Sentence examples for comedic device from inspiring English sources

The comedic device endured, cementing itself in popular culture for nearly 150 years.

Usually, I hear of narcolepsy in the media only when it is used as a comedic device ("A Quiet Revolution for Those Prone to Nodding Off," Jan . 8.

His only comedic device is to resort to one-dimensional gags about willies, blowjobs and bums, performed in a barely passable Austrian accent.

Although Ron is very funny, he felt a bit like a comedic device rather than an essential part to the play.

Schumer brings this to life with the exemplary comedic device of self-apostrophizing asides, in which Emily brandishes her self-esteem to herself as if to compensate for its absence.

It is an age-old comedic device to say the opposite of what you believe in order to demonstrate the ultimate stupidity of the stated position, following it through to its illogical conclusion.

For Joe Zubizarreta, the co-owner and chief operating officer of the advertising agency Zubi Advertising, with headquarters in Miami, the comedic devices used in "Rob" were too much.

Weeks after the show premiered on Netflix, fellow comedians are still buzzing about the hour and how it calls into question the common comedic devices performers have relied upon for so long.

We are shockingly dependent on our apps, and exaggeration is one of the most basic comedic devices in the book.

There was a weird tendency to treat rape as a comedic plot device.

Freeman is not wholly partisan – she acknowledges 80s cinema's faults, such as treating rape as a comedic plot device, homophobic slurs and overdone patriotism.