Those first fabulous recordings: the brazen New York comedy and heartbreak-kid longing, the voice whose weird clarity had something in common with electronic music, singing Harold Arlen, Fats Waller, Leonard Bernstein and then, thanks to "Funny Girl," giving us lessons in living theater history.
There's something inspired about putting Michael Bay in charge of a brazen action-comedy about gym-pumped knuckleheads who screw up their own criminal masterplan most royally.
Characterized by lighthearted irreverence, absurd sight gags, and an abundance of in-jokes, the "Road" pictures embody the brazen style of comedy in vogue during the 1940s.
He said, 'Can you imagine anyone else playing the part?' And I said, 'No!'" Written by Howard Brenton, 55 Days gives Gatiss his second stage role of the year, his first having been the foppish Captain Brazen in restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer at the Donmar in London.
Dano and Radcliffe's chemistry, coupled with Kwan and Scheinert's gonzo vision and an unpredictable story that's commendably vague, makes Swiss Army Man one of the more brazen and original comedies to come along in years.
Several of the roles he played were minor characters, including a crazed butler in Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear and a pompous solicitor in Maugham's Home and Beauty; the vulgar soldier Captain Brazen in Farquhar's 1706 comedy The Recruiting Officer was a larger role but not the leading one.
Her giraffelike legs are bravely enlisted in the name of pratfall comedy, as in a brazen sight gag that involves a rear view of Ruth wrestling with a pull-out sofa.
"Apartment 23," an ABC comedy that is scheduled for midseason, is even more brazen, featuring a semi-sociopath who sleeps with her roommate's boyfriend and traffics in black market A.D.D. medication.
This yields a chaotic blend of comedy and horror, tenderness and brutality, self-revealing intimacy and brazen power plays.
It's all a little bit too "Mr. Comedy Cocaine Man!" Check this guy out, he's being so brazen!
