Sentence examples for Subversive comedy from inspiring English sources

The central joke of this gleefully subversive comedy is that its main character is a corpse.

The producers of "Will and Grace" seem to have taken Ball's trailblazing subversive comedy to heart.

"Surreal" doesn't do justice to Jonze's subversive comedy, scripted by Charlie "Anomalisa" Kaufman.

Instead, he uses the dumb utterances of the masses as a springboard for his own imaginative and cheekily subversive comedy.

That's the back story for George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell," a subversive comedy of errors about men and women's negotiations over independence and marriage.

The Adaptable Man (1965) is a subversive comedy set in a small town that has just been connected to the electrical grid.

As the author of one of the most savagely and brilliantly subversive comedies of the post-fringe era, What a Carve Up!, Coe has presumably given the question some thought.

Fortunately, Ms. Sedaris, herself an author of subversive comedies (with her brother David), knows how to deliver shtick with inflections that kick the obvious into a state of surrealistic twistedness.

This was 2009, when the two writers were casting "The Cabin in the Woods," a subversive comedy-horror game-changer that could reinvent a genre overloaded with torture porn and found-footage thrillers.

There's no disputing the fact that there hadn't been such a subversive US comedy since the heyday of the Marx Brothers.

That is why he helped shape the 18th century and why he still speaks to us today: he realised nothing was more subversive than comedy.