Sentence examples for dubious comedy from inspiring English sources

Dubious comedy ruled in Hotel Lux (Leander Haussmann), the tale of a refugee comedian in Moscow, mistaken for Hitler's astrologer.

Tommy Scott, a country singer and songwriter who began his career in the 1930s as a member of one of the last traveling medicine shows and later became its leader, keeping it alive for more than five decades of one-night stands long after its dubious comedy and digestive cures became cultural relics, died on Sept. 30 in Toccoa, Ga.

Neither the filmmakers nor the actors can figure out whether to play this dubious premise as comedy or as earnest morality tale, and Mr. Garcia spends most of the picture looking stricken and self-pitying.

But this is counterbalanced by the creeping, laugh-squelching feeling not helped by Lee's seriously patchy record on sexual politics (see the dubious lesbian-impregnation comedy She Hate Me that the director genuinely sees the sex strike as a viable real-life solution.

And the process was not always harmonious; Ball's husband and co-star, Desi Arnaz, gifted with people skills and an appreciation for talent, often stepped in to bridge the occasional gulf between dubious star and ambitious comedy writers.

What kind of people pay full price to see a romantic comedy of dubious quality (especially judging from No Strings Attached's gag-inducing poster) that won't let out until 2AM?

Fueled by a runaway ego (bolstered, no doubt, by Mr. Mason's indisputable success), it is a show that features not just Mr. Mason's comedy but also his often dubious social criticism.

If there was an award for worst comedy writer of the year, the dubious honor should go to Thomas Bonoma.

SSCS even earned the dubious honour of being parodied in the US animated comedy South Park in an episode entitled Whale Whores, where its activists were depicted as "vegan pussies" posing as pirates and Watson got a harpoon through the head.

Wabash is an easy-going lad who "springs from the hill-folk" His dubious banjo-accompanied singing skills are a source of comedy relief.

Those qualities are happily evident in his new film, "An Everlasting Piece," another comedy about striving salesmen pushing a product of dubious utility, in this case toupees.