Sentence examples for knowing comedy from inspiring English sources

He is not the knowing comedy bro mocking the rubes.

In the early chapters of Ten Days in the Hills, a crowded, knowing comedy of contemporary manners seems to be taking shape.

And the flashes of crackling, knowing comedy have been retained, punctuating the shuddering fight scenes and chase sequences that are the very currency of the action blockbuster.

"Love Crime" (which starred Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier) pretended — or tried — to be a workplace satire and a knowing comedy of feminine behavior, as well as a bloody potboiler.

That's largely because Lucinda Coxon's adaptation and Marc Munden's direction appear to have a very fine grasp of just how far you can tip a drama towards knowing comedy without it becoming risible.

"Somewhere" is partly a wry and knowing comedy of show-business life, a life Ms. Coppola, who comes from a tribe of filmmakers, composers and actors, surely knows firsthand.

Available from Friday Pacific Heat This latest Netflix offering is a slick, knowing animated comedy set in a brightly rendered version of Australia's Gold Coast.

There's recent history here, in the form of executives merely thinking a "name" is enough – in this case, Linehan; a couple of months ago, and in a far, far worse case of unfunny, Ben Elton – to create, as they probably say, albeit with knowing cynicism, comedy gold.

(A clip from "On the Waterfront," by contrast, seems like a bid to prove that the filmmakers aren't as shallow as their movie.) Still, no matter how meta and self-consciously knowing, teen comedies like "Fired Up!" are basically just recycling the same jokes, plots and mating rituals that fueled the Frankie and Annette beach party flicks of the 1960s.

"Who would want to go to a party that actually lets you know where it is?" vents a very frustrated Neil Jeff Witzkee) in "Groove," the shambling but mostly knowing and funny comedy from the director Greg Harrison.

Sheeps (Daran Johnson, Alistair Roberts and Liam Williams) redeem the whole event, though, with 20 minutes of knowing, layered group comedy.