Sentence examples for mean comedy from inspiring English sources
But that does not mean comedy -- or vaudeville -- has overtaken the play's real concerns.
And Judy Parfitt, as Sister Monica Joan, cuts some mean comedy, with her anguished unwrapping of the nativity ornaments.
That doesn't mean comedy is necessarily found in Sheppard's repertoire.
"There's plenty of cheap and mean comedy masquerading as satire about any presidency, and so if I'm going to do anything interesting, it has to involve trying to figure out who these people are and play them in their situation as opposed to just playing a stick figure.
"Oh, for a world where dropping your drawers meant comedy, not promiscuity!" she wrote on her Web site, www.notjustforshockvalue.com.com
Like, I think meaner comedy.
Dick Glover, "lean, mean, guerrilla comedy".
"When things get tough, it doesn't mean the comedy stops, especially when the critics are involved," says Ramsay in the latest Waitrose Food Illustrated.
On this point he is pretty stubborn: a joke may be "built in British" but that doesn't mean the comedy hinges on anything inherently "British".
In adapting Bret Easton Ellis's turgid, gory 1991 novel to the screen, the director Mary Harron has boiled a bloated stew of brand names and butchery into a lean and mean horror comedy classic.
The success of Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned can only mean that comedy has now become a ritual of community, something that doesn't need jokes so long as it makes us feel we're all mates.
