"He says he does it with what he calls 'poison-tongued comedy,' biting, often dark humor that bluntly exposes the aches and pains, and also the fears, of growing old," Martin writes.
He says he does it with what he calls "poison-tongued comedy," biting, often dark humor that bluntly exposes the aches and pains, and also the fears, of growing old.
Directed by Mark Brokaw, with an appropriately focus-fragmenting set by Mark Wendland, this Roundabout Theater Company production is the theatrical equivalent of one of those Web sites that winnow a day's most relevant news and comedy bites from various sources into a single chocolate-box package.
The "Inside Amy Schumer" comic, known for her bawdy comedy, biting observations on sexism and -- more recently -- throwing herself at the feet of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at the Time 100 gala, received the magazine's Trailblazer of the Year Award on Tuesday and delivered a hilarious NSFW speech speech to boot.
On the other hand, The Sapphires is a glorious success next to werewolf-themed teen sex comedy Love Bite, from the distributor of 2011 mega-hit The Inbetweeners Movie.
NoViolet Bulawayo's visceral, lyrically told story of displacement We Need New Names is pitted against 31 remarkable psychoanalytic case studies in The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz, and Gill Hornby's comedy with bite The Hive on the longlist of 11 debut titles vying for the 2013 Guardian first book award.
The novel combines rich comedy and biting social criticism with Dickensian verve.
The comedy bug bit him at age 2 while waiting backstage at the Tropicana in Las Vegas, where his mother, Fran Capo, who is also a comedian, was performing.
In 1994 Mr. Stiller made his directing debut with the Generation X romantic comedy "Reality Bites"; the following year Mr. Baumbach directed his own portrait of post-collegiate rootlessness, "Kicking and Screaming".
CBS led the 10 p.m. hour with a repeat of "The Mentalist" (6.7 million), which easily garnered more viewers than ABC's "Rookie Blue" (5.7 million) or NBC's comedy "Love Bites" (2 million).
