If both are adept comedians, neither has the wherewithal to begin to impersonate the other's body language and thereby raise the farce to a higher comic level.
Still, you can't help wanting more from Mr. Chan, the most adept physical comedian in film.
It annoys her a little to be mistaken for the screwball she has sometimes played in movies, instead of being seen as an adept physical comedian.
Ms. Parker is a reasonably adept physical comedian, and a scene in which Kate, having just learned that her children have lice, frantically scratches her head during a high-powered meeting gives the movie a momentary blip of levity.
The brilliant young jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein, as adept a comedian as he is an instrumental virtuoso, prefaced a Gershwin medley with a deadpan fantasy of time travel back to the Paul Whiteman era that included an amusing segment of highbrow critical gobbledygook.
But when it came time to make a film based on the series's characters, Mr. Hvam said, he and Mr. Christensen decided they had become adept enough as comedians to "manage to have a child without it all exploding".
Like that, I also deeply admire comedians adept at improvisation, who can seemingly create out of the unexpected, the new and the different.
Publishing through Amazon has meant opening my mind and listening to a chorus of other voices, from writers extolling the virtues of being responsible for my own marketing and product, to my millennial daughters, comedians adept at using social media to promote their "brands".
He became, successively, an adept movie villain and comedian and later, improbably, a romantic leading man.
We talked for a while about what made the David Blaine video work — the script was really funny, we agreed, and all the actors were professional comedians who were adept at physical comedy — and then I cleared my throat.
