Kaye knows all about that: he was notably not funny any more in the tiresome ads run by Paddy's rival, BetVictor.
Lovingly shot on location in the Italian neighborhoods of Providence, this comfortably predictable film has its pleasures, most notably a dryly funny Adrienne Barbeau as the brothers' hip, hard-drinking Aunt Lidia.
There have been many movies, some very silly, like "La Boum 2" in 1982, in which he looks like a very young, very smooth lady's man playing against the even younger Sophie Marceau; others very funny, notably several directed by Alain Resnais, where he has played handsome cads, handsome crooks or comic handsome Anglo-Saxons.
In person Mr. Waltz is wryly funny and notably devoid of actorly pretensions.
Jamie Lloyd offers a notably fresh and blackly funny take on Pinter's The Homecoming in its fiftieth anniversary year.
While they later collaborated on TV shows and commercials — most notably a series of funny spots for a white wine called Blue Nun, the two mostly followed separate..
In truth, it's an overcrowded party to which the rest of us have been only grudgingly invited, a would-be laugh-in with various funny types -- notably Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines and Richard Kind -- and a whole lot of slapdash filler.
Dull and cheerless, notwithstanding a handful of funny supporting turns, notably from Judy Davis and Jason Bateman.
George is an upscale educated sort, but Wilder manages to make this subtly funny, perhaps most notably after his failed bid at a car chase, when he turns to Pryor and says, in a perfectly patrician deadpan, "Would you like to drive for a while?" Scenes that are broad seem a little more plausible thanks to a human twinkle; moments that could be too self-serious are disrupted by his mania.
Those hit comedies ostensibly revolve around immature men, but they are even more distinctive for their funny, uncommon female characters, notably Amy on "Big Bang," played by Mayim Bialik.
