The story of Kirk and Spock is brought thrillingly back to life by a new first generation: Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, who give inspired, utterly unselfconscious and lovable performances, with power, passion and some cracking comic timing.
Similarly, The Guardian writer Peter Bradshaw expressed: "The story of Kirk and Spock is brought thrillingly back to life by a new first generation: Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, who give inspired, utterly unselfconscious and lovable performances, with power, passion and some cracking comic timing".
Sadly, the talented Linda Cardellini is sidelined while the boys go mano a mano, and Thomas Haden Church appears to be in a cracked comic world of his own as Brad's smooth jazz radio station boss.
Mrs. Mendelsohn, who has crack comic timing, deadpanned, "I taught him everything".
Beautiful but diffident, Tracy retreats into the armour of a fuzzy jumper and beret, observing the world with rueful eyes – but by the end, with her alertness and crack comic timing, Kirke has made the film her own.
Adapted for the screen by Guy Andrews (Lost in Austen) and set in 1929, the series about a family of unconventional aristocrats and their equally unorthodox servants aims to capture Wodehouse's tone of lovable eccentricity with a crack comic cast including Jennifer Saunders as Lord Emsworth's domineering sister, Connie, and David Walliams as his snooty secretary Rupert Baxter.
A message sent on Twitter threatening to blow up a snowbound airport unless it reopened was not "menacing" and was like a comic cracking a joke on stage, the lord chief justice was told at the high court.
TV has finally cracked the comic-book code, or at least jemmied the floodgates open: The Flash joins existing adaptations such as Arrow, Agents of SHIELD, The Walking Dead, Gotham and Constantine.
Although many would complain that the reading experience isn't nearly as focused as single-purpose e-ink devices, and the text isn't as legible, these drawbacks haven't stopped users from cracking open PDFs, comics, long web articles, and so on tablets.
Denny's droll narrative voice runs all the way through it, cracking jokes and drawing comic parallels between techies, criminals and bureaucrats.
These days, a political scandal does not seem real until the late-night TV comics start cracking jokes about it.
