Sentence examples for comedy men from inspiring English sources

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Among the entertainers were Pigmeat Markham, Baby Seals, and the team of Cook and Brown, all comedy men.

The distinction is basic to the Aristotelian differentiation between tragedy and comedy: tragedy imitates men who are better than the average and comedy men who are worse.

In Barry Sonnenfeld's hysterically funny sci-fi comedy MEN IN BLACK (1997), Tommy Lee Jones is the unflappable top-secret government agent assigned to keeping the aliens out of trouble and Will Smith is chosen as his successor.

"I hope one day we don't say 'Women in comedy,' 'Men and comedy,' they just go 'Who was in it?'".

Well, that's a whole can of worms about women and comedy, Tina Fey and Katherine Heigl, what male and female audiences will and won't see, how vaginas are mysterious but penises look like bananas, how When Harry Met Sally was the last romantic comedy men saw without being labeled gay, how they used to make movies starring Shelley Long and so on and so on.

Jones deviated from his characteristic flinty inscrutability with his turn as the deranged villain Two-Face in Batman Forever (1995) before playing straight man to Will Smith in the alien comedy Men in Black (1997) and its sequels (2002, 2012).

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In the comedy Man's Favorite Sport?

London Live catches up with the British actor during the filming of the romantic comedy Man Up in London.

Much less successful artistically was the screwball comedy Man Trouble (1992), written by Five East Pieces screenwriter Eastman and featuring Nicholson and Ellen Barkin.

On ABC, "Last Man Standing" fell in its second week to 10.2 million viewers, followed by a borderline decent premiere for its other dude comedy, "Man Up" (7.8 million).

It's fitting to be talking today about Howard Hawks's 1964 comedy, "Man's Favorite Sport?," because it's Sigmund Freud's birthday, and Hawks is the most Freudian of directors.

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