Sentence examples for funny stage from inspiring English sources

Everyone in the room was keenly aware that this might be the last hurrah of a blazing, cranky, funny stage personality who is, in a word, irreplaceable.

With the commanding Ms. Arianda giving a performance of such intoxicating allure, "Venus in Fur" provides a seriously smart and very funny stage seminar on the destabilizing nature of sexual desire: vanilla-flavored, kink-festooned or anything in between.

Ayckbourn knows how to construct funny stage pictures: in the second act, for instance, while the unnoticing guests prattle on around her, Eva Mireille Enoss), the wife of an architect, mute with grief over the collapse of her marriage, makes various attempts at suicide — flinging herself at the window, at the stove, and at a butcher knife propped up in a drawer.

This very week Terry Gilliam was directing an opera for ENO; Terry Jones has just written a libretto for the Royal Opera; Michael Palin continues to be prolific in print and on television; Eric Idle has given a new twist to the Python story with the colourful and hugely funny stage show Spamalot.

They were beyond the "poop is funny" stage that all kids go through - but not much beyond.

He just wanted to be a writer but his managers thought he had a very funny stage presence and he would be great as a standup doing his own material instead of writing for others.

Josh Koenigsberg doesn't have that problem in "Al's Business Cards," a zippy new comedy receiving a very funny staging at the Lion Theater by the company called At Play.

The illusions of love and theatre become entwined in Dan Jemmett's delightful and crackingly funny staging of Twelfth Night, which is offered up as a failing end-of-the-pier show.

A bemused Cary Grant and a pixilated Irene Dunne or Katharine Hepburn fumble toward romance in an open "roadster," filmed on sets, with backdrop footage of trees and brooks, and with "funny" staged accidents — a harmless plunge into a ditch or a gentle ramming into the rickety local farm truck, with its laconic yokel driver and his meshed coop of squawking chickens.

Though preliminary ratings suggest that it wasn't a hit on par with last year's "The Wiz Live!," Wednesday night's "Hairspray Live!" was a boisterous, technically dazzling, socially relevant and frequently very funny staging of the musical based on John Waters'..

"That's why farce is funny on stage".