Sentence examples for lively comedy from inspiring English sources

The novel is full of lively comedy, despite the darkness of its theme.

It's difficult to imagine anyone other than Jim Carrey starring in Tom Shadyac's lively comedy LIAR LIAR (1997).

A Peckham teen's street-cred is compromised by his (very) Nigerian brother in this cheap, lively comedy.

The film is a lively comedy about women who find that the same man is cheating on them and the red carpet was just as lively.

Using spotlighted pedestals and a soundtrack, he transforms toys and household items into characters in a lively comedy of manners (after Molière's "School for Wives").

At the lower end of the budgetary scale, Desiree Akhavan wrote, directed and starred in Appropriate Behaviour, a lively comedy about a Persian-American bisexual in Brooklyn.

(Daniel M. Gold) 'Stick Fly' (closes on Sunday) Lydia R. Diamond's overstuffed but lively comedy-drama feels like a Tyler Perry melodrama (sans Madea) as revised by an academic specializing in issues of class in African-American culture.

This lively comedy-thriller is the latest example of that very knowing genre, the Irish crime movie, whose greatest peaks to date also star Gleeson: John Boorman's The General, and In Bruges, written and directed by McDonagh's brother, Martin.

And yet this overstuffed but lively comedy-drama, which opened on Thursday night at the Cort Theater, also signifies a departure for Broadway in its depiction of generational conflict and sexual sparks among a well-to-do contemporary African-American family and friends.

The lively comedies possess a natural effervescence.

The mid-century saw lively comedies by Dion Boucicault and Tom Taylor.