Equally, the densely plotted script of modern television comedy demands far more emotional intelligence than did the crudely signposted products of the past.
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.
But Mr Osborne's direct Labour adversary, Ed Balls, recently admitted to shedding a tear or two at episodes of The Antiques Roadshow and the US comedy Modern Family.
To prove just how successful the decision was, he not only praised his hit comedy newcomers The Middle, Modern Family and Cougar Town but also announced that they would each be returning for a second season.
While the show ended with the "Modern Family" cast onstage for the best comedy award, the sitcom also monopolized the first half-hour of the show, winning all of the first four Emmys handed out.
Best Comedy Nominations: Curb, Glee, Modern Family, Nurse Jackie, Office, 30 Rock.
Others like Friends with Benefits (a modern day Friends) and Perfect Couples (another relationship comedy) will join the schedule mid-season.
In a comedy of manners set amid the chaos of modern Beijing, the characters have a hard time just keeping their heads.
And the other is Modern Family, the single-camera, multi-family comedy that starts Wednesday on ABC.
"Modern Family" won for best overall cast in a TV comedy show.
"Modern Family" also claimed the Emmy for best directing in a comedy series, given to Michael Alan Spiller.
There is humor and ease in the modern era, because Greenidge, who also wrote the edgy urban comedy "Milk Like Sugar, " writes the way real people talk.
Just as an example, note musical sketch from 2009 where comedy group Axis of Awesome amaze their audience by playing 36 modern pop songs over the same four-chord structure, in one long sequence.
We'd do a comedy, a new play or two, a classical revival, maybe a couple of modern classics.
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An epochal advance in literature was Dante's The Divine Comedy, wherein he single-handedly took a dialect of Latin and virtually created the modern Italian language.
From "Modern Family" Emmy nominee Elizabeth Banks to "Dancing With the Stars" host Tom Bergeron to an ABC comedy star whose cameo was one of my favorite moments, the show isn't giving the impression that Hollywood's A-list is beating down doors to appear.
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