Sentence examples for fear of comedy from inspiring English sources

"There is a fear of comedy in the novel today," he wrote.

"There is a fear of comedy in the novel today — when did you last see the word 'funny' on the jacket of a serious novel?

Jacobson, who had been the bookies' outsider precisely because of his humour, remarked before winning the prize, "There is a fear of comedy in the novel today".

As Jacobson argued in Saturday Review last week, "There is a fear of comedy in the novel today – when did you last see the word "funny" on the jacket of a serious novel?" However, not everyone has seen the funny side.

"It was a challenge to overcome the fear of doing comedy in a nightclub," he said.

The way he looked at character so forensically; his ability to access horror, tragedy and fear under the guise of comedy; and then releasing those big Greek themes in a suburban setting.

Her web series, "Irrational Fears," for Comedy Central, came out of an exercise with her therapist.

Some feared that this type of comedy would set us back on any progress we may have made.

This is an undrained swamp of fear, black comedy and desire: nasty, sexy, funny – with a great period soundtrack and so humid that any screen showing it is liable to get microscopically pebbledashed with droplets of sweat.

At its best it is a Möbius strip of comedy and fear.

Since his debut at Melbourne International Comedy festival in 2008 as one half of comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet, he has become a comedy star across TV, stage and radio – albeit one occasionally mistaken for Waleed Aly.