Walk among the tourist traps selling goods from the cheap and tacky to the better quality linens and it is a regular comedy show.
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.
There was a time that was a difference between the musical and a conventional movie, be it a comedy or a drama, whatever, is that those movies didn't have that many songs in them.
Tonight NBC revealed it is bringing back comedy Community for a fifth season.
Ms. STACEY SNYDER (DreamWorks): The genre that Evan represents is most easily compared to "Night at the Museum, " where it is combining the star-driven comedy and a wonderful, imaginative effects-laden world.
The usually out-of-touch nature of middle management scores a point where it is traditionally mocked in TV comedy.
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.
It's kind of a stylized madcap comedy that is kind of paced up and works and is original.
One huge plus with Bridget Jones's Diary is that it never forgets that it's a romantic comedy, displaying no pretensions to socio-cultural value whatsoever.
If there really was a golden age of television comedy, it is due in no small part to the talent of David Croft, who has died at home in Portugal at the age of 89.
The partially-improvised comedy is shot with handheld cameras to give it a documentary feel.
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.
The comedy skit show stands apart from the rest not only because it is a cast of comedians versus a single talk show host, but also because it airs live only once a week, meaning there are less opportunities for artists to score an appearance.
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Out of that morass, we were given the gift of Fast Times at Ridgemont High , a socioeconomic study in the guise of a teen sex comedy that is more apropos to teens now than it has been at any time since its initial release.
It can be tough for a celebrity who is so known for one thing, in this case comedy, to switch to something so dramatically different from his brand.
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Yet this seriously crazed comedy is also a crazily serious disquisition on enslavement, and how it has been portrayed over the years and decades by slaves to Hollywood.
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Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz ("Spellbound") isn't going to win any prizes for originality, even if it's true that this plaintive comedy about a stammerer recruited onto the debate team is based on personal experience.
DirecTV thinks video streaming is eating away at the ratings of channels like MTV and Comedy Central, and it has a point.
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"It's a very funny, very well made, mass-market comedy, which is well scripted and has an exotic location, " said Patrick Frater, chief executive of Film Business Asia.
It begins with the letter f and is a favourite of O'Carroll, both in life and in his comedy.
While it's a bit of a wait, the good news for fans is that the community college-set comedy will be airing in its traditional home of Thursdays (in the slot occupied by the departing "30 Rock") instead of Fridays, where it had been slotted for this season.
It holds strong to the idea that an empathetic and less than winning hero is the best sort of character for a comedy.
Gilliam, of course, has a wild visual imagination and an exuberant sense of character, but the comedy is so frenetic it quickly cancels itself out.
The sorority email is amusing when Michael Shannon reads it on Funny Or Die or when you think of it as a great dark comedy monologue for Parker Posey to recite.
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So it is with some sense of guilt that I admit to being a closet fan of Blind Date--the raunchy comedy on the WB Network featuring men and women on a first date.
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