Sentence examples for comedy technique from inspiring English sources

Sim helped Cole lose his London accent and taught him comedy technique.

One Trick Pony has less sense of purpose, and makes Truscott's lack of conventional comedy technique more conspicuous.

(It's also a comedy technique – Stewart Lee's pauses spring to mind – but it's in drama that I really love it).

1987: Arnold Brown Former accountant Arnold Brown, from whom a line like "I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation – but I'm not very good at it", would be typical of his laconic shtick, was among the first acts on stage at the Comedy Store in 1979.

Jon Stewart's nasally caricature of a Jewish bubby (or any Jewish public figure. See also: his Chuck Schumer) is one of his most tried-and-true comedy techniques.

One of television's pioneers whose comedy techniques have had an enduring influence on comedians like Woody Allen, Robin Williams and Carol Burnett, Mr. Caesar is virtually unknown to younger audiences.

Chris Gethard, a U.C.B. stalwart who took his first class at the age of nineteen (he was attracted by the Web site's promise "We will teach you guerrilla comedy techniques and spit takes"), developed curricula that "made things less chaotic".

This maiden offering is at its best when it draws from Mr. Alessandrini's rich understanding of musical-comedy technique and traditions.

This was the next level of lucha libre the comedy inside the technique.

CorbinDances, formed in 2006, serves a need for performers like Mr. Comedy, who have technique and want a place to show it off.

Clive James identifies what he calls the "jobswap" principle of great comedy: the simple technique of inserting a character into a profession for which they are temperamentally unsuited.