Sentence examples for coarse comedy from inspiring English sources

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Perhaps you were too hasty to dismiss David Wain's "Role Models" (2008) with Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott, as yet another coarse comedy of male immaturity.

The film is drawn out, its mixture of coarse comedy and deep seriousness about the theory and practice of comedy both embarrassing and self-indulgent.

The taut and tender concentration of his techniques — he tacitly talks shop with Old Masters from Vincent van Gogh to Lucas Cranach — reacts with the coarse comedy of his images to generate a rare ardor.

Moments involving sex – comic, erotic, masochistic, necrophilic – predominate, ranging from the coarse comedy of Meg Ryan's fake orgasm in When Harry Met Sally (which Thomson treats with an affecting tenderness) to the marital lovemaking in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now.

Between the wisecrack-speckled news reports and the coarse comedy bits, the show featured interviews with prominent politicians and journalists (including some from this magazine), who were expected to pay their respects not only to the I-man but also to his brother Fred, the program's self-styled redneck-at-large.

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Cook is in his element in this coarse romantic comedy, where he manages to be both incredibly offensive and endearing.

I have a mental image of myself watching Stripes, a coarse 1981 comedy about two lugs (Murray and the late Harold Ramis) who join the army.

The clever papal slogan from the past century and millennium resonates now like a coarse cathedral comedy script: "Let Cuba open itself to the world and let the world open itself to Cuba... .. as Pope John Paul II declared in Havana.

He found it in 2011's Bridesmaids, a raucously funny and coarse yet sweet comedy that successfully skewered the tired "are women funny?" debate.

Though the story of Don Quixote is banal, its comedy coarse, and its dramatic tension nil, it is studded with extravagantly showy dance numbers, both for its lead couple, Kitri and Basilio, and for half a dozen soloists.

Stripes The team behind Black Watch bring Murray's coarse 1981 army comedy to the stage, importing actual mud from battlefields around the world for use in the naked mud-wrestling sequence.

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