One reason for the show's success is that the cast and writers include some of UK TV's finest comedy performers, such as actors Mathew Baynton (Gavin & Stacey, Martha Howe-Douglas and Laurence Rickardd (The Armstrong & Miller Show and David Baddiell.
The critic for The New York Times thought the play was, "acted with fine comedy spirit by John Barrymore ... [who] gave indisputable signs last night of grown and growing powers".
Outstanding Comedy Series: "30 Rock" "30 Rock" will go down in history as one of TV's finest comedies, and while the show hit a rough patch for a few seasons, Tina Fey and co.
Indignation is a natural metier for Carell; this is a terrific turn in a surprisingly fine comedy.
Sara Pascoe is a fine comedy actress, appearing in shows such as Campus and Twenty Twelve, but she has also been doing stand-up for a few years.
I've been telling people who are going to see Mies Julie at Assembly Hall on the Mound that it is well worth getting to the venue early and queuing to get a seat near the front, and quite frankly I'd prefer never to see another theatre show in the Assembly Rooms Ballroom, although the dynamic is fine for comedy.
That's a fine context for comedy, but it's not easy for the media to work with.
Richard Corliss of Time was more positive, writing "without being great, it's still the flat-out finest romantic comedy of the year," while "Brooks hasn't lost his gift for dreaming up heroes and heroines who worry amusingly".
Going further down the body from the gut, our sexual organs are another aspect of this degradation, with food and sex providing a fine platform for comedy.
But Sophie Amieva as Françoise, a Frenchwoman in the little town, among her other characters, displays a fine talent for comedy.
The Axis powers may not seem terribly funny (only Italy is probably kind of funny), but it would be hard to deny that they are operating on a sound humorous principle in giving the civilization what might be described as the total hotfoot, since the sufferings of the innocent, the helpless, and the smug, have always been considered fine material for comedy.
