Sentence examples for comedy grind from inspiring English sources

Shandling based "The Larry Sanders Show" on his experience guest-hosting for Carson, and part of its effect was to reveal much of what Carson kept off the air the rivalries, the insecurity, the hollowness of celebrity, and the dreariness of the daily comedy grind.

Shandling based "The Larry Sanders Show" on his experience guest-hosting for Carson, and part of its effect was to reveal much of what Carson kept off the air — the rivalries, the insecurity, the hollowness of celebrity, and the dreariness of the daily comedy grind.

It's a toxic example of limousine liberalism, millionaires putting on a self-congratulatory show with jokes cribbed from the New York Times editorial page come to think of it, it's exactly the kind of un-self-aware institution that a really good comedy show could grind down to size.

It was perhaps a fitting part for Hayman, who got out of standup comedy due to the grind.

It's a scene where Meadows moves from comedy to drama without grinding the gears.

He booked himself on a comedy course and began the grind.

(Leonardo DiCaprio gave one of the greatest comic performances in recent years in "The Wolf of Wall Street"; he'll likely win an Oscar for his relentlessly grim grind through "The Revenant"). Comedy that the Academy feels comfortable taking seriously, comedy that comes trademarked as topical that's what the members watch on TV or streaming.

"I Love Lucy Live on Stage" takes its audiences back to TV's earliest days when Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were breaking ground for televised comedy.

Some have described the way it swings from openly abusive relationships and grinding poverty to the easy suburban comedy of golf clubs and local scheming as cartoonish and unsubtle.

In certain ways, "Lady Dynamite" shares ground with the terrific "BoJack Horseman," another comedy about the difficulty of distinguishing ordinary Hollywood misery from genuine mental illness.

Oswalt has worked to grind out the trial-and-error of stand-up comedy (see flowchart), while Madson has worked his way right into joke-thief infamy..