Sentence examples for hand to comedy from inspiring English sources

So he turned his hand to comedy.

"Steven is just a brilliant writer and that means he can turn his hand to comedy and tragedy and everything in between," says Gatiss.

Will Adamsdale, a 30-year-old actor, who only turned his hand to comedy recently, has won a place on the shortlist for his show Jackson's Way, a parody of a US motivational speaker and life coach.

Watch the clip on YouTube Proving he could turn his hand to comedy (see also his turn in Date Night), in The Other Guys he plays hot-tempered detective Terry Hoitz, partnered up with Will Ferrell's mild-mannered forensic accountant to engage in ludicrous extended metaphors.

Born in Michigan, she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute before turning her hand to standup comedy and acting.

Hiller had learned his craft in television and B-movies, so that by the time of his breakthrough into A-movies he could turn his hand to smart comedy (The Wheeler Dealers, 1963), Broadway adaptation (Plaza Suite, 1971), war movie (Tobruk, 1967), drama (Making Love, 1982) and biopic (The Babe, 1992).

Having made his big-screen debut in Steven Spielberg's flawed but earnest Amistad in 1997, Ejiofor has turned his hand to romantic comedy (Love Actually, Melinda and Melinda), earthy drama (Dirty Pretty Things, American Gangster), fantastical science-fiction (Serenity, Children of Men) and even offbeat campy quirk (Kinky Boots) with confidence and agility.

Joseph Colaneri conducted with an eye for zippy tempos and vivid colors; the brass in particular were always on hand to drive the comedy forward.

Satan, the great tempter of men's souls, takes deceptively innocuous form in the frisky new comedy "Hand to God," by Robert Askins, at the Ensemble Studio Theater.

And the Texan playwright Robert Askins, recognised for his religious comedy Hand to God, has written a dozen plays, of which only two have reached production.

(Grode) 'P.S. Jones and the Frozen City' (in previews; opens on Monday) Robert Askins's filthy sock-puppet comedy "Hand to God" was a surprise hit last year, and his follow-up play sounds similarly odd.