Sentence examples for comedy away from inspiring English sources

A picaresque comedy, Away We Go jumps from city to city as Burt and Verona plot an itinerary that takes them cross-country, visiting friends and relatives.

They, along with Mort Sahl, Jonathan Winters, and, later, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, were the renegades who led comedy away from the ersatz to the authentic.

In 2009 Mendes directed the screen comedy Away We Go, which follows an expectant couple who undertake a road trip in order to find the place to start their family.

The idea that a comic was sentenced to jail for obscenities used during his stand-up performance strikes some people as so objectionable that lobbying for a pardon "is the least we can do," said Margaret Cho, a comedian who credits Bruce with pioneering a new path for comedy away from the corny one-liners that once dominated the stage.

(For some perspective, that's only $16.5 million in 2009 dollars, or less than the cost of this year's forgettable low-budget comedy Away We Go).

When I graduated, I started doing standup comedy straight away.

Another focus will be the "mid range" of comedy programmes away from established favourites like I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The News Quiz.

Rowan Atkinson provides the comedy, dabbing away at the keyboard in practised Mr Bean mode and then shamelessly tripping his rivals during the classic beach-running montage that follows.

The performance may have been a reaction to the accusations by African-Americans that he was deracinating his comedy, bleeding away the color so as not to offend.

Mr. Bonner said that he, Ms. Daelemans and Ms. Ryom steered the other North Korean writers they had brought on board toward comedy and away from the more predictable propaganda line of triumph through hard work.

Peter Yates, a British-born director whose best-known films were well-observed tales of Americana, including the car-chase cop thriller "Bullitt" and the coming-of-age, bike-race comedy "Breaking Away," died on Sunday in London.