This series is probably a gimmick rather than an audition, but Walliams & Whitehall feels the most plausible long-term pair, with the caveat that single-sex comedy combinations may have had their day (they push comedy into drag territory, where it tends to become pantomimic).
A small man of indefatigable cheeriness, he was a straightforward but astonishingly skilful performer who also displayed a highly developed flair for comedy; the combination of magic and witty chat took him to the pinnacle of showbusiness and earned him a fortune.
The episode featured a blending of hard-edged emotion and amusing character comedy, the combination of which would become common in future Yoshimura-penned episodes.
No doubt it was the baleful influence of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but the comedy-gore combination served crime films well until, I suspect, Andrew Dominik's Chopper took it all a bit too far in at the end of the decade.
MAYA RUDOLPH: To me, Tina's comedy is a combination of being incredibly bright and incredibly fierce.
By then, Jay had honed an out-of-left-field brand of gonzo-hip comedy magic, a combination of chops and antic irreverence.
This could have been a rich, strange melodrama; a psychological thriller; a horror movie; a dark comedy; or any combination of these, and scholarly viewers can relieve the tedium by imagining it remade by more daring filmmakers.
The show pulls off the unusual feat of appealing to people who love automobiles, espresso, comedy or any combination of these.
For more than 30 years, French's armour has been a combination of comedy and confidence.
The potentially jarring combination of comedy, romance, history and theology shouldn't work, but miraculously does.
