Sentence examples for a type of comedy from inspiring English sources

There is at first a type of comedy — the bumptious Englishman abroad, continually misunderstood by or misunderstanding his hosts.

Right off, Danto cites Hegel: "The modern world has developed a type of comedy which is truly comical and truly poetic...

It sees him mock his own grovelling appearance on BBC Newsnight in November, when he admitted that Dapper Laughs was "a type of comedy that I should not have been doing".

Most of all it is a deeply pessimistic indictment of satire itself, a type of comedy that emerges as fatally ambiguous and parasitic, unable to make any real difference to what it is supposedly attacking.

More popular was a type of comedy both serious and moralistic, such as Le Glorieux (1732; The Conceited Count) by Philippe Néricault Destouches or the comédies larmoyantes ("tearful comedies") of Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, which enjoyed great popularity in the 1730s and '40s.

Popular drama includes shadow plays, performed by puppets reflected on a linen screen, and the orta oyunu, a type of improvised comedy.

The scene in his hospital room is a type of black comedy that is rare and razor-sharp.

On Wednesday Pandora will add 10,000 clips by more than 700 comedians to its archive, and allow users to sort through them in the same way they do the site's music: by picking a starting place — a comedian, type of comedy or even a specific joke — and then letting Pandora send a stream of similar material chosen by analyzing his or her taste.

What Chris did on Letterman's show "wasn't an attempt at a mainstream type of comedy," Adam Resnick, who wrote with Chris in those years, told me.

"It was the birth of a certain type of comedy that I call shock comedy," Mr. Grazer said.

"I suppose before it was usually a typical type of comedy, usually made by Woody Allen.