Since I have no children and don't claim to know much about them, I took the precaution of bringing along my niece Brenna, a 12-year-old musical-comedy buff, who loved it.
" Of the silly "Honeymoon in Vegas, " he explains: "I wanted to write my version of an old-fashioned musical comedy.
Director Mike Nichols is an old hand at lightly poisoned comedy, but when it comes to violence he shies away.
"Bennett's play feels less like a class comedy than an old man's rage against the sterility of today's cautious, over-organised society, where all boxes must be computer-ticked, and all human spirit and oddity processed away, " said Ismene Brown in her review for The Arts Desk.
And what grand vision has united these comedy titans new and old?
As he got older he seemed to relish his new persona as a grumpy old man, particularly when it came to comedy.
The 25-year-old creator of Fox's highly anticipated midseason animated comedy "Family Guy" has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Twentieth Century Fox TV.
Two years ago Judd Apatow directed "The 40 Year Old Virgin, " a similarly raunchy and improbably affecting comedy that he co-wrote with Steve Carell.
He soon began collecting other old slides, and turned his passion into a live comedy act that both makes fun of and celebrates the earnest and often tacky tastes of a bygone American era.
If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks.
Anyone even remotely schooled in teen comedy will recognize that "Superbad" is an old, old story, albeit one that seems unreasonably determined to lower the taste bar.
Stephen Colbert shut down his late-night comedy show this week for his ailing 91-year-old mother, sources close to the show said yesterday.
He's starring in a comedy that he wrote himself about a troubled 35-year-old man and it's already been a huge success on Broadway.
The play - opening at the Comedy Theatre in October - will see the 38-year-old play a former political prisoner who kidnaps a man she believes raped and tortured her.
Along with her husband, Jay Sukow, a 42-year-old improv actor, she founded the Riot Act, a company that integrated sketch comedy into corporate-training programs.
It's a low-budget comedy about a dysfunctional family's road trip taking a seven-year-old to a beauty pageant.
The thoughtful comedy Juno opens tonight, and it's already drawing terrific reviews for its 20-year-old star, Ellen Page.
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