woman, the Bullet's simply not there.
But audiences are always clamouring for a good true story, as evidenced by live comedy, the memoir glut and so-called reality television.
But even after watching the Daily Show for the past week, the notion of a Comedy Central produced political rally still sits off-balance in my oft-laughing belly.
But Fry is still best remembered for his comedy partnership with Hugh Laurie, and their show A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
The writer, Michael Arndt, and the husband-and-wife directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, narrowly avoid the family-comedy pitfalls of whimsy and mush, but Arndt has a good ear for domestic irritations and the acting is just tough enough to keep us off balance.
The BBC will not be bringing us the third series of 24, which has been picked up by Sky1 for February, but it is making The Worst Week of My Life, a seven-part comedy about the week before a wedding.
It's almost like a romantic comedy, but it's like a buddy comedy as well because he and I really share the screen for most of the movie.
No one would mistake the director John Hamburg for Ingmar Bergman, but his brittle, glossy comedy, despite its intermittently entertaining antics, leaves a long and bitter aftertaste of the haut-bourgeois blues.
Universal delivers its trump card with Despicable Me 2 over July 4th weekend while Dreamworks releases its snail-racing comedy Turbo on July 17th, a frankly unusual release date for them, but no matter.
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She recently wrote the score for "9 to 5: The Musical, " a stage version of the 1980 comedy "Nine to Five, " a film she not only starred in but for which she also composed the award-winning title song.
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