Sentence examples for affecting comedy from inspiring English sources

"Then She Found Me" is an affecting comedy about bright people acting on their emotions and screwing things up.

But with Vivian Matalon directing the redoubtable Judy Kaye as Mrs. Jenkins, and Donald Corren as her accompanist, the play's investigative empathy turns the first act into unexpectedly gentle, affecting comedy (2 15).

Two-time Oscar winner Sally Field is given a rare lead role in Hello, My Name is Doris, and flies with it, giving one of the best performances of her career in Michael Showalter's affecting comedy.

This affecting comedy about getting old and out of touch is set in the near future and finds Frank Langella in good form as an elderly former cat burglar of legendary reputation, long-divorced and living alone in upper New York State.

The most memorable and affecting comedy is that of which a person can identify with.

In the 1990s, Stillman made three astute and affecting comedies about the WASP mentality - the other two were Metropolitan and Barcelona - a subject on which he was well-equipped to comment because his uncle, the sociologist E Digby Baltzell, is generally credited with having popularised the term.

It's a cinematic peak, too, for the spare, sandy writing of Sam Shepard, the actor-playwright whose tough dramatic sculpting of American male crisis hasn't always translated as well to the screen as it does to the stage: Wenders and Shepard couldn't repeat the trick two decades later in their arch, affected comedy Don't Come Knocking.

The troupe has affected comedy for generations -- becoming so ubiquitous that "Pythonesque" is an adjective in the Oxford dictionary.

When asked how changing times -- specifically the growth of cable TV and the Internet -- has affected comedy, Belli answered: "Well, we can say [expletive deleted] now".

The troupe that would become Monty Python and affect comedy as profoundly as the Beatles affected popular music, worked separately on different BBC shows until coming together on the David Frost Show.

Gordon-Levitt's latest is 50/50, which teams him with Seth Rogen for an affecting buddy comedy that is as much about the tears as the laughs.