Sentence examples for comedy meant from inspiring English sources

Television comedy meant sitcoms or variety programmes; even the controversial Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour included its anti-war messages within the traditional variety format.

"New York Minute," a 2004 comedy meant to establish the twins on the big screen, came up lame at the box office.

"When I was a kid, comedy meant one guy standing in front of a curtain with a microphone, like Bob Hope, and rattling off a lot of jokes," Mr. Brooks said.

"IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD" was a very funny 1963 movie starring just about everyone you've ever heard of, and is one of the first movies I can remember watching where I truly understood what the phrase "ensemble comedy" meant.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's introduction to The Comedy of Errors points out that for Shakespeare's audience "a work was good not because it was original, but because it resembled an admired classical exemplar, which in the case of comedy meant a play by Terence or Plautus".

Comedy meant to diffuse, shut down conversation, end all real discourse with a zinger.

What does comedy mean to them?

In Golding's novel, comedy means something dark, and bitterly ironic.

Yet his gift for comedy means he can't help wisecracking in these meetings, and I suspect it further typecasts him as the much-loved Jack Donaghy character from 30 Rock.

The world body, whose dedication to comedy means it has elected a clown as president since 1998, was recently forced to apologise after handing out advice on travelling to Brazil that poked fun at the locals' customs.

Scientology comedy means no swearing and no sexual references, just a bunch of high-ranking Scientologists standing in a hall trying to tickle your funny bone.