Sentence examples for comedy beneath from inspiring English sources

National leaders are never so endearing as when they expose the comedy beneath their official sobriety.

But Churchill's production -much less stylised and artsy than Andre Gregory's original Public Theatre version - also catches the Woody Allenish comedy beneath Shawn's sombre vision.

Mr. Stoppard sifts delicious bits of dialogue from the novel's long, stream-of-consciousness monologues, and he is especially good at drawing out the light comedy beneath all the ill will and betrayal.

But what she has that neither Robinson nor Munro possess to the same degree is an irrepressible sense of the comedy beneath even the most melancholy surface – or sometimes peeking just above it – in human affairs.

I can think of few people in show business who enjoy greater audience good will than Steve Carell and Tina Fey, yet their début vehicle as a screen couple, "Date Night," is a clunky and obvious comedy, well beneath their talents.

Yet an exciting black comedy bristles beneath its severe surface: Leland Orser stars as a down-and-out motivational speaker hired to kidnap and deprogramme a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) from the doomsday cult that has enveloped her.

Don't be fooled by her appearance: there's a dark comedy brain lurking beneath the wholesome blonde hair and preppy blue shirt.

But this is typical of a production that takes a play once dubbed "the last drawing-room comedy", and discovers, beneath its ostentatious phrase-making, an unexpected humanity.

Indeed, his finest conversation piece, A Performance of the Indian Emperor, also 1732, actually shows a play: as the children of the great and good perform Dryden's drama of love and conquest, the aristocratic audience enact their own comedy of manners beneath the grave gaze of Isaac Newton's bust.

But the comedy is bittersweet: Beneath the surface flow the dark undercurrents of a legacy of Nazi invasions, of displacement, of Russia's brutal past.

The songs are short and sharp, and often gleefully profane, but there's a wistfulness beneath the comedy.