Sentence examples for humane comedy from inspiring English sources

He finds an ideal balance of whimsy and weightiness in this wise and humane comedy.

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It was claimed by Shaw to be a didactic drama about phonetics, and its antiheroic hero, Henry Higgins, is a phonetician, but the play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system.

His humane comedy, with its air of unworldly absurdity, has absorbed this idea, but not undermined its seriousness in any way, in fact embraced it with almost miraculous ease and simplicity.

But this one has attracted more attention than usual, not so much because of the production itself, but because it sees Bryn Terfel make his debut as Hans Sachs, the cobbler at the centre of this wonderfully humane comedy.

The moment for his brand of humane comedy was brief, but Wilder's best films: The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and his two underrated collaborations with Richard Pryor, Stir Crazy and Silver Streak, hold up in a way that other comedies of the era just don't.

Writer-director Alexandre Rockwell, maker of humane comedies like Sundance prize-winner "In the Soup," was one of the early leading lights of the American independent filmmaking scene, but he has long struggled to maintain his footing as a filmmaker.

As some evidence that I have no great gift for math, to my mind the best series of 2013 is Mike White's anxiety-provoking, weirdly humane dark comedy "Enlightened," which was cancelled in March.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet As some evidence that I have no great gift for math, to my mind the best series of 2013 is Mike White's anxiety-provoking, weirdly humane dark comedy "Enlightened," which was cancelled in March.

Creator/executive producer Kevin Biegel came from the warmly surreal and exuberantly goofy "Cougar Town," and one of executive producer Mike Royce's most recent ventures, "Men of a Certain Age," perfected the art of humane, observational comedy.

Levy's novelistic defense against evil and injustice is her humane sense of comedy.