Sentence examples for empty comedy from inspiring English sources

In the late Eighties, Bailey was trudging his not entirely successful stand-up routines up and down the country, performing with the likes of Mark Lamarr to markedly empty comedy clubs.

Our thoughts lay like scraps on the floor: thinking is severed from doing; spirituality is cut from its heritage and theological reflection mutates into one-liners from an adolescent-like preacher in an empty comedy club.

But after his initial, semi-amusing foray into news pastiche, it started to become more of a one-man show – a weird monologue more befitting an empty comedy club improv night than a sketch show.

Post-Milton Post-Milton Jonesd comedy thet is bemptieded as a mating ground for sailor pigs.

After "Nixon's Nixon," which continues through Oct. 8, the season continues with Warren Leight's Off Broadway hit about jazz musicians, "Side Man" (Nov. 1 - Nov. 19); William Mastrosimone's play "Tamer of Horses" (Jan . 31 -Feb. 18), and Michael Hollinger's comedy, "An Empty Plate at the Cafe du Grand Boeuf" (April 18 - May 6).

"Private Jokes, Public Places," Oren Safdie's bright comedy deriding empty-headed pretensions among celebrities of structure, gets a new Off Broadway production for the center's opening.

Clever in every size, Fischer is a master of scale, which he carefully calibrates to tap the latent wonder, tension and comedy of any empty room, especially the big ones.

All of this may have the smell of extreme cleverness but Morpurgo never falls into the trap of empty intellectual posturing masquerading as comedy; this is a show that, while being thought-provoking, never forgets where its next big laugh is coming from.

Mr. Mulligan's younger brother Richard, an Emmy-winning actor who starred in the TV comedies "Soap" and "Empty Nest," died in 2000.

Richard Mulligan, who won Emmy Awards for his portrayal of fathers on the situation comedies "Soap" and "Empty Nest," died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles.

Clint Eastwood's sketch-comedy routine with an empty chair has become a seemingly mandatory (read: worn out) joke here, dropped with as much frequency as the names Michelle or Barack.