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Heck, I hadn't seen a decent comedy at the movie theater since "Bridesmaids".
Nayan Padrai's "Marry" starts with a premise sturdy enough to support a decent comedy.
Instead, Bill Hicks has become the poster boy for a rock-journalism view of comedy, one that thinks that the only decent comedy is a very angry kind.
For every decent comedy in which he has appeared in the past decade, there have been plenty of meh ones (This is Forty, Our Idiot Brother) and too many terrible ones (Admission, Dinner for Schmucks, How Do You Know).
Compared to this year's glitzy cavalcade, the first few of these Amnesty fundraisers were actually relatively grungy, with smaller casts and smaller venues: both surefire ingredients of decent comedy.
This kind of thing could work in a show with some humor or more of a comic-book style — there are moments in the second hour of the premiere when you can see glimmers of what might have been a decent comedy.
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Being an actress, in some pretty rubbish movies and two half-way decent comedies, in which she was genuinely funny as Austin Powers's classy (but unshagged) assistant, Vanessa Kensington.
Humour like this, executed correctly, sneaks up on you and pulls the half-smirk even decent comedies usually raise into a full cackle.
Mr. Hickey (who wrote the script with Mr. No'mani and Shaneye Ferrell) might have made a decent deadpan comedy out of these ingredients if he had had something in his head other than tired caricatures.
Fussing, fighting, make-up sex and broken hearts ensue in a decent romantic comedy that's filled with chuckles thanks to the cast and the uproarious dialogue.
But, as with most half-decent American comedy imports, it was stranded by schedulers in random time slots, regularly getting bumped for Indoor Bowls from Bolton.
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