Sentence examples for becoming a comedy from inspiring English sources

Before becoming a comedy legend, Apatow, 48, was a Queens-born, Long Island-raised baseball fan who lived and breathed those 1980s Mets.

They have even dabbled in film-making: several TAL-sourced stories are in development (or development hell); only one has so far been made, becoming a comedy called Sleepwalk With Me by the US standup Mike Birbiglia.

It's hard to imagine him becoming a comedy pin-up, which makes his tales of embarrassments in the playground and serial failure to fit in resound with a ring of truth that only enhances the regular laughs.

(One of these, Death Cab for Cutie, had an extraordinary afterlife becoming a comedy rock song for the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and subsequently performed by the Beatles in their 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour).

The late Joan Rivers' first step to becoming a comedy icon was her hilarious relationship with the great Johnny Carson, who appointed Rivers as his permanent "Tonight Show" guest host in 1983.

Appel still had dreams of becoming a comedy writer despite the security working as a lawyer offered him, but only in 1993, after his wife became pregnant, was Appel "reminde[d] that this was [his] life and [he] could shape it".

Like Seinfeld, David is a Brooklyn native, and he also worked the club circuit before becoming a TV comedy writer, in the eighties.

Meanwhile, Billy dreams of moving away to the city and becoming a successful comedy writer – though he has yet to summon the courage to actually do anything about it.

Long after becoming a bustling comedy factory with a huge number of students, the Upright Citizens Brigade remains doggedly committed to not paying its onstage talent, while, in perhaps another sign of the business challenges today, recently raising ticket prices for the second time this year.

My test-drive was quickly becoming a slapstick comedy show for everyone in the waiting room.

It's a system that ensnares blacks and Latinos drastically more than whites, and, as PROP founder Bob Gangi describes it, "verges on becoming a black comedy".