Sentence examples for comedy mode from inspiring English sources

So when he goes into observational comedy mode, the question he keeps asking is: "You know those jungle canyon rope bridges, right, you know, the ones that are always broken...?" And what of the show's title?

Clooney goes into full ill-advised comedy mode: he has his non-handsome beard on the go; he waggles his head around; he does huge mugging "reaction" faces with big frowny expressions, furious grimaces and evil grins.

Heresy (Radio 4) | iPlayer Dennis Skinner v Dementia (Radio 2) | iPlayer Charles Manson's Hollywood | youmustrememberthispodcast.com The No Sleep Podcast Having been in "I hate all Radio 4 comedy" mode for quite some time, I found myself doing actual, real-life guffaws – more than one!

Here the director is in pure comedy mode, and pulls off a tricky premise brilliantly.

In the New Yorker piece, Newt Gingrich, in full stand up comedy mode, claims that McCain's looming nomination "is the victory of the moderate wing" of the GOP -- of which he now counts himself a member!

DVD, now in about 20 million homes, has grown out of its primarily male action-comedy mode.

"Chalk," which follows three teachers and one administrator over nine months, is so convincingly acted that if it didn't include brief interludes in which the grown-ups suddenly break into musical-comedy mode or reflect out loud in video diary segments, you might not guess it is fiction.

For the Gogol comedy, the mode is explosive surrealism.

"Ultimately black comedy is the mode I'm happiest in, and it seems an appropriate mode for our times".

They certainly didn't want to adhere to TV sketch comedy's default mode, which is often overly theatrical.

The next two are also French: the veterans Georges Lautner (of such 1960s gangster films as "Les tontons flingueurs") and Claude Lelouch, whose 1996 comedy "Hommes, femmes: mode d'emploi" employed the photogenic real-life rascal Bernard Tapie.