I've done films that are comedic, but I've never done a film that is a comedy.
As such there are marked contrasts, most notably the movie is a comedy-drama while the novel has little light relief.
This is a comedy, of course: raunch carried beyond its known frontiers.
Among IFC's original shows is a comedy called The Whitest Kids You Know, an example of programs that DeMontreux calls "edgy, " and an equal-opportunity offender among cable networks like Comedy Central, Cartoon Network and FX.
Touchy Feely tells the story of a massage therapist unable to do her job when she suddenly has an aversion to bodily contact, while Jill Soloway's Afternoon Delight is a dark comedy about a lost LA housewife who takes in a young stripper as a live-in nanny.
Walk among the tourist traps selling goods from the cheap and tacky to the better quality linens and it is a regular comedy show.
No Strings, which co-stars Ashton Kutcher, is a romantic comedy about a pair of friends who try to add sex to their relationship without becoming a couple.
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"The Actress" (1953), screening March 16, is a winsome comedy by the actress and writer Ruth Gordon, loosely based on her youthful antics during the early part of the 20th century.
"Before Midnight" is perhaps the most highly anticipated movie sequel this summer that is neither a comedy nor an action-adventure movie, and its predecessors rank high on many lists of best romantic movies.
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Written by John Kamps ("Zathura") and David Koepp ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull") and directed by Koepp, "Ghost Town" is a light comedy about a misanthropic dentist, Bertram Pincus, who develops an unwelcome sixth sense after losing his vital signs for several minutes during a routine colonoscopy.
What's great about this category is there is such a diversity: a comedy next to a really hard-hitting documentary that is going to break you into a cold sweat.
In an era of salary slashing and other cost cuts, the network rationale is simple: Unlike a drama or comedy, which is typically story-driven and ensemble-based, the host of a late-night show is the draw.
The title, a Hindi word for a spicy, colorful mixture, is unfortunately familiar for a comedy about Indian immigrants in North America (Canada this time, not Mississippi).
Like Shmuger, she believes Evan is not just a comedy, but part of a new genre.
Apatow is currently promoting This Is 40, a comedy built around two of the supporting characters from his 2007 success Knocked Up.
"The Revisionist" is less of a comedy than "Asuncion, " but its moments of humor do shine, thanks to the excellent and versatile cast.
It is a hugely enjoyable comedy with action, suspense and a love story thrown in - even if a horribly Hollywood ending may leave a sour taste.
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a screwball romantic comedy that takes place in the 1920s and tells the story of a female bootlegger who meets a wealthy, often-drunken playboy, played by Matthew Broderick.
What he really wants to do, he insists, is appear in a comedy, a wish thus far denied him on film unless one counts his performance as the dyspeptic painter Frederick in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986).
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For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles-style self-obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send-up.
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This brisk and self-searching, sharply intelligent and deeply vulnerable romantic comedy is a masterwork of reflexive construction.
In fact, the picture is a charming, sophisticated comedy in which Garbo masquerades as twins in order to win the affection of a fickle Melvyn Douglas.
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Yet as ludicrous as are Sheikh's statements about me -- I'll leave Ullman to speak for himself -- this small comedy is a piece of a much larger drama.
Comedy is a great tool for that because if you laugh with people you start to understand that you share more with them than you thought did initially and you learn about them as well.
"Project X" is supposed to be a comedy, but parents with teenagers -- or parents with kids who may one day turn into teenagers -- will regard it with much the same mixture of dread and terror.
The writer-director Cameron Crowe is attempting a modern screwball comedy the kind of thing that, sixty years ago, would have been a swiftly paced romantic farce but he has scaled the movie as an epic and turned his heroine into a font of New Age wisdom.
Comedy is not a get out of jail free card and can be passive aggression.
Perhaps the best comparison is in comedy, where a new generation of comedians like Louis C.
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