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Just because Dolly the sheep is in the news again doesn't mean that you can get away with recycling the same lazy scraps of quasi-observational almost-comedy that didn't really work the last time she was in the news.

With a somewhat different cast and a subtitle, "Almost a Comedy," that has since been removed, "Bullet for Adolf" played early last year in Toronto, where it received mixed reviews.

The lure of Matthew McConaughey shirtless for extended stretches doubtless has some marketing value, but after that, "Fool's Gold" offers small compensation -- a listless romantic comedy that, almost out of desperation, turns a little more violent than necessary near the end....it's a big, cheesy, familiar bore.

In a comedy, that's almost non-existent.

What's on view is a raucous comedy that feels almost TV sitcommish.

Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie isn't like that: it feels almost organic, natural, a hand-crafted comedy that follows the meandering, freewheeling train-of-thought typical of this observational comic.

And yet, "Community" still compares favorably to almost every other comedy that NBC could bring back next season.

This muddled comedy of confusion feels as if it were a Farrelly brothers' comedy that had sat exposed to the elements long past its expiration date; perhaps that's why almost every joke is stale (Mitchell).

Sometimes the play really is the thing, to the exclusion of almost everything else, most notably in comedies that explore the joys, perils and humiliations of mounting a show and the sublime self-centeredness of those involved in the process.

The comedy that results is almost indescribably rich, to some degree because of the layers of imposture involved.

That is the standup comedy that I've been doing for almost thirty years.