Sentence examples for layers of comedy from inspiring English sources
Though smaller children are as swept away as their parents by the delirious energy, especially Mr. Collins's inspired gibberish and the homicidal hand puppets that close the show, the multiplying layers of comedy may baffle them.
However, anyone who's read his joke-unravelling memoir How I Escaped My Certain Fate will know that this rigour lends itself to further layers of comedy and makes his digressive deconstructions as entertaining as the shows themselves.
As embodied by Simon Russell Beale, perhaps the greatest stage actor of his generation, the ambitionless title character of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" and the ambition-riddled Malvolio of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" unearth provocatively mixed layers of comedy and tragedy from what it means to be unlucky in love.
It took me maybe 15 minutes to realize that there are a couple different layers of comedy going on here.
Both Redford and Ferrell seek to restore the Colorado River, but Ferrell's Move the Ocean adds a layer of comedy and further engagement.
YASUMASA MORIMURA Morimura is best known for meticulously staged self-portraits, cross-dressing photographs that bring layers of empathy, comedy, and pop-culture savvy to female impersonation.
At the movies, Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" was adding new layers to the meaning of comedy, sex and cynicism.
There are flashes of comedy.
Masters of comedy, not commerce.
This additional layer of satire and unease helps to make Dame Edna one of the most complex and inspirational creations in the history of comedy.
