Sentence examples for playful comedy from inspiring English sources

It's quickfire, playful comedy rooted in the black British experience.

Finally, there was Julia Misbehaves (1948), a playful comedy with Pidgeon and Greer Garson as the bickering parents of a bride-to-be (Elizabeth Taylor).

But oh, what strengths this playful comedy has, especially in a staging as thoughtful as the one provided here by Michael Spierman, the Bronx Opera's artistic director, and Benjamin Spierman, his son and the stage director.

His This Is Not a Film (2011) is a compelling, lo-fi personal document about his own sense of imprisonment, and his most recent film, Taxi (2015), is a playful comedy about a supposed new career as a cab driver.

So far, critical reaction to this effort has been mixed, with some commentators complaining that Goro doesn't deliver the playful comedy and visual fizz that distinguishes his father's work.

Centering on Hunt's IMF as it tracks a terrorist supergroup known as the Syndicate, "Rogue Nation" needed to land with the accumulated power of a July action-adventure while also satisfying the unwritten "Mission" mandate: slick storytelling, playful comedy and — this is key wherever "Mission" is concerned — episodic cliffhangers.

The son of a movie technician, Goupil had been making films since childhood, and "Half a Life" includes clips from some of them — sardonically playful comedies from the mid-sixties and subsequent documentaries of protests.

"Ally McBeal" worked because it put a woman at the center of a playful sex comedy.

If she'd stayed that way, the show might have been another "Mary Tyler Moore": a playful, empowering comedy about one woman's adventures in the big city.

But Mr. Brustein's playful, witty comedy "The English Channel," which takes place inside a tavern on the eve of Shakespeare's theater career, limits speculation to a minimum.

But none could rival the Daykin sisters' double-act Toby, which turned dysfunctional sibling rivalry and suicidally low self-esteem into a wickedly playful docu-comedy show.