Sentence examples for comedy period from inspiring English sources

Hunderby, Davis is at pains to emphasise, is a "comedy period drama, but it's not a spoof.

This master of the Greek Old Comedy period is the only parodist from his era whose work survives today -- he wrote about 40 plays during his lifetime (around 450 to 388 B.C ., though fewer than a dozen are still extant.

Bertrand Tavernier (B): "Revenge Of the Musketeers" was definitely a comedy period film, a tongue in cheek swashbuckler.

"He's one of the most important and influential voices in comedy, period, and certainly in my lifetime, but he's never come out and said anything like that.

Deadwood, the short-lived Western HBO show that was beloved by fans for its intensity, black comedy, period detail, and top-shelf, profanity-laced dialogue is coming back from the grave after nine years.

As long as the screwball-comedy period lasted, he was king.

The contract model, which many actors hated but which often made good use of their talents, fed a system in which most of the stable genres — women's films, Westerns, sophisticated comedies, period literary adaptations, crime films, psychological dramas, and all the varieties of noir — were aimed at the grownup audience.

Her movie career covered a range of genres, including screwball comedies, period dramas, and adaptations of works by America's top playwrights.

(Sony Channel and Amazon Video) In my house, Christmas movies come in two flavours: 80s comedies and period dramas, and The Remains of the Day is the finest modern-day example of the latter.

By increasing its weekly comedy time periods from four to eight, CBS sees an opportunity to fill a gap left by cable networks and streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon, which are focused more on developing edgy drama series that aim for critical accolades.

Today, on DVD, "Dr. Strangelove" is a period comedy.