Sentence examples for masterclass in comedy from inspiring English sources

Last week's closing episode was case in point – correctly confident in a commission for a second series, it tied up none of its story lines with "734 days to go" and instead delivered a masterclass in comedy, both technical- and character-driven.

Each post is a miniature masterclass in observational comedy.

It isn't always a venue for a masterclass in political comedy.

Jim Carrey gives us his usual body-popping, face-squeezing, crowd-pleasing masterclass in physical comedy.

One-liners abound, and every couple of minutes there's a masterclass in physical comedy: see Frances de la Tour lighting the wrong end of a Silk Cut, or Beckinsale's sad-eyed surprise at the news that Philip lost his virginity on his 13th birthday ("All I got was a bike").

This season was masterclass in cringe comedy, relentlessly commenting on itself and achieving everything the show set out to do with that stunning finale.

Watch the clip on YouTube As Bunny Breckinridge, Murray's gives a masterclass in understated physical comedy.

The book is also a masterclass in how to appreciate comedy – at least Lee's intellectual, sometimes wilfully inaccessible kind of comedy.

And even if you didn't, you'd surely still enjoy a masterclass in tub-thumping political clown comedy.

His last, at the Southbank Centre in 2015, was a masterclass in playfully amoral male sex comedy, and bodes mouthwateringly for a 2016 tour.

So tweets one of the American wunderkind's fans after tonight's masterclass in stand-up and musical and physical comedy.