Sentence examples for droll comedy from inspiring English sources

David Schwimmer's finest moment was the droll comedy The Pallbearer.

The droll comedy BORED TO DEATH was a hit with critics last year, and on Sunday at 10 p.m. it's back for a second season on HBO.

His third and last collaboration with Sondheim was a droll comedy thriller, Getting Away With Murder, a light-hearted homage to Agatha Christie.

First up is the droll comedy "A NAKED GIRL ON THE APPIAN WAY," which explores issues of class, race and the outer limits of familial love.

The best of the bunch is "Going Through the Motions," a droll comedy number given a charming rendition by Mark Linn-Baker and Jeb Brown. Linn-Baker and Jeb Brown

In "The Servant," an unsettling 1963 social satire written by Harold Pinter, John Dankworth's score seconds the movie's progression from a droll comedy of manners to something more unsettling, even sinister.

Because of the unremitting bleakness of his films - though he did make a few droll comedies - he is thought of as being dark, depressing, obsessive, Scandinavian.

Yet Guitry, directing one of the droll comedies or sweeping historical epics -- "The Story of a Cheat," "Pearls of the Crown" -- that he wrote as vehicles for himself, his wives and his assorted friends and colleagues, remains one of the great boon companions of the movies, a genial host who liked nothing more than providing entertainment and edification for his guests.

(Neil Genzlinger) ★ 'BEDROOM FARCE' The Actors Company Theater gets this droll 1970s comedy by Alan Ayckbourn just right, thanks to spot-on performances by the eight actors.

Rarely has the subject of elder care produced such droll human comedy, or a heroine quite on the mettlesome order of Betty Baker Hodgman.

Vampire fans, Jarmusch fans and, most importantly of all, cat fans will find something to enjoy in this droll monochrome comedy of the Iranian undead, which comes with music from the Iranian band Kiosk, who have a definite Tom Waits-y groan.