Sentence examples for passes for comedy from inspiring English sources

The importunate repetition passes for comedy.

What passes for comedy lies in tired one-liners for which the laugh track never comes.

In what passes for comedy, I have heard some say, "If Tiger thinks he's a 'Cablinasian,' wait until the police pull him over because he's black".

Colbert is very skillful at parodying people who are already parodies of themselves, and his show is a lot sharper than most of what passes for comedy on TV.

That said, it was still so much better than so much of what passes for comedy these days.

And "Gulliver's Travels couldn't arrive at a better time for moviegoers, when dramas are angling for awards and Little Fockers passes for comedy.

This now passes for gallows comedy in the land of Plautus and Boccaccio, where Mr. Berlusconi's administration, having endlessly chipped away at the national arts budget and the fund for opera, music, theater and film, pays the standard lip service to culture as the country's pride and joy and economic engine.

Featuring the faultless performances of Barbara Stanwyck as a con woman and Henry Fonda as the brewery heir she fleeces and then falls in love with, "The Lady Eve" isn't perfect — some of the pratfalls feel as if they've been shoehorned in — but it's so much smarter, wittier and sexier than what passes for romantic comedy today that it seems to come from a different world.

"In a field where so much passes for humor, for comedy, and even succeeds," Mr. Allen said, "he is an authentic original".

It's equally impossible to imagine him in the soggy, misogynistic, stealth-macho geekfests that pass for romantic comedy now.

But what "Awkward" is actually about, albeit unintentionally, is how passing off misogyny for comedy has gotten so terribly passé, as insulting to the guys as to the young women.