Sentence examples for funny screenplay from inspiring English sources

A fast, funny screenplay does justice to a true story which is far stranger than most fiction.

When a high school friend, Alan Kirschenbaum, son of the comedian Freddie Roman, showed up at Mr. Rosenthal's apartment with a word processor and asked whether he wanted to help write a funny screenplay, Mr. Rosenthal agreed.

Directed by Oren Moverman from a fast, nasty, at times queasily funny screenplay by him and James Ellroy, it stars Woody Harrelson as Dave Brown, one of those dirty cops who ooze out of the smog-kissed Los Angeles sprawl to keep the peace in paradise, usually by breaking heads and gunning for trouble.

The movie, which has a wickedly funny screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet, offers a vision of entertainment bigwigs collaborating with amoral yuppie careerists (especially Anne Heche as an icily efficient Presidential adviser) that would be chilling if it weren't so funny.

So much so that I was inspired to make another film about Indian miniature paintings called Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures, with Peggy Ashcroft and Saeed Jaffrey (who had narrated The Sword and the Flute 10 years earlier), and a funny screenplay written by Ruth Jhabvala.

So much so that I was inspired to make another film about Indian miniature paintings called Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures, with Peggy Ashcroft and Saeed Jaffrey (who had narrated The Sword and the Flute 10 years earlier), and a funny screenplay written by Ruth Jhabvala.

According to the Writers Guild of America, these are the opening lines to the funniest screenplay ever written.

But to talk about it makes no sense because the next time I see you, two years from now, you'll go, "What happened to that remake?" If I could tell you the things I've announced that didn't get done — I sat down and wrote one of the funniest screenplays, I think, in my life, with Johnny Hart, who created "B.C".

In a ballot filled out by thousands of writers, Annie Hall, written by Allen and Marshall Brickman in 1975, was voted the film that made them all laugh the most, beating classics such as Some Like It Hot, Airplane! and The Big Lebowski to top the list of 101 funniest screenplays.

Julian Fellowes won the Oscar for his smart, hysterically funny class-conscious screenplay -- Sunday at 8 p.m. and midnight on A&E.

She explained: "Someone asked me at a film festival, 'Your screenplay is funny and sad, so do you do a sad pass and then go back and do the funny?' And I was, like, 'I don't think it works that way.'" The bittersweet voice may come naturally to Ms. Jenkins, but in the case of this film it didn't come quickly.