Sentence examples for material of comedy from inspiring English sources

Over the centuries its denizens have provided the raw material of comedy — their ranks filled with magnificent egos, fakers and philanderers, not to mention the occasional statesman.

Perhaps this is why Shakespeare's colleague and great rival, the London-born Ben Jonson, establishes himself instead as a linguistic purist and rule setter specifying in the prologue to his Every Man in His Humour that the material of comedy be "deeds, and language, such as men do use".

Until now, Washington politics has been taken on as the raw material of a biting comedy.

How could such material be the subject of comedy in the hands of a writer?

He wrote an extraordinary amount of comedy material and had a genius for wordplay.

In his spare time (ha!), he is writing a book based on years worth of comedy material and is known for an uncanny impression of Barack Obama.

But, human beings being what they are, a certain nostalgia for the old relation, the material of so much great comedy, will linger — the greatness of Bertie and Jeeves is exactly that the servile one condescends with such skill that the condescending one becomes servile.

I say postmodern because it takes as read our expectation that the comic will turn the raw material of our responses into comedy, and then subverts it because (according to this routine) modern jobs are too blandly meaningless to joke about.

Among the more established talent, Joanna Neary has an impressive array of gorgeously detailed character acts, while maverick Canadian Phil Nichol's Old Rope club night is a first-class spectator sport, where top acts try out new material with all the attendant risks of comedy collapse.

The authoritative body which suspended Nitschke's licence in July last year has provided "a wealth of material" for a comedy show said Nitschke, but a lot of the jokes he is drafting with Moon come from his Exit International workshops.

For someone inclined to "inhale the raw material of life and exhale a comedy routine or a story", playwriting was a natural refuge.