Sentence examples for comedy conventions from inspiring English sources

Mitch transcended typical comedy conventions in a way most audiences wouldn't have been aware of.

Although "It Happened One Night" introduced romantic comedy conventions that continue to serve today (Sandra Bullock should be paying royalties), the film has the look (thanks to Joseph Walker's superb nighttime cinematography) and often the feel of a suspense thriller.

All along, in Jay and Silent Bob's brief appearances, he has been reviving certain long-standing comedy conventions: Jay is a monomaniac who never shuts up, and Bob, frequently, is mute.

This also sums up quite neatly what's wrong with the film – that it's underpinned by the deep-rooted social conservatism of romantic comedy conventions: that posh people fancy only posh people, and that the apotheosis of a woman's dreams is to marry a rich man.

By gesturing towards a certain kind of independence for women – that they can bypass romantic partnerships with men when having babies – while still limiting their characters to many of the reductive romantic comedy conventions, these films illustrate the conflicted state of feminism, masculinism, and the couple in the 21st century.

The photos show the range of Chaplin's facial expressions – and a character stepping out of traditional comedy conventions.

The most surprising of these may be the romantic-comedy convention of an interrupted wedding, an apparent disaster that will of course turn out to be a blessing.

Set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and at various vacation homes, "Town & Country" observes the old screwball-comedy convention of misbehavior among the rich, but it misses the point of the convention — in the thirties, the wealthy were such a juicy subject because they were easily exploited as heedless eccentrics (no one's feelings were likely to be hurt by the charge).

He tends to open his shows with a series of hip thrusts and twirls executed under a swirl of colored spotlights, as if he were about to perform magic in Vegas, or headline a cruise disco: tongue-in-cheek cheesy, but also big-hearted and endearing in a way that comedy's conventions of cool don't often allow for.

When not skewering talk-show conventions, "Comedy Bang! Bang!" is less sure-footed in its satire.

Now I can see that what made his work so radical was that it was so self-aware, so postmodern: he was making comedy about the conventions of making comedy.