Sentence examples for an instance of comedy from inspiring English sources

(In an instance of comedy reflecting scientific discovery, Monty Python riffed on a strikingly similar idea when they made fun of David Attenborough in a 1974 sketch called "The Walking Tree of Dahomey").

To the outside observer, this doesn't look like an instance of comedy's race problem.

We had an instance of that recently.

as an instance of its constituting law.

Create an instance of JTree.

His sneaky way, for instance, of writing comedies that begin in recognizable living rooms and then spiral into poetry -- where did it come from?

Red Dwarf was a rare instance of the sci-fi comedy, taking full advantage of its genre powers when it crashed back on to our screens on Dave in 2009 (and then again in 2012).

For instance if they had squalid surroundings with a lot of comedy tramps working in it, they would have very beautiful, boudoir music, something of the 18th century, very lush and grandiose, and it would be satirical, a counterpoint".

The comedy winks at a particular instance of a dog being man's best friend -- but not, as Gurney writes it, a woman's best friend.

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) is a classic instance: a dark comedy in which a failed screenwriter (William Holden) attempts to gain fame on the back of a faded silent-movie star (Gloria Swanson): she ends up mad, he, shot and drowned.

Today is Good Friday, so let's begin with one of the rare instances of rueful comedy generated by this anniversary.