Sentence examples for genial comedy from inspiring English sources

The History Man disconcerted many readers who had enjoyed the more genial comedy of Bradbury's previous novels.

Less a sequel than an old-fashioned sitcom spinoff, this loose and genial comedy moves the "Barbershop" franchise to Atlanta, and gives the ladies a turn at the warm, salty banter that made the first two installments so popular.

The titular otherworldly creature in the genial comedy "Paul" (voiced by Seth Rogen) has the classic far-out look — the ponderous, bald bobble head, the big eyes and gaunt limbs — only he wears board shorts and a backpack: he's a little green dude.

There's genial comedy, for instance, in the form of the socially ambitious shrew who runs the local diner and her hopeless husband; and Marcus is given a Jewish mother who shows every sign of having been bought from the Discount Jewish Mother Superstore: "Oh, Markie, why call me at all if you just want to make me suffer". Cheap laughs, but good ones.

There's genial comedy, for instance, in the form of the socially ambitious shrew who runs the local diner and her hopeless husband; and Marcus is given a Jewish mother who shows every sign of having been bought from the Discount Jewish Mother Superstore: "Oh, Markie, why call me at all if you just want to make me suffer".

Steve Carell, star of the Americanised version of The Office, moves up to his first leading movie role in this genial comedy: a middle-aged guy called Andy who collects action figures, rides a bike to his job in an electronics store and has... ahem... never actually done it.

In 1962 Gelbart made his screen-writing debut, co-writing with Blake Edwards a genial comedy-mystery The Notorious Landlady, starring Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak.

He wasn't the only falling-down drunk there, and I daresay he wasn't the only unhappily closeted homosexual, but his work as a writer and director has a sharpness and bite lacking in the genial comedies we associate with the studio.

Seth Rogen bursts with inventive exuberance in this schematic but genial holiday comedy about millennials settling down.

Finally, in June 1962 Faulkner published yet another distinctive novel, the genial, nostalgic comedy of male maturation he called The Reivers and appropriately subtitled "A Reminiscence".

"Nuns on the Run" is a genial 1990 comedy written and directed by Jonathan Lynn (the director of this year's hit "My Cousin Vinny").