Sentence examples for close to comedy from inspiring English sources
The episode was compared negatively to the later "Tom & Gerri" in an Irish Daily Mail review—"A Quiet Night In" was called "patchy"— but was compared positively to "Last Gasp" by Rebecca McQuillan of The Herald, who said that "A Quiet Night In" was "something close to comedy genius".
"Kane" is closer to comedy than to tragedy, though so overwrought in style as to be almost a Gothic comedy.
"As in Shakespeare, tragedy is close to black comedy.
Or at least, as close to observational comedy as the Australian absurdist gets.
These picturesque fragments exist alongside an arch tale of romantic rivalry that comes close to a comedy of manners.
No other show on television comes close to that comedy in adding 18- to 49-year-old viewers who record shows and watch them later.
Put them together in the back room of a hipster restaurant in central London, however, and what do you get? Something close to a comedy act.
More than just a gameshow, Billy on the Street veers close to sketch comedy, with the public and his famous friends acting as unwitting stooges for his well-written jokes.
Partisan divides over the role and scope of government are even deeper now, with the procedures of government thrown into such chaos that Republican senators took to the floor last week to offer something close to a comedy roast of one of their own, Ted Cruz of Texas.
5) would make a rich double bill with "Rebecca," especially for mild necrophiles; both feature weak men who cannot resist dead women, although Preminger adds a twist so fevered, and so close to high comedy, that the rest of the story could be read as one long dream.
