Sentence examples for candid comedy from inspiring English sources

"Love & Other Drugs" is a sometimes intoxicating, sometimes headache-inducing cocktail: a sweet, libidinous love story; a candid comedy of bedroom and workplace manners; and, most bravely, if also most jarringly, a medical melodrama involving a chronic and very serious disease.

Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called this film from Edward Zwick "a sometimes intoxicating, sometimes headache-inducing cocktail: a sweet, libidinous love story; a candid comedy of bedroom and workplace manners; and, most bravely, if also most jarringly, a medical melodrama involving a chronic and very serious disease".

Welcome to the head-spinning gamesmanship of the Obama era – and to the most elegantly candid comedy of racial tension since Spike Lee burst onto the scene 30 years ago.

Another of last year's international festival favourites, Gloria was a candid comedy-drama about a fifty-something Chilean divorcee (Paulina Garcia) with a penchant for one-night stands.

Emerging from the slacker-daredevil ethos of skate culture, it updated the ambush comedy of "Candid Camera" and the reality slapstick of "America's Funniest Home Videos" for the age of YouTube exhibitionism.

Considering that Ms. Leingang has achieved the position of senior vice president of original programming and development at Comedy Central, I expected her to deliver a candid depiction of the business of comedy from a woman's point of view.

Wednesday night at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, Aziz Ansari was the guest on SiriusXM's newest installment of their "Unmasked" series, and gave a funny and candid talk about achieving his successful comedy career.

He watched as much comedy as he could, including episodes of Candid Camera and Marx Brothers movies and found that over time, laughter stimulated chemicals in his body which allowed him several hours of pain-free sleep.

Possessed of a different, darker comedy is AL Kennedy's Paradise (Cape), a candid depiction of alcoholism made vivid by Kennedy's often startling imagery.

Quincy Jones dropped a lot of bombshells in an extremely candid interview with Vulture on Wednesday ― including saying that comedy legend Richard Pryor had had sex with Oscar-winning actor Marlon Brando.

Shearer talks of the weird, candid, and unscripted human behavior that is an inspiration for his comedy.