He proved his worth in Tom DiCillo's making-of-an-indie-film-disaster comedy, "Living in Oblivion".
In it, Gottfried details all of history's forgotten, tasteless post-disaster comedy.
The fictional workshop ends in predictable disaster; the comedy career looks promising.
Will it be disaster or comedy?
Disaster turned to comedy at her touch.
That, at any rate, appears to be the principal, really the only point of the impishly, unfortunately titled "It's a Disaster," an underbaked comedy about eight people facing their mortality.
Watch the hilarious gaffe below....@LincolnCity_FC keeper's ball juggling disaster gifts a comedy goal to @altrinchamfc's @DamianReeves85! https://t.co/PKVd1W0csN "I want to apologise to the Imps fans who had come along to watch, because it is just so frustrating," Farman told the Lancashire Echo.
At least since "Flirting With Disaster," his breakthrough comedy from 1996, Mr. Russell has exhibited a bracingly kinetic directing style, for better and for worse: "Three Kings" flies like a bullet aimed at the contradictions of American global power, while "I Heart Huckabees" spins manically like a hamster's wheel, blurring its provocative ideas into tiresome intellectual attitudes.
Oddly, Ms. Veldman's deliberate lack of coherence added up to something interesting: the human comedy, tragedy and disaster not too far behind it.
Certainly, Melancholia has been a torrid passage for its 29-year-old star: a typical Von Trier rollercoaster that places soaring triumph cheek-by-jowl with low-comedy disaster.
