Sentence examples for closed to comedy from inspiring English sources

Fortunately, my personal stretcher is not closed to comedy.

"Kane" is closer to comedy than to tragedy, though so overwrought in style as to be almost a Gothic comedy.

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".

"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.

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.

It's clear that many are tiring of the Greek crisis – an Irish Times reader recently advised journalists to talk of "Gratigue" rather than "Grexit" – and I've watched a number of Middle East states pass through economic crises that make its drama appear closer to Shavian comedy than Shakespearean tragedy.

Murphy began LCD Soundsystem in 2002, with a one-off single, "Losing My Edge," that was closer to standup comedy than to pop music, and ended up defining at least part of the decade for many listeners who were half Murphy's age.